Central High School - Optimist Yearbook (Crookston, MN)

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While traversing to and from the house we lived in for classes such as shop and glee club, we had constantly to be on the lookout for stock piles of brick, tiling, scaffolding, pip- ing canvasses, boards, and mud. These piles, however, slowly diminished as the materials were converted into walls, ceilings, floors, doors, stairways, rooms, cubbyholes, crooks and cran- nies, and as the interior began to take shape, we forgot our discomforts with the excitement of moving into this spacious building. the Closed Door? UPPER LEFT: The third floor warning was crude but served its purpose ade- quately, for the switches rested in peace. FAR LEFT: Once the hole was dug, the building went up with amazing speed. This picture shows the gymnasium en- trance to the left and the gym proper to the right. LOWER LEFT: This sign frustrated the naturally curious, for it outlawed traipsing through the half- constructed building. ABOVE: This picture shows the nearly-completed gym- nasium entrance. BELOW: An airview of the high school, showing the building surrounded with stockpiles. 5

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While in its skeletal form, the house we The house we lived in contained curious little signs. These masterpieces were terse, but to the point, as exemplified by the two on this page. Our house was a maze of brightly colored wires, innumerable pipes, piles of sand and gravel, tiling of all shades and sizes, plaster and cement bags, and buzz saws. Many odors, some pleasant and others a little offensive, floated through our halls, the smell of freshly cut wood and new plaster intermingled with tar and oil. l If MA! ,.Qf'C,i!Af lived in didn't look capable of being trans- formed into anything usable for education. The silence of our study periods was constantly being broken by the rat-a-tat-tat of iack- hammers and the grinding of trucks weighted down with steel beams, lumber, cement, and other materials. Slowly the house we lived in evolved from a mere hole in the ground and immense piles of bulky materials into an im- pressive edifice to house our overflow of stu- dents and to provide a much needed lunch- room and gymnasium. .. l What's Behinc .-,ol

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