The Urban West Senior Citizen’s Center at 5370 Pershing invites all senior men and women in the city to participate each day from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. in many FREE activities; arts and crafts classes on Monday mornings; ceramics classes Monday afternoon; movies on Tuesdays; bingo and pokeno on Wednesdays and Thursdays; arts and crafts on Friday mornings; needlework classes on Friday afternoons. Also featured every Friday is a shopping trip by the Urban West van to the various county shopping plazas.
Other scheduled events are free trips to plays, muny opera (in season), Cardinal baseball games, sight-seeing junkets and more.
The Urban West Senior Citizen Center is sponsored by the Urban League of St. Louis to provide a place for fun, instruction, conversation and companionship for seniors.Visitors can participate in the scheduled classes, trips, card games, movies, sit in the lounge and talk with the other visitors, or play billiards, or whatever.
If transportation is needed, just call the Urban League at 371-0040 for free transportation to the center.
The center provides free counseling and referral services and will help in other ways such as taking prescriptions for seniors to the VIP center where a teleservice direct to City Hospital allows the prescriptions to be filled at a price lower than the wholesale cost plus 50¢.
The center offers lowcost luncheons (about 50¢), or free if the person can’t afford 50¢ every week-day beginning in mid-December.
The nutrition program is funded under Title VII of the Older Americans Act, a federal programThe referral service has been designed to facilitate transactions with available community resources and through new interest awakened by the activities offerred in the center, Senior Citizens find comfortable and interesting ways to adapt to their new lifestyle.
In attempting to provide for the greater societal needs of Senior Citizens, the Urban West Senior Citizens’ Center does more than just designate a place where “All the Old People Can Go” – it presents viable solutions for the problems of older Americans.
Originally published in The Paper, February 1974.
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Original source: SD_Times1974_02.pdf, printed page(s) 7.
