Club Boulevard School

I went to Club Blvd Elementary from 1986-1992 and I recall at that time the school had not been renovated into it's current form yet. My grandparents used to pick me up in front of the school after school and I recall having to walk across the large open area from the exit of the school down to Club Blvd (the road). Also back then there weren't all the trailers lining the back of the school and on the blacktop (which was used for recess games).

On a side note I remember when the school renovated it's playground and replaced the old metal equipment with the new style rubber/wood/padded equipment. They actually had a story on WTVD which had Madonna's "This used to be my playground" playing and showing us kids like crying as they tore up our playground equipment!:-)

"unfortunately typical"--excellent choice of words. It's so common to see schools that were quite handsome when built ruined in such a fashion...

I attended Club Blvd in the late 1970s. Club Blvd only had grades 4-6.
I was part of the group that was bussed from East End. It looked much like the original rendering from the 1950s.

Club Boulevard DPS website: http://clubblvd.dpsnc.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=115…
offers a good history of the school. It was an awesome institution when I attended, beginning in the mid 1960's. Our playground equipment was rudimentary; 2 sets of orange jungle bars (one flimsy, one stout), a baseball backstop fence near the creek, and a blacktop. We had no gym. If it rained, we skipped physical education that day. Apparently the trade-off was the auditorium, under which was the obligatory Cold War fallout shelter. The school's kiln was down there, along with green barrels of survival supplies labeled with yellow writing. Art was with classroom teachers, there was no assigned art teacher. I remember outstanding teachers such as Ms. Loch, Mrs. Southerland, Mrs. Freeman, and Mrs. Peele. In the small, 2-room office was Baxter Ridenhour, who was the first principal and his secretary, Mrs. Lassiter along with the school's single mimeograph machine.

Thanks Batman - I added some of the school history to the post.

GK

Honestly, I don't think the school looked all that great to begin with, so I'm not saddened by the additions.

Sad to see recent renovations involved refinishing the gymnasium floors....the "C.B. Bulldog" medallion from center court is no more. Caught the kid posing there last spring: http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/2107/img0524de.jpg

I was a student here grades 1 to 3 (1963-66). The photo at the top is how I remember the front facade, though the aerial from 1953 doesn't show another wing in the back, added later I guess. I still remember my first day of school there in '63, gathered in the auditorium with my Mom, then separated and moved on to first grade classroom. There's even a picture of me, I believe, published in the Herald-Sun commemorating that first day of school --  me sitting along a classroom table (no individual desk), holding my chin in my right palm,  elbow resting on the table and looking into the photographer's lense with a truly bored look on my face. My Dad was city editor around that time, so that probably had something to do with it. My first two classrooms each had doors openning to the outside grounds, and a small bathroom (I think). Mrs. Weatherspoon was first grade teacher, and Margaret Mumford in second grade -- she went on to become principle at George Watts in another few years, where I also attended a couple grades.  Lived abour four blocks away on what was then Woodland Dr. (now renamed), between Ruffin St and Duke St, meeting Ruby St and Glendale St. A lot kids in the neighborhoods then, and we all walked to school to most every day. Barfield park was right across the street, and Jaycee ballfield nearby as well.

1st-2nd-3rd grade 1958-61. Lived directly across the street [W Club] in one of the duplexes. Doug and Pat Bivens were our neighbors.
What wonderful memories I have of this school. I "owned" the play ground field and became a master kite builder sometimes between
2nd & 3rd grade.

I attended from 1956 to 1962. Lived on the 1900 block of Glendale Avenue. Would walk to school down Glendale Avenue, across Hwy 70 (there actually was a stop light at Glendale and Hwy 70)