Some of these activities could benefit from a TV, mabye to watch a
live sports event. A public school wouldn't do all these things, but
otoh, there were clubs that met after school that might do some of
them. OT3H, it's hard to imagine buying TVs just for the clubs. OT4H
I do think I remember one large aluminum table on wheels that was
about 5' high with a TV on top, and maybe there was more than one, and
I think I remember it being rolled into one of the classrooms (not the
day Pres. Kennedy was shot), but OT5H I can't imagine what a TV would
be used for, the less than one time a year something newsworthy and
worth interrupting class for? To watch a soap opera. That time I
remember it being rolled in, I can't remember what we watched, or even
what sort of thing we watched.
One would be useful now, to watch something pre-recorded on a VCR or
DVD that the school wanted us to watch, but just to wait around for
something live. I wonder why they would have a TV
IIRC, there were in the 60's lots of jokes about being in the AV club,
but that would be someone who knew how to thread the movie projector.
Even when it the manufacturer made it easy, it still had about 6
steps, and before that, well I never saw an older projector but I'm
sure it was more complicated, so they needed some kid to do that.
In Indiana, we certainly didn't watch tv that day. It was the end of
the day or we went home early. It wasn't that easy to go home early
because the township is iirc 9 x 9 miles, minus the part that is part
of Indianapolis, with no public transportation, so they depend on
school buses. They had a shuttle system that took HS students to
the two JHS's (one JHS was next door) and took JHS students to the HS,
and together they had 3 hubs from which local buses were dispatched.
Most of the bus drivers had other jobs, so each had to be contacted
and able to come back to work early. I think our bus driver, Mr.
Moss, was a farmer, so he made his own schedule, but still there must
have been things that were hard to stop in the middle of.
During the shuttle portion, Mr. Moss used to drag race with another
bus down Meridian St. the main N-S street in Indianapolis, wide
everywhere, and very wide in the north suburbs. He also used to zoom
down Ditch Road** which was bordered by 30"H, 5" diameter posts,
painted black with white tops (or the other way around) and one time
he veered to the right and broke the window at the bottom of the
folding door with a post. I didn't look at the time, but he must have
done a bit of other damage too to break the window. Anyhow, I don't
think any of the kids had ever "ratted" on him for drag racing, but he
probably had a hard time explaining how he broke the window, and I
don't think he ever sped after that.
**Ditch Road was named after the big ditch next to it. Every house
had a little ditch in front of it, instead of a rain sewer. Driveways
had a 12" culvert in place of the ditch, and some yards like ours had
a culvert for their whole length. How the rain water was supposed to
get in the culvert I don't know, since if every yard had a culvert,
there would be no ditch.
I never identified the pattern to all the ditches, but I figured they
were all tributaries of the big ditch along Ditch Roach, where the
ditch was 4 feet wide, or more?, and I guess must have been 4 feet
deep, although I dont' remembe it being so deep.
Looking now, I see Ditch Road is as close as 2000 feet from Alverna
Creek, which runs all over the area I lived, though I had never heard
of it before. I wonder if they connected the ditch to the creek.
Unfortunately google maps is not that good for folling drainage
ditches.
But the map reminds me of one more interesting thing. Indianapolis
water comes from two big (though probably shallow) reservoirs north of
town. One has sail boating, and one has motor boating, and then we
drink the water!!!!
>Its hard to remember all the details, but I do recall the day when
>Kennedy was killed. I just did not recall the date.
You are forgiven.