How about Manus's, the Dagwood, Yankee Doodle, Walk's Drug Store, Evergreen Drive-In, Teencan, Three C'S, the Nook, Burd's Confectionary, the three theatres: Grand, Indiana, and Elk's; when movies were a dime, popcorn was a nickle, you sat in back of the movie and smooched. Just about everyone had to walk, because the blonds didn't have red sport cars then. Nobody will tell where lover's lane was. Remember taking your girl home and the dad flicking the lights off and on? Remember the first time you were kissed by that special date, the first drink, sneaking into the drive-in in the trunk of a car??
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After only one year of operation, the high school was closed when the state Supreme Court ruled that collection of funds for school use was unlawful. School was held only irregularly from that date until 1859 as funds from private sources were available. From 1859 to 1864, the school was closed completely. From 1861 to 1864, the high school building was leased to the United States government as a hospital for Union soldiers.
In September, 1864, the high school was reopened; and the high school, in various locations, has been in continuous operation since.
In the fall of 1870, the boys and girls were divided into separate high schools. The boys continued in the Scribner building and the name was changed to Boys' High School. The girls' high school, known as Female High School, was located on Spring Street at the northeast corner of Bank. The schools were consolidated again in 1880, and boys and girls both attended the high school at Spring and Bank. Scribner was not used for high school purposes again until the high school for colored pupils was moved to Scribner in 1887.
In 1902, the high school building at Spring and Bank was dismantled to make way for the present Carnegie Library building. In 1902-03, the high school was housed in the Frisbee House at East Sixth and Spring Streets. From 1903 to 1905, it was located in the Depauw College Building at East Main and Ninth. In 1905, a new high school was opened at East Sixth and Spring Streets. This is the present Junior High School.
The high school continued in this location until 1927 when the present high school building was opened. The high school annex, built in 1892 as an elementary school, was first used for high school classes in 1941.
In 1943, the "new" addition, housing the library, homemaking, art, machine shop, and biology rooms, was added to the original building.
New Albany High School is recognized as one of the finest and most modern high schools anywhere. Many renowned men and women have been graduated in the long history of the school. The high school is proud of its past and looks hopefully to the challenge of the future.
DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN...?
All the girls had ugly gym uniforms?
It took five minutes for the TV warm up?
Nearly everyone's Mom was at home when the kids got home from school?
Nobody owned a purebred dog?
When a quarter was a decent allowance?
You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny?
Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces?
All your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had
their hair done every day and wore high heels?
You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped,
without asking, all for free, every time?
And you didn't pay for air? And, you got trading stamps to boot?
Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box?
It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner
at a real restaurant with your parents?
They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed. . .and they did?
When a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car...to cruise,
peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, and people went steady?
No one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked?
Lying on your back in the grass with your friends and saying things like, "That cloud looks like a ...."
and playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game?
Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger?
And with all our progress, don't you just wish, just once, you could slip back in time and savor the slower pace,and share it with the children of today?
When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited the student at home? Basically we were in fear for our lives,
but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc.
Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! But we survived because their love was greater than the threat.
Send this on to someone who can still remember Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, Laurel and Hardy, Howdy Dowdy and the Peanut Gallery, the LoneRanger, The Shadow Knows, Nellie Bell, Roy and Dale, Trigger andButtermilk.
As well as summers filled with bike rides, baseball games, Hula Hoops, bowling and visits to the pool, and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar.
Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, "Yeah, I remember that"?
I am sharing this with you today because it ended with a double dog dare to pass it on. To remember what a double dog dare is, read on. And remember that the perfect age is somewhere between old enough to know better and too young to care.
How many of these do you remember?
Candy cigarettes
Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside
Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles
Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum
Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
Newsreels before the movie
P.F. Fliers
Telephone numbers with a word prefix....(Raymond 4-601).
Party lines
Peashooters, Howdy Dowdy, 45 RPM records, Green Stamps, Hi-Fi's
Metal ice cubes trays with levers, Mimeograph paper, Beanie and Cecil, Roller-skate keys, Cork pop guns, Drive ins and
Studebakers
Washtub wringers, The Fuller Brush Man, Reel-To-Reel tape recorders,
Tinkertoys, Erector Sets, The Fort Apache Play Set, Lincoln Logs,
15 cent McDonald hamburgers and a sack of White Castles
5 cent packs of baseball cards - with that awful pink slab of bubble gum
Penny candy
35 cent a gallon gasoline, Jiffy Pop popcorn
Do you remember a time when...
Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-moe"?
Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "Do Over!"?
"Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest?
Catching the fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening?
It wasn't odd to have two or three "Best Friends"?
The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was "cooties"?
Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot?
A foot of snow was a dream come true?
Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute commercials for action figures?
"Oly-oly-oxen-free" made perfect sense?
Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles?
The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team?
War was a card game?
Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle?
Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin?
Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?
If you can remember most or all of these, then you have lived!!!!!!!
