Hey, there! Log in / Register
When boys wore knickers to shop class
By adamg on Wed, 05/01/2019 - 11:59am
The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this scene. See it larger.
Neighborhoods:
Topics:
Ad:
Support Universal Hub
Help keep Universal Hub going. If you like what we're up to and want to help out, please consider a (completely non-deductible) contribution.
Comments
And look at those shiny shoes
And look at those shiny shoes!
electrical
rods and tubes and rods and tubes and rods and tubes.........
Rather than shop...
...it looks to me like they’re doing printing of some sort, maybe lithography? As to place & time, I would make a wild guess and say The Mechanic Arts High School (later Boston Tech) around 1910.
Tools
The tools in the foreground are woodworking tools.
City Print Building
Looks like City Print Building on North St. in North End, now North Bennet Street School. Same waffle ceilings, print correlation. Built in 1932.
Irving?
Washington Irving?
Not printing
Printers wear smocks to save from having to buy new clothes every two hours.
Those boys appear to be wiring - and all those plywoods in the racks are works in progress.
Just a wild guess of Don Bosco C building somewhere.
HYPERBRUH
HYPERBRUH
Woodrow Wilson School,
Woodrow Wilson School, Basement , Dorchester
What is the answer
n/t
The Answer
Thanks for playing, folks! This photo shows an electrical class at Washington Irving Middle School in 1937. The school newspaper gives us some information about the kinds of electrical projects these students could be working on. You can view a snippet
Pic of electrical class at Washington Irving
Where is the snippet of the school newspaper to be found? I graduated from the W.I.J.H.S. in 1954 and don't remember a school newspaper. But then I don't remember electrical work either. Maybe it had disappeared by the time I got there.
Thanks,
Tom Hayden
Chelmsford, MA