Tom, Elaine and I went to the Pratt Library on Monday and were to be working with the phonebooks from 1965 forward. Instead, we found reverse phone searches, of which I cannot remember the name of the actual books.
We decided to copy the pages for Pennington Ave, Patapsco Ave, and Curtis Ave, for every five years or so. 1966, 1970, 1975, 1980, 1985, 1990, 1995, 2000, 2006 and 2010 since we vaguely remembered that Alex and Hayley were going to look into businesses that were there today.
We divided the copies we made and took them home to highlight all the businesses. I am in the process of typing up all the businesses on each of the streets to send to Katie for her excel spreadsheet. I've found a few businesses that were there throughout the years that I've highlighted (1995-2010).
I have also been trying to think up good things for the children to do during the event to keep them busy while their parents take a look around at all the businesses we have booths for. I was thinking coloring of some sort, but I want to make it more community related so I might try to talk to Jason about what he thinks could be done art-wise and added to the community garden.
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