Such a warm sight to my eyes despite the gloomy day in Spring, 1956. This is my little sister and friends. Gaze upon the vast expanse of pea gravel in back of the school where we enjoyed many a recess and after-school games. Different groups of kids were free to do their thing unlike the front of the school which was bisected by walks and fences, as I recall. In the Fall of 1948, when I started, the school was overcrowded and the two 1st grade classes were in the facing housing units just to the right of the dark clothed boy's head. "The Portables" I think they were called. It was cozy there but cut off from the rest of the school. I enjoyed it better in the 2nd grade when we began that year-by-year progression from one end of the long narrow school building to the other, west end where the gym was. Does anybody have a photo of the school itself?
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I remember those days in that school playyard well. We used to play ball, have footraces and chase the boys or girls we wanted to kiss. That picture must have been taken the year after I got my first camera for Christmas, ( I still have it). The kids in the photo are from left, Carol Bates, me, Colin(?)a tough little red headed fellow, Sally(?) and poor homely Marvin(?). What I remember most about the front of the school was fishing for kids lunch money that had fallen through the cracks in the steps. I spent a lot of time doing that! I don't have any pictures of the school.
You got it, sister Jan! The old school yard hadn't changed in the 3 years since I left it. Losing our lunch money through the cracks in the front steps was a bad experience I had too. It was especially traumatic the first time in the 2nd grade. How was I to eat lunch? Mother and Dad were off at work. Big brother and sis were at Highline High and you were at a babysitter's (I guess). After trying to snag that quarter with gum on string and sticks, I stared down at it for hours, it seemed.
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