Sunday, February 1, 2009

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Shots Of the Old Building Before They Tore It Down


These were taken in April 2005, during the construction of the new building. It covers the entire area we knew as "the Playground." There was our old baseball diamond in this corner shown
here.


This is the view that has the most memories for me. It shows the exact location of the "annex" where we had a music room and a band room. These shown (the white buildings) are not the same, I remember ours was just a simple two-room wooden annex with a few steps in front of each classroom. And we had no air conditioning!





I remember almost every single thing about that old building, ecxept the SMOKESTACK! How could I have forgotten that thing? It was huge! And what was it for?

My favorite view is the one where you can see those little white buildings that sat outside across from the covered walkway beside the lunchroom. We called them "annexes." The ones in this picture are not the same as the ones we had.

Monday, January 26, 2009

Remembering Mrs. Bailey, Our Band Director


I would give anything to go back and relive just one hour of the time we spent playing in the band at Robinson School. I'll never forget that two-room building that sat outside the lunchroom and had
the band room on one side and the music room on the other.

Mrs. Bailey was the best piano player I had ever heard. Listening to her play always tickled me and made me want to laugh out loud, but I held it in. I could and should write a book about her and how she infuenced us all, the kids lucky enough to be in her bands and learn muic from her.

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Mrs. Butler's 7th & 8th Grade, 1969 & 1970

Our 8th Grade

Our 7th Grade



We located Katherine Butler and visited her last week. She's 93 years young and now married to Herb Longenecker. He was the President of Tulane University.

I know I also have our 5th & 6th Grade pictures, but have yet to find them.

Coming soon, Names!

Friday, February 8, 2008

A Few Interiors Of The Old And Middle-Aged Part Of The Building


Well they left the oldest part of the building still standing. I think it was actually the oldest school building in the city of Birmingham. Over Time I intend to add more details under these photos, so we can reference what we're looking at. Looking down this hall the empty classroom to the right was where the school paper staff met and published the "Robin-Sun," which we later renamed "The Rebel Yell."




They tore down the part of the building that we knew as the lunchroom and all the classrooms from there and the office all the way through to the library and the art room.