Historical Summer 2009 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 have finally realized that goal.
As part of the Centennial celebration fundraising, we were able to afford to have all the issues of The Paper and The Times scanned to digital format.
After the expenses of the Centennial Celebration, we had enough to commit 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, all 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, and Parkview Perspective 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.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, Summer 2009.
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Original source: SD_Times2009_06.pdf, printed page(s) 2; PDF page(s) 2.
