Thursday, July 20, 2006
Memories from Hope Garcia
Do you remember these things??
Kindergarten - getting to take a nap and playing with a wooden sink, stove and frig and going from the little kindergarten to the big kindergarten to watch cartoons
Bill Forkell’s parents candy store across the street from the school - serving hotdogs and kayo for Lunch
Josie’ dad coming to school on party days with ice cream - - party on!
Hitting your crazy bone on the metal part of your desk and thinking your arm was going to fall off
Wasps in the room caused mass panics - no screens on windows - no air conditioning - from May on we all were screaming - - drove the teachers crazy
Long pole for pulling open and close the top windows
Janitor’s closet where you emptied your paint water and stalled in the hallway so you didn’t have to go right back to class
Boys got to clean erasers on Fridays (lucky them - filling their lungs with chalk dust)
Some poor kid sitting on the heat register at the top of the stairs in the hallway to dry his pants (why???)
Rocco or someone cleaning up throw up with sawdust
Being a Hall monitor, messenger or door holder - got you out of at least a little class time. Being sent back down the stairs if you skipped a step.
Voting for Mayor and seeing all the campaign posters in the hallways.
Throwing toilet paper wads up on the ceiling in the bathrooms
Wood chips in the toilet paper (ouch!) art paper and writing paper - - how many forests were destroyed for that?
Carving in desks and then having to sand them down - - getting into trouble for it big time too - - hey my initials were everywhere thanks to my trusty compass.
Remember Mr. Homer??? Getting into trouble for calling him by a “different” name and cooling my heels at home for a while. .
Girls wearing blue shorts and white blouses on gym day - later years - wearing nylons under our shorts - -
Being separated from the boys in the playground from Kindergarten on - - what did they think we would do if they put us together??? Couldn’t cross over that imaginary line (probably would have gotten an electric shock or something)
Hey, come to think of it, girls got the nothing side of the school yard - boys got the screeching swings, bars, basketball court. . . not fair . . .
Sitting on the window seals on the side of the school in groups - especially by the Home Mech class outside of the girl’s side entrance.
Sitting in front of the school with Josie on the steps and eating candy - she had access to an unlimited supply.
Being on the third floor in eighth grade with the High School and having high school boys pass notes under the door to the girls
Greasers Dupers and Collegiate - which were you?
Girls wore tight black straight skirts, white blouses that were not tucked in and black flats - ratted hair a must. Remember, DON’T WEAR RED ON FRIDAYS
Boys wore Cuban heeled shoes with pointed toes, (or engineer boots) light colored shirts with the sleeves rolled up and Tight tight pants with slit pockets and stove pipe legs (did they call them continental??) let us girls use our imaginations!!
Day Dreaming and wishing you weren’t there!!!
Kindergarten - getting to take a nap and playing with a wooden sink, stove and frig and going from the little kindergarten to the big kindergarten to watch cartoons
Bill Forkell’s parents candy store across the street from the school - serving hotdogs and kayo for Lunch
Josie’ dad coming to school on party days with ice cream - - party on!
Hitting your crazy bone on the metal part of your desk and thinking your arm was going to fall off
Wasps in the room caused mass panics - no screens on windows - no air conditioning - from May on we all were screaming - - drove the teachers crazy
Long pole for pulling open and close the top windows
Janitor’s closet where you emptied your paint water and stalled in the hallway so you didn’t have to go right back to class
Boys got to clean erasers on Fridays (lucky them - filling their lungs with chalk dust)
Some poor kid sitting on the heat register at the top of the stairs in the hallway to dry his pants (why???)
Rocco or someone cleaning up throw up with sawdust
Being a Hall monitor, messenger or door holder - got you out of at least a little class time. Being sent back down the stairs if you skipped a step.
Voting for Mayor and seeing all the campaign posters in the hallways.
Throwing toilet paper wads up on the ceiling in the bathrooms
Wood chips in the toilet paper (ouch!) art paper and writing paper - - how many forests were destroyed for that?
Carving in desks and then having to sand them down - - getting into trouble for it big time too - - hey my initials were everywhere thanks to my trusty compass.
Remember Mr. Homer??? Getting into trouble for calling him by a “different” name and cooling my heels at home for a while. .
Girls wearing blue shorts and white blouses on gym day - later years - wearing nylons under our shorts - -
Being separated from the boys in the playground from Kindergarten on - - what did they think we would do if they put us together??? Couldn’t cross over that imaginary line (probably would have gotten an electric shock or something)
Hey, come to think of it, girls got the nothing side of the school yard - boys got the screeching swings, bars, basketball court. . . not fair . . .
Sitting on the window seals on the side of the school in groups - especially by the Home Mech class outside of the girl’s side entrance.
Sitting in front of the school with Josie on the steps and eating candy - she had access to an unlimited supply.
Being on the third floor in eighth grade with the High School and having high school boys pass notes under the door to the girls
Greasers Dupers and Collegiate - which were you?
Girls wore tight black straight skirts, white blouses that were not tucked in and black flats - ratted hair a must. Remember, DON’T WEAR RED ON FRIDAYS
Boys wore Cuban heeled shoes with pointed toes, (or engineer boots) light colored shirts with the sleeves rolled up and Tight tight pants with slit pockets and stove pipe legs (did they call them continental??) let us girls use our imaginations!!
Day Dreaming and wishing you weren’t there!!!
