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Post by David Sechrest on May 17, 2005 2:16:50 GMT -5
And yet, another picture from Joy's collection. This one from Jefferson School was a 1st grade class, taken in 1942. I broke this picture up into two sections as to keep it big enough to get a good look at the kids, and keep things so you don't have to scroll back and forth to read the posts. Once again, no one is identified in my records.
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Post by David Sechrest on May 17, 2005 2:21:39 GMT -5
Another school picture, identified as Jefferson School, 4th Grade, 1945:
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2005 22:01:52 GMT -5
I attended Jefferson school for the 4th, 5th, and 6th.grades, years 44-45, 45-46, 46-47. Those years Miss Nettie Whitehorn was principal. The old school when built was the 4th. Ward School, had wooden floors and steam heat with the old cast iron radiators in the rooms, the coal fired boiler was in the basement. I do recognize some of the faces in the 1942 picture, that being Jane Sohn, Janice Harrison and Norita Miller, the pretty cheerleaders for the 6th. grade basketball team, which I was Captain of the team. Also in the 42 picture I think I see James K Dickey, David Gunder and Bob Smith. In the 45 picture I recongnize most of the class.I remember there was a swiming pool in back of the school, open in the summer time by the City Park Dept. Some of the students ate lunch at Jim Berry's grocery across the street from the school. Everyone walked to school back then, some as far as 8th and Brown st. It was a great old school.
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Post by David Sechrest on May 18, 2005 0:30:04 GMT -5
So George, are you in the picture?
Was Jim Berry's Grocery where the jail is?
By the way, I know Jane Sohn, but I haven't seen her for many years. I used to run around with Brent (her and John's son), back in high school.
By the way, while we're talking about schools, someone sent me some pictures of the old Barracks School back when I had a different computer. I went through my email last night, thinking they were still attached, but couldn't find any.
One of the hard things about "collecting" all these pictures that people send is storing them. I bet I have 250 cd's, with various items on each one. When I got this new computer, I bought an external hard drive, created folders for everything, and went through all those disks, trying to get organized a little better. I did make backup copies of everything, except now the backup stuff is all burned on dvd's, which really did away with alot of those disks I had before.
It looks like I'm going to have to go back through the cd's and see if I kept those pictures of the Barracks School.
Something tells me, though, that I didn't...
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2005 21:12:40 GMT -5
Hi David, No , I'm not in the picture, that picture I believe is a 1944 Spring picture. I went to the East Columbus school for the 43-44 year, and didn't start school at Jefferson until the fall of 44. Jim Berry's grocery was on 12th. st. between Sycamore and Chestnut Streets. I remember the barracks school, but I didn't have any pictures of it, I have seen very few pictures of that school. The owner of the grocery befor Mr. Berry was a Mr. Lipps, he lived on the corner of 12th and Sycamore, thats going back some David. By the way the Lt. Patrol badge that was posted was mine, kept it all those years as they say.I have not seen Jane Sohn for years, I wonder if she still has pigtails, ha .
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Post by Lisa on May 20, 2005 9:56:46 GMT -5
Does anyone remember the years that Jefferson School was open? I think my grandmother went there.
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2005 20:49:08 GMT -5
Lisa, Jefferson School opened it's doors for class on the 15th. of November 1880.
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Post by jimbo700 on Nov 29, 2005 21:37:21 GMT -5
Although I didn't go to the 'old' Jefferson School (I started Kindergarten at Jefferson in the fall of 1957), I do remember Miss Nettie Whitehorn. What a wonderful person. She was married late in life and by the time I started school she was Mrs. Nettie Crump, who lived in the big house (still standing) on the NE corner of Marr Rd and 25th St (the farmland behind the house was developed at Crump Estates). She was principal of Jefferson and taught 6th grade. She retired at the end of the school year in spring 1964, and was replaced by Miss Naomi Nay (who came from Lillian Schmidt school). I attended Jefferson Elementary school for all of my grade school years except 5th grade. Jefferson was over-crowded so I transferred to McKinley for 5th grade. The old Lincoln School on 3rd and Lafayette did not have a cafeteria, so they bussed the kids to Jefferson for lunch until they built the new Lincoln school. -Jim Burgan-
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Post by nancs on Nov 30, 2005 18:55:58 GMT -5
Hi to all, and I see here that somehow I missed a 'message or two,' and now, George, I pose a question to you about this: >>>>The owner of the grocery befor Mr. Berry was a Mr. Lipps, he lived on the corner of 12th and Sycamore, thats going back some David<<<<<<
from the post you made on May 18th--------------by any off chance did the Mr. Lipps mentioned go by a nickname/first name of 'Coley, Koley' or something like that? And might he have been a German descent, not particularly a tall man? And in my youth, early, early elementary school/early to mid 40s, was in my eyes quite elderly. This 'Coley/Koley' old gentleman gave me a special brush for my pony made of red leather, but a last name escapes me. My Columbus 'Sherlock Holmes' and I have discussed this, but not come up with the last name of Lipps----------and that is ringing some bells with me. I know that I was in that area with my folks on the horses when this dear man gave me that treasure.
Any recollection that you or others might have would be much appreciated. Thanks.
Nanc ;-)
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2005 14:15:34 GMT -5
Nancs, Well………… that name that you refer to does ring a bell. Maybe Mr. lipps was the owner of the building and did not operate the grocery. I will see if I can find anything at the library on this . Have a good day, it is snowing here. George
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Post by awgiii on Dec 27, 2005 3:30:04 GMT -5
To George, Nanc & all those recalling Berry's Grocery...I believe that we can help you. You see, 44 years ago I married my high school steady Dina Berry...Jim & Louise's daughter! Plus I spent the 1st 12 years of my life at 1209 Chestnut St...across from the old Jeff pool & catty-cornered from the Grocery. The Berrys, however, lived up at 21st & Gilmore (McKinley) so I never knew Dina until we met on a blind date in the Spring of '56. Jim & Louise owned & ran the Grocery from the early '40s thru '54 when they sold the Grocery to open Berry's House of Records at 25th & Union in the converted farm house which was the home of Dina's grandfather, Solomon Armstrong. Coley Lipps was indeed the landlord of the store building, which he'd built in his back yard in the late '30s. If you remember, there were two storefronts in that small brick building. The 2nd was occupied by Castner's TV Shop from the late '40s until the mid-'50s when he moved the business to 15th & Washington as Castner's Sound Service. Ah-h-h, so many great memories. Blowing my allowance at Berry's on 5 cent Hostess Pineapple Fruit Pies every day after school. Standing high in Castner's front window to see over the crowd of adults gathered to watch the live '49 Indpls 500 from WFBM-TV on a snowy but 'big' 16 inch Zenith table model. I couldn't pull myself away, an obsession which eventually led to a 35 year association as an Indy Car official at the Speedway. I've gotta quit for now but I'll be back when I have more time. I want to ID my Jeff teachers ('46-'51) & create a census of the neighborhood kids from that era. So much to remember and so little time...
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2005 20:30:18 GMT -5
Art, many thanks for the info, I had planned on a trip to the library for what you supplied, but the last couple of weeks have been busy, forgive me Nanc !!!. We lived at 1221 Lafayette Ave. from the spring of 1944 until 1955 and I have many memory's of that area of town. I attended the 4th, 5th and 6th grades at old Jefferson and made many trips across the street to Berry's. At one time I believe that there was a Leland Mouser that worked at the store, he would have still been a student at the time, would you have any info on this???. The address that you gave on Chestnut St, did the Gilbert family live next door?. I one time bought a soap box racer from the son that the dad had built, it was all metal, really some thing at the time, like you I have always had a great interest in racing. I made my first trip to Indy in 1948, the time of the great Novis, no other sound like them. Well I will get off here for now, please let us hear more from you, we appreciate your post very much.
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Post by nancs on Dec 30, 2005 17:41:01 GMT -5
YES, YES, AND DOUBLE YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And a double whew, along with that!!!!! ;-) My 'Columbus Sherlocks' had done a lot about the 'location, etc.' (Berry's Grocery) that I remembered, now you must know I moved from Columbus in November, 1952, so was really 'stretching the brain,' but I was 'sorta close,' but that is only good in horse shoes, think that is how it goes. ;D Had no clue how to spell Coley, nor did I have a last name to go with it. Can just so remember the day that he gave me that special brush for my pony. And yes, to Paul Castner's TV shop there at that point in time, late 40s to mid-50s. These message boards are just the greatest, and the memories shared are the very best. Thank you, thank you, thank you for clearing that cherished memory for me. Okay, now another question, was it 1949 that Cummins had 'that car' in the 500? Know I was in Jr. High at the time and walked down 6th St. home to take a look at how 'things were going' with the car each day. HAPPY NEW YEAR, ONE AND ALL!!! Nanc
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2005 19:20:44 GMT -5
Nanc, Cummins had a car in the 1950 race, the driver was Jimmy Jackson, and they also had a car in the 1952 race, the driver being Fred Agabastion. The 52 car started on the pole that year, but finished 27th. Cummins also had cars in the 1931 and the 1934 races, your race history for the day!!!!! George
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Post by nancs on Dec 31, 2005 9:05:08 GMT -5
Thanks, George, for clarifying the years------I only knew that 'the event occurred' when I was in Jr. High. And 1950 makes better sense to me than 1949, judging by the 'boy-crazy' attitude the girls had by 8th grade. The guys all went after school to check out the progress on the race car-------and what better chance for the girls to 'hang out' with the guys---------- ;D AND profess great interest in cars!!!! ;D Guilty as charged!!! Nanc
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Post by LuAnne Burgan Steinker on Jan 1, 2006 1:25:29 GMT -5
I moved to Columbus, and to Jefferson School when I was in the sixth grade. Miss Whitehorn, later Mrs. Crump, was the teacher. One of the books that she read to our class was, "The Bears of Blue River". That book was written about this area. We had several "couples" in our grade, and once a month, we had parties which included kissing games. I ate shrimp cocktail for the first time at one of those parties. About the store next to the school yard, I remember getting a dill pickle in a plastic bag, cutting the corner of the bag, and sucking out the juice and eating the delicious pickle later. It was the fad then. Also, do you remember when we wore a dog collar on our right ankle as a decoration? None of us was rich, but well off in family, and friends. There were a number of us who lived near the school. My friend lived two houses down from the school. My house was a couple of blocks from the school. Another memory was that we had a Latvian student join our class. They had excaped to America from Lativa. Anita Demance (sp) was that girl. She quickly learned the language, and passed on to higher level classes. Mrs. Crump, I remember well, told us that by the time we were sixty, there would be no more cancer, that the treatment for that would be complete. Sadly, that is only a little true. I have long since passed sixty, (66) and most cancers are still deadly. What fun it was to see this site, and to see that my brother has posted a remembrance. LuAnne
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Post by robertlay on Jan 1, 2006 8:55:30 GMT -5
The kids in the picture are probably later in time for me - I was there around 1941, I think.
However, the teacher looks very familiar, and I would say her name was Miss Armuth.
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Post by David Sechrest on Feb 24, 2007 19:18:16 GMT -5
I went to Jefferson school and played basketball on the fifth and sixth grade teams. I was captain on the sixth grade team, myself, on the left, and James K Dickey are holding the ball. [/size]
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Post by David Sechrest on Feb 24, 2007 20:18:47 GMT -5
George, When this picture came up the first one I recognized was James Kay! I've known him forever; he used to live across the street from my great grandmother at one time. I think he lived close to us when we lived on Pennsylvania Street during the war if I am not mistaken.
I knew boys played basketball in grade school. :-) Don't remember much about the games but sure do remember being a cheerleader. Also remember a party held at J.C. Gosnell's one night. Think I was about ten years old at the time . [/size]
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Post by RER on Mar 10, 2007 22:21:54 GMT -5
Jefferson School & the Statement Of Lincoln School 1880 and 1887
"In the year 1877, the first ward school building (the abandoned Lincoln School) was erected on the corner of 2nd & Franklin streets. It was hardly opened until all seats were occupied and another ward building called the Jefferson School was built at 12th and Sycamore in 1880."
Source: Log of 1933 comment within
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