Talking about Downer
People experience Downer in diverse ways. Some people are customers at shops on Downer. The others are members of a church. There are also merchants and businessmen who operate their stores on Downer. These individuals have spent different periods of time on Downer Avenue and they have been at the street at different times during the day. They have experienced changes of seasons and they have attended events held here. They hold different viewpoints and perspectives on this street. The street becomes the locus where these diverse individuals meet and interact with each other.
Therefore stories of Downer are told from diverse perspectives. We have talked to a developer, a merchant, residents and workers in Downer. Some personal perspectives contradicted each other; and others overlapped. This section examines this complex and heterogenous collective perspective on Downer Avenue. While we have incorporated these personal and collective memories into place-based stories, we have also provided biographies, based primarily on oral histories, in order to give you the personal contexts of the storytellers of Downer. To read these personal stories, click on the images below. |
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