Frank Dunnigan, WNP member and columnist. -
There’s a good deal of history sitting around in cardboard boxes in some western neighborhoods garages. That point was proven to me yet again when a former neighbor and St. Cecilia School classmate of mine recently sent me a large package of memorabilia that her late parents had been saving since they were twenty-somethings and new Parkside District homeowners back in the 1930s. Holiday lights on 18th Avenue houses in 1946. Unknown newspaper clipping., Dec 1946 -
Mr. and Mrs. Meagher managed to save all the newspaper articles, photographs, and even the planning letters that were sent out regarding the annual outdoor holiday lighting event that ran on our 2600 block of 18th Avenue for more than thirty years, until the start of the 1970s. (Early Christmas gift for the Western Neighborhoods Project the package is now on its way to the office archives!) The Meaghers were among the event’s founders, and they remained 18th Avenue r