Vintage Seattle » School Days http://www.vintageseattle.org Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:31:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Garfield High School Clubbin’ 1942 http://www.vintageseattle.org/2009/09/03/garfield-high-school-clubbin-1942/ http://www.vintageseattle.org/2009/09/03/garfield-high-school-clubbin-1942/#comments Thu, 03 Sep 2009 07:31:20 +0000 Cliffe http://www.vintageseattle.org/?p=2592 Garfield High School Yearbook, The Arrow. I would have joined the Open Forum Club, debated the issues of the day, and tried my best to cheer up the guy on the left. Click for higher res.
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Garfield High School Yearbook, 1942. The Arrow. Top to Bottom: Debate Club; Science Club; Ski Club; Speakers’ Club; Dramatic Club.
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Garfield High School Yearbook, 1942. The Arrow. Top to Bottom: Cathay Club; Radio Club; Open Forum Club; Roller Club; Photography Club.
]]> http://www.vintageseattle.org/2009/09/03/garfield-high-school-clubbin-1942/feed/ 7 More Teachers’ Dirty Looks http://www.vintageseattle.org/2008/08/25/more-teachers-dirty-looks/ http://www.vintageseattle.org/2008/08/25/more-teachers-dirty-looks/#comments Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:22:47 +0000 Cliffe http://www.vintageseattle.org/?p=1700 st that time. Here’s a shot of Education Hall from the 1934 edition of The Argus.This neo-gothic building went up in 1922 and is now known as Miller Hall. The photo has a nice dream-like quality, rather unlike the nightmare-like quality I recall from the first day of school. Click on the image for full resoluti on.
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Education Hall. An old world perspective of a modern University building. Many beautiful new structures have been added to the University of Washington campus in the past few years. The Argus, 1934.
]]> http://www.vintageseattle.org/2008/08/25/more-teachers-dirty-looks/feed/ 4 Looking Sporty At Queen Anne 1952 http://www.vintageseattle.org/2008/06/20/looking-sporty-at-queen-anne-1952/ http://www.vintageseattle.org/2008/06/20/looking-sporty-at-queen-anne-1952/#comments Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:04:23 +0000 Cliffe http://www.vintageseattle.org/?p=1489 ver the years putting together a fairly large collection of old MLB uniforms. Right now they’re sitting in boxes upstairs, but some day I’d love to devote a website to them and all old uniforms. Hmm. Until then, get a load of these Queen Anne High School uniforms from the 1952 yearbook. Think those basketball shorts would fly these days? These were the only sports that earned a full size action shot in the ’52 annual. Those that didn’t make the cut: track, golf, tennis, skiing, and “yell teams.” I can see all you former yell team alumni, well, yelling.
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Queen Anne High School Basketball. Grizzly, 1952.
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Queen Anne High School Football. Grizzly, 1952.
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Queen Anne High School Baseball. Grizzly, 1952.
]]> http://www.vintageseattle.org/2008/06/20/looking-sporty-at-queen-anne-1952/feed/ 2 Get Out And Get Under 1942 http://www.vintageseattle.org/2008/06/02/get-out-and-get-under-1942/ http://www.vintageseattle.org/2008/06/02/get-out-and-get-under-1942/#comments Mon, 02 Jun 2008 07:50:48 +0000 Cliffe http://www.vintageseattle.org/2008/06/02/get-out-and-get-under-1942/ School Days section here at th’ Org. It’s so thick I can write my name in it (that was always my mother’s metric for when it was time to dust). Clearing the dust is this World War II era (Pearl Harbor was a little over a year prior) snippet from the Garfield High School yearbook showing kids huddled under desks during air raid drills. “Get out and get under” reads the headline. Sixty-six years later the photo remains unsettling.
“Get Out And Get Under.” Garfield High School Yearbook “Arrow,” Seattle, Washington, 1942.
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“Air Raid Drill Style.” Garfield High School Yearbook “Arrow,” Seattle, Washington, 1942.
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Lincoln High School Baseball Team, 1911.
]]> http://www.vintageseattle.org/2007/11/16/lincoln-high-school-baseball-1911/feed/ 2 Queen Anne High During War http://www.vintageseattle.org/2007/09/24/queen-anne-high-during-war/ http://www.vintageseattle.org/2007/09/24/queen-anne-high-during-war/#comments Mon, 24 Sep 2007 07:41:14 +0000 Cliffe http://www.vintageseattle.org/2007/09/24/queen-anne-high-during-war/ School Days category is getting a little lonely, so I want to start a series on Queen Anne High School. I’ll be concentrating on this school as I’ ve become very interested in its history, mostly stemming from its architecture originally catching my eye. More on that soon, but first I found this foreword from the 1942 Grizzly Annual and subsequent Principal’s Message from Otto Luther. As World War II raged, the writers of the Grizzly decided to look away from the bloodshed. Find the text below. And click on the images for a larger view.
In this time of war it is especially tempting for annual staffs to select a theme of “Democracy” or “America” for their respective books. Such themes only make one more conscious of the present chaos, and with this in mind the staff of the 1942 Grizzly decided upon a light-hearted and versatile theme — one which could easily be combined with humor.

Thus we ask you to forget the guns, tanks, airplanes, warships, blood, death and grief of the world today while you recall those memorable and happy days of your “School Life.”
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Foreword of the 1942 Queen Anne High School Grizzly Annual.
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A message to Queen Anne High School’s Class of 1942 from Principal Otto L. Luther.
]]> http://www.vintageseattle.org/2007/09/24/queen-anne-high-during-war/feed/ 0 1930 QAHS Basketball Upper Management http://www.vintageseattle.org/2007/05/24/1930-queen-anne-high-basketball-upper-management/ http://www.vintageseattle.org/2007/05/24/1930-queen-anne-high-basketball-upper-management/#comments Thu, 24 May 2007 09:45:16 +0000 Cliffe http://www.vintageseattle.org/2007/05/24/1930-queen-anne-high-basketball/ School Days. This first installment is the basketball team from the 1930 edition of Queen Anne High School’s Kuay Annual Yearbook. I’m a bit of a collector of this school’s yearbooks, so forgive me if I borrow from it too much (why? I almost lived there… long story). So what can we lear n? 1. Basketball uniforms used to be much more stylish. 2. Petterson was known for “hard checking” his man. Think he was on the hockey team too? 3. White left. 4. Elias Hamilton clearly illustrates that not much has changed in 77 years of basketball team managers. Hard to say if he enjoyed being called a “roly-poly lad.” 5. In 1930, you needed exactly one manager for every 2 players. Anything I missed?
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Kuay Annual 1930. Page 90. Kuay Annual 1930. Page 91.
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