Archive for the ‘Twelfth Avenue’ Category
Sacred Heart Hospital Nurses From The 1940’s …
No names, I just thought that this was just a nice photo of a nurse out front on the steps of the Old Sacred Heart Hospital. I had scanned 30 or 40 images from the 1940’s at the hospital back in February, but just never got around to doing anything with them. So, I thought that I would post a few of them now and see if anyone might recognize any of the girls or maybe the nuns. Here is another …
Some type of luncheon or dinner, you decide. Here is one more of some type of presentation …
The nurse on the left side of the image is one that keeps showing up in some of the images, but I do not know who she is. She just has a very familiar face for some reason or another, this was at least ten years before I was born so she would not have been someone that I would have known. This is all of these that I am going to post now, I will save more for later posts. If any of you nurses from the 1940’s recognize any of these girls, please let us hear from you. Thanks again for looking and please check back … Frank
The Maternity Ward at the Old Sacred Heart Hospital …
This photo of my mother and I was made on 14 Aug 53, I was born on 11 Aug 14, so I was 3 days old in this photo. This is the type of photo my father would take of the mother and her new born baby and would sell it to the mother or her family. I posted a folder in a much earlier post that he would insert this photo in … it has a photo of the front steps of the old hospital on the cover. So, he had a fairly lucrative photography ” side-business ” at the hospital while he was the x-ray technician. The next photo shows one of the nuns and several nurses standing around the bed talking to my mother and looking at me ..
Now, looking at this photo, you get the impression that they were in my mother’s room standing around talking and enjoying themselves. Well, back then, there was no such thing as a ” private ” room ,,, you were in a ward with other mother’s and their babies. The next photo shows after everyone had left …
Yes, that is another mother and her baby separated by a cloth curtain. I wish I knew who this mother and her baby are … notice that the mother has her purse sitting on the night stand next to her bed. I wonder how many mothers today would like this arrangement? Yea, I did not think that many would. Back when I had my tonsils taken out in 1959 at the old Sacred Heart Hospital at the tender age of six, I was stuck in a men’s ward with ten other men. It was the worst experience that I had ever had up to that time, but that is another story in itself and I do not have any photos from that time. Also, it would take me forever to give you the full run down and I hate to type anyway so you will be spared that story. I also have a bill that my mother received from her stay at the hospital that I will have to find and scan ,,, you will enjoy the simplicity of the bill. I think they charged her twenty cents for two aspirin was one of the lines on the bill. If you have been in the hospital lately and received a bill, you will wish you were back in the good old days … sort of, for a moment anyway.
Thank you for tuning in and I hope you enjoyed the program … this is sort of like looking at old episodes of the Andy Grifith Show, only minus Barney and Goober. Thanks for looking and please check back. If any of you can remember your stay in a hospital ward, let us hear them … Frank
East Hill in the Snow …
I decided to post a few more of these snow scenes from back in February 1957 to show how much snow Pensacola received …Now on 1/29/14 we have an ice storm and everything comes to a stand-still. The Interstate is shut down and almost all of the bridges in the surrounding counties have been closed, so essentially you cannot travel anywhere between Escambia and Santa Rosa Counties. The photo above is a scan from a transparency of the park on 12th Avenue and Gonzalez Street in East Hill. I have posted other views of this park that my father had made from this time in earlier posts, but I do not believe that I have posted this exact one before. You can see the old Winn-Dixie grocery store at the other side of Gonzalez Street. On the far left side, you see a corner of the old Sacred Heart Hospital … I have recently run across a photo that my father had taken of a group of nurses standing outside in the snow that I have not posted yet, but could not find the folder I placed it in. I will spend a little time looking for it this afternoon later, it is a cute photo of a group of nurses having fun in the snow. Here is one more new snow scene …
This is corner of Cervantes and 14th Avenue, back when Cervantes was a two lane road … the house on the right is still there on the corner, I am not sure about the one on the other side of the street, but I am inclined to say that it is. I have some more photos from California that I will post in the next day or so and I have some other random images that I have worked-up of Pensacola. I hope that everyone made it through the ice storm without any damage. Thanks for looking and please check back … Frank
UPDATE: The white house in the bottom photo is no longer there … this is just a vacant lot now with a huge oak tree what looks to be about the center of the lot. Someone had emailed me about this when I posted these images. There does not appear to be a For Sale sign in the lot, so I guess that the oak tree sits in such a way that you cannot build anything on the lot, but I am not sure. Thanks for the comments … Frank
Clubbs Baseball Team 1957 …
I have quite a few of these negatives from Clubbs Junior High School from back in the 1950’s and I will post more in the future as I clean them up. I have a lot of these type of images showing a few sports teams, the band and several other groups. I cannot believe that so many people see people that they know in these photos and I usually get a pretty good response out of posting them. I was only four when this photo was taken, so obviously no one looks familiar to me. If anyone recognizes any of these athletes, please feel free to comment. Thanks for looking and please check back … Frank
Cordova Park 1959 …
Here are some more panorama prints that I have stumbled across recently. I believe this is the house that was next to our house at 3715 Dunwoody Drive. If you look real close, you will see a boy standing on the back porch … that was me. I was 5 at the time this photo was taken. Our house was built next door to the left of this house. Dunwoody at this point was still a dirt road. The next photo shows Gerhardt Drive, one block to the north of this photo … it was paved. Here is a photo showing Mr. Lautner in front of a home he had built on Gerhardt …
Mr. Lautner was the man who built my parent’s house on Dunwoody. Gerhardt is one block off of Bayou Blvd and was paved at this time … for some reason, I do not believed that Bayou Blvd was paved at the time this photo was taken. You turned into Cordova Park off of 12th Avenue back in these days. 12th Avenue was paved and took you to the airport. There was no Airport Blvd or PSC Blvd in 1959, so 12th Avenue became a dead-end at the National Guard Amory. You turned right and you were in the airport parking lot. Well, that is your Pensacola history lesson for the day … no quiz on this stuff, so don’t worry. If anyone ever runs across any old photos of Cordova Park or of the Pensacola Airport from back in the late 1950’s or 1960’s, please let me know because I would love to see them. Even old snapshots that someone in your family made … they do not have in great shape, just clear mostly. Let me hear from you and thanks again for looking … Frank
12th Avenue Aerial Photograph 1940’s …
I posted this aerial photograph a long time ago, but I thought that I would post it again since I have posted several photos of the old Sacred Heart Nursing School building recently. Notice that the stores across from the old Sacred Heart Hospital have not been built yet. It just looks like a parking lot at the present time … I posted a photo that my father had made showing it with automobiles and the hospital in the background. It is many posts back, but I am pretty sure that I have posted the photograph. I am not really sure when this aerial was made, but I would say sometime in the late 1940’s … I do not know when the stores were built across from the old Sacred Heart Hospital, early 1950’s if I had to make a guess. You can see the roof of the original NB Cook school on Cervantes diagonally from the Sacred Heart Nurses School if you look close. Thanks for looking and please check back … Frank
Building the School of Nursing …
This is a photo of the foundation when they were constructing the Sacred Heart School of Nursing in around 1945 or 46. You cannot tell by looking at the building in the previous post, but the building is built in the shape ” W ” . This just show the two outer sides … there was another section in the center that housed a small auditorium, or at least it was back then and when it was a school. You can sort of see where there are extending the center part of the foundation in the photo above. If anyone remembers the building being built and has any comments along that line, please let us hear from you. Even if you don’t remember the building being built, but attended nursing school in this building, please let us hear from you, also. Well, even if you attended the Academy of Arts and Sciences in this building, we would like to hear from you, too. I ran across some old negatives from my high school days, and if any of the old alumni would like to see some old Academy photos, let me know and I will clean them up and post them. Thanks for looking … Frank
Old Sacred Heart Hospital Nursing School …
This building on 12th Avenue used to be the home of the old Sacred Heart Hospital Nursing School. I am not sure of the years that it was built and was the school and home for the nurses of Sacred Heart Hospital. From 1969 until around 1979, it was the home of the Academy of Arts and Sciences … this was were I went to high school for 10th, 11th and 12th grades and graduated in 1971. I believe there were 55 kids in my class. If you look real close you will see three nuns and two nurses in this photo, which was made sometime in the 1950’s, I would guess. I have posted a view from the other side earlier, but this is the first from the south end looking north. If you happen to know the years when this was the nursing school, please let us know … Thanks for looking … Frank
Sacred Heart Nurses …
Here are several examples of nurses portraits that my father used to do in the 1950’s and into the 1960’s, before the nursing school closed down on 12th Avenue. The name on the girl’s dress reads ” Broughton ” . The girl’s name below I could note read. I will have to find the negative envelope that these came out of to see if there are names written down . But that is not my point … I just wanted to post several examples of portraits that my father made of these girls when they graduated. It isn’t funny how you just say “girls” and don’t think about men being nurses in this era. I cannot even tell you a date when men started entering the nursing program … maybe one of the viewers to this blog will be able to tell us. Looking back, after I made that previous statement, I cannot even think back to when I started seeing men working as nurses in the hospitals locally. Here is the other nurse …
I thank everyone for taking the time to view this blog and for those who post comments. Please check back … I have a few images worked up and ready to post and I plan to put them up in the next week or so. Thanks again … Frank
Corner of 12th Avenue and Gonzalez Street …
This is the corner of 12th Avenue and Gonzalez Street around 1949. You see my father’s first studio on the right side of the image. He opened it up in 1948 when he left the X-ray Department at the old Sacred Heart Hospital in 1948. He was in this location for 6 or 7 years until the Moulton Family built the building on 12th Avenue and he moved over to that location. I have several photos of this corner throughout this blog … my personal favorite is the panorama view showing all the kids that had just gotten out of Clubbs Junior High School two blocks north. I can remember it like it was yesterday … literally hundreds of kids walking and running around hollering and screaming at one another thirty or forty minutes. I was only 5 or 6 at the time and it always scared me. Well, that is another story … thanks for looking. If any of you happen to have been some of these kids, let us hear your stories or the ones that you can share with us Please check back … Frank
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