DATE: Monday, July 7, 1997                  TAG: 9707040159

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SHARE CHURCH STREET MEMORIES

Daddy Grace leading his Fourth of July parade, Soroko's Market,

Arthur's Drugstore, Altshul's . . . the Dunbar and Palace movie

theaters . . .

That's the stuff of memories of the heyday of Church Street, once

a thriving Norfolk street and the center of local life for African

Americans. Now, urban redevelopment and years of neglect have left

much of Church Street a backwater, although with signs of hope.

The Virginian-Pilot, in cooperation with Hampton Roads' PBS

station, WHRO, wants to document that heyday of Church Street and

tell that story of African-American life in all its complexity: the

joy of living among friends and relatives, the pain of being

segregated from white society.

Please contact us with your stories, your photos, and other

memorabilia of those years. We want to tell your story.

Dial 640-5555 and press 3457 or write The Virginian-Pilot c/o

M.L. Lake, 150 W. Brambleton Ave., Norfolk 23510

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