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Beautification

Many Purchase Address Plaques

September 2001

Handmade alley address plaques by Andy Cross. Photographer not credited.

Historical Fall 2001 article. Dates, prices, services and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.

In an effort to help neighbors meet the terms of the comprehensive code compliance regulations, the Beautification Committee of SDCC offered easy installation alley address plaques to neighbors.

The plaques were hand-made, hand-lettered, on cedar, and cost $10.000. Six hundred seventy plaques were created, and $670 was raised for the Skinker De Baliviere Community Council. Andy Cross and Laure Porterfield formed the idea for the plaques. and Andy Cross made them.

If you missed the order period and are still interested in a plaque, contact the SDCC office at 862-5122.

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Handmade alley address plaques by Andy Cross. Photographer not credited.

Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, Fall 2001.

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Archival transcription note: Source prints price $10.000, 670 plaques and $670 raised. Inconsistent figures retained; no arithmetic correction invented.

Original source: SD_Times2001_09.pdf, printed page(s) 4; PDF page(s) 4.

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