RESOURCES AND NEEDS FOR LEISURE TIME
ACTIVITIES IN THE LINDENNEIGHBORHOOD
A Thesis
Presented
in Partial Fulfillment ot the Requil'emente ror the Degree Master ot Social Work
By
JEANNELOUISEMOSURE,B.S. The Ohio State
University
19$4
Approved bys
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER
PAGE
I •. INTRODUCTION ••••••
Purpose
II. III.
of the study ••
l
• • • • • • • • • •
3
• • • • • • • • •
4
•
Community organizations
in Linden.
• • • •
5
• • • • • • • • • • • • • CHARACTERISTICSOF THE POPULATION.• • • • • • Estimate of present population. • • • • • • Distribution in age groups ••••• • • • •
9
HISTORY ••••
• •
population.
• • • • • • • • • • • •
Description
ot households.
Occup~tions Income •••
• •
Religion. Special
14 14 21 26
• • • • • • • •
31
represented.
• • • • • • • • •
32
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• • • • • • • • • • •
37
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40
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42 42
Race and country
V.
• • • • • • • •
Methods used ••••••
School
J.V.
• • •
of birth.
problems.
• • • • • • • • • • • • •
HOUSINGCHARACTERISTICS.• • • • • • • • • • • Age ot dwelling units ••••••• • • • • Value and condition of dwelling units • • • PACILITIES NOWAVAILABLEANDTHOSE PLANNED
48 48 52
FOR LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES.
60
outdoor
recreation.
Public
• • •
Private
• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
• • • • •
~•creation
• • • • • • • • • •
tacilitiea 1
• • • • • • •
60 60
69
CHAP'l'ER
PAGE
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70
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71
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• • • • • •
76
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80
PARTICIPATIONIN LEISURETIME ACTIVITIES. • •
86
Commerc1al1aed recreation Indoor
reoreatio~
Private,
non-profit
Commercial recreation
VI.
Children Adults
•••••
tac111t1ea.
• • • • • • • • • • •
86
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91
and youth.
CENTER VII .. THE PLA.CEOF THENEIGHBORHOOD IN THE COMMUNITY.• • • • • • • • • • • • • •
VIII.
94
SUMMARY OF NEEDSANDRECOMMENDATIONS •• • • •
100
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lOS
BIBLIOGRAPHY••
11
LIST OF TABLES TABLE
I.
II. III.
IV.
v. VI.
PAGE
Number or Dwelling Units, Linden and Study Area, March 31, 1954, by Census Tract. • • or Population, Linden and Study Estimates Area, by Census Tract, March 31, 1954. • • Distribution
Population ., April 1, 1954 and 1950 Census Population by Age Group for Linden and Study Area . • • ..
VIII. IX.
20
of Estimated
Percentage Distribution or Estimated Population by Age Group tor Linden and Study Area, April 1, 1954, and Distribution ot 1950 Census Population for the City or Columbus • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
22
•
23
Per Cent Change in Population in Five Year Age Groups Since April 1950, Linden Neighborhood and the United States. '.• • • •
26
.
Number of Linden Reached March, Children
Children Enrolled in Schools in Neighborhood, by Grades Normally in the Five Year Age Groups, 1954, and Census or Pre-School by Columbus Board or Education,
1954-• ·• • ·• • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
29
Percentage of Working Males, Fourteen Years Old and Over in Each Census Tract in the Study Area and in the City or Columbus by Major Occupation Classes, 1950.
33
June 19.54. •
36
Ma:,
VII.
17
Day
Care Fac111 ties ., Linden
Number
ot Persona
Area,
ot Races Other Than White
in the Linden Area, by Census Tract,
1950. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
40
Year Dwelling Unit Built for Those Reporting in 1950 Ceneus of Housing, and Number Added to March 31, 1954 as Evidenced by Building Permits Issued. • . • . • . . . •
49
April
x.
111
TABLE
XI.
XII.
XIII.
PAGE
Number or Rooms in New Dwellin g Units in Study Area Outside the City Limits, (Building Permits lasued Octqber 1949 to September 1953) ••••• - • •••• • • •
58
Outdoor Recreation Fao1lit1ea ANa by Cenaue Tract, April
61
xv. XVI.
Linden
Comparison ot Standards tor Outdoor Recreation w1th Exiating and Planned Fac111tiea tor the Linden
XIV.
1n the
1954 •• • • • •
Area, April
1954•••••••
• •
Fac111t1ea for Indoor Leisure Time Aot1v1t1ea in Linden and Study Area by Ceneua Tract, April 19S4•••••••••••••• ••
66
•
72
Facilities tor Indoor Recreation, Available tor General Community Use, by Neighborhood• April 19$4 ••••••• • • • • • • •
78
Number ot Boye and G1rle Having Memberships in National Youth Organ1zat1ona 1n Linden and Neighboring Commun1t1••• by Age Group, April 1954 ••••• • • • • • • • • •
89
1T
LIST OF MAPS
Page
1. 2.
3.
S. 6.
Division of the Study Area by Census Tracts • ••• and by Neighborhoods ••••••• Area Settled by 192.5 and Tracts Annexed to the Cit y of Columbus ••••••••••• Location ot Churches and Lodge Halls Linden Neighborhood ••••••••••••
2
• •
11
• •
43
in the
Approximate Location of Housi ng Constructed Since April 19.50 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Avera ge Value of One-Dwellin g Unit Structures by Block Within the City Limits, 1950. • • • • Linden and Study Zonin g Classifications, • • • • • • • • • • Area, April 1954 ••••• Proposed Land Use Plan for Linden Neighbor• • • • • • • • hood, April 19, 1954 •••••
8.
Present and Planned Outdoor Recreation Linden Neighborhood, April Facilities,
9.
Recreation
Pac111t1ea
Outside
1954. •
or the Study Area.
and Day Nurseries, April 19.54••••••••
10.
Facilities Educational Present and Planned,
11.
Indoor Commercial Leisure April 19.54 • • • • • • Location or Member Groups • Youth Organisations.
12.
• •
V
Time Activities,
.51 53
55 S6 63 68
74
• • • • • • • • • • • •
81
in National • • • • • • • • • • • •
90
LIST OF CHARTS Chart
1.
2.
3.
Page Per Cent or Change 1n the Number or Persons 1n Each Five Year Age Group, Since April 19$0, Linden Neighborhood and the United States. ~ ••••••••••••••• • • • Median Income tor Census Tracts 1n the Linden Neighborhood and the City or Columbus, 1949 • Humber or Dwelling Units Built Inside and Outside City Limits in Study Area by Ten Year Periods and April 1950 to March 31,
1954. . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
25 38
so
CHAPTERI INTRODUCTION
out to the north
branching Its
main street
at the
the
city
eastern
limits
of the
physical
served, city
this
borders,
west
limits,
to seventeeth
&.s
,-;hynieal
ones.
to the New York Central east
to the Pennsylvania
Avenue.
by the
Judg-
and creek.
angular
however,
by historic
influenced
as well
of the
of Linden,
The people
limits.
siderations
city
to the center
would seem to be the area to be
and outside
inside
both
highway,
of railroads,
boundaries
tablished
area
it
on Map 1, is enclosed
pictured
ing by the map alone,
the
directing
city. The section
the
over the incoming
takes
and there
Highway Three,
from State
traffic
Road near
the Westerville
Avenue meets
Cleveland
wide end.
of the
side
the eastern
toward
new shoe factory
sprawling
and
center
new shopping
and a brand
farmlands,
businesses,
homes, newer
churches,
past
yards
the railroad
near
plaoes
end of the wedge,
south
through
which travels
Avenue,
business
small
packed
tightly
from Union Station.
and northwest
Cleveland
is
lines
and west by railroad
on the east
bounded
Ohio,
bus,
Colum-
of northeast
section
is a wedge-shaped
Linden
The smaller l
line
forming
have es-
con-
and ethnic Thus Linden
includes to the
Railroad,
north
Railroad,
and south
communities
of North
2
.,..the Study Area by Census .1'.r~
l[ 'I-,
"'"°~ wouo• t0V,,llrr
CL 77
75
- CeM\UI t N.Ct bouru\e.rie s - Nei ehhorhood boundaries Souroe1 United Ste. t ea Census
~ 0
fi ·ure au end i nterviev; s .
tLUI
3
Linden, th eir
East
Linden,
separate
the Linden
organizations,
Community Council.
ing forces, problems
Northglen
however,
and are not represented
on
There is occasion solutions
shows the
By extending
of East
between
Linden,
the
and the part
for
division
the eastern to the
sections
of Mifflin
north
of Clinton Township
city
and south,
the dividing
Township
is found.
The new shopping between
missed
Linden
South
contacts
of Seventeenth atop.
School,
are
there and the
State
Fairgrounds,
Addition clearance
read
belong
in this
and busi-
in the Linden
Lights,
forms a
and the news that
Avenue,
however,
the lines
go to the Eleventh except
to different
section
and outside
the
the city
of
Avenue
school
facili-
organizations.
is taken
be considered
is
in the columns which each to the newspaper.
no playgrounds
may logically
up by the Ohio limits
the American
to be part
of the
slum
program. Purpose
a study
Linden
system,
area Township
submits
Children
adults
land
Northern
is
communities
communication
Much of the
center,
and North
in informal
of the outlying
ties,
communities
in this
Clinton
advertise
these
by cen-
of the city
nessmen
from all
area
line
school
link
combin-
some of the
of this
is one with Columbus in the public
News.
for
which arise.
sus tracts.
line
have
in seeking
This map also
section
and the AmVet Village
of!!!!.
of existing
study. tac111t1es
This
section
and needs
for
was chosen leisure
tor time
4 activities
as a small
Recreation
and Youth Services
Social
Agencies
and private and Arthur
to bring
recreation L. Swift
persons.
part
At the
of a project Division
up to date
study
3 in the northwestern
first
in degree
of need,
based
ratio
and trend
of youth
population,
ation
and index
of public
recreation.
been done to carry
this
study
tion
in the Linden
to secure
to be made,
meetin g them. project,
on index
that since
it
the Council
this
Methoda it
of private
recrewere
little
was under that
has
time for considera-
an effort
center.
recreation
presenting
be made
A committee
needs
and means of
study
as a thesis
and swmnarize the work or facts
which are already in this
form in the
cause.
used.
was not possible
need,
was an opportune
a proposal
is hoped to supplement
of their
of social
recommendations.
known to them but which may be of help furtherance
was ranked
Comparatively
By making a fact-gathering
committee,
and lay
Recommendations
Community Council,
to study
Batchelor
was made, Census
index
in some way a neighborhood
had been appointed
w. c.
of Linden
situation.
out these
It was discovered this
section
of
made of public
of professional
time Batchelor•s
remedying
surveys
and committees
by the
of the Council
in 1946 and 1947 by
Tract
made for
initiated
Due to the lack to study,
sample of the population;
of sufficient
time,
by means of interviews,
the activities
in which they
a random
.5 participate;
their
attitudes It
preferences
toward
existin
would be helpful
It
kinds
or
of departments Boards
or to
of some particular
persons
who live
statistics
private,
city-wide
States
fifty
Census
informants
Records
the Chamber of
by
of Population
have been the
in g overnmental agencies
or opinions.
gathered
observation
Added to the
from the
agencies
in makin g this
Communitz Organization.!,!!
Linden.
promised
opinion
and eleven
viduals
to bring
G¡overnment. tatives,
At present,
(one delegate
organizations inclusion
divers~
study
possible.
The organization
in Linden
ot organizations
rath er than
and conflictin the Council
became
Its
or com-
for indi-
g demands to the City 1s made up of represen-
and one alternate), proper.
in
one hundred
to form an integrated
on what wae wanted,
main
study area,
eommunity plannin g in Linden was born when it it was ne cessary
and
other
add up to the nearly
who were most helpful
that
or work in
and County Government and the
1950 United
apparent
with
the City
ght persons
for
on interviews
knowledge
twenty-ei
people
the
of their
Housin g , and personal sources.
problems.
time.
as a source
Over fifty
of Education,
Commerce, the
special
in community affairs,
was referred,
have given
their
more accurately
to depend
active
of information.
Linden
nor their
determined
necessary
who are
whom the author
activities;
per room at the present
has been
some of those
future
g agencies
to have
number of persons
for
from nineteen
constitution
havin g their
headquarters
prevents outside
6
this
district,
eration
although
they may
of some special
Join
aesociat1ons,
social is
seven
organizations,
a national
five
are fraternal,
six
girls'
for
the consid•
problem.
Of th e member organizations, ness
forces
organ1oation. •
and busi-
veterans',
special
are
are civic
purpose
or entirely
club~,
The 11st
and one
of members is
as follows:
American Legion American Leg ion Auxiliary Audubon Park Civic Association Junior Linden Heights Chautauqua Karl Knolls Civic Association Linden AmVet Post Am.Vet Auxiliary Linden Business Association Linden Conservation Club Linden G·arden Club Linden Girl Seounts Linden Junior Civic Association Linden Kiwanis Linden Mask Club Linden McKinley Booster Club Linden Recreation Association Linden Women's Club Peerless Club Pontiac Community Association The basis
on which they
is an interest bring
to this
represent.
policy sion Linden
are granted
in a civic group At the
is taking
betterment consensus
present
place
of the women's Methodist
the
time
because
Christian
Church.
membership program. of the
in the Council Delegates
organization
some review of the
Club
of membership
application
Association
they
Society
for
inclu-
of the
7
the
Barrack,
the
cerning
plans
the Recreation
center
argument,
to them,
that
Linden's
needs
if
if
the dele g ates
out the hope
held
enough, plan-
over the
priority
passed
their
that
were convincing
is
a
and with
ri ght time,
He later
be given
He
for a recrea-
was a possibility
arguments
the bond issue
if
added that at the
there
that
their
November,
at the
election. Recreation
The Council's community
of the Frank
but
mi ght possibly
ned projects,
1954,
had no plan
in success.
result
mi ght
efforts
Com.~ission
Council
were to go to the City
convincing
in this
section
in this
con-
district.
facilities
publio
for
of N. J.
Department,
Recreation
City
of the
Director
consideration
was the report
question
center
of the neighborhood
tion
of discouragement
in the Council's
development
An early
that
pro-
interest.
and flagging
said
due
unde-
seem altogether
cause
become the
should
it
unless
sirable,
does not
this
sa.t~e time,
the
at
jects
two major
considering
is
Council
the
that
fact
to the
party 1
has not b een f orthcoming,
canter
neighborhood
for
plans
in developing
hoped for
speed
the
Although
time
leisure
churches
for
Chester
Croce,
who designed
one ot the Linden make preliminary mendations
in Columbus,
centers
of the
has made a study
Myers,
or
fire plana
Committee
the Linden
stations, for
the National
and the
chairman,
Park
has helped
a building, Recreation
B.
in the Linden
facilities The Linden
activities.
several
haa visited
shelter
architect, house
the Council
incorporatin Association.
and
to
g recomThe Linden
8
residents story tions,
have been
informed
of these
developments
the
progress
made and some
or :Mr.
which
appeared
in a prominent
place
of
News, June
25, 1954.
Croce's
in a sugges-
in the Linden
CHAP1'BR II HIS1 1 0RY
The history when two narrow the
of Linden, roads
wagons of the
as told
early
settlers.
in 1950, tells
as Harbor
Road in the
thoroughfare,
An article
first
tell
or three
One Linden
addition
blocks
area
was all
then,
began
woodland
Toll
anniversary
Avenue was known
gates
road until
stories
in the Linden
financed about
of the mud.
of narrow
north
Owners
as late
growth
was chosen
whose parents
streets
from Briarwood
farmland its
resident
as 1900.
about
for
the
to be laid Avenue,
100 years
This after
or Ohio
capital
this
1865.
had to keep them downtown except
summer weather. first
Cleveland
begins
to carry
twenty-fifth
beginning.
fabulous
automobiles
in the
that
which was a plank
historians
pioneers,
were cut throu gh the forest
News at the time of the newspaper's celebration,
its
by
Linden
or
the
in dry settled out two
says that
this
northeast
section
a tract
of wild
and christened
Colu mbus. A village
wae eventually
Heights.
The source
have been
lost
cause
"Linden
over is
House Dome," said
five
organized
of the Linden the
years,
hundred
one of the
9
part
and named Linden of the name seems to
but "Heights" feet
higher
residents
was added
than
the
be-
State
who was brought
here
10
as a little
g irl
and re mains
an ardent
booster
of the
community. In 1913 Cleveland Heights
was officially
thirty-fourth
tract
Avenue was paved and in 1921 Linden to Columbus by vote;
annexed
to be added to the
was a lon g , irregularly-shaped Cleveland
Avenue north
junction
with
Westarville
tracks.
Three
sections
the
presently
land
western
from Genessee other
than
in those
sections
of Seventeenth
to just
Road,
the
city
east
Avenue north
of Mifflin
the present Finding
Association
faction
of both
Metropolitan
to be annexed of the
as there
Township
are
the north-
and Mifflin
Columbus Annexation
over annexaNorth Linden
considering
annexation
has organized
Association.
in the
These
November
1954.
from the 510 acre tract
1 8 located,
bounded
at
and the pro
is represented
voting
and
a Fact
six,
Linden
The
in 1927.
may be among the Petitions
tract,
by vote.
city
and cons,
pros
Railroad
is now.
Township
to study
all
Road was the only
amount of dissention
just
Clinton
except
townships
North
along
beyond the
of the Pennsylvania
to Agler
Mifflin
time.
running
to the railroad
limits
became part
was a great days,
and east
section
were added in 1924, including
The area
section
There tion
of land,
number thirty-four,
northwestern
This
piece
within
corner.
city.
the
on this
by Morse Road.
two
question
in which
Cleveland
AYenue, Karl Road, and Elmore Avenue are echeduled
in
to be
11
Ma:o 2.
Area Settled by 1925, and Tracts to the City of Columbusa
Annexed
L1nt:lf'n in 1925
Traot 20, annexed in 1910
D
Traot 34, annexed in 1921
CJ
Tracts 41, 42 and 43, annexed in 1924
c:::JTract
a.
49, annexed in 1927
Tre.ct", as used &bove, ref ers to new addit i ons annexed, &nd does not correspond with a censua tract.
11
Source;
Linden in 1925, Linden ~ews{ August 25, 1950, pe.ge 1. Tracts annexed, Xiuiexat on .lap, Frenklin County Cl er k' s Offioe .
12
heard
the
by
County
Com."nissioncrs,
Th e recreation history.
Parents
story in the
i n the
be g ins
Linden
very
near
f uture.
early
Hei ghts
in Linden's
Methodist
Churc h
leased
vac ant lots and put in tennis courts and baseball 1 d iamonds. This was a place to go every evenin g , until
demand for
lots
playfield. Myrtle
for
There
buildin
was,
and Cleveland
g purposes
however,
Avenues
caused
a tennis
the
court
where the
loss
for
the of the
a tL~e at
Linden
Theater
was felt
later
now
stands. The need need
for
church
for
fr~sh-air
wh ich
originally
since
the
wors h ip program
letics ping
into
of the
to add to its
uses
the
former
pong and shuffleboard
Salvation
Army, Pontiac
by many that
the
for
youth
As related
for
the
part for
by the
daughter
in league
ath-
Hall,"
with
rented.
of the
the benefit
organized
however,
For gym classes
as it
teams.
for
director.
a " Fellowship
gym is
program,
rooms
same church, youth
the
by the
and is used
participation
Corps'
activities,
who were chosen 1
a¡ trained
gym for
was takin g a disproportionate able
This
equipment.
athletic
co~structed
an auditorium,
church.
staf.f
than
a gym and Sunday School
has discontinued
church and
A building
housed
been converted
has plans
recreation
athletics.
has
Another
indoor
It
the
was ÂŁelt
had been conducted, limited
or
the
funds
few children
"Recreation
of pioneers
avail-
in this
nights"
area.
13
b ut th e emphasis
on Bible
stu dy a.n d worship
on of the church
rec r eatio n functi
throu ghout
was operated
be brou ght
about
and slum clearance a s it
on Linden, Route
State r ather is,
than
piece
~~~unds, Plan,
3 will
on April
Avenue.
from border corner
The southwestern of the
19, 1954,
Avenue have been given
See Map 7, P• 56
traffic
that
Ohio State
be seen on the Proposed 2
that
in the planned
and the area
proposal.
effect
alon g the western
becomin g part
stood
or no immediate except
be channeled
Avenue is included
2
little
is now planned,
It will
American Addition
this
have
however.
as it
Duxberry
teenth
will
which
of expressways
throu e h the construction
on Cleveland
by piece,
and is now
of Colu.mbus neighborhoods
The chan g in g picture
will
to the
Annex was sacrificed
classes.
for
used exclusively
De-
Recreation
needi ng to be educated,
of children
risin g tide
which
Center,
year by the City
the
School
in the Linden
partment
softball
y , the Linden Community
facilit
Another
al-
columns.
in the sports
mentioned
still
are
leagues
over
taken
nei ghborhood,
church
and adult
senior
thou gh intermediate,
the active
has been largely in thie
s in lac e r years
by oth e r a gencie
seems that
It
services.
is
groups
and youth
adult
i n both
a month,
to two or three
these
i s ho p ed to increase
a nd it
are held,
to the north
as tar
FairLand Use north
The
extension. as far
over to industrial
as
as Seven-
use in
CHAPTI-:R I II
or
CHARACTERIS 'l'IC S
Estimate population that
of present
of the
inside
the
added between
1, 1954.
Linden
city
the
area
In Census
the
was a 119.1 % increase
These
statistics
have been
Commerce, from reports the
by
city
the
of the
tions October
office
then,
building
and the
spring
weather
Franklin
period.
Chamber of permits
Department.
for
the area
of streets
which
were located
numbers
for
the
construction,
on a in t he
to determine units
to include
period, From t he
the
for
type
six months the
time durin r, winter
after
or
in each.
and up to six months before to allow
outside
or the study
1953 were recorded.
was selected
in order tor
section,
County Buildin g Re gula-
number of dwelling
was taken
the estimate,
count
and parts
was po ssible
period
and April
this
by the
the boundaries
of the
it
have been
number of building
and t he permit
permits,
the census
provided
streets
1949 to September
"
was taken,
during
of a map of Columbus,
Department
This
in units
of the
to be within
1954-55 edition file
1950 census
of the
bv the fact
2,897 dwellin g units
to get a similar
limits,
were found
is made difficult
Columbus Buildin g Regulations
In order the
An estimate
3, in the northwestern
Tract
there
issued
population.
limits,
time
THE POPULATI ON
the permit
was
before date and
of
15 issued.
r-:o allowa n ce was mad e for buildin
assUI11ing t hat
the
nu mber is
Chamber of Corru.-r, erce de molitions of the
does,
in its
ch ief
g , and that
as possible
Township
(the
two sections
.
Trailers
dwellin g units, timate
of the
information outside
dren
have
but
been it
and tor
since
Franklin
that
courts
There area
regulated
requirements, bathing
as early
that
approxi-
in Clinton
and east latter
and also
quarters.
of Linden),
more than
time.
count
halt
are,
than
Accordin g to
have been
rules
and laundry
trailers
outlawed
in other
for
in
1948 are in violation
t hey have observed,
by the
of
only a rou gh es-
County Zonin g Board,
trailer
in the Linden
space
the
elsewhere
to get
and any brou ght in 8ince
are
with
in the census
was p ossible
regulations.
courts
included
nu.~ ber added
from the
county,
Of the
number
in the AmVet Village.
of authorized
of zoning
states
small
was found
to the north
Township.
(723) were located
Trailer
and
up residence
payin g rent
it
conversio~s
go ahead
take
count
The
was t h e opinion
of _findin g living
of this
1307 in Mifflin
trailers
do not
area.
358 new dwellin g units _were constructed
mately
ttin
It
th ut a very
usually
i n ord e r to avoid
for
allow
office
persons
As a result
in this
process.
permits
of the difficulty
because
and
h owever,
county
of perso n s who ta ke out buildin
i ns i gnificant
accounting
of the
rs de molished,
parts
fewer
of the county.
Board of Health,
which
the protection
of chil-
facilities.
16 Trailers
in 1954 was furn
far
thus
tax,
have n ot yet
lots
on private
in t1iff'lin
throe
are
There the
Korbel
and Wilnis,
been
increase
has
the city
five
courts
were asked
in the
number of trailers
number given
The total These
been
assumed
in 1950,
exist
ror Linden
1 See Map
time
that
the
6, P• OG
and county. of
the beginning
255 of the
was
units.
same number of vacancies
at the present
time
ln the housing
of the Census
1s estimated
have
have been added to the estimate
tha net migration the
the
an estimate
for
since
in the number of dwelling
that at
existence
locations
of the
which existed and
These
maps for
of t he increase It
along
zoning
between on
limits
distributed
neighborhood.
one
area,
Avenue,
the city
outside three
nonpayment.
in the study
-on the
1950.
trailers
and twenty-
Township
of Seventeenth
north
County
Franklin
up for
been picked
the
paid
was made that
courts
one just
490 trailers.
present
tion
trailer
superimposed
of the year
den),
five
of the
section
The manabers the
listed.
ana th e other
Hudson Street, eastern
were
limits,
city
within
by the
1¡ 8 1.ied i
in Clinton
lots
on private
P ourteen
the number having
The reservation
office.
Auditor's
ai 1 d
tax,
rat he r t ha n a property
tax,
wh ich is a vehicle
fee,
a license
pay
is zero.
( 95 in Linunits
in
The in-migra-
at 8,904 (47.7 per cent
of
1
17
Table l.
Humber ot Dwelling Units, Linden and Study Area, March 31, 1954 b7 Census Tract
Census tract
Total Number of Humber added, dwelling units dwelling units April, 1950 to Per cent March 31, 19.54 April, 19.50(a) March Jl, 19.54(b) increase
Total Linden - total
'
.. . .. . . ..
7 •••••• • ••
8 •• • • •••• •
9 •••••••••
Clinton Township - total
Cl-76 •••••
Cl-77 ••••• Mifflin (a~)(c)
15,686
11,0.53
4,6JJ
41.9
11,5.59
8,.591
2,968
34 • .5
1,41.5 908
. 2,623
1,180 3,386 1,547 2,478
1,782
1,424
358
2.5.1
---
--
2, .59.5 4,294
2,047
--___
....,
4J2 992
Township
2,345
1.0J8
500
145
-l,J07
119.1 26.8 32.3
5.9
12.5.9
(a) Source: United States Census of Population, United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, P-D13, pp. 2.5-29. (b) Sources For Census Tracts J, 7, 8, and 9 - Columbus Chamber of Commerce. For Cl-76, Cl-77, and Mi-7.5- count from permits granted b7 the Franklin Count7 Building Regulations Department, and est1ma.te of increase in number of trailers b7 managers of courts and Franklin County Auditor's Office. (o) 8~ ie based on proportion of dwelling units located in this section on apot map, Franklin County Planning Commission, June 13, 1952.
18 is
Tract
7}, and that
3
Tract
in Census
which
, an
d
the entire
for
J0.6 per cent
another
area at 13,899.
in
In order
of makin g an arbitra?l'W' estimate of the proportion ¡~ 8 and 9 which are in Linden cf census t-acts populations ~-
to avoid the
four
to mean the
be taken
will
when census
Linden,
and in East
in their
tracts
census
Linden
is used,
data
tract
entirety.
Althou gh the
19$0 count
of the
The most recent
dwellin g units pared
by
map it dwelling This
County
percentage
has been used
tracts
set
at
3.0.
included
In 1950,
this
tract
the
unit
were as followes Median number of persons in dwelling unit
8 9
3.1 3.2 3.2
01 77 Ki 7$
study
in the
was arbitrar-
:for the various
3.4
Cl 76
of the
tract.
3
7
of
of Alum Creek.
west
per dwelling
the medians
in the study Census
needed.
From this
80 per cent
throughout
data for
The number of persons ily
was also
Commission.
Planning
time were located
of Census
apportionment
section
approximately
that
at that
of' the proportion
County as of June 13, 1952, pre-
in Franklin
was determined
from the
estimated
was a spot map of the location
found
the Franklin
units
to this
to ascribe data
75 was
an approximation
permits,
of building
count
Mi
Tract
of Census
part
western
in the
units
number of new dwelling
3.1
3.4
.3• .3
census
19 The median
portion den.
for
th e cit vJ a s a wh o 1 e was 2. 'Jo .
of s i n gle A number
of t he s mall
less
size
ma...."'1.y of the
than
1ncreasin
unit
report
of a hcus1ng
study
(number
lower,"
still
The natural
(than
increase
in 1950 was estir.iated
2,166
persons
population
1950 census
the years to the
and bees.use of housing
ng up" of more than
"doubli
makes the
one
state ment"· constructed
••
with April,
since
of per E'. ons per househo ld) has 2
3.2). for
the population the
residin
lS.50 to 19.53.
population
.
g here
number of deaths
per 1, 000 persons , using
is 53,635, an increase
Vital
the rates Statistics
This added another
The total
present
estimated
of 42.8 per cent
over the
figure.
The birth the
wh ose families
8
size,
Columbus Departme nt of Health,
for
Division,
was ch ose n because
full
by subtracting
from the number of births by the
th an in Lin-
and availability
number of new units
1950, the average
pro-
The Chamber of Co:mnerce 1n a
is decreasing.
t h e tremendous
their
6 construction the
the
of the new homes, because
not yet reached
ffu~ily
given
1950 me~ians
the
of tho majority
1 t may be assu med that
dropped
in t he c :!.t y is hi gher
new inha.bi tan ts a.re youn ;:_::couple
have presumably wit h the
pe rsons
Howe ver
and death
rates
were given
as follows
for
City:
2
A Study ot the Col-Met Area, Chamber of Commerce, P• j.
Housing,
The Columbus
20
Table 2.
Estimate
of Population,
Linden and Stud.7 Area, b7 Census Tract
March 31, 19.54. '?otal
Census tract
Population
in.lpril,
lfatural
Linden - total )
••••••••• 7 ••••••••• 8 ••••••• ••
9
••••••• ••
Clinton !ownship - total
Cl-76 ••••• Cl-77 •••••
b7
in-migration, population April, 1950 crease, March to 1950 to March 31, March )1, 1954 (a) 10<h( ~)
lQ~('b)
Total
Increase
53,635
:37,570
2,166
13,899
'.39,086
28 • .5'.3?
1,645
8,904
8,367 14,422
6,918 ·9,3?9
),896 11.061 123
.s.
226 637 295
4,24.5 2,724 1,500
8,457
487
6,64J
· 5,266
,o,
----
1,605 :,,661
210
____ ------
7,906
),767
218
3,921
93
43.5
l,074 _._.
Miffi in ': ownship • 75 -
(80~} ••••••
(a) Source: United Sta.tea Censua of Population, United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Censu,, P-Dl), pp. 7-11. (b) Source: Columbus Department of Beal.th, based on the number ot births and deaths per 1,000 population, Columbue 01t7, 1950-1953. (o) 3.0 peraons per dwelling unit.
21
Rate per 1 1 ooo po2ulat1on Birth rate Death rate
Year
lish
1950 1951 19$2 1953
23.2 2lt .6 23. 7
Distribution~
Age GrouEsâ&#x20AC;˘
group,
t he increase
census
tracts
outside
increase section.
present
total
proportions
as the - 1950 Census
ing numbsrs
a~e given
tion
city
States
is shown on a ratio
Any error
the differ, those
3
Chart
cha rt.
down into
Pâ&#x20AC;˘ 25
tracts
age groups,
e was distrib¡.1 t ed ln the s W!l for these III;
from April, 3
in the trends
in the
The 1940 Census for
by this
The result-
areas. percentage
the
in proportions
introduced
section
1,
time in the
the 1940 and the
IV; and t he comparithe st udy area
for
1950, to July,
method for
in the general
where such a great
distribu-
avera ge distribution
11n11ts would be in the direction
..:ices
in this
between
compared with the
change
the United
aide the olty
five- year a ge
as a whole in 19$0 in Table
son of the relative and for
in Table
ls
in each group
for the
in each
was not broken
limits
estimated
so the
g to estab-
was distributed
limits
city
the
in each
city
the
In attelllptin
from 1950 to the present
as the
1950 censuses,
9.6
number of persons
inside
same proportions
9.4
24.9
approximate
the
9.7
10.0
1953,
the area
ou-t;-
of minimizing population,
proportion
1s
bln.d.
Table
).
Distribution Total
Age in 79ara
'l'otal
of Estimated Population, April 1, 19.54 and 1950 Census Population Grou,p, for Linden and Stu.dy' Area. Outside c1 ty te(a) 1 I
I
I
Total
Tract
.5 ..... 8,195 5 to 9 - ...... 4,817 10 to 14 ¡¡- 3,158 15 to 19 .... 2,717 20 to 24 .... 4,61'.3 25 to 29 ..... 6,488 30 to 34 .... 5,088 35 to 39 .... 4,007
Under
MM
Tract
7
I
Age
T
1
153,635 37,570 14,.549 9,0:n 39,086 28,.537 8,367
4-0 to 44 .... 45 to 49 .._ 50 to 54 -55 to 59 .... 60 to 64 _ 65 to 69 .. 70 to 74 75 and over
l
1
April
by
S,25? 1,93.5 1,202 3,'.303 1,484 919 2,410 1,164 722 2,145 1,120 696 3,202 1,338 834 1,368 3,516 1,106 2,887 1,077
4,303
2,339 2,779 2,o47
3,155
2,39? 1,728 1,963 1,409 1,606 1,132 1,108 801 774 544 770
547
829 771 669 466 422
306 24?
247
),896 14,422 11,061
6,918
6,26o 4,05.5 2,021 718 3,333 2,384 1,994 1,688 326 1,597 1,449 253 3,27.5 2,:)68 928 850 5,120 l,64o 3,453 684 3,982 2,832 992 664 2,9JO 2,223 530
872 2,448 1;?12 889 351 l,158 668 192 .587 146 .573 519 4o9 l,2 4J 944 697 2,121 1,519 4,51 l,5J8 1,168 257 1,107 879
647 612 .556
519 2,326
287 217 186 61 41 89
148 114
56
29
147
18
178
482 411 292
2,008 1,728
1,820
1,565 1,317
1,497 1,117
264 1,184 802 189 154 5'21 151 .523
868
612 '.390 396
22
88
48
32
44
681 535
840
537 376 367 46o
5,123 9,3798,457
569 1,071 855
408
902 736
352 455
727
476 663 782
JJ6 610 JOB 461 447
866
416
766
729
671
.502
398 366
637
593 5.50
529
839 659 579
468
525
435
308
404
349
248
408
Jl4 187 117 138
2.77 180
193 133 86 100
231
B77
.573
117 132
594
493 4SJ 469 417 373 329
276
248
183
1.58 14o
158
(a) For the census tracta outside the city limits the estimated present pop ..tlation was distributed in the amne proportions aa were 'found in the 1950 Census age grou J,s. (b) For cenaUB tracts inside the cit7 limits (Linden and pa.rt of ]last Linden}, for which the number of persona in these age grou ps wa s given in the 1940 Census, t he esti mated increase in :population since 19.50 was distributed in the same proportion as the increase between 1940 and 1950, and was then added to the 1950 count for ea.ch St,~ group.
N N
23
Table 4. Percente.ge Distribution f E for Linden and Stud.3" Area M Oh st imated Population b7 .Age Groun 1950 Census Populatl a~c 11 • 19.54 and Distribution of on or the City of Columbus. Total
Age
in years Total
Under 5 ___ .5 toto 914-··-__.. 10
15 to 19 ....
20 to 24 25 to 29 JO to J4 35 to 39
.... -- .. ....
4o to 44 "" 45 to 49 .... 50 to .54....
55 to 59 60 to 64 65 to 69 70 to 74
.... _ ._.• ....
75 and oTer
etud.7
Outaide city-
A-1-,u1.
11.mitRa
Census tracts T~tt:11i
,
.,
100.0
100.0
100.0
100.0
15.J 9.0
lJ.J 10.2
16.0
24.l 8.6 3.9
a.o
5.9 5.1
7.7
8.6
9.2 9.4
12.1
9.5 7.5 5.9 5.2 4.5 3.7 J.O 2.1
1.4 1.4
'
7.6 7.4
a.s
a.o
7.5
5.a
13.1 10.2
J.O
6.o
J.4
4.4 J.8
2.2
2.9 2.1
2.1
1.1
1.7
17.0
ll.l 19.6 11.9 6.3
4.1 8.4
;.7 5.3 4.6 3.2 1.7
100.0
4.6 4.o 8.6 14.7 10.7 7.7
5.1
;.1
J.O 1.:,
l.J
2.6
.7
.5
.7
.J
Cit7 total
in Lindenb
4.6 4.0 J.6 2.8 1.6 1.0 1.2
8
Q
1Qq'\
100.0 100.0
100.0
12.1
11.4
7.8 5.4
9.1
9.9 6.7
6.6 9.4
4.9 7.8 9.4
5.3
8.8 8.0
6.5
9.2
5.5
6.2
9.7 9.9 8.1
1 .8
7.4
7.6 ?.J 6.3
6.8 6.J
6.8 6.2 5.7
4.0 2.6 1.7 1.9
4.o 2.9
5.0
5.3
s.o 2.0
1.7
5.0 4.2 3.5 2.4 2.8
a For the censua tract• outaide the city limits, the estim&ted present total ~a• ii~tributed in the ea.me pro portions as were found in the 1950 Census age groupa. b For cen8ue tracts inside the cit7 limit• (Linden and pe.rt of Ea.et Linden), the estimated increase in population since 1950 was distributed in the same proportion as waa found in the incre&ae in population between 1940 and 1950, and added to the 19.50 Censua figures.
24
Li nd en ea t imates th e proportion
five
group
bir th rate the
year
in the
in the
twent y in Linden
under
children
are~,
entire
at
t he tracts
more nearly the
lowest
follow
sixty-five
Linden,
and at
Tracts
the
outside this
11mit8
city
These
pattern. of old~r
2,652 for
See Map 4,
the
difference
age groups
ae a whole,
4
is found
twenties
in their
should
in the
since
Pâ&#x20AC;˘ 51
at 1,8 52 tor
ae a whole.
in the per study
show
also
The number of
persons.
area
probably
two tracts
and over has been estimated
The relative
statee
13,184 and
at
18,887.
concentration
persons
the various
number of
3 and 7, where the greatest . 4 As has b een menof new homes it s o bfe ounct.
in Census
concentration tioned,
study
The number of
smaller. estimated
is
of persons
The proportion to be hi gher
sli ghtly
cases
in most
is
teen-a gers
the
and that
population
in the
of age is ~reater
as a whole,
in the city
area than
of the
t he proportion
that
ten years
under
groups
be made for
should
group.
be seen
will
It
the peak
who woul d now be in the
babies,
post-war
to the "under that
fact
1947, allowance
in
was recorded
to nine
five
Due to the
high.
in that
direction
other
the
However,
attributed
new population
is
agin g of these
in the
err
probably of the
years"
homes.
or new , small
purchasers
in-migrating
area
cent
or change
and in the
1950 ehows the effect
in
United
of the
influx
25
of t'ersons Chart 1. Per Cent Change in Number il lQ~O, in Each 5 Yeer Age Group Since Aor en~ Linden Neighborhood United States Per cent
\
LINDENNEIGFBORFOOD
'\
\
t o ~Ar c h 11,
\ \
50
\
\
I
\ \
,15
I I
I
,I
\
'\
I
I
40
, I
I
I
I
'
)
\
35
\ \
\ \
\ A,
\ \
\
\
'\
r--
/
/
'
/
' \ _.,/ ,
-
,
l
\
,'
\
' 25
\
I I I
\ ~o
I\ I \
1ns4
(Est5mete~)
\
I
\,
"
lS
UNI TED STATES To July
lO
1 , 1~53
5
oL -5 L~-~
-i
- ---~ - --1---
.~ 6s;s -,~~~~1i37iQ335544-0044r's55150D°Sior66006 Yea.rs of age
Source:
Table 5, page
2(:;.
26
of young families
proportionate
increase
The relatively is evident centages
in Linden
greater in the
the
with the
of older
persons
increase
in the five
fi gures
from which
in co~parison
the entire
for
ch art
greater
in the United
States.
to nine year
country.
group
'l1 he per-
was made are as follows:
TABLE V. PE R CEN'l' CHANGE IN P OPULATION IN F .tVl!; U AR
AGE GROUPS SINCE A~RlL 1950, LI NDEN NEI GHBORHOOD Al'1 TJ T HB lrnI'I 'ED STA'rE s
Per cent
Linden fto March
19$4)
Total
+42.8
.
+SS.9
Under S 5 to 9
14
10 to
15 to
19
65 and
+Js.e +38.7 +39.3 +41.9 +40.2
1953}
+5.6 +7.9 +1.1
+ 34. 9
over
July,
+26.7 +44.1
+38.8
35 to 40 to 45 to !i9 50 to 54 55 to .59 60 to 64
(to
+45.8
+SO.l +44.7
34 39 44
31,
+17.8 +11.8
+31.0
20 to 24 25 to 29
30 to
States
Ne 1ghbor¡hcH .i.:!
Age in years
change Un ited
-4.6
- 2 .l
+5.4
+1.5 +6.9
+6 .6 +3.5
+5.o
+.5.9 +9.3
B u current Population ur:a T~esis Table 2, pa g e 20. Reports, Series P- 25 , No. 93, an The two sc ho , ols h a ve the largest School ~opulation. ~t em the Linden Public S~ h 0 0 1 ..~y . ..., - are
Source:
enrollment
United
s t ate
in the
Col umbus
and MoGu!'fe y ~ ch.â&#x20AC;˘ool!, It'! ..
s Census
wh ich
are
loc a te d i n t h ea r e s. i ncluded
27
in the study.
possibly
Four new school
a fifth.
The records
within
taken from the
school
which approximately in Table
III.
the first
year.
grade
1n 1952, the elementary
show th at 3, 856 chi ldren in school, 7322 of these,
enrolled,
thâ&#x201A;Ź five
assumed
school,
year
th a t the
but that
of Linden,
classes
age groups
children
a child
have
entering
would be seven by the en d of the
fro m a spot map of
the Colu mbus Public
by
of the sc h ool districts
listed
schools
b y grade,
have been gr ouped into
prepared
boundaries
the boundaries
School,
Mifflin
as can be determined
of pupils
class-
T ownship -
with
in the fall
As nearly
residences
(Tabl~
VI),
follow
an d of Clinton
for
fairly
Schools the five
closely
Township Census
76 and 77.
Tracts,
It intendent chial
in
portable
a nc. the
records,
progress
made normal
e ng made to the
ng , which had been dis-
Th e numbers
ha$ been
b 1
the
coincide
It
s section,
Schools,
1 son, ~rere enrolled
lL~its.
in thi
'
Coltu nbus Publi1.
1953-54 ses
area
city
the
one old buildi
~ch 1 .... - co s,
of the
study
from the
already
oo 1 , and fourteen
of the
Columbus Parochial at the end
on is
Seh
in use , Pus 1
carded.
pl a.nned
An additi
new HR.!~ilton Elementary
rooms are
s are
was learned of Schools
schools
St. Augustine
from the that
office
are
normally
and
st. Jwnes
mentioned
Linden attending
St.
Super-
catholic chil dren attendin g parot to school in their own parish. sen the Less Schools are within the
There
boundaries
of the Catholic
above. Joseph'
8
are probably
some rrom
A ademy on Rich Street, c
however.
28
st. Gabriel
Elementary School e.t Mock Road and Jermain Avenue will be ready to accept children in all six grades in the r all of 1954. st La Year the new school was opened with the first grade only. In order
Township
as was done for
tion,
that
live
in this
then
comprise
80 per
cent
section,
TownRhip.
46
per
1s 29.5
This
cent
to the
of the
per
leaving cent
oi' Census
of Mifflin
on this
is attended
of the
total
Mi
population
Mifflin
411 children
~tract
group would
children South
popula-
This
city.
total
of school
AmVet Village,
from the Villa ge,
of general
of t he residents
would be 835.
area, in the
the estimate
nearer
The number
study
located
the numbe~ ¡of cl1.ildre~ ~r. Mifflin who come from homes -wast of Alum Creek, it
Schools
was assumed
the
to estimate
basis,
from
Elemeatary solely
School,
by children
to go to other
schools.
in the other
enrollment
schools. The n 1.unber tion
of the
etudy
the
1950 Census
the
Columbus
McGuffey, from
a
of pre-school area
was estimated
population
Public
children
School
in this
in the Miffli n sec-
from the proportion
districts
of
The number in
a ge group. Hamilton,
Linden,
Po.rk ~ond North Linden Schools was taken house-to~house, in May, taken b~ th e schools,
Oakland
census
1954. In comparieon
under
nineteen
with based
the school on the
date,
the
19$0 Census
75
count
of chil-
and estimated
29
fable 6. Dumber of Children E b7 Grad.ea s·orm&l.17 Reach nrolled 1n School• in L and Census of Pre-S h ed in the Five Year ,~ Gr inden lleighborhood, cool Children b th -~e oupa, March 19.54 cation,
Ne.meof school
Total
Ma:,719;. Oolumbus Board of i.du-
Under
5
Kindergarten
;rea.ra
Total
Hamilton Elementary Linden Elementar7 McGuffe7 Elementary Oakland Park Borth L 1nden
Linden-McKinl.e7 Junior 1inden-McX!nley Senior
885
1,835 2,054
1,442
1,274 1,123 953
-
04
6ol
180
917 1,019 759
444 202
467
516
221
772
351 953
Parochi,w. School•
Total
St, Gabriel
1
St. Augustine
llJ
St. James the Leas
86
365
JJJ
42
2
34
332
8
.:..:.M..,..,...IL:!:-W!'.J[JU~~S~a,wi.ab
Total last Linden Elementary Mttfiin High South Mifflin .Elementary SunbU?7 Element&rT South Mifflin Junior Eat1mate of pre-school
424 116 126
1.181
--
902
320 82
126 285
-285
J4
87 320
104
82
34
126
-
a Pre-school children from this pariah would be from Mifflin Township and not counted in aurve7 made b7 the Columbue Public Schools. b Aasuming that 46~ of the school children in Mifflin Township liTe in the atu.d.7 area. (South Mifflin Elementary School is attended onl7 by children from this section.) C A•auming that the same proportion of the popul&tion 1• in the •under 5• and 5 \o 9 groupa aa was true in 19.50, and using the population ••timate giTeD 1n T&ble 2.
30
increase
may seem to be quite - 13,108,
records
estimate
high.
l popu ation
of
18,344) • It mavJ be logically of 783, or 36 per
crepancy group
is due to students
cent
However there
The theory school
that
old group,
still
Indianola
totals
that
or else-
4,453 to be accounted
remain
results
grade
and to the tact
number of students
by the
where the
school,
dis-
to twelfth
in North High School,
age may be attending
not substantiated
the apparent
in the ninth
leaving
a large
from school
under nineteen,
assumed that
many of them may be enrolled where.
(Total
of junior
or Crestview
high School is
in the ten to fourteen
are almost
for.
year
(3,156 and
identical
3,158). Totals groups
suggest
in the
latter
539 up
a step,
in the
under
that
five
and five
an underestimate 1n T· a bl e II •
group leaves
a
4,451
to nine year
of about
old
500 was made
However even moving these
difference
in the group under
under five
years
five. The number of Oh1ldren by the
school
survey
listed
report,
seems quite low: Number or Children Age in years Under l 1 2
~
~
Ir the birth
of age,
rate
ot Columbus aa a
153
505 563 553 539
tudv area has kept up with that in th e S J ·-"'ole, the number of babies born per 1,000, wu
31
1950 population,
since
th
as "under
listed
(4,635).
This
proportion
l"
c
8
¡
ens us was taken,
in April
l
does not take
950, would be more than 1 t no
consideration
or women of child-bearing
the oity
as a llhole,
young children,
and the
taking
added to those
the greater
age in Linden than
in-migration
advantage
4,600
of
of families
with
o.
I.
or
the households
loans
in
in order
to
buy homes. Description
.2f._households.
in the
study area in 1950, 86.9 per cent were the "own" households of married city
as a whole.
holds
comprised
whereas lated only
as compared with 71.9 per cent
couples,
5
Married
6.1
4 per
10 per
or living
of the persons
were living
does not offer
1 year
in the
structed
homes as well
SThe Bureau
own house-
per cent.
section,
in com-
as a whole.
much help
in determining
Approximately
74 per
number of persons as the migratory
agency
Unre-
made up
moving into bent
which has rented
cent
of the count,
same house aa in 1949, but this
high
estate
8.5
in this city
the
in the Linden area,
total
old and over at the time
by the
A real
in the
arrangements.
their
with any relatives)
population
cent
affected
tion.
of the
Columbus was
living
of the
cent
with
for
(not
The Census tenure
cent
the percentage
individuals
parison
per
without
couples
in
figure
is
newly con-
of the populahomes in Linden
of the Census classifies married couples it the husband is the head of the aa "with own household" household in the dwelling unit where they live.
32 over.
th
that
round
tor many years
ia at the present
It
was no'""" ~u,a 11 y not much turn-
ere
time
rental
some of this
selling
property.
Occupations
above,
pany mentioned tion
blanks,
!epresented.
that
~aid
Mail carriers, department
on one str~et
from Battelle
Aviation
Corporation.
Another
active
by persons
from this
workers
The Bureau
is
VII that
there
portions
of persons
Linden
portions
section
of
nine
tracts. operatives
workers and laborers
groups
deal
in these
classes are,
th an in the
of North
volunteered many of the employees. occupa-
be seen
in Table
in the pro-
of variation
in the
of occupations
on the whole,
and craftsmen,
men."
the reported
It will
classes.
a great
There
as "working
North American
also
are
of the Census
not
worker who classed
affairs,
in AmVet Village
1950 into
for
t1ons
and North American
to information
According
as typical.
American
to defense
rented
and employees
trucks
of dairy
drivers
He mentioned
of their
All
young charges
of his
and
workers,
railroad
are
the
vary greatly.
section
was a recreation
observer
most of the fathers
this
Institute
Memorial
from applica-
observations
were mentioned.
managers
workers
into
drivers,
truck
bedroom houses
three
1nformation
ng to her
moving
bakery storo
di
accor
of persons
occupations
four
who records
com-
of the
The secretary
greater
and fewer
distribution
pro-
service
for
the city.
33
r
Table 7. Percentage of Working Ma.lea Each Census Tract, in the Stuc17 A• b;y Major O
ourteen Years Old and Over, 1n
rea e,nd ln the City of Columbua, OCUpation Classes, 1950.
Cit7
Occupation group
t.n+..111
Total
Censu
"
?
1
~,,.,u~ 1 R
8
YI
0
,tud,r
'""8•
Cl-?,;
c1.77
JU-?'i
100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Professional, technical and kind.red workers ...... 10.5
9.5
7.2
7.7
7.6
4.0
6.6
7.7 10.3
8.1
5.1
17.9 19.1 19.0 21.4
4.6
7.7
7.1
2.3
4.7
5.0
22.4 22.4 18.8 32.a
31.1
6.1
6.S
Managers, officials, end props., including farmers .............................
Clerical
7.7
10.0
11.5
and kind.red
workers ..............................
19.)
Sales workers -··-·· .. --:. ..
9.6 10.4
9.4
Craftsmen. foremen• and kind.red workers ..
J.4.8 22.J
22.4
Operatives and kindred worker• ..........................
18,8
2).6 20.7 19.1
Private household worker•_ .._____ ..____
1.9
M ____
~
22,8
•s
10.2
.2
.s
10.2
.7
25.6 27.1 27.4 .:,
--
:,
Service vnrkers except private households~-
10.3
4.6
6.2
5.4
.5.9 10.,
2.8
2.2
Laborers. except mine
5.1
,.a
3.1
3.0
J.2
28.2
8.1
8.1
Occupation not reported
1.9
1.6
1.1
.a
1.3
.9
.7
.a
34 or Clinto
The north e rn tract
75 show
Tract
some variati
percentage
greater
farmers ) , f ewer workers, tives
and laborers. of these
ll
1es workers
'sa
and service 1 opera..:.:tsmen, . :.c of number y a.r ger Tract 01 _76 shows a picture different
with nearly
and la.borers
fourteen
• old and over in
9~persons
as the ··ole wu
city
of the
nei ghborhood
need.
From a look
however,
six
in urbanized
alone,
statistics
is great.
in eome cases
the
a great
fulfills
is no evidence
there
one would guess that were
In 19$0. there
If the number who have chil-
were present.
and are
working
areas
is comparable
in the country
or 17.4 per cent
husband present
in 19$0, working.
40
to the
service.
this
would be 1,730,
over
34.
9,943 women in the Linden area who were married
and whose husbands
tion
at
da y nurseries
apprvx1mately
dren under
for
need
of an unfulfilled
the need for
In Linden,
is
the percentage
is of interest
care tor children
of sub~itute
provision
,
since
center,
community
years
t' 3 ' 92 ~, or 2 7 per cent were women
The number of workin g mothers planners
of
three-fourths
aa craftsmen , operatives -
46e mpl oyed
For the
and girls.
d
Township an Mifflin it pattern , w h a (p er h aps mainly
c l ass
workers
in 1950, only
area
the study
t-•
ownship
e second
groups,
the workers reported
or th e
n
on fro:rn this
clerical
and a relativel
from either
th
in
T
per cent
to allow
tor
to the propor-
as a whole,
of the married
there
women with
to which should be added
the population
6
increase.
35 tion
Actually,
there
in Linden
at the
corner
in the extreme northwestern Th 8 Lyn Ayr Day Care Center of only sevenw ~nd the Cross-
e other Park Avenue
on Oakland
â&#x20AC;˘
has a capacity
Linden
in North
fifteen are
care
children
under
sixty
children
about
known to the
agencies
near
Park,
on Hamilton
Avenue
Snow Burka'
home on Walmar Drive,
the present of course,
only
time,
one is
no way of knowing,
how many working relatives
day-care
licensed
the forty,.nine
Linden
just
had a capacity
Each of these
limits.
mothers
or friends. A former director
leave
last
few years, was never College
were Kiddle
Those discontinued
operation.
put into
the
during
and one at Mrs.
inside of ten
facilities
children.
Of
in the city
at
There is,
in Linden.
without
a time-consun1ing children
of a day nursery
Isabell
the city
located
their
Two
licenses.
which was planned
AmVet Village)
time in and the
Agencies
which issues
doors
their
There
forty.
at the present
care
of Social
Council
Avenue has
Seventeenth
out of a possible
under
have closed
and one (in the
~ 0~
of Health,
Coll.L~bus Department
nurseries
south
located
town Day Nursery,
in op
nurseries
eratime ¡ ' one about halfway up
present
and th
Avenue,
Cleveland
only two day
are
study,
in the care
of
in Linden attributed
to the fact that the women care to work outaide d it necessary did not fi n in the neighborhood care ,_.an who has provided substitute W Another """~ their homes. becauee und her home patronized in Linden tor twelve years r 0
the lack
of children
needing
36
Table 8.
Da7 Ca.re l'a.cilitiee. Agee
.Nameof agenc7
Capacit7
Linden Area, June 19.54&
care
Race of children under
lee poli07
Cit7 l1cenae
to 6
Yes
White
Sliding scale
Yea
Under 4
Yes
White
Fixed
Not required
Sliding
Outaide
accepted (in YAA.rA)
After
school
,....._....
i.1n4en McGinnis Private School
717 Oalcland
Pe.rk
76b
2
Wee 'rot BB.b7 Home
2186 CleTeland
North Linden
10 to 12
.
L7D Ayr Da,y Care
Center
18o4 E, Cooke
J to . 6 Poasibl7
7
South of Saven+.eeri.·~l, Av--
White
ace.le
cit7
White
l'b:ed
Tea
111 ,.;;.
Croestown Da7 Nursel'T
996 McClelland
400
Under 6
No
. known to the Council of Social Agenoiee and ihese are the facilities the Colwabua Department of Health. ' . b care). school after 20 • pre-school (20 40 Unter osre at present• a
C
Under care at present.
lS.
37 o employment centers and eaid mothers leavin g their children with her were nim of adding enough to the family income to of a house or purchase some piece of equipthat many of these forfeited experience
that most of the the
~orking with
the
make possible ment.
It was her
their
jobs because
event family
o .f' the
the adequacy
the Columbus Department
or parents
unlikely
Linden
that
of care by a
are merely
residents
the clinic
was
It seems quite interest
loeing
in
child .ran' s health.
their
-of the
Medians for
Income.
time
attendance.
of insufficient
closed because
year,
of this
tor
Community Center.
Corpe)
by
and held
years,
several
tor
to assume the cost
unable In April
physician.
private
sponsored
conference,
of Health
Army (Pontiac
at th0 Salvation children
be an indication which mav of J in this l!lection, was breadwlnner
of a well-ch1ld
the discontinuance
stability.
of employment
of lack
recent
Another
t
route
on the
of 1ts location
1950 Census for
area were above
the median
the
1949 incomes reported tracts
the various for
the
at the
in the study
ae a whole of $3,093
city
6 Traot 3 - $684, 7 - $614, 8 - $754, 9 - $786, Cl 77 $5 3, and Mi 75 - $332. Clinton Township Tract 76 is omitted belower than the minimum set up wan a bas w ~
bys
cause the population Census
by the
there
Bureau
for
were more persons
t1cat1on
than
any other,
ealculating reported in this
However dian â&#x20AC;˘ t h e me in the less than $500 classitrac
t
â&#x20AC;˘
Although
the lowest
hediw
Che.rt ? •
h
Income
for
38
T ~~cts in the t· y of Columbus , l 94a~nden
Cens1Js
oo<l and the Cit
liiei ghbor -
IncoJ'le (in ilol~ars) 00
5, 000
4, 00 0
:--1
-·
-
-
-
,......_
:3,ooo
.
2,000
....
---
..-
~
1, 000
0
3
7
9
8
Cl-77
.Mi-75
Census fraots
n versity
nistrict
.
City
City
hig_h
low
City
(b)
Source• (a) ·r· 10' 5 0 United States CP.nsus of Population. Uh~s is the lowest mediBll except for tr•cts (b)
Totel
in the Ohio State
i s not given by the Bure&u of ~ceuse th~ population base is too sm~11.
b e .. ion for Them~ ·
Cl-76
(aJ
th£;
Cens~•
39 median
re~r" e sen t ed was in
todsr,
after
pe r cent.
an 1 norease With th
Ml
75, this
1n population
1
snot O
r
true
ne cessarily
app roxi mately
110
e exce p tion
of Cl-? 6 , th ere were few cases in tho extre ¡nes of the i11co ~';te l (ver y hi gh or c ass1fication ve r y lo w), a nd t he 1noomes on t~ h mi ght be describ ed ~,e w.ola,
as "avera ge." h ich on w~
The medians
2 are bas e d are as follows:
Chart
Median
Mumber of census tract
income
in dollars
3,111 3,707 3,847 3,879 3,656 3,425
3
7
8 9
Cl-77 Mi-75 Total
base for
(The population minimum,
set
by the
3,093
Clty
Census Tract
Bureau
Cl-76 was below the
of the Census for
computing
the
median).
The range
in medians
was from $1,694 to $5,491, University
State low.
district,
for
all
excluding
tracts
those
where the medians
in Franklin tracts
County
in the Ohio
were unusually
7 7Due to the
in Census reports fact that income figures 1nand tmrelated by families the amount reoeived represent median the y, Unive~sit the near in census tracts d1v1duala, lndivldg the number of unrelated tend 8 to be low, retleotin or no income. with little uala" who are students
40
to the
thirteen
Negroes
and part
of' F.ast
of only Linden races
houses
in a few scattered In 1950 the
proportion
15, directly
south
a few blocks
south
of the
of non-~1te
this
The present
time.
and
and Woodland Avenues.
Seventeeth
near
of the
in the American Addition
mostly
of Linden into
moving northward
majority
found
over half
hand,
was Negro at that
is
Negr o population
other
was a total ma.king up
of ot:1er non-white
Persons
Linden. On the
in Cl-76
popul&tion
ci t;r median .
the
-
In 1950 there in th e four ce nsus tracts
fifteen.
totaled
th a n
.2f birth.
countrz
Race~
Linde ~ â&#x20AC;˘s neighbors
14 and 15,
The medians f or Tracto higher we1â&#x20AC;˘e also south,
in Tracts
pereons
was small,
but
of Seventeenth
Avenue,
are
the Negroes
and seem now, in the
area
14 and section
to make up the
population.
TABLE IX N WHITE
1TfiliIBER OF PERSOUS OF RACES OTHER THA IN THE LINDEN AREA, BY CENSUS TRACT, APRIL
1950
Negro
Census Tract
Total
Total
927
903
Linden total
28
13
8 10
1 6 2
4
4
871
868
7 21
17
3 7 8 9
Cl-76
01-77
Mi-7,5
6
5
Other
24 1.5 7
tt 0 .3 2 4
~l
Whi le 12.4 pe r ce n t of th e~
2.4 pe r
in 1950, only
Neg ro,
stud y area
was so cl a ssified.
appe a r to be cut
exist,
co a t
only by racial
p opu 1a tion
of t h e p opulati
on Qf the
settleM ents whic h do
Those
off
of Col ~rrnbu s wa s
P
...r om t h e Linde n c onr.nun i ty,
"
hu t b Y virtue varyin g ec onomi c and cultural conditions, prejudice,
of th~ir
not
gre atl y
an d geo graphical
location. The only foreign much as 1 per
cent
country
of the
1950, was Italy.
Accordin
which had contributed
or the
population
was forei gn born
City
there
but
were
just
each country.
A ¡group of Italian-born
had originally
settled
moved into
(The number in the
319 in the period Here they same leisure Italian
time
farther
as they
Linden
tour
census
form
the
a closely
activities,
(2.9
in
2.5 per
per ce n t in t :1e
a few persons
railroad
from
workers
who
near the railroad
south,
retired
between
area
e to th e cens 11s re ports,
ce nt of th e pop 1-1latlon of Col u..-rn bus),
study
as
yards,
or became more prosperous. tracts
increased
from 79 to
1940 and the 1950 census.) knit
group,
belonging
engagin g in the
to th e s.F.I.,
an
fraternal
organization with a lodge hall at 860 St. ormerlv the Santa Lucia Settle ment Clair Avenue, which was f ~ House. An outsider who gained membership in this group through settled in the neighborhood of marriage, described the group
Twenty-first
to Twenty-four
home owners,
a~ti-Negro,
community conaeious
th streets
as made up of proud
1th strong family loyalties, not w th 1r own sect, but with a outside of ¡ e
Accordin g to comparatively
large
found farther
north
testant
faith.
Linden,
with
that
it
a large
of the Pro-
lar ger ones are represented
It will
here.
goers
location
are
churches
One said
New England city, that
opinion
in
Church.
of the Congregational
considered
approximate
four
was to be
persons
of the
number or them are
At least
another
the many denominations
come from a large
recently
showin g the
nden News.
Of all
the exception
and more church
Li
group or Italian-born in Census Tract 9 â&#x20AC;˘
all
was his
8
Census Bureau enumeration,
the
Religion.
minister,
of th
of acceptance
high degree
are more churches
there
be seen on the spot map that
of the Linden churches
Avenue.
located
along Cleveland
engaged
in or are planning
build-
ing programs.
school
the
with
connection
no Jewish synagogues
Linden,
the study area. Corps,
was established
in
in 1930. Special
is
The thought
Problems.
most in the minds center.
within
located
in
There are
which each maintains.
Army. Pontiac
The Salvation
have been mentioned
churches
Catholic
The three
of many
the benefit
Or the
embers to m
that
advocates
seems
to be upper-
of the community
of the younger
generation,
activities h leisure-time in sue police and the newspapers. of th8 as call them to the attention expressed the opinion th , Council e to es One or the delegat on the heads of the up down brought vaa â&#x20AC;˘ d1agrac that
too many ot whom are engaged
;iw
11 )
1 1 Wt>«)INC;
MOLi.OW
COUNTll'Y CLUII
residents
l aw-abiding ~
44
of Li ¡ nden by
the newspaper
of vandalism. In the
ment an officer stated
that
Bureau or
Juvenile
the
delinquency
in Linden
anti-social
behavior
more likely
to be written
quency was likely
than were,
Although he expressed he felt
that
officer
that
the
having equal This
at a Linden
etrort, hand,
the
story.
of teen-age
deliquency,
section
of
the kind Delin-
or burglary.
of police-sponsored
recrea-
boys on the
and indicated
Club, for which the present is the adviser,
of approximately
uark tor in Lin d en¡
was not
boys used
thirty
meetings,
but found it
Later the boys met eno Ugh â&#x20AC;˘ sunshine Corner. The parConfectionary calle d in the community did not take hold
and not
winter
men
police
aa1d that
they charged
The types
the form of vandalism
club was started
the
he thought,
was more
success.
ents and business after
however,
Athletic
to this
house
cold in the
there
sections.
organization
organization
the shelter
period,
1n other
decrease
the Linden
assigned
wo-year
disapproval
west side has helped regret
or the Department to keep but that in his judgment,
up in a newspaper
to take
Depart-
had a beat in Linden,
policy basis,
records on a neighborhood over at t hrough observation
tion,
th .til Columbus Police
who had formerly
1 t 1s not
accounts
the
dues,
complain.
large
community-wide 1 and make th s a der on the ot he r A civ 1 e lea ' a self-sustaining
boys wanted c requirement d scholas ti
and . ha
a
club, for
that
45 ~embership,
but that
l"
the
club members., so that
athletic
v1 c\.
they
equip ment.
wan 1 8 spo
could
The club
h
nsored
a dance for the
use t he profits
to buy
as now di~banded
because
of
"lack of interest." A g irl's related
staff
chorus
t h e same
Juvenile
was dropped,
Choir was organized, The city
a civic
or
period
delinquency,
and that
gram and comin g to
said
charges
that
small
amount
or transportation,
the
commercial
hoods. ~oat all
recreation
The teen-age
above,
children,
although
taking
part
the lack their
of places
cannot
"kids."
with the teenfor her
there is a surBecauee of the lack
readily
or those
utilize
in other nei ghborthe Scouts. and al-
boys have taken to e Villa ge belong in th the adolescents
School claaa.
over
dates,
or delinquency. facilities
who
in the pro-
middle-class
who works rep,ularly
children
Girl
mentioned
were normal,
or take
The neighbor-
he had seen no signs of
the youngsters park
the
in Linden said.
Linden
felt
considering
to congregate,
Pr1singly
time,
informant
The AmVet Village agers,
the
leader
with
by
when the city-wide
supervisor
contact
only a short
a.i1d supported
in Kohr Church.
however,
recreation
has had extensive
Court,
were held
Rehearsals
hood chorus
one time attracted about forty girls, 'l,h â&#x20AC;˘ group was started ~is by a
informant.
member of the
Kiwanis.
at
to the Sunday
46 Tho only
real
~acy of these a Master's
thesis
·
computed the sus tracts
by
and unofficial
1950 population
and 1951., by the
rates
for the various
the number of delinquents
official
found t o be as follows
for
figured
Linden
cen-
for which
were made in 1950
of ten to .seventeen
Rates
g by 1,000.
the
· cern 1· ng d.elinquency comes by J hn s o_ ._• Ely• in which he
delinquency
dividing
disprove
con
written
juvenile
formal oompla.ints,
and rnultiplyin
to prove or
observations
e.ccu.1o
frotn
evidence
in this
yea.rs
way were
and her neighbors:
8
Juvenile delinque ncy rate per 1,000 populati on, 10 to 17 years of age
Census tract
3.8 7.8 8.6
3 7 8 9
6,5 10.2
Cl 76
8.9 1.8
Cl 77
75 14
Mi
1.5
13.0, and for the County was fo r Franklin The rate tract was from .8 The ran g e per City of Columbus, 15.7.
to 57.o.
The only Concl~sion statistics havior
t he numbar
is that considered 8
Johns.
which of
could be d ra wn from t hese children en gag ing in be-
itY hy t h 0 cor.nnun
Ely,
A
n
lJ
l stud
Eoolo . 1ea Ma~ter s
~nc7 1n Fre.nklin C0 I• · 1 n ••rsity, 1952, P• •
to be
anti-social Juvenile
anci
Delin-
oi' the sis, The Chio state
47 who come to
the
attentio
n of t,
ne Juvenile Court, is smaller in relation to the juvenile population or th0 area, in Linden and other neighborhoods in th e study area, than 1n the City and County considered as a ~-h ale.
A Linden this
section
parent
for
who h
many year~
as worked with younc people in fo und that a. lot or JOUJ"l..gsters
are un happy· • "They ha ve, " s h e said, taking
p,;.:r-t in
schools
the
o.ctlvitiea
many
and organizations.
often
from homes which
ment keep those
offered
They
Those I have come in contact are
guilty
"no real
are
just
incentive
to teen-agers
Parents
Ahow places.
of misconduct
by
f1111 ng in · t 1me.
who are troublesome
with
for
come
a.s punish-
from participating
in
group activities." An attempt ment of the · of 1ntorested project
Services
community
persons
would try
wide youth
to enlist
council Division
out
teen-agers'
is w1der consideration 1n
co 1umb us.
neighborhood
as proposed
or
energy
the
Council
for the better-
by a eo:rmnittee
A three-yoar
experimental
youth councils
a nd a cityth a nd You
by the
Recreation
of Soci~l
Agencies.
ClIAP'I i:;H 1V HGUSl NG CHARAC'lhR lS'l
Linden neat,
streets
relatively new sections
other,
except
older
for
section
cottages,
with
their
cared
walks.
The majority
kept,
for,
some of the
with
shingles
determine,
on Cooke Road,
exact
older
the
of each
of a series
not yet
of residences,
In many
A few streets
box-shaped
paths
lots.
replicas
of paint.
small,
homes not quite replaced
however,
materials,
purpose
that
are
by side-
so well
of locating
constructed
and on Oakland
to
them o:l a map, which
most recently.
in the
outside
was difficult
it
in
of vacation
homes havin g been re finished
homes were found
spacious
are
of small,
en narrow
appearance
and with
the dwellings
were
the
by rows
set
colors
very
or other for
houses
varying give
as well
homes,
the
res
charaoteri~ed
low-cost
or the
the
are
1
extreme
A few more
northwest
Park Avenue near
section,
Cleveland
Avenue.
Age of dwelling the
g amount
increasin
with
exception
the
tremendous
ratâ&#x20AC;˘,
increase.
before
of couatructio.a
of the depression Should
4,346 more dwelling
den and the
April,
portion 1960.
The data
units.
buildin
units
of East
Linden
X shows
in el:lch ten year years,
a .::.d
g conti.nue
inslde
the
encroaching
period,
tha recent at the
would ba constructed
New homes are
48
in Tablo
city
present in Lin-
l im its,
on every
fable 10. Tear Dwelling Unit Built for Those Reporting in 1950 Cenaua of Housing, &nd Number Added to March Jl, 1954 as Evidenced b7 Building Permit• Issued. Ye8.?'dvelling built
Out-
unit
Area total
aide cit:, 14mH:.•
Total
15,040
Linden Total
4,278 10,762
CAn9nca
'l
+.,..--_~t
B
?
2,455 J,977 1,880
9
2,450
'
M-----
1,478
6)8
840
JO
235
210
365
1920 to 1929 ......- ..-- ....
2,621
531 2,090
70
780
4JO
810
1930 to 1939 ---------
1,248
44J
so
:33.5
16.S
2.S.S
1940 to April 1950 --
.5,15) l,02'
4,lJO
515
875
4,.540 1,643
2,89? 1,41.5
,500
145
1919 or earlier
April l9SO to March
Jl, 19.54
-MN-MN-Mff
___
80.S
890 1,790 8)7
Chart
Number un·1 t s Built , l ns i ne ftnd ~t o . ·t ofi Dwellin~ Outside L1m1 s . n ~ uqy· ~ res . bY Ten Yf:'er reriods and Apr il l ~nO to War ch 31. 1951 (a) .
3.
0
N\.l.!.ilit'H' 0 f
50
Ci ty
dWdling
Ufl1to r- ----------------------
--.
,ooo 1, 000
s,ooo 4, 000
a,coo 2, 000
1, 000
o .WL-..U,;_.1-.J.J..;U..L:-...a..~~~~~
~ ~~~
~ ~-.L.
LindP;n(a)othnr Linden OthGr To·te.1
Source:
(e)
~..L,J
Linde~ other Apr-il 1950-
J!ar' h 31, 19 54
United St,.tes bureau of the CE;nsus Columbus ChMr•hAr of Comrrt""rce Fr •Tlklin County building Regulations
Det& on year built c en sus
(b \
1Ql9 or earlier
~~
enurnP r, d·i()n .
for
ell Lest
but l ~st £our yee ~s. es re portP-d in .Pour yeers , builnin
g permits
.
"L ind en" • in th i s ch,,,,rt , mePns thP fn u r cen sut t.r acts . inclu din g p~rt of i~st Li n~P n . " O+hPr" r~rprs to th e pnrt of hP study Rre~ outside th~ ci tv l i ~its .
51
=
1]5j
.."-
Lola.t ion of new housing
Source :
United States Census_ nermits County building
.. ~
ousin~. Block ---= _a....;;-~ ~nd estim~tes.
52 section
of wilderness
limits.
and f arm lan d left of strsets
The c on struction
even
i ns ide
proce eds
In an att empt to e ive t he readP-r location
data
areas
through
been
still
these
were found
structures
This
the
value
( (;8,386),
cities
for
in Columbus
structures
Since census,
there
little
firm,
in light
blue.
within
homogeneity
units
(18.1
from
the classi-
averages
fall,
in 107 United f c)r all 1
rental for
the
of the
Within
block
single
A
the Col-Net Area ommerce, p • •
is
States unit
property,
as shown
present
time by a
the
per cent
of the dwelling
l Columbue
where
The average
by block,
1950 {$8,964).
in
is very
estate
a.reas
value
which is confirmed
Linden real
approximate
of value.
average
A to ur
on the map prepared
new dwelling
and the
to locate
of the lack
units.
structures
in terms
block
Because
hate been colored
in which moat of the Linden
average
large
only
shows the g eneral
in Linden,
fication
the
lots.
2£. dwelling
unit
of
i n whi ch bloc k s homes have
in 1950, can be seen
data.
consulted in 1950.
unsettled
st udy,
of one-dwelling
Census
a rea,
revealed
~ondit1on
limits,
the
then
a careful
Value~
city
new h omes in t he study
on mos t of the
new houses
value
idea
p1"edomin antly
constructed for
a general
of Hous i:'!.[: was f'irst
th e se areas
of time
by
li.,500
o.f the
fro m th e Census
the
e ve rywhere,
of Linden.
:i.n t h e h eart
the
t :':.i.e c l ty
nousln J.l
No. 2 , Th e
Map
5, Average Within
53
Value of One- Dwelling Unit Structures the City Limits, by Block , 1950
Average Value
(i n dollars)
Under
D
s,ooo
s,ooo to
9, 999
10, 000 to 14, 999 15 1 000 and over
No report
Source:
12.5.Q.United Statistics,
States Censu s of Rousing , Col umbus , Ohi o , Block H-E42, p~ es 5 t o 11.
54 units the
in the
of property
zoning
of sections
study,
Use Plan
single
The real
very
maps lmich
family
dwellings,
the
study
an approximate
more families
It will
ing units
per acre.
The locations in general
present
zoning
area
for
of existing
lar ge
present
classi-
on
within
the
sections
zoned for
for
S to
courts,
family
five
plan,
occupation,
areas,
1-4
zoned for
trailer
Land
or
the whole 20 dwell-
which are
in the Franklin
County
on t~e map which shows approximate
superimposed
classification.
where there
sunshine,
of the
in which units
low density
commercial
found
appeared
In the proposed
Areas of dilapidation
located
the area
and those
is zoned
are
that
only,
are permitted.
system,
as it
dwellings
small
are
has been made for
Plan,
between
a very
a gents
copy of the Proposed
divided
of Linden
permitted
be seen
area,
equally
with
estate
to the
in
the value
few apartments
refer
for the Columbus Master
is almost
with
copy of the portions
within
and also
19, 1954.
April city
An approximate
and County
combined
figure. that
52.0 per cent
with
were not
to the fact
attested
fication
this
as compared
in a composite
in Linden. City
area
in 1950), rents
City,
also
study
but living include
is
near
still
an abundance
conditions the block
These
areas
trial
use in the new plan,
white
community to the north
Linden
are,
of fresh
in some cases of residences
in the main, and
are deplorable. zoned for
the American Addition of it.
air
indus-
and the
A few scattered
shanties
lap
0
#INDIHc. '40LL0W
COU,,Tltf
l,~ :i l
~
• •
s k
CJ
D
Single family dnllinea 1-4 r,ur11y c1n111nga
CJ 5 or IIION familioe ~ Trailer court. (ex:1.ating) D Light manufacturin g Conn.rcial • Heavy manufacturin g Souroe , Franklin ~olm.ty Zonine Bo&l'd 'aps, City Plantli tVJ Commission rn&ps, 3, 12, 29.
CLUII
11 1
.
D D -
Q
q
=
Lo,r d~nsity , s- 20/acre Suburban , 1- 5/ aore Conneroial. Publ ic and Semi- !?ublio In<:lustrial
~ource :
Pl.annine
Fl-anklin
Cou."lt./ Coi:missio~
57 are
found at Woodland and Seventeeth
dump-dwelling Third
community,
and Twenty-Fifth
of low land in through
itself,
it
against
private
by Bureau
for
same as north
Windsor Avenue, be evident.
West of Cleveland
than
four
census
units
which were not in the
city
or
these
rent,
deterioration
Avenue,
in Directly
appears
However, about begins
to
the homes appear
to
for
a few more blocks
three
those
tracts
inside
the
of 8,591, or 14.3 per oent
were 1,226
tor
units
was 16.6.
Avenue.
bathing
was only 433
the housing
of preservation,
there
included
or private
on the east.
In the
tures.
of the
number of dwelling
of Cleveland,
state
construc-
the safety
toilet
two blocks,
classed
or protec-
the percentage
about
units
shelter
or the Census standards,
of Seventeeth east
be in a better
adequate
flush
of the total
of Linden,
cent
of bein g filled
original
or endangered
1950. For the whole city
south,
whole section
this
in the process
or of inadequate
the elements
or $.O per cent
the
or
Much
did not provide
or lacked
facilities,
south
Avenue between Twenty-
the number of dwelling
neglected,
so that
occupants
and is,
and a whole
use as a dump.
as run-down,
tion
of Joyce
Avenues.
has been,
In Linden
tion,
east
Avenues,
single
detached
unite,
as a whole were in other
1,226,
units.
limits,
ot the dwelling whereas
classes
only 216 were in structures
or more dwelling observed
city
51.5 per of strucwhich
Of the new structures
were or the type commonly called
..
58 twin
singles.
thirty
On Homecroft
of these
design,
two-dwellin
were under
study,
County Building
appeared
planned
rent
at
that
ng permits
Regulations
1,481 new units
only twenty-tour these
structures, during
for
of Oakl and. Park, identical
ot the
the period
at ninety
1n
dollars
per
rooms).
From the buildi
of the
north
g unit
construction
and were advertieed
month (rive
Drive;
Department,
constructed
of th~se to be the
in the office
(twelve
it
was learned
that
the 1950 Census,
since houses)
only multiple
of the Franklin
were doubles,
and
dwellin g structures
time.
TABLEXI NUMB ER OF ROOMS IN NEW DWELLING UNITS,
I tf
STUDYAREAOUTSI DE THE CITY LIMITS, (BUILD1949 TO SEPTEMBER ING PERMITSISSUED OCTOBER 1953) ~
Number ot rooms Total
Number
of units
Per cent of total
1,481 ,
100.0
2
2
.1
19 692
3
4-4 1/2
1.3 46.7
2s.s 2$.8 .s .1
376 382
5-5 1/2 6
8
7
2
8
It vill the units
be seen in the above table
constructed
had tour or tour
that
nearly
and one-halt
half roome.
or
$9
Some of these It
(about
is evident
four-room
that
sixty-five}
more than four
The census enumerated per room.
reported.
units
persons
in overcrowding,
house results
persons
hnd unfiniehed
dwelling
In Linden, In the
units
living
in a small
by today's
standards.
1.01 or more
reporting
in 1950, there
surroundine
second tloore.
were 675 such
territory
there
were
2
506.
An interviewee
who has become familiar
ditions
in one section
of Linden,
reports
that
in the older
adequate under
for
families, their
needs
crowded conditione
2
married dwellings.
A large couples,
originally,
ae their
in the
course
sections, find families
with home conof his work, who bought homes
themselves
living
grow larger.
part of recent housing is occupied by newly lowering the percentage ot over-crowded
CHAP'l'EH V
FACILITIBS NOW AVAILABLE AUD THOSE PLANNED FOH LEISURE TIMBACTIVITI ES Outdoor are
three
neighborhood
operated the
recreation.
playgrounds
by the City
almost
Briarwood
Recreation
twenty-one Avenues.
There
not yet
been developed,
School,
of the Booster
playground,
lin
and the East
Elementary
park, public
in addition
to
at Ontario
and
schools
with play-
under
construction,
use in the fall
or
1954.
diamond at Linden-McKinley "not
supposed
to,"
as a member
said.
in East
The AmVet Village
and
for which the playgrot~ ~,~ has
for class
they're
Club,
Facilities
owned by the city,
are three
use the baseball
.
there
and one school
for completion
even though
Linden,
Department,
one new school
in use,
The boys also
- Within
acre recreation
grounds
scheduled
Public
Linden
consist
Linden Elementary
has a new school
School,
of Joan Park,
a city
School grounds.
playground
as does North Linden,
at South Miffat the school
on Cooke Road. Mifflin above,
either
1 8 an ancient playground
Township
other
have no playground leased
is closed
High Sohoola.
Schools
because
building
than the two mentioned
(South Mifflin
with unkempt grounds)
as is Sunbury Elementary distance
60
Junior
High
or the
and Mifflin
away from the children's
61 Table 12 â&#x20AC;˘
Outdoor Recreation Facilities
in the Linden Area by Census Tract, April 1954.
Sponsoring agenoy
Nameand location
Area. in a.ores
Facilities
6.0
Pla.yground equipment, softball diamond, basketball hoops, badminton court, picnic tables, use of temporary school 11 hut 11 , hard surfaced pla.y area..
7e0
Pla.yground equipment, ba.sketball hoop, softball diamond.
Census Tra.ot 3
Park Elementary School Columbus Public 3392 Atwood Terrace Sehools(a)
Oakland
Pontiac Pa.rk East North Broadwaurand Maize Road Census Traot 7
City Recreation Department
I
:
City Recreation , 2.05 Depa.rtment
P19v'ground equipment, basketball softball diamond.
Hamilton Elementa.rjJ School 2047 Hamilton Avenue
Columbus Public Schools
Basketball hoops, ha.rd surfaced pl9v' a.rea
Linden-McKinley Junior and Senior High Schools 1320 Duxberry Avenue
Columbus Publio Schools
Audubon Park Homecroft Drive a.nd Audubon Road
Census Tract 8
Kenlawn Park City Recreation Kenlawn and Brighton Avenues Department Linden Elementary Sohool 2626 Westerville Road st. James the Less School (Elementary) 1658 Oakland Park Avenue
I Columbus Public Sohools(b)
1
I
I
I
Baseball diamond, football field, surfaced basketball court.
11.92
1.06
hard
Playground equipment, basketball hoops, , volleyball court, horseshoes.
4.57 i Pleyground equipment, softball basketball hoops.
IPla,yground equipment, basketball hard surfaced pla,y area.
RomanCatholic Church
hoop,
diamond, court,
Census Traot 9 Joan Park J.t,rtle and Ta,ylor Avenues
City Recreation Department
Park Ontario and Briarwood Avenues City Recreation Department
3.63 i
Linden
McGuffey Elementary School 2632 !:leGuffey Road
Columbus Publio Schools
RomanCatholic st. Augustine Elementary Churoh School Greemrich and Loretta Avenues
Pla.yground equipment, basketball hoop, softball field, pl9v'gz-oundfield house.
20.92
Croquet, lake with fishing, picnic shelter, picnic tables, enclosed shelter wading pool, horseshoes, volley ball court, basketball court, four softball fields, (one lighted), pl~ground field house, two tennis courts.
10.1
Pleygz-ound equipment, and two softball diamonds. Pleygz-ound equipment.
supervised by the Board of Education, SW!lll8r,1954. (a) Pla.yground having sumner activities (b) School pl9v'ground ha.vine program supervised by the City Recreation Department, SUJ!lller,1954. (continued on next paee)
62
Table 12, Outdoor Recreat ion Faci lit i es i n the Linden Area by Census Tract, April 1954, continued Sponsoring
Name and l ocation
e.genoy
Area. in acres
Facilities
Cl inton TO\VnSE hi Tract 77 Linden- Air Drive In Theater 3168 Westervil l e Road
Private owner
l-ao Park
Pri va.te owner
2295 Morse Road North Linden pl a~grotmd 3820 Cl evel and Avenue Nor-th Linden School (Elementary) 1718 East Cooke Roa.d
-
Outdoor commercial movie theater , oapa.city 500 oars .
18. 00 Playgro und equipment, picnic tables .
I
I
Nor-th Linden Civic Leaguo Col\.ll!!busPubl ic School s(a)
---
Pl ayground equipment, basketball hoops (use adJaoent l ot for softbal l ) .
9.7 5 Pl ayground equipment, softbal l diamond,
basket ball hoops.
Cli nton TownshiE Tra.et 76 Morningsid e Park, Incorpor&'ted Private , profi t -r:ialdng 2200 Joyce Avenue
---
Swimning pool,
-
Pl ayground equip ment , basket ball hoop.
11. 00
Pl~ground equipment, basketbal l hoop, hard surfac ed pl a,y area .
basketb all court , picnic
area..
Miff l in TcnmshiE Traot 75 (por-tion west of AlumCreek)
East Linden El ementary Sohool 2500 Perdue Avenue
Mifflin Townshi p Schools
South hl:1.fflin Elementary School 2355 Mi ddlehurst Drive
Miff l in Township School s
Sun- WoodPl ayground Areyle end Meredi th Avenues
Sun-Wood Civic Assoo1e.t1on
(a) Pl eiygountl he.ving aumner aotivities Sources:
-
Pl a,yground equipment.
supervised by the Boar d of Education , Sumner, 1954.
City Recreati on Department leaf l et fo r sUIJITleprogram r , 1954. Columbus Publ ic School s , memo r andum t o th e Board of Education .
::. ::: -
D
Cit./ pl a.terounds Proposed citâ&#x20AC;˘â&#x20AC;˘ pln '-gr ound 5ohoo l pl a~ ;oun~
u
S
fi
c::;:J Proposed school pl ayero unde Public c.nd som1- publ1o f7"J ?-leiehbor hood pl aygrounds l ands D Propoi:.ed State youth centar CJ Proposed parks ( n:aster pl an) Priva.to l .) owned park Private l y owned GWimmine poo l
April
, 1954
64 homes makes
its
use
impractical. found
The facilities are
in Table
listed
vations
are City
XII.
in visits Additional
to these information
locations and obser-
as follows: Recreation
Denartment
locations:
trom Audubon Park - This plot of land reaches Homecroft Drive east to Audubon Road, south from in accordIt has not been developed Tulane Road. made in 1947 after ance with the recommendations It is easily study by Dr. Batchelor. the city-wide without children of numbers to large accessible or traffic. of crossin g main arteries the necessity planned improvements In t~e proposed recreational by the bor. ¡i for use of the funds made available which is to be voted on in November of issue, playing hard surfaced this year, are included: area, and picnic court, tennis area, wadin~ ,ool, field playground (The house. field playground at Joa..~ and Linden in existence house, already facilibut with toilet Parks is an open shelter, space, enclosed.) or office ties and atorage
to find, partly beJoan Park - was difficult and partly on a street, cause it has no frontage do not because some of the East Linden residents There were seem to be aware of its existence. playing here on the Sunday only five small children was made (before the beginning on which the visit seems This playground program). of the supervised to serve a large number of to be in a location the for improvement include Proposals children. area and. playing of hard surfaced construction wading pool. Linden Park - This much-used park is loca~ed of just southeast near the center of Linden, for ideal seems Thia location McGuffey School. from this community. serving as many as possible is that it ls not large enough, and One complaint is too cold to shelter the other that the enclosed said that a One leadin g citizen uee in winter. large sum of money was spent for the installation house, but that plant in the shelter of a heating not warm enough for use during cold it is etill here but which are possible Activities weather. g , wadin g , fishin are parks not at the other Linden and square dancing. night softball tennis,
65 Kenlawn is a ahady park, also Kenlawn Park~ of a block, except that it in the Interior ~ocated This 1s one of the newer ouches on Kenlawn :\venue. Propopulated. an area recently serving ?arks, ~f the addition for its improvement include posals tennis pool, wading area, playing a hard-surfaced field house. and playground area, picnic court, north a!most directly Park - is located Pontiac The construe-. of Audubon Park, about seven bloeks. to approach the ~akes tion of houses and streets Vacant time. at the present this park difficult north of t h is plot of land appear to have fields st~te. but a short time to remain in an unoccupied bi;.t some eq u i p1nent undeveloped, The park is largely playing area, surfaced hard a and has been installed picnic area and play ground court, wadlrig pool, tennis ac ording to the proposal added, be will house field 1 mission. Com. of t ¡1e Recreation
Schools:
Colu:.~bus Public
School is a new one which Hamilton Elementary equipment other than has, as yet, no playground The P. T. A. and the City Recrehoops. basketball have been asking about the playation Department has felt that it of Education Board the but ground, An addition this question. to consider is too early at the present to the school is being constructed time. The summer program lasts
trom June 17 to August all
open at and crafts
as well
competition
takes
and softball. teachers
ments,
Story
hours.
City
Recreation
Department
28, with
playground
equipment
of the
telling,
as in athletics in tennis,
place
At Linden
or education
Park
students.
all
and instruction is
included.
horseshoes, four
in arts City-wide
baseball,
of the workers
The supervisor
are
who furnished
1 IMproveProposed Recreational J. Barrack, Nicolas 6, 1954. April Department, memorandum City Recreation
66
Table lJ.
Oompariaon of Standards tor Outdoor Recreation with ~1at1ng tor the Linden Area, April 19.54. and Planned Yacilitiea St&ndard per unit of population&
Fo.ailit7
Required Exiating to meet facilitiea •tandard
(b)
Planned facilitiea
0
Pla1'field1 (10-12 acres minimum)
1 acre for each 800 of popul.ation
67 acres
JJ acres
None4
Neighborhood plqgrounds
l acre for each
67 acres
80 acres
J City Beereation .Depart ment plrqground 4 achool playgrounds
800 of po-pul.ation•
9
l
None
18
14
7
s
2f
None
l for each 2.000
Z'I
2
) locationa
Accomodation of J~ of the population at one til'D&
3
1
lone
:Baseball
diamond.a
l for each 6,000
Softball
diamond•
l for each
Football
fields
1 for each 10 • 001t
Tennis courts
Swimmingpool a• outdoor
J,ooo
~ a Standard.a aet b7 the National Recreation Association. obaerred in Tisita to Linden. Not to be ta ken aa exact b Facilities measures. 0 It ia assumed that new echoola planned for use in 1955will baTe as other public achoola. Propoaed approximately the same fe.cilitiea counted. been city recreation tac111t1ea have d Three of the neighborhood plqgrounde will have tennis court• and picnic areas, if the pro-posed plane are carried out, and will preaumabl7 be used b7 older persona than \he eix to fourteen 19ar group for which the neighborhood plQground le planned. !he 11se will •till be below the atand.&rd t~r ~lay'f'leld• however. • There ehould be a plffground within a quarter to & half mile of eTe~ home.
t Thia 4oe• not take into account the use ot Worth High School athletic tac111ti••
b7 1t11denta attending
1chool there.
8
67 much valuable in keepinft
1ntorzna.t1on
competition
He feels
that
South has
Supervised
an eight not South
summer activities
for
are
Avenue School
Recreation
also
by the
planned
and Oakland
Schools
Department.
Park Schools
with playgrounds
East
Colu..~bus
open,
Linden Elementary,
where
prelln1inary
it
is planned
constru~t".on,
Department
Hamilton
if
to purchase
is forthcoming
requests
land
the $ 2,408,000,
and Twenty~Second
Avenues
and Velma Avenue~ -·(Census
Maynard
and
the
(Census Tract
North
Linden
Two large and six milee,
not g iven).
(location
City.owned
parka
~eepectively,
2
Memorandum to the
from the
op.
cit.,
P•
3.
14).
Tract
7).
7) •
limits
3
located ·center
Board of Education,
May18, 1954. Barrack,
·are
City
are:
Woodward and Brentnall Avenues (at the city and the southern boundary of Mi-7.5) •
3
but
and
is two blocks Fifteenth and Dell Avenue~ (this south of Seventeenth Avenue, in Census Tract
Schools,
for
Elementary.
Mifflin
Recreation
are
McGuffey,
Eleventh
City
Linden
2
week period.
Lc .:e.tion~ begin
North
he believes
that
not be too stiff'.
the
by
said
and that intercity and teams should be avoided.
Avenue,
supervised
supervised
park,
should
of' Seventeeth
Schools
study
and all-star
competition
a program
Fublio
in the
competition
national
f'or this
about
three
of LinJen. Columbus Public
Mau q _ Recrea t ion },A.ci1 i t i es Out s i de of the Study '
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indicate
1 mile
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zone s .)
,
.
69 The more distant,
Blendon
resi dent s as a favorite Park
Woods, picnic
and the Rose Garden
lie
was mentioned
spot.
by Linden
Th e 10c;.J acre
to the west
Whetstone
alon g the Olentangy
River. The Ohio State
play
area
for
the
including
here,
and are,
this
Fairgrounds
surrounding
children
are
the time
for
hustled
but
facilities
have been
lakes,"
reRerved
summer,
Trespassing
population,
"fishing
the
mi ght be thou f ht of as a
past,
in the
of the Fair.
ri ght out,
the guard
asserted. Private 1t1ee
are
which
finance
Recreation
but
usual
North 8
outh
side
playF,round
One is
of Argyle
money by holding
will
funds
used to are
g-roup belong
furnished
by
two Catholic
the
civic
schools
are
at Mock Road and
have a playground
sponsored
and the
The Ea.f,t Ltnden
and those at the
also
some facil-
and nall
activ1t:S.es."
area.
Linden,
In this
The new school
AUpervi~ed.
playe- ,rounds
study
that
are
However the playgrounds
children.
playgrounds,
school
Two
sense
funds.
Avenue probably
Jermain
in the
tax
Playgroun.da
not
There
in the
neighborhood
organizations.
the
not
School
Parochial
open
"private"
them are
open to all
Facilities.
Civic dances
at Eaet
located
other, Drive
behind
behind
to hire Sehnol,
groupe
are f'ound
the Town Hall
the houses
at Meredith
Association
Linden
by oivio
th ~t line
in the
in the AmVet Village.
attempted
a supervisor
to make enough for
the school
but was unsuccessful.
70
1947, but only recently
g oal reached.
was their
ls a little
two facilities
The use of the next
was begun in
equipment
playground
for
drive
Linden's
North
more
restricted.
at the
1s located the
city
limits.
southwest
corner
of Seventeeth
The land
belongs
to a fertilizer
Seventeenth
of the
team reported,
tn which dues
bers
are:
c1al
category
pool
in the area,
and fly"
(there
is not pool
on Morse Road.
north,
public,
are
located
A. chapter
without
calling
Ridge;
attention
planning
an
which are under
the
Golf Courses, of the
reo -reation
of
south
and Mac Park,
Woods, which is city
on the .fringe
on outdoor
only swimming
Avenue,
Organizations
commonly go to Mac or Oak Parks,
and Beaver
the
in Linden);
outing
Bridgeview
In the comm.er-
on Joyce
far
or to Blendon
and mem-
model airplanes.
to the
same management,
and $4.00 for
adults
Park Inc.,
which is located
is
by an organ-
is maintained
Facilities.
Morningside
us otf
Avenues,
at Timken Union Hall,
Recreation
Commercialized
Rudson Street
h~ld
to "build
are taught
This
are $8.oo for
are
Meetings
children.
As a member
and Seventeeth
at Joyce field.
flying
a model plane
company,
It keeps
up.
it
fixed
"Us kids
Nearby,
the streets."
Avenue and
Avenue boys added the rest.
and the
ization
and dugout
diamond with a home-made backstop
A ball
both study
owned.
open to the area.
would not be complete
to the most common facilities
of
71 allt
for
the exclusive
use of the very
yard playground.
So prevalent
Linden
back
that
second
garden.
yards
1947, (based
in ou.tdoor
be in the
nature
play grounds by young
ti me,
Linden . could
In addition
support
s eem to
more sp a ce t h an
and are used by teen-a g~rs and adults
courts.
in
out i n part,
present
baseball
up in every
Hecreation
and carried
which provide
swimming pools,
in
Batchelor
m~de by
at the
t he back-
and sandboxes
t o have sprung
accepted)
of playfields,
and tennis
seem that
set,
up by t he Hational
facilities
children,
fields,
set
e.nd g enerally
gaps
swings
recommendations
on standards
Association the
appear
they
In Vi6w of the
are
youn gast
as well as
diam onds,
football
it would
to this,
and outdoor
a band sh ell
theater.
It guide,
is to be remembered
and that
location
and individ.ual
needs
that
ata11dardi.¡ are only a
and conformance
of this
special
with
the interests
community are of gres.t
importance. Indoor
this vided
study into
indoor those
organizations commercial census
For the purposes
Recreation.
facilities
recreation
supported
in the
ventures.
by
connnunity I n Table
ot discussion
have also
tax funds,
been di-
tho s e spons ored by
on a non-profit XIV they
in
basis,
and
have been sh own by
tract. Publ1e
indoor
racilities
two of the newer elementary
in Linden schools
itself
consist
with multi-purpose
ot
rooms
72 Table 14.
Facilities
for Indoor Leisure Time Activities 1n Linden and study Area by Census Tract, April 1954. '
Name and location
Organizations or individuaJ.s 1ro regularly using facilities(a. ~a.paeity
Facilities
Census Tra.ct 3 Oakland Park Elementary School 3392 Atwood Terrace
Parent-Teacher's Association Civic Associa.tions and CommunityCouncils Boy Scouts
200
lltlti-purpose ing chairs
room with fold
Census Tract 7 AmVetPost No. 89 2370 McGuffey Road Cleve Theater 1754 Cleveland Avenue
AmVetClub AmVetAuxiliary
~00-150
Publio
Club room, at rear of store building.
650 Comnercial movie theater
~lton Elemen~ School 2047 Hamilton Avenue
Pat'ent-Teaeherâ&#x20AC;˘s Camp Fire
Association Girls
Linden-McKinley Junior and Senior High Schools 1320 Duxberry Avenue
Parent-Tee.eher's
Association
200
!!ul.ti-purpose room with folding chairs.
925 AuditoriUlll with balcot\Y, gymna.sium.
Salvation Ariey Pontiac Corps Linden Arohery Club 2551 Pontiac Avenue North Amerioan Aviation, Ino. Churehes(b)
~'111n&S1um,workshop for
wood working and cre.rts, k1tohen, meeting rooms.
Census Tract 6 American Legion Hall 2682 Cleveland Avenue
RavrmondScott Post 182 Post 162 Auxiliary Linden Conservation Club Linden luk Club Boy Scouts
Linden School (Elementary) 2626 Westerville Road
Churoh basketball ( twice during the year, 1953) Parent-Teacher's Association
st. James the Less School
Parent-Teacher's
50- 60
Lodge
hall (formerly Linden
Heights
Town Hall)
Small kitchen
525 Ciynl'la.sium-e.uditorium
Association
(Elementary) 1658 Oakland Park Avenue Census Tra.et 9 Billiard
parlor
Home 1718 ll{yrtle Avenue
Ea.gle' s
Linden bater 2436 Cleveland Avenue
Public
Eagle's Lodge 2252 Ladies Auxiliary Youth groups Linden D.isiness }[,en Public
(a) For schools, use during calendar year, 1953. (b) 14.-t incomplete. ) (Continued on next page
300 Lodge hall,
800
bar.
CoDll18reialmovie theater.
Table 14.
Faoi11 ties
for Indoor Leisure Time Activities in Linden and stud,y Area. by Census73 Ti-a.ct, April 1954, continued '
N8l!leand location
Organizations or individuals re~arl;y using fa.ci li ties{a)
Capacity
I Facilities
ÂŁ,ensus Tract 9 1 continued Linden Bi-anch, Colur.ibus Public Libracy 2432 Cleveland Avenue
Public
Ive.sonic Temple 1675 Aberdeen Avenue
Ma.sons, Linden Shrine Ea.stern Sta.r Social Club for Women Job's Daughters
McGuffey Elementary School 2632 McGuffey Road
Boy Scouts, P.T.A., Girl Scouts, Brownies
st .
Augustine Eler:ientary School Greenwich and Loretta
Pa.rent-Teacher's Association Ca.mpFire Gtrls Cub Scouts
---
Books only
Lodge hall , bowling alley with four l anes, kitchen .
200
Gymnasium,auditorium
-- ---
Clinton Townshii Tract 77 Linden Lanes 3175 Cleveland Avenue
Bowling l ea,,."UeS and individual bovrlers
--
Sixteen lanes
Mao Park da.'lce hall 2295 Morse Road
Rented to organizations
400
Quonset hut dance hall
ty Center Nol"th Linden Cormnuni 3820 Cleveland Avenue .
North Linden School 1718 Cooke Road
V.F.w.Post
3826 3910 Cleveland Avenue Clinton
Civic Leaeue C--.e.rdenClub
250 Hall (formerly North Linden Town Hall)
Firemen's Auxili ary Cub Scouts Girl Scouts, . &ownies Parent - Teacher's Association
v.F.w.Post 3826 Post 3826 Au.'tlliary
200 Multi-pur pose room, folding chairs .
--
New cement block lodge hall
Tovmshi~ Tra.ot 76
American Legion Nord Est Post 1771 Joyce Avenue
Legion Post 701
Mifflin Townshi~ Tra.ot 75 CampFire Girls East Linden Elementary Sohool Parent Tea.cherts Association 2500 Perdue Avenue CUbScouts South Mifflin Elementary School 2355 Middlehurst Drive
V&l.ley Dale Compan.y 1590 Sunbury Road
Methodist Church services and social aff&irs Wing of Hightinea l e Cottage Civic Association Boy Soouts, CUbScouts Brownies CampFire Girls Pa.rent-Teacher ' s Association
'Mostly high school and college students
200 Lodge hall
-200
Meeting rooms orJ.y. Gym now needed for classes Uul.ti-purpose room. Small meetings are held in the library.
and indoor dance ---outdoor floors, orchestra.
(a.) For sohool11, use during o&l.endar year, 1953. Sourou; Records of Col umbus Board of Educa.tion and Nationa l Youth Organization s.
mA
74
WINOOIG MOt.LOW
COVNTll'I
GI.UII
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•
Public sohools
•
Pru·oohial schools Paroohial soiloob planned
•
Public li brary
-
Do,ynurser1e :J
1-.J Publi ~ schools planned
.. ('~ouroe:--fi-oards 0
0
of Educatio~ Council of Social A~encies, obcorv a.tion . 0
74-c\.
Colur nhus
of the ment
,Junior
and ~e11:tor Hi gh Schools
Public
Library.
has no indoor
at Linden
Park,
as does
are
Meetings
the principal
also
held
in the
necessity
be used
for
exclusively
school,
at the latter
is a.n older that
combination,
wi th an a u ~itorium-gym
school
librery
T..ino.en F.l~raentary
Rast
said.
room,
in the A.mVetVillage.
School,
Elementary
Soutb Mifflin
h0use
shelter
has a rnulti-pu1~pose
school
Linde n , the
Depart-
in warm weather.
which can be used
In North
tha :~ the
other
facilities
nne a branch
Recreation
The City
at
and gyr1
a.no th e auditorium.
and ¡a.uditoJ:-aium combinations, Linden-McKinley
with gym
schools
elementary
two older
chair~,
and foldill[,
must,
flf
at the present
classes
time. The m.unber
of times
wae used by an outside Board
of Edueation
for
each of the Columbus Public
agency, the
as shown by records
calendar
68
Total
Hamilton Elementary Linden Elementary Linden-McKinley McGuffey Elementary North Linden Elementary Oakland Park
0 2 0
.
of the
1953, is as follows:
year,
Number of times used ( l)
Name of school
Schools
8 1
S7
of uee by the City (1) With the exception Department. Recreation
75 coa t of fuel,
are
they are
unless
admission,
church
or a scout
basketball,
f.7.87
Schools,
ot McGuffey School
for
the use ot echool
for their
at less
times.
(They
however.)
do not pay
The Linden
$33.41 tor the use ot Linden School
Lodge and the Salvation cost
than
a scout
are
policies leader
pal refused
to allow
school
"cluttered
the
$374.9~ tor the use ot
do the
schools.
Army rent
their
as part
or a
service. School
but
U8e
dance.
The Eagles' tac111t1es
and
playgrounds,
Club paid
Boys Athletic
public
forty-one
Avenue School,
Eleventh
times,
eleven
The City
ot $141.68 tor the
paid a total
Department
Reoreation
at Oakland Park School,
meetings.
association
$7.87 and $9.9$ for civic
or
meetin g at Linden and McGuffey
a Cub Scout meeting
for
fee.
$$.69 for an evening
in 19$4 were;
charges
Typical
or philanthropic
school
on Sunday.
use is not permitted
Their
and
Groups which
damage or breakage
pay an additional
organisations,
and Sundays,
than hi gh schools.
less
schools
elementary
hour
with a three
than Saturdays
less
Week days cost
minimum.
They
service.
and janitor
b ased on the len gth of time used, .
also
charge
water
eleotr1c1ty,
buildin gs are baeed on
school
for using
The charges
said
that
scount
up."
set by the Board or Education, at one Linden meetings
school,
the princi-
beoause he did not want
76
Township•
time is allowed
meetings,
in order
In Mif:flin scout
for
program
just
extension
quired
Ohio State
Fairgrounds.
throughout
the year
facilities
to use these
4-H Clubs,
such as
groups,
youth
· of the
It will
of Agriculture.
Avenue in the newly ac-
of Seventeenth
north
the
tor
Works :r)epartment,
of the Department
Fair Division
the construction
for
stages
final
Public
by the
of a youth center
be located
in the
are
The plans
State
on week nights.
school
at the
regularly
organi-
is on duty
An employee
utilities.
pay only for
g they are not
Profit-making
the community.
coming in .from outside zations
providin
organizations,
non-profit
and other
churches,
to scouts,
g s is free
The use of buildin
the public.
belon ging to
as community centers.
upon the schools
looks
to overcome transporta-
Township Board of Education
The Mifflin
handicaps.
tion
1n the school
It is planned organised
for
and Oirl
Farmers,
Future
Scouts.
Private, by Linden
churchee
evening.
but
not be rented; groups,
this
but
it
that
income.
it wae difficult
the number of times
the
Corps officer
be ueed exclusively
preeeuree
financial
additional
are kept,
by the
and industries.
outside
g a~ many as four
is preferred
It
organizations
and other
eometimes aoeomodatin
Army gym is used
The Salvation
non-profit,
make it
in one
groups that f-:,1•
necessary
the gym their
own
to secure
Beoau~e of the way in which records to obtain gym was used
an accurate
by outeiders,
count but
or rrom
77 the
ruary
and March of this
seven
tiM.es,
year,
as compared with the use of Public
school
Augustine
but st.
an1 six
Girls,
lodge
There are four
American
Leg i on Hall
of Scott
Memorial
Point,
the
Avenue is located
in World War I,
stands.
from the
outside
which appears terioration, still
in addition
to the
housing, organizations
Maeon1o Temple is rented only twice other
in the last
listed
F,roupe u~e the bowli~
a trustee alleys
of some ae-
Town Hall.
recently,
to outside year,
frame building
one story
Heights
until
Road,
Linden man
first
to be in a state
old Linden
was the
a buey place,
Thie
It
a dancing
in TableXV.
groups, said. regularly,
north
just
with Westerville
junction
where the monument to the memory of the
killed
The
of Joyce Avenue.
stretch
on Cleveland
here.
one in North
in Linden,
halls
and one in an isolated
Linden,
groups are located
ten Linden
said,
School~
to the Camp Fire
receptive
has been very
of the
or
Superintendent
the Catholic
hours,
after
a.re used only by the P. T. A.,
schools
Parochial
gyms only two
Department).
use by the City Recreation
(excluding
times,
1n a
276 times
School
it
that
same pattern
would have been used
sprin g , it
doee in the
the
follows
fall
use in the
its
ing that
to
Assum-
summer in May.
the
for
was closed
and it
Feb-
use decreased
its
In April
year.
was
it
durin g January,
organizations
by outside
u.sed 131 times
that
appears
it
received,
of payments
notations
but this
is
school The happened
Masonic and though.
78 TABLEXV FACILITIES lc,OR INDOOR RECREATION, AVAILABLE FOR OEtTERAL C0}1" MUNITY USE, BY NEIGHBORHOOD, APRIL,
1954
Number
ot t'ac111t1es
Type of facility
Linden Auditorium, large Auditorium-gymnasium combination
l
Bowling alley Gymnasium*
2 (20 lanes)
Billie.rd Lodge
2
l
parlor
2
3
Hall
2 2
Movie theater Multi-purpose room Public library
l
North Linden 1 1 1
Community center**
Dance hall
Multi-purpose East
room
Linden
Auditorium-gymnasium combination
1
AmVet Village Multi-purpose room Small meetin g room
â&#x20AC;¢Number of
lodge halle
known to be available
groupa.
**Similar
to a lodge
hall
in type
ot tao111tiea.
to outside
79 :lowever willing ties,
there
morning for,
is very
the Eagles little
or afternoon,
for
t heir
time,
are
to share
unless
is not already
Linden
the
facili-
1t would be in the
when the building
own use and for
their
spoken
Bu1dne ss Men's
meetin g s. In all are
cases
separate
that
buildings.
of a market McGuffey
but
of the AmVeta, the Linden
The AmVet Club is built
and hardware
store
building
of World War II and the Korean War.
tion
said
a venture
that
though
prevent
They do not,
"a case
in court
soon gave it up and
they
"There
of the American
The North Linden
new firehouse
belon g to the
Legi on on Joyee Avenue. was ta ken over by the Civic
int o a Community Cen-te.r, to which the
adjoins. rae111t1es
the Chairman of the Recreation rooms and meetin g rooms.
by churehee.
in churches.
available
Cormnittee
He eonelnded
added in the way or buildings tacil1t1es
he
t he Village.~
Town Hall
In a surve y of the
ation
is,"
in which the AmVets are seekin g to
Some of the men from the AmVet Village
League and converted
however,
from the organiza-
contractors.
the use of the name for
Nord Est Post
of
was in the very beginning
of a few Am.Vet members,
it wns take n over by pri v ate said,
at the corner
An informant
the Village
on the back
The members are veterans
Avenue and Hudson Street.
come trom the AmVet Village.
lodges
found
that
only game
v ery little
was
and 6quip ment to Linden recre-
80
Tho plight
of the AlnVat Village
s tore-ra eeting-plaoe
has been described.
V1ll ag 0 Park Uethodist
be a basement for
Outside
Girl
3oouts
or ganizations
study Maruc
area),
usin g church
of the author
(nineteen
tor
v:omen's
'l'he sixteen
limits
the city
sponsored
which the
is located Winter
or business
in the
the Linden
and pro gr ams.
to gether
f'acili ties
Avenue.
with
for the
Just outside le~gues
places,
are
and in the
teams formed by individuals
summer for a twelve- week period s atUNaf
plan,
and the large
luncheons
bowling
on Cleveland
bowl in a league.
years),
lane alley
by or ganizations
troops
Linden Lanes,
the 1: a s onic Templeâ&#x20AC;˘ provides community.
have been:
Club (meetin gs),
Club's
Commercial recr e~tion.
of
troo ps in the s tudy
the la st three
(255 member) Linden
unit
facilities,
of the t v1enty-six
the Linden Archery
Club (plays
the first
and shuffleboard.
(ei ght of the fifty-four
Doy Scouts
area)â&#x20AC;˘
that
of the
a ccordin g to the present
basketball
have con~ to the attention
oneâ&#x20AC;˘drug-
.A member
Church re ports
the new churoh to be built, will
with its
night
is announced as fa~ily
night. In addition theaters,
to bowlin g , there
one billiard
parlor,
hut in Mac Park which rents which provides
one dance hall to :parties,
in a quonset
and Valley Dale,
dance band music for both couples
on the banks of Alum Creek. that
are t wo indoor movie
the residents
and parties,
It has not been established
of the Linden area frequent
more otten than those trom other
sections
Valley Dale
or Columbus.
•INOING MOLLO'# tOUNTIIY CLUIJ
COOl<l ___
_
.....
.. .. .... ..
z
"'
" ~,. 0 • "' z
.... .. .
•
"&
::. ::: • Ta;erns , gri ll s and night clubs • l?o,'tlin ~ alley • Billiard parlot•
Dance halls • Theuters
City Direl}tor,
o ,servation .
and
82 of thi.a company said that
An employee
are hi gh school
patrons
as taverns,
mately
thirty-six.
places,
rather
of the
University
students.
and Ohio State
The number of places classlfied
the majority
grills,
and night
These appear
which m1ght be
study area
in the
clubs,
is approxi-
to be neighborhood
designed
an establishments
gathering
to attract
city-wide
patronage. Needs which have been recognized
or leadership for
facilities
and program
children's
has come to the alike.
Com.ffl.unity, include
in the Linden
racilities
and adult
for
The need ¡for
personnel for
Club
tance
than
is available
small
part
of tne demand for increased
evident
to
Salvation
the
rooms becomes obvious as a ~eeent
funeral
A ~en's
and now meets
been a proposal
tac111tiea
by
in the
social
gym, 1s ju~t
Arrrry
in garages,
appear
ot meeting
1n the nenpaper
are provided
the National
lost
ita
house tor
for
indoor,
Recreation
of
in the rear basement
a member 8&1d.
a club
a
gymnasium rac111ties,
garage
club
as public
ran ge with more disâ&#x20AC;˘
of a meetin R of ma.nagers
to build
standards
and parents
The shortage
when such items
notification
home.
the Salvation
Arrn.y start.
who were to meet
leagues,
place
at
age
The wish or the
an indoor
for
school
such purposes
ha~ been mentioned.
members of the Archery
The laok of
or elementary
oh1ldren
an auditorium
meetin g s and pa geants
in positions
additional
activities.
of school
attention
by persons
this
aoftball of a
meeting
There has now or ganization.
as well
Association,
aa outdoor in the
83 1943 publication. account
able
all
for
or resources
An appraisal
buildi .ng s that
have
community recreation
facilities
use.
must t~ke re gularly
The followin
into
avail-
g standards
are recommended: for each 10,000 of the population or less. or assembly hall ror each 20,000 or less. A social room or play room for each 10,000 or less. A lounge for informal reading and quiet games tor each 10,000 or less. An indoor game room for each 10,000 or leas. A room equipped as an arts and crafts workship for each 10,000 or less. A club or multi ple-use room for each 4,000 or le4s. An indoor swimming pool for each 50,000 or leas. A @:Ylmasium
An auditoriwn
"1 building should
be located
says in his
designed
to serve
near
center
the
of the
site
servin g the same area.
"In
indoor-outdoo~
efficiency
of service
recreation
and economy
for
these
center
are
he
the playfield makes possible and ~akes
of operation."
buildings
8atchelor
general,"
or adjoining,
Such an arrangement
a combined
g standards
is at,
center
oor~nunity,"
sunnnary or recommendations.
"a desirable
followin
as a recreation
for
The
su ggestedt
1.
There should be a community recreation building or center within a halt mile to a mile of eve17 home, the distance dependi ng up on. popule.t1on density and ease of access.
2.
Such a building, or center, should be provided tor at least every 20,000 of the population.
3.
It should be generally and regularly available for the râ&#x20AC;˘creational use ot the entire community tbro-ughout the year.
4.
It should provide most or the following taoilities: Oympasium, with seats tor spectators, lockers and showers, suitable tor basketball, volley ball and other tloor games, gymnasium olassea, and dances, socials, holiday celebrations and similar activities. Aaaemblt hall or auditorium with atage, and prefera ly with removable seats, for concerts, lectures, movies, dramatics, rallies, banquets, recreation demonstrations and community gatherings. Room for informal reading and quiet table games, where an Individual may drop in tor a few minutes or spend an evening with one or more friends. Room equipped for various types or arts and oratts activities. Social or play room tor small group parties, square dancing, play rehearsals, and other activities involving tairly small groups. Room for table tennis, billiards, darts, shuttleboard and active table games. Two or more club or multiple-use rooms tor club and eommittee meetings and hobby groups ot all kinda. Refreshment stand or snack bar. Kitchen tor preparing meals and simple retreehments and also for cooking and canning classes. Office for the director and start. Essential service rooms and facilities 1nclud1ng ample storage spaces tor equipmen ¡t &..,.,~ ~upplies ..5
In view of recognised the most apparent
needs and recommended standards,
gaps in the
community are theses
an auditorium.
large
number of Linden residents
large
gymnasium generally
meeting
cratta,
and quiet
;
w. c.
Range Plan,
capable
clubs,
or play rooms,
meeting,
rooms tor
rooms tor
of this
or seating
in a public
available,
rooms tor
games, social
tac111t1es
present
arts
a and
inrormal
reading
and an indoor
Batchelor, Public Recreation Columbus, Ohio, 1947, p. 39.
Survey
a
and
awimming
Lons-
BS pool.
The tac111t1es
available
muat be viewed 1n the light order to get a true
tor general
or the
perspective
oommunitJ use
onee which are used,
on what is needed.
in
CHAPTER VI PARTICIPATION IN LEISURETIMEACTIVITIES In lieu brief
of a survey
look at the kinds
of leisure
ot Linden
participate
the residents serve
of interests
to reveal
something
Children
and Youth. ----
the wishes of their
or inspired
peers,
about
Salvation echool
their
by the
groups;
sororities,
Camp Fire
church groups,
Job's
In Girls,
and high
Together
with their
wants to b~come a member
parents,
they
Club, ~nd if a
or the
Linden Mask
Club, he may be accepted. Groups which have been discontinued Linden Loyal
Boys' Athletic Temperance
and the high
Club,
school
the
{junior
Legion,
Transportation tivities
generally
girls'
include
chorus,
branch
the
the Youth
or the w.c.T.U.),
fraternity. is
a big
in which to participate.
Y.w.c.A. are
and
Daughters,
H1-Y, Y-Teens,
can become members of the Linden Archery actor
ot Momand Dad, or
in which the members can pursue a variety
of forms of recreation.
budding
urged on by
activities.
Scout,
Army groups and classes,
time may
interests.
enthusiasm,
Girl
a in which
at the present
are many organized
there
children's
time activities
For the children,
Linden are found Boy Scout, Eagles'
and attitudes,
considered
86
factor
in the choice
of ac-
The Y.M.C.A. and the by the informants
in this
87 atud~
to be too tar
the program. that
for
some programs,
ticipation.
than
their
destination
and back.
the
area
is greater great
Village,
grade
is a real leader
commented on this. in the
The G¡1rl
community.
trouble-
or movie-goers
dances
to
in the Village
attendance
of about
and up, and the success
Girls
than
just
in Linden,
south
demand tor added.
There Sixteen
ot their
reported
girle,
program
1couting
ahe says,
response
and expressed
or Linden,
A resident are,
eay that
Scouts
in the growth
Avenue School,
this
skaters
ot the Camp Fire
in North Linden
There
or the total
goea up and down, and 1a now down, in
atudy.
aatiataction
EleTenth year.
this
a camping
Clase baa been mentioned.
membership
or
tor
is no bus service,
with an average
The City headquarters their
of par-
particularly
is
Square
from the fifth
of the Sunday School
that
and that
was from one
proportion
where there
would-be
are very well attended 1$0 children,
to twenty-five
fran
extent
however,
ot transportation
must drive
however,
in the community.
some in the AmVet Village and parents
school,
1n the
she mentioned,
girls
The problem
in
turn-out
from any other
in any case a small
number of teen-age
participation
was a larger
project
a service
which is,
regular
were inf'luential
The range
or two tor trip,
there
School
considerations
for
member of the Y.W.C.A. felt,
One staff
Linden-McKinley other
distant
in the
in the last
in the AmVet
ot the Village thirty
from twelve
also
teen-agers to fourteen
88 year3
old are in the
are Explorers
scouts,
eight
in the Boy Soout
boys are formin g an Explorer
From the or these
the number or Girl
apparently they
Scout
Hi-Y, and in addition high school
7,200
groups
,
eoror1t1es.
add considerably
to the
or
would require overlapping
Salvation to all
a study in church
to
belonging
in churche~
would
it may be
but
young peoples'
groups
no doubt,
some
"Y" membersh1p8.
and
staff
but Sunday School programs.
reported
The
poor response
Only about
six boys -came
and two of the ae were under the age
which had been set tor there
belonged
in the community,
There is,
scout
Army Community Center
morning cratt claaeee twlve yeara ot age.
groups
church
in 1tselt.
to the woodworking class, limit
or
were
than boys in the
or participants,
estimate
group,
and
study area.
to youth
participation
entirely);
33 per cent or the roughly
assumed from the number of churches
the extent
they
The 2,210 children
about
The number belonging
leaders:
90 to 100 girls
age group in the
in this
almost
Y.W.C.A. groups
represent
the boysâ&#x20AC;˘ troops
134. More girls
by about
to this,
although
ie seen that
individual
by
time.
taken trom the records
and school,
the girls
and about ten
was greater,
(none were sponsored
outnumbered
to these
troops
met in churches
and over
Troop at the present
Table XVI, it
round in the high school
three
organization,
summary of memberships,
organizations,
were larger
bo1s fourteen
this
group.
were fifteen
In other children
Saturday
under
89
Table 16. Number of Boya and Girls Having Memberships in National Youth Organizations in Linden and Neighboring Communities, b7 Age Group, April 19.54. Age 1n 79ara
Total children
Total
Linden
2,210
1,672
L
North
Ea.at
181
10
Box Scouts 8 to 10 ---""" ___ _ 11 to lJoverb """"""""" 14 and ______
Hi-Y 12 and over " ..........
Girl Scouts 'l'otal
10 13 --------9th tograde and up .. Camp J'tre
387
344 100
263
38
239 86
28
Total Junior High School Senior High School
26o
--
-
215 6 384
-
19
'1:19 J4
Girls
Total 7 to 9 - .................._..
Borth-
1
73 .50
6.S 40 44 212 1:32
-
-- -- -- --
10 10
8
-
--
-
a At the end of March, 19.54, there were 15 • .5 Bo7 Scouts per 1,000 of the po"OUlation in the study area, and lJ.8 in Franklin Count7 as a whole. (Franklin Count7 population eetimate for Janua171954• Columbu Chamber of Commerce.) b The number of bo79 in ~plorer Troops decreases with each ;year ot age. Of theee 100 member•, S4 were 14 years old, · Jl were 1.5, 11 were 16, and 4 were 17. C
There were three Junior High groups and one Senior High. Sourcez Memberehip record• · of the City headquarters of these organizationa.
ltep
]2
WIHOIHG HOLLOW
COUNTIIY CLU9
li,~i \1 I:.•~
ore;an•
a:= • Calllp Fire Gir ls
1zet1ons • G-irl Scouts • Y- Teens
Bey Scouts
Hi-Y
91 In the summer, boy's sponsored
Roller ated
or
children
their
In addition,
softball
for
response
by the
softball
(for
three
employees)
supervisor
told
of the children
who use the
to eleven
ot age.
years
who come are roostly
to Little
rao111t1ea
the girls
have summer jobs
pools.
A Y. W.C.A. worker' e experience
many of the high
Adults. 1n the those
study
working
There are
in this
there
tor
at least
since
it
small
many
She
to whioh adults
pages.
and at leaet
civ1o
that
summer.
In addition
are a number or other
a apeoitio
eleven
relatively
work in the
would fill
do participate
has been round that
ot the organizations
belong
Teen-agers
"r' is aimed at younger
A 11st
organisations
directly
are from nine
was the a ame.
girls
named earlier,
the majority
time at the swimming
school
area
and patriotic
such,
or spend their
ot from 10 to 14 years,
Lea gue
had observed
or them
girls,
that there
supervisor
the summer program ot the
~ched-
olds}.
Although
the
dancing,
tho
tor inter-
Few are over sixteen.
boys.
or
ot the overwhelming
parents
to twelve year
Incorpor-
Department
and baseball
It has been found at Lind .en Park,
aaid that
the Tirr..ken
and be some
age groups
bo7s and their
eight
in the square
te a.~& are
the AmVet Club,
the City Recreation
A recreation
mediates.
and softball
Company and North American Aviation,
Bearing
churches. ules
the American Legion,
by
(tor
baseball
hospital
_tour
section
fraternal
organizations
or welfare
assoeiationa,
or
to .
agency .
labelled the Columbus
as
92
wh ich dedicate
groups
community
that
and t raining
ing hobbies
who ta ke advantage
those
ot those help
a few specialised Archery
Association.
Club,
the Linden Mask Club,
around one er
include
time activities
leisure
the Child Con-
are centered
Some whose main interests
the work
tor being is to
Club,
League and the Parent-Teacher's
servation
Club,
the
These supplement
These are the Booster
children.
aa the
are tor
whose avowed reason
organizations
by the
the Conservation
Association
of the youn ger generation.
benefit
provid-
or a hobby for
of euch organisations
and the Recreation
the Kiwanis,
by
or oom.~unity problems
the Leg ion Aux111aey,
American Legion,
purpose
or by 1noreaaing
or mernbernhip,
Many of the p~~j9cta
members.
indirectly
1n the enjoyment
and understanding
the knowledge
Some
of their
is a part
betterment
the oommunity-at-large
help
and others
time to consideration
of the community are very numerous.
oi: improvement
atate
of their
part
social
and other
traternal,
The church.
area.
metropolitan
the Linden
and the Linden and North
Linden Garden Clubs. Participant of bowling
mainly
and softball,
and wo~en'e
teams took part
as revealed
by the
ot a month in April city
eports
eottball
for
athletics
lists
Seventy men's
area.
in this
in the winter
league
bowling,
in the Linden News, during
and May.
Also mentioned
colurnna and by informants
leagues.
seem to consist
adults,
in this
the period
in the local
and
study were the
Theae were the Linden Church League,
the
93
by places
or the
representative
or
sport,
this
The extent
leisure
who is active
One re~ident
rrom the information have a considerable
and that
Bureau
or the
plains
that
this
enjoyed
parents
situation,
by
the members.
time pursuits
programs
at her oommand; television effect
Department do not stay
in part~
in itselt.
said
that
viewing
doea
in . group activi-
on participation suffer
take precedence
is a study
in community aftairs,
lodge meetings Police
1s shown by inin the various
families
entire
to which television
over more active
ties,
or
a
1n archery,
interest
Club believes,
Archery
participation
creasing
forms
A growing
of business.
sponsored
leagues
AmVet teams â&#x20AC;˘. and several
lCiwanis Leagues,
The Juvenile
most.
on the other
hand,
still
home, and hopes to remedy
by means
or the
curfew law.
com-
CHAPT ER VII THE PLAC E OF THE NEIGHBO RHOOD CEN7ER I N THE COMMUN ITY Although ference
tor
there
are probably
ways or spending
leisure
ing the function
ot recreation,
thinking
question,
tion
as an important
vidual ling
on this
time,
as there
the universal
consideration
working hours,
are persons
acceptance
in Linden of recrea-
or each indi-
in our day or dwind-
may be assumed.
The following
quotation
Recreation
Association,
affects
ot pre-
and viewa concern-
1n the life
and or the community as a whole,
National it
as many patterns
the ordinary
from a publication describes
of the
the problem as
Americana
His income ••• permits little margin for the recreational activities that must be bought. His home or apartment 1s small and crowded. The theater, concerts, the country club and foreign travel are beyond his financial reach. The simple good times of many rural communities have vanished. Mueh of work is mechanical and unstimulating. The routine repetitive mOTementa or many jobs do not stir the imagination or permit the personal growth of which most people are capable. Commercially promoted amusement, it passive, tails to provide the mental, physical and moral discipline and the enduring aat1stact1on that comes throu gh partieipat1on in hobbies, eports, music. drama, crafts, camping, social recreation and many ot1,_r forms of participant leisure experiences. l
Recreation A Problem or Grass Roots, Recreation Assoc!a!Ion.
94
National
95 The ideal those
which contribute
expression,
trend
2
toward
or the trend
the
fill
or the toward
in peer
the promise
munity
and
of the best
reeidents.
faruily
activities
groups.
They help
the
writes
social
spirit
and
so that
as well
as those
individual
They help
to fulunderstand-
in the selec-
of material
in the com-
heritage.
concerning
the value
of recrea-
mental healtht
1.
Competitive gamea provide an unusually aatisâ&#x20AC;˘ tactory social outlet tor the instinctive aggressive drive. They meet the psychological need ot many individuals whose Jobs or daily work prevent sufficient expression of aggres~ eion.
2.
Recreation gives the opportunity which has psychological value.
to create,
3.
Relaxation through great value.
is also
He continues,
is coneiderably
the
a reversal
They promote
the wealth
self-
satisfaction
about
as a group,
of the
morale,
recreation,
capacities.
from all
1n the building
in promoting
They bring
scattered
include
and outweigh
of the neighborhood
misunderstanding.
A psychiatrist
tion
health,
commm1ity spirit,
of his
ing and interpret tion
"happiness,
weakening
members enjoy
undertaken
to:
activities
They tend to counter-balance
anonymity
family
of recreational
relaxation,
in living."
the
choices
"Too man7 people seientitic
entertainment
or
do not know how to play.
evidence
that
the healthy
There
96
3
seriously."
a number of times
in this
Centers
oenter,
neighborhood
it may be located
though
The historic
to the effort
be traced vantage
of more education
munities
where casualties
in a world economically
the other
side
each other,
it
in a sector
to bring
who had had the ad-
persons
and economic
to the com-
security
ot the industrial and culturally
"on
to tho3e
foreign
with and
to develop understanding
was possible
lived
revolution
Through aequa1nt&nce
of the tracks."
can
settlement
of the social
background
to the
community concern.
is of little
~here economic deprivation
is a
there
settlement
of the
of much of the philosophy
spread
for
can turn
center
As the name suggests,
and inspiration.
organization
is another
of the recreation
to which the planners
ot
Federation
The National
report.
and Neighborhood
Settlements
has been mentioned
Association
Recreation
The Uational
help
play
his
takes
but
only plays
is one who¡ not
personality
cooperation. Today, is,
in general
tood.
clothing
which can be tackled
problems
for
to find
the people
ae obtaining
and education
where there
neighborhood,
need tor
no auohurgent
to such problems
solutions
class
in the middle
adequate
themselves.
by cooperative
housing,
there
are
action.
other These
)
William c. Menninger, "Recreation November; 1948, pp. 2-8. Recreation,
and Mental
Health,"
97 vary
somewhat from community
opportun l ty for personal livin g , intergroup
ship.''
expression,
experiences
oa.n be borrowed
efforts
t o community,
and applied The settle
profitably
would seek to bring
investigation
1.nto the problems
their
psychiatrist
(tor
of
strongly
the recreation
of function
Sports
competitive
sports
writes
the author,
gerated
physical
4Ibid.,
is given
writes,
structure
"'rhe • •
and method
needs e.nd handi-
by participation
in an article
adequacy "The other
entitled
in
"Competi-
in the recent
in the emotional
"Ona will
issue impact develop
of of a
and eagerness
to try new things,"
will
every new pcysical
approach
and with the constraint
awkwardness
which anxiety
and the exag-
brings."$
PP• 2-8.
SLavrenoe ward Child.,"
to work to-
4
anxiety
with
to
knowledge.
psychological
upon two children.
of competence,
of scientific
Menninger
of the
•••
of the difterence
sense
challenge
problems.
an d the Awkward Child,"
Study,
kind of
the understanding
be met most effectively
The exa.~ple
Child
the results
recommends a working
forms of recreation."
tive
at work in this
of ~he personality,
caps which might
settlement
of human relationships,
for
leader)
of citizen-
to any community.
neighborhood
ward a solution
in group
ai ms of aocia.l
ment philosophy
.longing
experiences
and the exercise
from ·the
the aid of per~ons
but "recreation,
s.
Child
Xubie,
"competitive
Study,
Spring,
Sports
1954-,P•
11.
and the Awk-
98 Another benefits
area
for
to be derived
hood center
of trained
established
that
tion
thou ght i n the consideration
or
from the availability workers,
recreation
delinquency,
action
tute
of Mental
ment
lil""e as
rapid,
individual,
his needs
brought
Health.
ceuld
a.t~d careful
as revealed
writes
make,"
a genuine,
to reco gnize
or a
advance
Chiet
Instiin treat,
as an
effort
to supply
and competent
worker 1a
evaluation."
6
the s1gn8 or impending
under the
same conditions,
might be given
in the Center.
what will
He !hould
trouble
and
be the result
or the help which know when and what
or the community can be mobilised whose problems
by
youngster
consistent
trained
of many
"would cone1..~i; ot
or each
of continuance
the aid of the person
condi-
anxiety
single
or accuracy
resources
this
ot the National
to know with some ~egree
other
or
Donald A. Block,
he says,
evaluation
One of the marks
in any effective
to relie:ve
Service
by this
in the preven-
aspect
"The greatest
along with
the ability
tendency
Psychiatric
it has been
on by the interaction
rejection,"
a nation,
early
is not a eureâ&#x20AC;˘all
is "the
which evokes
or the Children's
though
The "hallmark"
(which is usually
ca.asal factors),
in the neighbor-
it must be included
program of prevention. tion
is that
ot
to come to
are becoming too much
for him. 6 Donald A. Block, Delinquency," Children,
asome Concepts in the Treatment March-April, 1954, pp9 52-55.
ot
99 These are only a few neighborhood
center
prograr t and statf.
with
or the
man;y contributions
1ta building
with the cooperation
can make for the betterment
and equipment.
of its
of the commun1t7.
the its
neighbors.
CHAPTER VIII SUMMARY OP NEEDSANDRECOMMENDATIONS The people
of Linden
are middle-olasa,
urban
homogeneous
with
group
and raoe.
housing
lack of spacious taining
for
adults
years
improvement large
when their
number
or
and the "welfare The needs
met,
at present,
which, tion,
depending
projects"
total tor
and the need to enof leisure
grown.
dedicated
time
through
Interest
in the community
is
their in the
8hown by the
to civic
betterment,
of others.
outdoor
recreation,
seem to be well
taken
if
care
not
completely
of in plans
on the outcome ot the November 19$4 elec-
may or may not ¡be carried
The poasib111ty outdoor
are
organizations
for
of the
them in good stead
children
of conditions
and programs
opportunities
in the kind
stand
There are,
a review
experiences,
~o participate
which will
places
to provide
recreation
to the
homes for enter-
hobby materials.
children;
or
type
relate
lower-cost
for meeting
in order
status,
in general,
bulky
needs
ccxmnunities
to a relatively
belonging
to economic
needs,
school-age
situation
activities later
Their
special
more satisfying courage
regard
handling
the younger
teen-age
dwellers,
rooms in the
and tor
apparently,
and her neighboring
of including
swimming pool
out in the near
an adjoining
with a recreation
100
future.
playfield building
and in the
101 proposed
plans
tor a center,
considerations,
impossible
to predict
The more pressing
needs
considered
as being
could
to meet these
help
nasium,
tirst
an auditorium
reeidenta
who might
then,
it possible,
roans
for noisy
indoor
meeting
seating
the number of Linden a forum,
a pageant,
organiaat1ons
needing
informal
arts
reading
opinion
the
of group work fields, of proven
revealed
but an attempt
value
and
and quiet
games,
It
for the
during
1e important
groups
the variety
are traditional
the
that
the
interested
or
leisure
general
situation
past
study
as it has been
several
opportunity
in eponsoring
time programs,
in the Linden area,
prin-
month8: be preserved
and conducting
many
or
to continue
which their
work. 2.
Promotion
of the idea
or the neighborhood
aa a means to help people meet their they may be,
1e suggested.
do
in the recreation
to apply
to the Linden
to the writer, 1.
of a - specialist
will
and crafts;
games and an indoor swimming pool â&#x20AC;˘ . The recommendations made on the basis of this
not represent
gym-
which 1t may be expected
rooms for
rooms for
center
a full-sized
to attend
rooms tor
atmosphere;
must be
The neighborhood
or
new oluba
time.
recreation
needs by providing
be expected
a home, and for those be formed in this
tor
at the present
priority.
capable
a play or a banquet;
ciples
would depend upon financial
needs,
centei-
whatever
102
3.
It
is suggested
ex.tended
to those
also,
that
building,
Ap plication
to
National
Recreation
Federation
Columbus Council
the
for assistance
in planning,
consultation
procedures
subject,
or the
It
worker as early
7. 8.
(investi
ga-
the
speo1t1-
who would be a competent
he
can
help
the
in
services
of this
of the Center the
task
of
as
fitting
and progr .am to the requirements
neighborhood.
near
follow
the suggestion
to have the Center
or with a playtield.
It ie recommended that
to roster
concerns
to secure
equipment
It possible,
located
crystallize,
in the development
so that
the building,
of thie
of the Community
worker.
seems desirable
poeBible,
infor-
a cor.e ot tested
requested
early),
for an executive,
neighborhood
6.
information
Centers
providing
mip.ht furnish
needs to be etarted
cat1ons
and to the
and for publ1eat1one
around which the ideas
A part
o~ Social
and Neighborhood
Council member~ could more easily
tion
which
and the National
Association
of Settlements
mation on this
5.
in the
and use of the facilities
Agencies
tor
to participate
may material1~e.
eventually
4.
be
in the nei ghborin g comm.uni.ties
which have aome common bonds, planning,
the invitation
the feelinp.
that
everything
pos~ible
the Center
belonr.s
be done to the
103 community and to eveeyone - in it. accomplished
in part
Enlarging
a.
bys
the Recreation
Community Council. to include
sehoole.
Parent-Teacher
from
Aseociatione, civic
churchee,
groups
from
oommun1t1es, olubs not already
neighboring
in the Council,
Department,
major
the group
of foreign
citizens.
in-
the City Recreation
industriee,
labor
born persona,
committee's
This
the orp:anisation
organizations, and interested
work would include
of a Board of Director!
ror
Center.
the
1'y continuing
b.
on this
representatives
Army Corps,
the SalTation
ot the
Committee
which is working
problem,
cluded
This might he
the information
program
1n the
Linden News.
9.
In the planning
sideration
should
of the Center
be made of the
children
who are under
who will
soon swell
eight
and its aging
at the
con-
program,
ot Lindenâ&#x20AC;˘a
present
time,
the number of' teen-agera
but
in the
community. 10.
'rhe possibility
tion
of growing
participation ahould
of making
interest by
be grasped.
the
in a kind
family units
tends
most
of any indica-
of act1T1ty
1n which
to be aocept&d,
104
Consider
11.
Fed.eration
this
.reoommendation
or the National
of Settle ments:
Who are t he people from whom f1nano1al
eupport both in the local neighborhood can be secured, seek and ths community as a whole? Especially out management officials of induatriea located in or employing people from the nei ghborhood If neighborhood people belong to be served. to a union, go to see ite business agent or organizer and enlist his interest and explore possible union contributions. Are there churches which will be willing to aaswne a share the support ot the neighborhood house?
ff
12.
When Linden's
haps this
recreation
in the
band but will south procure
l
are solved,
group of-by-now-experienced
Committee and in the Council, sorbed
problems
recreation extend
and southeast, facilities
problem
a helping to help
for
will
leisure
persona
per-
on the
have become so ab-
it
that
will
not dis-
hand to neighbors them in their
effort
time aot1Y1t1ee.
Memo Tot You Who Want to Or anise
a
to the to
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