"These Battered Library Stools"
"Old Bathroom Sink In Toronto"
"That One Magic Day When The Janitor Would Go Onto The School Roof & Throw Down All The Balls That Were Lost Up There"
"Went School Supply Shopping With My Kid. Bought Myself A Trapper Keeper And A Cool Pen"
"You Are Lucky To Have All Your Fingers After Dealing With One Of These"
"Do You Remember What These Were Used For? (Hint- We Had Them In The Classroom)"
"Kids Today Will Never Know The Pressure Of The Dreaded Due Date"
"Anyone Remember Making These Shoebox Dioramas For School?"
"School Textbooks And Seeing If You Knew Any Of The Names Before You"
"It's 1971 And I Finally Got A Good Report Card To Give To Mom"
"You Got Hours Of Enjoyment Out Of A Ball On A Rope"
"School Lunch Menu Showing Days Off"
"Found An Ancient Resistor At School"
"Sanford Permanent Marker"
"If you've watched someone open one of these markers and immediately smelled its intense aroma"
"Running Your Finger Along The Grooves In The Wall While In School"
"Judy Blume Books. Who Read These In Elementary School?"
"1970’s Pencil Boxes, They Always Broke In A Week, But We Got 1 Every Year"
"Powdered Hand Soap At School For My Fellow Classmates Of The 70’s"
"Did You Take Drivers Ed?"
"Found This Gem Today In My Stash"
"Eating Your Vanilla Ice Cream With A Wooden Spoon"
"Middle School Chairs Yay Or Nay"
"Feeling the static from one of these chairs and getting your hair caught"
"Grade School Scooter Things?"
"When People Came And Sold Yo-Yos In Elementary School"
"Cracking Your Back On These School Desks"
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The same in Northern NJ in the 70's. The fire siren would blow at 6am if there wasn't any school that day due to weather. More than one snowy day was ruined when there was no siren by 6:05
I think they were also used to pull down maps that were hung up very high (usually a bunch were hung together).
They had just installed these my junior year of high school, still remember the day in chemistry where they had us using the Bunsen burners to bend glass. You could tell the kids that were sheltered and the one s who could use tools by who could get the burner lit with the torch igniter (and then there was the kid that took his Bic lighter out of his pocket to light the burner...)
#19 And again... Still standard in Germany.