Bishop David High School - Crosier Yearbook (Louisville, KY)

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2tf Shively is a fourth class city with a growing population of over 20,000. It is Kentucky ' s fifteenth largest city. Shively is surrounded by Louisville and Jefferson County Metropolitan areas and spreads out from the point where 7th St. Road and Crums Lane meet and become Dixie Highway - the traffic-clogged main artery for the southwest suburbs. Our school is situ- ated between Shively and Pleasure Ridge Park on the highway. One of the highlights of Shively is the Newman Library, shown in the picture at left, which doubles as the Shively City Hall Building. The tower in the picture is used as a fireman ' s practice tower. Shively is known for the distilleries located within the city limits. To- gether they employ about 1 ,000 resi- dents and pay about one half of the city ' s tax receipts. Other landmarks in- clude Shively Park, one of the first major parks to open in Jefferson County. It is located behind the Shive- ly City Hall-Newman Library building. Soon to be built is the Marty Axman Memorial Fountain in memory of a community leader and father of a Bishop David alumnus who died of a heart attack several years ago. Another landmark is St. Helen ' s Catholic Church which was founded in 1897. It is located in the hub of Shively on the corner of Dixie Highway and Crums Lane, and is one of the largest parishes in the Archdiocese. Shively, formerly known as St. Helen ' s, was renamed in commemoration of one of the 18th century founding families. In the old days it was a truck farming communi- ty- Most of the businesses in Shively hog Dixie Highway. The main shop- ping centers are Bacons and Southland Terrace. Night life for most students is going to McDonalds for a hamburger or just crusin ' Dixie Highway looking for something to do. Many of our stu- dents live and work in Lively Shive- ly.

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I2P I3HS summertime refr esh men I. Kevin Brown (left) and Tom Gathof (below) so well know. Kevin is there to swim, Tom to work as a lifeguard. Pleasure Ridge Park, the name given to the area bordered on the north by Rockford Lane, South by Pages Lane, east by Muldraugh Ridge, and west by the Ohio River, is an unincorporated suburban area inhabited by 20,000. Settled by farmers in the late 1 700 ' s, PRP had been a rural, sparsely popu- lated area until the recent suburban population explosion. Pleasure Ridge lays claim to an extremely colorful history. Marked by large prosperous farms in its early history, it received the name Pleasure Ridge Park due to the fact that it was a popular vacation area for affluent Louisvillians in the 1800 ' s. The earliest known buildings in PRP were a Dance Hall and a hotel at which many of the vacationers stayed. Brought into the seventies by the post-war suburban exodus, Pleasure Ridge ' s population has jumped from under a thousand to well over 20,000 in the last 35 years. Although the area is unincorporated, the people still band together and maintain that they are a community. As recently as 1965 the people have joined together to fight annexation by Shively although they cannot agree on the question of incorporation. Already marked by such landmarks as the Woodhave Geri- atric Center, formerly Waverly Hills, Pleasure Ridge recently received an- other major building, the Southwest Jefferson County Government Center. In an area of bad drainage, poor road maintenance, and overcrowding, the government center will hopefully give these people a voice in governmental affairs as the area continues to devel- op. Pleasure Ridge is well represented at Bishop David by students coming from three Catholic parishes in the area: St. Paul, St. Polycarp, and Incar- nation.