I have just posted a new album to my facebook page. It contains photos of my junior high school in San Antonio. The school was built in approximately 1923 and had additions as WPA projects later. My grandmother's cousin, Rose, went to school here the year my mother was born, my mother went here as did my aunts and uncle and my cousin JLSHall. Of all of my educational experience I was happiest here. I loved the atmosphere and I hate what they have done to it -- they rebuilt it and only retained part of the facade, the part that faces San Pedro Avenue. They replaced the gym -- ok, it flooded underneath but still -- and they torn down the locker room which was a WPA project as well as the IA shops.
Spurred on by a graduate school paper of my daughter's, I have tried to find information about Twain online and in newspaper articles but can't find much, especially photos so, if anybody has any old photos or information about the school, I would really like to hear stories or see pictures.
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Gee, Twain is actually newer than I realized. I always sort of assumed it was pre-WWI. 1923 is a little later than I imagined. Of course, back then I assumed all the teachers were pre-WWI, too, so I guess I'm not to be trusted when it comes to how old anything is.
Yeah, I agree about the remodeling. Don't see why they had to change it quite so much. But I guess if I had to teach there, I'd have a different view entirely. And I always hated that gym, anyway.
I think it was built in 1923 -- I almost said born in 1923 -- sheesh. Dude went there, if I remember correctly. There had been other changes over the years like the dog dip for one. Momma used to warn me about the dog dip and when we were there they had filled that in -- we didn't have to walk through lysol water or whatever it was. But, now it is all gone -- it is sad but when I was working for SAISD it was condemned to be torn down so this is definitely a better alternative, I think. At least some of it is still there.
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