Historical September–October 2008 article. Dates, prices, services and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
For many years we have wanted to be able both to preserve the old issues of The Times of Skinker DeBaliviere and its predecessor, The Paper, and to provide easy access to those issues for everyone who wants it.
We are finally realizing that goal.
As part of the Centennial celebration fundraising, we have been able to afford to have the issues of The Paper and The Times scanned to digital format. (a sincere Thank You to all those who have donated to date. It’s not too late to help. Special Thanks to Art Santen and Venita Lake for saving all those issues.) So far we have been granted enough money to have the 1970’s and 1980’s processed.
After the Centennial celebration on October 11, if there are funds left over, we hope that some of it can be devoted to completing the task for the 1990’s and the early 2000’s.
After 2003, the production of The Times has been done in a digital form, so those issues are already available on-line. By the time this issue reaches you, the issues from the ’70’s and ’80’s should be available for your viewing at: http://stlouis.missouri. org/skinkerdebaliviere/sd_times.html You’ll need a computer, however.
These issues are in PDF format, which most computers can read.
This format allows you to enlarge a page for on-line reading.
It also makes it relatively easy to print an issue on standard letter paper if you wish.
We are working on an index to the headlines, pictures, and ads in these issues, so that finding things will be easier.
I am also working on an extract of all Vicissitudes, Window on Washington Heights, Parkview Perspective, and News of Neighbors columns with a name index. Although it’s a lot of work, it’s really fun to read and to remember all the great people who have worked so hard to make this a great place to live.
If you have any interest in helping with the indexing of these digital issues, please contact me at 863- 7558 or at my email address: weir. marj@charter.net.
It will help if you have a computer on which you can prepare documents, but even some orderly pencil and paper analysis would be very useful.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, September–October 2008.
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Original source: SD_Times2008_09.pdf, printed page(s) 1; PDF page(s) 1.
