Category: Events, Sightings
A 1959 issue of “Near By”
Martin Schweig sent photos of ads from a January-February, 1959 issue of Near By, a neighborhood newspaper published by former CWE resident Mary Lehman. The four-page newspaper was "published in and for this neighborhood (Kingshighway to Boyle, Washington/Olive to Lindell), its self-awareness and future design." Some of you may remember the shops that advertised then—the…
The first weekend in June was action-packed
A couple of years ago there was a Central West End Association committee that organized Happy Hours on Thursdays, called Mirthdays. Though I was not a board member, I was asked to help. The results of our efforts, to put it mildly, were a bust. The only people that joined us for the events were…