Christopher Columbus High School - Anchor Yearbook (Bronx, NY)

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THESE ARE THE TIMES.. It is now one and a half years since our alma mater opened its doors to us. Nineteen thirty-nine, nineteen-forty-what will we remember of these years in years to come? Will these be for us, as days of one's youth everlastingly are, just an elusive impression of good old days? Will anyone remember what it was like-the little manners and customs of the day? How did we dress? What were we reading? What enthusiasm did we cherish? What were the names that impressed us? What were our amusements, our turns of speech, our fads? What ideas occupied our minds? How did things look? In full aware- ness that what's to come is still unsure, we set down here a brief record of the present, with the hope that we may read it in the future with gentlest pleasure, and not with either super- cilious remoteness or violent nostalgia. About three months after Christopher Columbus was opened, the New York World's Fair began. The school's visit in a body to The World of Tomorrow was our first great outing. Flushing had once been a good three hours' trip from Pelham Parkway, but the Fair necessitated the opening of shortcuts from all over the city. For the first time, we could go from the Bronx to Queens in about twenty-five minutes, over the new Whitestone Bridge, or the new Triborough Bridge, or by the comparatively new Eighth Avenue subway. We passed the city's first airport, under construction, LaGuardia Airport, it was to be named. As for the appearance of the school's own