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Corner of Washington and I
Beach traditionally residential
lDee. 23. 198flJ-Editor
Sea Coast Echo Bay St. Louis
Dear Sir:
If one is to speak of grandfather uses ivin relation to zoning, I can speak more '.'? historically than Mr. Sellier.
| ' /The property in question - the comer L of South Beach and Washington - was the yard of the Manieri residence which F my family rented and lived in in 1921-1922.
It was definitely residential!
Across the street was the Bay-Waveland Yacht Club. Subsequently it became, in the early thirties when depression had dosed the yacht dub, Un-
cle Charlie?s night dub with weekly Saturday night dances.
Until after 1934 there could certainly | never have been a bar there. Later it became a picture show.
Before zoning, Sdlier?s bought the Manieri property, but the corner remained non-commerdal until the 50?s 1 or 60?s.
There is a concerted plot to unzone this neighborhood adjacent to the fishing pier.
What of the people who thought they owned homes in an R-l neighborhood? 1 Will they always have to fight to maintain this status?
Si?ncerdy, Gertrude Partridge Stanton Bay St. Louis