What were your favorite school field trips?

[Wicked Blue]

Mine: United Nations and Museum of Natural History in NYC, trips to see new movies in technicolor in Montclair NJ

Washington Irving's home in Tarrytown NY.

And Dey Mansion, where George Washington slept. He sure slept around.

[El Supremo]

1. Well, it wasn't the field trip to the slaughter house in Kansas City.

I can't believe they did that.

[Wicked Blue]

3. Aaaack

[Ocelot II]

2. The Science Museum in St. Paul. They had a mummy and dinosaurs.

I also vaguely remember a trip to a broom factory in kindergarten or first grade. Don't know why they took us there.

[elleng]

4. United Nations was good!

[Wicked Blue]

7. I remember wanting to be a translator when I grew up.

[elleng]

9. A fine goal!

I never got that far, with my French.

[Wicked Blue]

15. Ditto, in German

I think all the school wiseguys took German. They flew paper airplanes, and I drew a comic strip called "Schnitzelman."

[IcyPeas]

5. We bussed it to Philadelphia to see the Liberty Bell

(From queens, ny)

It's the only one I remember. Would've been the very late 60s.

[debm55]

6. In 8th grade, my class went to Gettysburg. When I was in grade school only the 8th grade took a

field trip. Happy New Year,

[Wicked Blue]

8. and the same to you!

[Submariner]

10. USS Constitution

A day trip tour of the ship and its history conducted by the crew.

[bottomofthehill]

24. Wow, that must have been a great trip.

Old Ironsides.

[rsdsharp]

11. We didn't have many. The did take us to see Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet.

That was probably my favorite if for no other reason than I was 14 and Olivia Hussey😍. It would have been great even without the brief topless scene, but with it. . . 🤓 She may even have spoken in the movie.

It wasn’t a field trip, per se, but when I was a senior, a teacher escorted several of us to Minneapolis to the Guthrie Theater to see A Midummers Night’s Dream. We went through the Walker Art Gallery before the production, too.

[Wicked Blue]

14. Oh, yes, we saw that too

It was wonderful

Did the teachers explain how the costumes of the Capulets and Montagues were vividly red or blue in the early part of the film? And then the blues grew less blue, and the red, less red, until at the end everyone wore a kind of grayish purple?

[rsdsharp]

17. No they didn't. Had they done so, I might have learned something

other than the fact that Tybalt was in fact pronounced ˈtɪbəlt. This came in handy later in the year when we read the play aloud in class, and the teacher pronounced it Tie-balt. I refused to conform, and she subsequently acknowledged my pronunciation was the correct one.

[debm55]

18. rsd, in 9th grade, we were scheduled to go to see the film. Some parents complained because of a sex

scene. We didn't go. Though we read the play in class.

[rsdsharp]

19. Yeah. A sex scene. She rolled over in bed.

Still, well worth the price of admission to a 14 year old. 😳

[debm55]

22. We read the play first in class so I couldn't see what the big deal was. I really wanted to see it.

I was disappointed that we didn't go.

[rsdsharp]

23. It really was a great film.

Far better casting than the 1936 version with 43 year old Leslie Howard as Romeo, and 34 year old Norma Shearer as Juliet.

[Deuxcents]

12. I remember field trips to the Miami Seaquarium..the Monkey Jungle

and the Matheson Hammock Park... back then, we could picnic and it was a great coral park. Has been wayyy too many years since I’ve been down that way..thanks for letting us share memories

[doc03]

13. Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh to see the dinosaurs. nt

[debm55]

16. Always, took my classes there.

Happy New Year, Doc.

[zeusdogmom]

20. Betty Crocker test kitchen in Minneapolis

That was the morning. Afternoon was Sound of Music on a huge screen - at least it was huge to this kid from very rural southern MN

Loved the test kitchen.

This was 1965. Yeah, I’m old 🤣

[TlalocW]

21. Our local PBS affiliate

I was a little too old for whatever local show it was, but it was cool to see the set of it - regular-sized fake tree that various puppets lived in to talk to human hosts.

[sakabatou]

25. Monterey Bay Aquarium

[bottomofthehill]

26. Irish Catholic kid from Boston

I remember getting the day off from school but taking a school trip to see the Pope. It rained all day and we were outside in the rain for about 6/7 hours. Drenched to the skin in the early fall in Boston. Thank God he came in October and not January.

[Archae]

27. Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry, from a small town in Wisconsin.

Bumped my head (I was already 6 feet tall) inside the U-boat they have.

[BluesRunTheGame]

28. Georgia O'Keeffe retrospective - Chicago Institute of Art

…and another year we saw the Gauguin exhibit, also at the Chicago Institute of Art.

[Scrivener7]

29. The Planetarium! I love the Planetarium. I still go every year.

[Wicked Blue]

31. We went to the Dreyfus planetarium in Newark, NJ

It's still there and it's either being remodeled or newly remodeled.

[whistler162]

30. Nine Mile Nuclear Power plant in Oswego

was memorable.

Saw 2001 A Space Odyssey and Romeo and Juliet in a great old movie theater, gone now, as a second run. https://cinemasightlines.com/cinemas_cinemaviews2.php

Vaguely remember going to a radio station.

[surrealAmerican]

32. like you, the Museum of Natural History in NY ...

... I also vividly remember visiting the local newspaper. I was very impressed with the printing technology of the early 1970's.

[Wicked Blue]

34. Did you see the printers wearing their traditional square hats?

Many years ago when I worked at a large newspaper in New Jersey, the print operators all made these hats out of folded newspaper. These were worn to keep ink off their hair when the huge presses rolled.

[surrealAmerican]

37. Yes.

We even folded some ourselves!

[wishstar]

33. Best trip included West Point, Hyde Park (FDR's place), and NY State Capitol in Albany

Worst trip was on opposite side of NY to Niagara Falls because we were so totally fogged in that day that we couldn't see anything so it was a total waste of time. Not even a faint glimpse of the falls was possible that day.

Although I grew up in upstate NY and lived there until after finishing college, I never did see Niagara Falls until returning with spouse for 30th HS reunion and did a spectacular day trip to Niagara getting to drive across the Canadian side.

[Wicked Blue]

35. Sounds nice!

I never visited the Statue of Liberty until we moved from NJ to Maryland. This despite living within 45 miles of NYC for half my life.

[wnylib]

36. The only one that actually qualifies as a field trip

was a class trip to the local planetarium. That was in Erie, PA, 1960s.

There were other occasions when we got time off of school to do something on our own, like an afternoon off to see the film, Othello, at a local theater. We had to bring in our ticket stub afterward to show that we were there. Of course that could still be faked, but I actually went.

In grade school, the school district had a limited number of ticket pairs (for 1 parent and 1 child) to local Philharmonic performances that they gave to the first students to bring in a signed request/permission slip from a parent. My mother loved classical music, so she made sure to get those tickets to take me with her.

[Luciferous]

38. Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.

We also used to go to a children's theater for plays and those were fun.