South Streeter Questionnaire
Greetings, everyone.  I’m Joel Spivak, co-founder of the South Street Renaissance in 1970.  This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Renaissance.  We were going to celebrate with a gathering of South Streeters past and present, with parties, performances and art exhibits.  However, that plan ran into the Covid-19 wall, so we’ll have to honor the neighborhood and revisit our history in other ways.  One of those ways is the virtual anniversary commemorative exhibit I’m creating for the South Street Museum.

 The exhibit will be filled with memories, stories and images shared by the people who made it happen.  If you are one of the many who have lived, worked, played, shopped and dined in the South Street neighborhood over the past 50 years, you’re a South Streeter, one of the people who made and supported this amazing community. We want to hear from you!

 The people who lived and worked in the neighborhood in the decades before the Crosstown Expressway crisis and, then the Renaissance, were also South Streeters.  If you or your family were residents or had businesses on South Street earlier than the 1970s, please tell us about their stories or your own.  They are among the keys to the history we want to share.

 Please fill in the form on the following pages to share whatever you’d like to tell your fellow South Streeters about yourself and your South Street experience (you don’t have to answer every question!).  Your contributions will help create the commemorative exhibit that will be hosted on my website, joelspivak.com, in the South
Street Museum section.

 If you have questions let me know at joelspivak@comcast.net.
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Name
Former Name(s) Nickname(s), etc.  How would people from your time on South Street remember you?
If you're actually Thurston Howell, III, that's probably not how your South Street friends and neighbors think of you.
Email
Confirm email
Contact telephone number
If you might be interested in "talking about it," let us know how to reach you.
Years involved with the South Street community
Age when you or your relative(s) arrived
Where did you come from and what brought you to South Street?
Some of us came from a few blocks away, some from thousands of miles. Some had good, sensible reasons for coming to the neighborhood, others of us just wan-dered in and stayed. What about you and/or your family?
What did you do in the South Street neighborhood?  Please check all that apply.
Many of us had multiple roles in the neighborhood. Tell us about yours: Please explain your answer(s) to the above.  If you know about earlier South Streeters, please share what you know about them.
If you worked in the neighborhood or had a business, please let us know where. If you came for shopping, movies, restaurants or special events, tell us about it.
If you lived in the neighborhood, where was your/your family's home?
Or homes, or wherever you laid your head. General descriptions, e.g., "Bainbridge between 5th & 6th," or "2 Street near Kenilworth" are fine.
Favorite establishment(s)?
Did you (or do you) have a favorite shop, restaurant, bar, theater or other South Street business?  Or maybe more than one? Which do you think were the best?
Do you still have something — or several things — you purchased on South Street?  If so, please tell us about it or them, where purchased, and any interesting details.
Do you have a favorite South Street story?  Or stories? Or a special memory or three? Others may be really interested to hear (or read).
Where are you now?  Just a general indication is fine. Or be as specific as you wish.
How did your time on South Street influence you and your life?
Were your experiences in the South Street neighborhood important in shaping your views and your understanding of the world?  Did it affect your direction or choices in life in significant ways? If so, please tell us how.
Anything else?
Or everything else, if you prefer.  Please feel free to any share information you think could help us create the South Street Renaissance 50th anniversary exhibit, or just anything you think might be interesting.  Others to contact?  Materials we might want to see?  Websites to visit?  Just anything.  Thanks!
Please share a photo of yourself from your South Street days.
Email it to joelspivak@comcast.net.

We'd love to see your face as it appeared in the neighborhood, or as it still does!.  If you have files to share that are too large for email, or other materials, please let Joel know via email. We'll get in touch to make arrangements
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