90 Minutes at my 6th Grade School Playground Today

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is now a fire house

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A bit of Extra History....

Gun Club to the West
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Ball Field

October 2, 1915
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August 31, 1918
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August 23, 1938
Appears to Be carnival Week
Buildings in Center of Field
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August 29, 1958
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Today

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Todays Gas Rebate

57 Cents.
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Wouldn't have been a Real Hunt Without Trash
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Because of The Gun Club and Obvious Live Pigeon Shoots
Plenty of Brass.

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and the Closest thing to Gold

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Sweet hunt! :occasion14:
 

Fun hunt! Thank you for all of the photos. :occasion14:
 

Sort of goes for the saying of all that glitters is not gold. I don't mean the button. I mean the site. Isn't it funny how ones that play out sooooo well in their history and what they look like now, then only give up 57cents in new clad? :dontknow:

Still good to be out, better than staring out your window at a bleak, white landscape, eh? ;)

WTG!
 

Wow, they had brick schools way back then ??

Nice try, I have hunted my old school in Detroit, amazingly still standing and used.
Problem is, back then and now our play field was hard packed gravel, not very good odds of anything getting buried there. They put in a woodchip playground in half of our old field, well after my school days.
We used to play "Kill the man with the hat" in that field, a variation of "pom-pom" where we'd have around 20 kids or so, we'd throw a hat up in the air, whoever caught it got slammed to the ground after trying to evade capture for as long as possible. You would think no one would want to catch it but we fought each other for the hat just for the right to get slammed to the ground. I imagine some things got lost, I'm guessing no one in that rabble had any rings, sure as hell not me.

Meat market, appropriately, is right behind the school.
Parking lot on the other side used to be a play field just like the other one, we mostly played strikeout and tackle football in that one.
Back grassy area I don't remember, looks like it has been there a while, ought to go check it out.
 

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yea Actually I'm pretty Confident it was it was Wood not brick.
At least a Wood Finish. Even Way back Then. I was there '67 I think.
Only thing we had was a Basket Ball Hoop up on the black Top.
and a Ball Field. I Don't remember anyone playing Ball.
 

Yep, blowing the pic up it is clear the structure was mostly composed of wood.
I imagine thats the main reason it didn't last ,,, I don't think I've ever seen a wood school.
 

Yep, blowing the pic up it is clear the structure was mostly composed of wood.
I imagine thats the main reason it didn't last ,,, I don't think I've ever seen a wood school.

It's still there - in the form of a firehouse.
 

Yep, blowing the pic up it is clear the structure was mostly composed of wood.
I imagine thats the main reason it didn't last ,,, I don't think I've ever seen a wood school.

It's still there - in the form of a firehouse.

yep ! it's still standing.
 

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