message board home
Next
2/16/2011 5:04:11 PM
 
Reply
or ReplyNewSubject
Section 24: The Lounge Subject: Chit Chat Msg# 772330
|
||||||
|
I was in the first 9th grade class at the new Grant Junior High, after going through K-8 at Hay-Edwards, so that was the first year that SHS had only grades 10-12. I'm surprised they went back to 4 grades so soon, although I didn't see the junior high the last time I was in its vicinity -- hard to believe they'd tear down a relatively new school, but you should never overestimate the intelligence of the Board of Education. Did you have a car in high school? Where did your crowd hang out? We used to go to the McDonald's on S. MacArthur (the first one in town!) for fries, then go to Don's Drive-In to get our burgers and shakes. I spent my 15th summer restoring Dad's 1937 Nash LaFayette, so I had a car of my own the day I turned 16. That car is still in the family, although it's been torn down again and is currently in pieces in a garage somewhere. I spent most of my life after high school in Chicago, working summers during college for CIPS in Springfield, and retired to the St. Louis area in 1998. One of my brothers and all of his family (4 kids, 18 grandchildren) live in this area, and I wanted to grow old where someone could take care of me if anything happened. It's nice being around family, but I still miss Chicago. How about you? |
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
For reference, the above message is a reply to a message where: I know exactly where you are talking about. For several years after high school and while I was going to the community college I worked for the State Journal -Register in the circulation department and got to know every back alley of most of the town, as I ran carriers. And I lived in a variety of apartments, most in the general vicinity of Washington Park. We ran two shifts even when I was as SHS but I believe our senior class was down to around 450? Still, during my time they had gone back from grades 10-12 to 9-12 at SHS. I would get lost now as the city has grown right past the area where I grew up. What part of the country do you live in these days? |
