{"id":59,"date":"2012-03-06T00:26:02","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T00:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/wordpress\/?page_id=59"},"modified":"2014-11-13T21:48:04","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T21:48:04","slug":"view-archive-by-place","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/view-archive-by-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Places"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/assets\/Peoria.Illinois.1930s1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-6613\" title=\"Peoria_at_Large.Website\" src=\"http:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/assets\/Peoria.Illinois.1930s1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Richard Pryor&#8217;s Peoria was marked by a simple geographical division \u2014 between those who lived on &#8220;The Bluff&#8221; and owned the city, and those who lived in &#8220;The Valley&#8221; and worked in it.<\/p>\n<p>Like almost all working-class Peorians, the Pryor family lived in the Valley, settling in the 1930s and 1940s in the vice district of North Washington Street (<em>See map below<\/em>). The Famous Door, Collins Corner, Harold&#8217;s Club: these were hubs of entertainment in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/view-archive-by-place\/north-washington-street\/\">North Washington Street<\/a> area.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/view-archive-by-place\/the-carver-center\/\">The Carver Center<\/a>, a community center that aimed to lift black Peorians into the middle class, was located on the other side of downtown from the North Washington district, in another pocket of Peoria&#8217;s black community.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/pryors-peoria\/assets\/NWS_1930s-1940s.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/assets\/NWS_1930s-1940s.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Richard Pryor&#8217;s Peoria was marked by a simple geographical division \u2014 between those who lived on &#8220;The Bluff&#8221; and owned the city, and those who lived in &#8220;The Valley&#8221; and worked in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":20,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"menu-page-test.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-59","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":60,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6684,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/59\/revisions\/6684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}