historical

[dymphna79]

I'm almost sure that this building is what used to stand on the site of my apartment:

Washington School

The cross streets are right.  After my initial "hey, that's where I live!" response, I remembered that an intersection actually has four corners.  But I live in a building that's perhaps 1960s-era, while across the street is a beautiful 1910s house

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[delphica]

That is such a great picture! I love learning about the local areas where I live ... I guess on the plus side, when you move to a new neighborhood you get to learn new stuff.

Were any of your own schools growing up "old-fashioned" schools, for lack of a better term? To my great disappointment, mine were all late 1960s/early 1970s construction.

[dymphna79]

Not elementary or high school. My middle school had been the local K-8 school in the distant-ish past, I think, and had a very pretty facade, but it was disappointingly 70s on the inside. I can't find a good picture of the outside, but here's one: http://aoms.ddouglas.k12.or.us

I visited a few high schools in older parts of Portland for music competitions and thought it would be like going to high school IN THE MOVIES.

Our branch library was dull, too, although we sometimes visited the awesome Central Library in downtown Portland on field trips: http://www.portlandground.com/archives/2005/01/multnomah_count.php I loved going to the Carnegie Library in Northfield, and was very grateful for its existence when I found (on my very first visit to the Carleton library) that they had almost NO children's books.

[delphica]

Ha, you know that is exactly how I thought of it ... why can't I go to school like IN THE MOVIES? My libraries were all dull, too. Even the central library downtown is housed in what looks like a Soviet bunker.