The name of this organization shall be: Washington Heights Neighbors, Inc.
Category: Neighborhood History
A meeting of the Rosedale Skinker Improvement Association was held September 25, 1973 in Fellowship Hall at Grace Methodist Church.
Originally published in The Paper, November 1973.
The Executive Committee of the Rosedale-Skinker Improvement Association, after looking carefully at the present By-Laws (adopted in 1962), decided some changing and updating were needed.
The Barry Leader Drug Store, long a neighborhood institution, has changed hands, and there's a new face on Skinker Boulevard these days.
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).
The 6th Annual Skinker-DeBaliviere Art Fair-House Tour was again graced with good weather, fine artists, and enthusiastic crowds.
Recent enrollment figures show that Hamilton School has an enrollment of 749 students in grades 1-8; 72 in the kindergarten.
A well-known landmark in the West End of St. Louis is under new management.
The Rosedale-Skinker Improvement Association will have a general membership meeting on September 25, 7:30 P.M., at Grace Methodist Church, Fellowship Hall.
For some time it has been the policy of the residential service committee to prevent, as much as it is possible, real estate companies from doing business in the Rosedale-Skinker area.
Judging from the number of people seen at the display houses and a monetary intake of $527. it seems that this year's Skinker-DeBaliviere House Tour was again a success.
