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Memories of School Days
School days.....school days........good old fashion school days..............................................
This is similar to First Ward School - the real photo will appear soon.What do you remember about school days - post those memories here so we can reminisce along with you. Just typing this brings lots of memories flooding back. Wherever you went to school, share those good ole days with us.
I am currently researching photos of the First Ward School where some of us attended grade school. Next I will research the old Jr. H.S. and Senior H.S.; the last now serves as the city's Civic Center.
| Marilyn remembers: The day our grade school (First Ward School) burned down - it was Dec. 18th (my grandma's birthday) and I was in 6th grade. This was my last year in this school. I remember somebody saying they smelled smoke and the teacher then had us all line up and go down the fire escape at the back of the building. It was wrought iron and the steps swung down the minute someone got on them and started down. I remember running around to the front and then we were told we should go home - I cried as I walked home. Once home, I went to the windows in the living room alcove and saw lots of black smoke coming from the schoolhouse - we only lived 2 blocks from the school. I ended up having to finish my 6th grade at the Second Ward School which was a long ways from where I lived - I think we had to walk there or daddy took us. Hey Dave - help me out here - what do you remember? I remember them tar bubbles we use to look for as we approached the block the school was on - when the weather got warm there would be lots of them and it was fun to "pop" them. I remember Mr. Briggs delivering milk in a horse drawn milk wagon on that street and I always wanted to get out of the way of the horse because I was afraid of horses and cows. (Must be one of the reasons I didn't marry the farmer I dated.) I remember having to say goodbye to Mrs. Gasser, my 3rd grade teacher. Mom and Dad took us to her house across from the post office and we all cried when we had to say goodbye. She was my favorite grade school teacher. |
This is what David remembers about the old first ward school burning down. I was in Fourth grade at the time. I told the teacher that I smelled smoke and she said that must be coming from the heating system. We had junk fall from the ceiling in front of the room and we were told to go down the stairs just in front of our room. The stuff that fell down made it impossible to go out the fire escape. Just then some one came in the room and told us to get out of the school right now and we did. It was very cold that day - below zero - as you would expect we all had to leave without our winter coats. I remember standing on the west bank of the school yard and watch the building go from lots of smoke to flames coming from the windows and around the roof. I think that those of us that stood watching were in shock. We didn't seem to think about the cold until a teacher came over to us and told us go home. I asked what about our coats, because I had just got a new winter coat that year and it was so nice and warm. She didn’t have her coat either. She told us that we would lose them, to just get home now so we all headed for home. What I realize now is that the fire had been burning for a while and there was a vent in the room that went to the attic. As I said the smoke was coming out of the school, well that was out of the area near the class that we were in. It sure was great that no one was hurt or lost in the fire. It was so cold that the fire department had a real hard time with the water freezing on them. I remember seeing a picture in the paper with fireman covered with ice. Also the fire escape on that side of the building was also covered with icicles. I remember that we shared the second ward school with kids from that school and they didn’t like us because they had to walk to downtown to the community center also. We got the afternoon time and spent the morning at the city community center. As a boy I liked the fact that we were out of school for a month; two weeks for Christmas vacation and then two weeks in the beginning of the year. Yes we walked to the school at the second ward; it is about a mile and half or may be more of a walk. It was one of these days I was walking home after school that I saw it rain on one side of the street and not the other. That was very cool thing to see. |
| Here's what Patti remembers: I was in 2nd grade and already home for lunch and remember looking out the alcove windows at all the smoke in the sky from the burning school. I don't remember actually being at the school when all the kids came out because of the fire. Ms. Ruggles was my 2nd grade teacher and lived right across the street from the school. I remember going to the Library for classes, the community center and second ward school. My class came to my house to watch President Eisenhower's Inauguration since we had a big house and a TV. I remember going down the fire escape at the second ward school that was like a long black tunnel - actually it was an enclosed slide from the 3rd floor down to the ground - there were entrance doors from each of the floors so we could get on the slide and go down. It was very s-c-a-r-y! No one wanted to go down the fire escape and I remember all the screaming that went on. I don't remember walking but think there may have been a city bus at the time that we rode. Hey Maggie - what do you remember?? |
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