Our never-boring neighborhood has taken on a decidedly cosmopolitan flair this fall.
Category: Neighborhood History
Late in 1970 residents of the SD area, especially those active on the SkinkerDebaliviere Community Council,.began to consider the prospect of redeveloping those blocks with the most deteriorated housing.
If you have saved back issues of The Paper, especially those from 1970 and 1971, The Paper staff would appreciate your donating them or lending them to us for our incomplete archive.
Photos by Jim Mitchell.
Here are the answers to the crossword puzzle in last months Paper, along with my apologies for not blacking in all the spaces on the bottom line.
Historical June1975 directory; addresses and telephone numbers are archival, not current contacts.
Each of the three neighborhood groups has now officially begun to explore the idea of becoming part of a proposed Historic District.
"I see this as a way to both save what we have and assure that whatever comes in new will not be a blatant attack on the neighborhood," commented Cal Stuart.
"She's very hard-working," one person says, "I don't know where she gets all her energy.
Photographs courtesy of Etta Taylor of Parkview, granddaughter of George W.
The Skinker-DeBaliviere Neighborhood has been looking into the possibility of applying for "historic district" status and exploring what work would be needed to make such an application.
A spirit of renovation and vigor flavors House Tour '75 as it represents the reversal of past projections for the future of the Skinker DeBaliviere neighborhood...proving unfounded those who rumored its demise as a residential area.
