Back in the Day

Yea, I remember all those. Ball point pens were Way cool and possible to write with, about 5th grade, but math HAD to done with lead.

 

yup, ours had that hole in them. most of my fellow students didn't know what it had been for.
and those were the newer desks, the ones with the steel frame. our older ones had the cast iron frame and everything else being all wood.

and lunch was free. milk and juice came with it. in the multipurpose room. with the tables that folded up into the wall when it wasn't lunch time. then it became the gym, when it wasn't being the theatre. lunch actually cooked in the kitchen off to the side of it. two very bussy older ladies did all the cooking and serving. what you got was what you got. different each day. same menu as what was served on military basis and other government lunch rooms in those days. a hot main course, a vegetable or salad course, a desert of some kind. sometimes an extra goodie like peanut butter stuffed celery sticks.

well my school was in a town of less then a thousand people.

amature publishing associations, "APAs", used those same methods of reproduction, because that was (almost) all there was.

(buisnesses used the printing services offered by small town once or twice a week newspapers on their off days.
(which were much less convenient with their complexity of setting up, which still involved linotypes and halftones))

 

ours we had metal utencils, but for plates we had those devided trays.
ours had a room for each year. k-3rd was in the newer wing (which had been built sometime in the late 40s). 4-8 was the upstairs of the older part of the building circa 20s or 30s i would guess, downstairs was the multi-purpose room, the kitchen, the band room and the administrative offices.

8-12 was the brand new, only 2 years old, high school that was built in 1960. many students in the high school had hours long bus rides to and from where they lived in a vary wide area up in the hills, many having attended one or two room grade schools. graduating class of around 80 total. high school cafateria was seperate, still free though. it was also in a seperate location, the classic two or three miles, outside of town. school buses were free, but if you missed it, you had to walk, and almost certianly miss your first period class and get an absent mark in it.

what i mean by menu was the meal plan the kitchen went by. you could ask for a little less or a little more of something, but there was only the one something, because i mean real, one of each thing was all there were enough people to make, there being only the two of them. in the highschool there might have been a larger crew, but not more then in proportion to the number of students served. in high school you could bring your own, go without, or even eat both. everything was made from basic ingredients, in large enough batches to feed everyone. staff ate in their office, (same room that had the duplicators and filing cabinets) but ate the same as the students, unless they brought their own.

 

My ol' high school daZe at Oak Flats High in '74....we had the time of our lives

 

Bonnie & Clyde....the last daZe

 

When having a toothache was an eye-opening experience

 

Love her stack

 

Wrong on every level...........

 

so glad the 50s ended. i was a kid then, and i very much doubt anyone who thinks they want that decade back, was born yet to have to live through it.
the 60s was a period of transition. the mainstream may have been still printing crap like that, but the mainstream wasn't the mainstream to the children of world war two.
even many of my parent's generation no longer bought into it.
there were a lot of things that were good, but this is perfect example of the many what's and why's that were wrong.
really the hippie kids were the heroes that stood up against this crap.
this is what civil rights and anti-war had to fight against.

the 70s were mostly the winning of that fight. and then the 80s came along and started regurgitating it.
yes the price of a hamburger was good, and the abundance of public transportation and the less then universality of building codes,
but this nightmare was the backdrop.

thankyou hotwater. this image captures perfectly the evil of that decade, and why i'd never wish to live back there in it again.

 

When Buffy The Vampire Slayer Ruled

 

Test marketed back in 1989 - with 25% more caffeine.

A product before it's time?

 

Actually Jolt Cola came out a few years beforehand.