Author Allen Childs, M.D., spent his childhood on East Sixth Street, where his family owned Kirby’s Shoe Store. He thoroughly enjoyed gathering images from various local collections and residents t...view moreAuthor Allen Childs, M.D., spent his childhood on East Sixth Street, where his family owned Kirby’s Shoe Store. He thoroughly enjoyed gathering images from various local collections and residents to tell the stories of the street’s first African American, Chinese, Hispanic, Lebanese, and Jewish merchants, and to provide a pictorial record of the Sixth Street of today.view less