[cybrgeezer]

SWR:

OK, "Central West End" is a little broad. Our route was bordered by Delmar, DeBaliviere, Lindell and Skinker boulevards. We owned and operated it from mid-1961 until early to mid-1964. My dad bought it for the extra income because of my mother's illness and she died in November 1963. He found a buyer for it a few months later.

On Friday nights, we would deliver the Saturday morning paper and that area was mostly apartments, including some Washington University fraternity houses, which were still, er, lively at the hour we delivered.

Another memory of that job was when Lew Burdette was pitching for the Cards. He rented a big house on Lindell with a circular driveway and paid us extra to drive up and deliver the paper to his porch instead of throwing it on the lawn from the street.

Seems like long ago and far away ... wait, it WAS!