A flood took mine.

One I went to turned into a performing arts elementary school.

thecrow174 wrote :

A flood took mine.

A flood "took" it? Did it wash it away, or...?

It did. It's too bad, because I really liked going to that one.

I'm not sure how prevalent this is amongst the rest of you, but I can even recall the smell of the building. A bit musty, with a hint of floor wax and factory odors.

The school that got turned into a performing arts school smelled like cookie dough in the basement and fresh black top on the playground. Whenever I smell fresh blacktop I think of that school.

My old school Brooks Hill is still around. But They went under a big renovation project from what I heard. The Playground looks completely different then when I was there. I think they added a new addition to it. Thankfully the path that the walkers take that I took but wasn't supposed to. The gym got a total overhaul. The classrooms I managed to see in pictures have gotten changed alot.

They tore mine down and built a new one, shame because there's no pictures I can find of it. The house I grew up in was torn down too.

Yeah, the only pictures I've seen of my old Elementary School are those in my head.

But, as I stated earlier, the building still stands in basically the same condition. I'd like to go in it sometime to look around.

I've posted a satellite view of my first elementary school on this board before...a very unique building, a circular part that held the classrooms at one end, with a courtyard in the middle, connected by a hallway to a rectangular part that held the office, nurse, and multipurpose room (gym/lunchroom/auditorium). As far as I know it's still operating. 800 miles away, but my mom likes to kerp me updated on what's happening over there so if it closed I think I would know.

Anyway, community centers are nice. I'm glad to see schools live on that way (especially in this economy where so much stuff gets shut down and other stuff I could bitch about...) Schools, and I really love buildings, architecture, planning, sociology--old schools are some of the most amazing buildings.