Thursday, December 29, 2011

School Desk Nostalgia ...


Today's evocativeness

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This picture is bound to evoke a memory.  For me, it was the day Boo Radley visited St. Francis to pick his date for the sock-hop at Canty Elementary.

12/29/2011 07:15:00 PM 10 Comments

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DougM said...

Yep,
having begun elementary school in '53, I remember duck'n cover, the first polio vaccines, and adding "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance.
(What? Oh, yeah ... and Miss Jones' stocking seams.)

12/29/11, 7:37 PM
pdwalker said...

I'm still in disbelief that I survived the early 80's. I was sure we'd all die in nuclear hellfire if we were lucky, or die painfully and slowly in the aftermath.

12/29/11, 9:31 PM
Anonymous said...

I remember getting our new flag for the classroom. It had 50 stars.
Tim

12/29/11, 9:34 PM
Anonymous said...

We were given dog-tags in kindergarten so that they could identify our pile of duck-and-cover ashes.

Freddie Sykes

12/29/11, 11:39 PM
Alear said...

Ahh, Robin Lamm. She sat just there, and I next to her.

12/29/11, 11:56 PM
Anonymous said...

Ahhh...nostalgia, of the clank/tink of steam radiators, the wonderful light from 8' tall windows, and the chorus of bangs from folding seats coming down on the desk behind as we sat down at our bolted down, iron framed desks, with carved initials and ink stains around the hole for the ink well in the wooden desk top, lingering traces of generations gone before us.
Duck and cover, uh huh, we knew better. We quickly translated that into "Duck and kiss your ass goodbye".
Lt. Col. Gen. Tailgunner dick

12/30/11, 12:10 AM
I-RIGHT-I said...

Just looking at that makes me crave lead paint.

12/30/11, 9:30 AM
Juice said...

Ah yes, the air-raid siren, the curtains pulled across the wall of windows, waiting for the principal to check each room -AND- me wondering if I remembered to wear underwear and did my dress cover my backside from the boys. Most importantly.

12/30/11, 9:31 AM
badanov said...

Looks like the day Penn State football recruiters cam a-callin'

12/30/11, 11:26 AM
Anonymous said...

So Juicy, there were days when you didn't wear skivvies? Had I but known.

Casca

12/30/11, 10:40 PM

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