此内容暂无简体中文译文，以下为英文原文。
Historical June 1990 report or notice. Original dates, prices and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
Cowabunga, is it the last issue of the year already?
Well, as one frog said to the other, Time’s Fun When You’re Having Flies.
And I sure hope this past year with the Times has been as much fun for you as it has been for me. Normally I write mostly about folks that live in the Greater Skinker-DeBaliviere Area.
However, there are lots and lots of folks who don’t exactly live here that are pulling an oar with the rest of us to keep this area more than just habitable. I’d like to introduce you to a couple of them. Val Saffron lived for many years on 63XX Washington.
She has always been very active in the neighborhood, even after she relocated. Val is now a movie celebrity, after finishing filming in St. Charles for the Disney Studios production of Return to Hannibal.
The film relates the lives of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, twenty years after the events that Mr. Clemens immortalized (always wanted to use that word). Val plays the part of Tom’s mother.
The movie will be released in September or so on the Disney cable network, and I sure hope we’ll see a video version, as well.
A newcomer to the area is Con Christeson of 49XX Laclede.
She and her son Zachary just moved here from Evansville, IN. Can’t say as I blame her; I’ve been in Evansville lots of times and the truckers don’t call it Stoplight City for nothing. Both Con and Zach were in the recent SDCC production of Promethea and Con is also involved with other arts endeavors in the area. Among other things, she is a potter and she hopes to be opening a shop soon. Watch this space.
Sometimes you find treasure almost literally in your back yard. I looked out the window at mine the other day and discovered that lo! Mound City Uniform had been replaced by a flower shop.
To my chagrin, the place had been there almost a year (1st anniversary is June10)and I hadn’t noticed it.
The name of this place is Flaunt and I like it because it is not just a flower shop.
They bring a whole batch of related services together. You want to commit matrimony?
They can provide the limo for the event, cater the various preparties and receptions, liven things up with clowns and comedians, and even add spice to the Final Fling parties with Exotic Dancers, etc.
They have flowers too, if you need ’em.
Mike Alley, John Hyland, Jackie Carosello, and Lisa Oberle started up the business out of a basement in Florissant. Friends suggested they look at the Loop area.
The rest is history.
They love the area and our neighborhood has been good to them.
If you’re having an affair, you may want to see these folks at 6252 Delmar about catering it.
Getting back into the neighborhood, I’ve got to plug the recent SDCC production of Promethea at New City School on May 25 and 26.
This is the second year that Tom Clear has put a lot of work into a good night’s entertainment. Again he wrote the script for the play, as well as directing it, accompanying the production on the piano, and playing Master of Ceremonies for the whole evening’s entertainment.
His writing has been very funny, aimed at local affairs, yet gentle in his humor.
This is the first time I’ve been out in the audience and I was especially impressed with the way in which he gets the audience involved with the whole thing.
The SDCC Spring Melodrama-or whatever else you may want to call it-now appears to be an established Event and I hope you will all be able to catch it next year. Catherine and Manuel Ramos of 62XX Washington are expecting a baby on September 10. Ellen F. Cruickshank, 56XX Waterman, has been named an associate at the law firm of Suelthaus & Kaplan. Ellen moved here from Chicago.
Congratulations to Grace Church members Bill Bueler and Dale Ross who own Burrito Brothers Restaurant and to Joe Edwards, owner of Blueberry Hill.
In the Restaurant 1990 magazine Burrito Brothers won the Best Lunch (casual) award and Blueberry Hill won First Place in the Best Decor category. Steve Vossmeyer, past resident of 60XX Westminster, has been named to the U.S. delegation that will monitor the elections in Czechoslovakia this June. OTTIE’S CORNER I know I promised you a story on watch plants, but this month I’ve got to brag about my intern, Patrick Dolan. Patrick has successfully completed his program and is continuing to advance in his chosen career of law practice and enforcement.
But before he left, he was involved in a police operation that could only have happened on TV. Names have been changed to protect the innocent My name is Ottie. I’m a cop.
It all started at 12:30 PM on Day Watch on 10 May, 1990. Law Enforcement Intern Patrick Dolan and I were patrolling the Parkview beat when it happened. “One Adam-12, proceed to 63XX Washington. Occupant reports burglary in progress:’ Upon responding, we observed a subject departing the yard on foot. Carrying a pillow case, he proceeded to run east through the alley.
We tried to activate our siren and lights. Intern Dolan reported the machine was out of gumballs. Subject then perceived us despite our malfunctioning bells and whistles and tossed the pillow case into a dumpster. I stopped the vehicle and directed my partner to stay with the pillow case, which clanked suspiciously when it hit the dumpster. Upon exiting the car, Intern Dolan unlimbered a tennis ball and proceeded to throw it at the fleeing felon, striking him in the back of the head. Suspect then stopped, turned and complained “You are not supposed to throw things at me!” His protest was ineffectual; not only was he beaned with the ball, justice hit him equally hard.
If anyone named Dan reads this, yes; we did book him and the case will be in court by the time you read this.
As my supervisor, Sgt. Preston said, “This case is closed, King’? (He never can get my name right). Remember, my name is Ottie.
This is my job. I carry a badge.
My partner carries tennis balls.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, June 1990.
Read this article in the original newspaper issue.
Original source: SD_Times1990_06.pdf, printed page(s) 7; PDF page(s) 6.
