The Neighborhood: A History of Skinker-DeBaliviere, which made its debut at the 1973 Art Fair-House Tour, has recently brought some outside attention to our neighborhood. (Copies of this 51-page booklet are available at the Skinker-DeBaliviere Community Council Office for $1.00).
Tag: Books
The love of money is the mother of all evil.
Vacation Reading Club: Beginning June 1st, school children can sign up for the Club.
Two hundred forty-five copies of the history were sold at the Art Fair and about 60 copies have been sold since.
The following is a continuation of the listings of the first residents at each address in Skinker-DeBaliviere as found in Gould's Blue Books.
Both of the National Book Award winners in fiction are available at Des Peres Branch.
Have you ever walked through our neighborhood and wondered how it came into being?
Gould’s Directory of St. Louis, in those volumes known as the "Blue Books", listed "prominent citizens" of the St. Louis metropolitan area alphabetically and then listed street addresses and those who lived there.
The Women’s Crusade Against Crime has published an attractive booklet, LADY, BE CAREFUL, containing advice and precautions for personal safety and for crime stopping.
Goblins, clowns, Spanish senors and senoritas and even a robot paraded, danced and ate hot dogs, cup cakes, and drank soda on Halloween afternoon in the gym.
Jim Hitchcock, reporter for The Paper, in his professional career as Dr. James Hitchcock of St. Louis University, published a book this spring, "The Decline and Fall of Radical Catholicism."
The summer reading club "Up With Books" will end on September 1st.
