Posts Tagged ‘Twelfth Avenue’
Boy Blowing Bubbles in the Backseat …
Ok, Ok … I made a mistake on the last ” Boy Blowing Bubbles ” image and I did scan it backwards. I thought that it was sort of interesting that someone was driving an auto brought over from England since the steering wheel was located on the right side. However, after Rusty noticed it and said that the image was backward, I went back and rescanned it correctly and worked it up. I also did another negative that was in the envelope that I did not bother working up and posting earlier. The detail in the car’s body is more interesting than the bubbles that the boy is blowing, which do not really show up all that well. The car is parked on DeSoto Street in front of the offices on the side. My father’s first studio was located here before he moved across the street to 12th Avenue, so this was made in the late 1940’s. Next is another view straight on of the boy blowing bubbles and you see the north side of the old Sacred Heart Hospital in the background …
I do not know the make or model of the automobile, but it looks like it is brand new or it had just been washed and waxed. As mentioned in the earlier post, I have no idea who this boy is but some of you out there might recognize the boy. Thanks for looking and keeping me straight … if you ever notice a glaring mistake like I had made earlier, please let me know … Frank
Clubbs Junior High School Cheerleaders 1956 …
I thought that I would post a couple of photos that I have been sitting on for years and just never got around to doing anything with them. I ran across the scans of the negatives just the other day and they were in good shape and they would not take a lot of Photoshop work to get them ready to post so here they are. As usual I have no clue who any of the girls are in the photo, but I have a good friend who’s sister went to Clubbs during this period and I know that she can identify a few of the girls in the photo if not all of them. I have more of this same group of cheerleaders that I will get ready and post later. How many of you out there can remember a good old Clubbs cheer? I wish that I could find some action sports shots, but all that I have run across are team photos. If anyone out there has any photos from the football, baseball or basketball games, let me know. I would be interested in scanning them to post on the blog. Also, any PHS sports teams in action would be something that I am interested in seeing. I found some basketball action photos against PHS and Escambia when Coach Beck was coach at PHS. I will find them and post them in the near future. One more thing, if anyone out there has any photos of the PHS teams in action let me know, especially the football teams of the 1950’s and 1960’s. My father went to every home game during those years and I know that he was on the side-lines making photos for the yearbook. If anyone out there has any of these old photos, pleas let me know because I would be interested in seeing them. Everything that he had from this era was lost in the fire of 1975. Here is one more of the cheerleaders …
Thanks again for looking and if anyone has any of the photos mentioned above, contact me through this blog. I have connected these blogs with Facebook in hopes of getting more viewers and it has helped somewhat in getting me some new readers. However, I rarely ever go and check my messages on Facebook. If you have a comment or want to send me a message, please do it through either one of my blogs. Thanks for looking and please let me hear from you … 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
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