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Historical November–December 1999 article. Dates, prices, services and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
Over the last several months, we have been reprinting the 1973 History of “The Neighborhood”, written by Gee Stuart, Kathy Harleman, and Sue Tepas.
With this issue, we conclude this retrospective by printing their glimpse into the future”. That future has, of course, become the past, as the last twenty-seven years have unfolded.
In the next issue—the first issue in the year 2000—we will begin our own look back at the neighborhood’s past.
As we have been inviting you to participate in this endeavor, we have received a great deal of information from many of you.
The “Once and Again” party in November was a wonderful success, and we thank most warmly all those who came or called or wrote to bring additional momentos and memories to our attention.
The Neighborhood Archives will contain all of these writings and photos.
From Joe Botz, for example, we now have newsletters from the Washington Heights Association from 1965 and 1966; from Art Santen, photos of and from the St. Roch bell tower; personal memories from Joe Edwards, Greg Freeman, Nan Thomas, Tom McPherron, Joan Bender, Peggy Hermes and many, many more.
All these will be included in the Archives and will be used as source material for our writing.
All those who contribute will be listed in the book to be published in 2000. It’s not too late to be a part of the project.
If you have memories of Skinker-DeBaliviere up to the mid-70’s, please direct them to us promptly, as that will be the subject of our first installment in February, 2000. Memories of even earlier times in the neighborhood will be incorporated into the archives for continued documentation and research. Send them to Jo Ann Vatcha at 6117 Westminster, 63112.
Please let us know if you want something back.
As you read the predictions made by our 70’s authors, it is interesting to reflect on what has become reality and what has not.
In 1973, for example, there was’hope that the neighborhood would have direct input into the public schools, that busing would be eliminated and a neighborhood school would be intact once again.
In 1973, the corner of McPherson and Skinker was home to Barry Leader Drugs and Pershing and DeBaliviere home to Garavelli’s restaurant.
The authors saw these as forming the “stable” core for commercial enterprise in our neighborhood.
But this was not to be. And so, as you read their brief glimpse into “The Future”, think not only of what they couldn’t possibly see—Feinberg Real Estate located in 1999 where Barry Drugs was in 1973—a strip mall in place of Garavelli’s, but take note, too, of their faith in the people of the neighborhood and their belief that our neighborhood would survive.
Then in 2000 see our first “NEW” installment, in which we will start our look at the difficulties of the 60’s and 70’s and some of the efforts made by residents to work with each other to address: health care (The People’s Clinic); vacant buildings (Pershing Redevelopment and West End Townhouse); blockbusting and fears of racial divide (the Residential Service, Skinker-DeBaliviere Community Council, the Paper). There’ll be more on the Art Fair, the Dinner-Theatre, the impact of Father Peet and St. Roch’s, and maybe a little politics, too. Continuation of THE NEIGHBORHOOD CHRONICLES begins in February, 2000.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, November–December 1999.
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Original source: SD_Times1999_11.pdf, printed page(s) 5; PDF page(s) 5.
