Items that once were and are no longer in classrooms or schools. Desks that were connected to each

[debm55]

in rows-desk had an attached seat for the person in front. If the last person pulled their desk back, everyone in the row had to pull their's back. They also had ink holes which we didn't use-expect to put Kleenex down. Prang crayons, PeeChee folders . What do you remember? Oh and those toilet paper sheets that were in a box in the stalls. It was like whipping your bum with tissue paper

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[quaint]

1. None of those, SoCal educated since 1954.

Songbooks with lyrics unacceptable today (I hope).

[EYESORE 9001]

2. School paste 😋

Just kidding. I never ate paste nor did I know anyone who did.

[underpants]

3. More of a chalk eater here

Never really got into paste.

[debm55]

6. The yellow, white or colored chalk? Did you have an official eraser duster that used this little

machine to clean erasers or did someone take them outside to dust?

[Quakerfriend]

12. Everyday the teacher selected two of us to take

The erasers out the back door where we cleaned the erasers by banging them on the stone wall.

[Harker]

8. Beats boogers. n/t

[debm55]

10. That was gross.

[Harker]

11. Yes, very. Every class had at least one kid known for it. n/t

[underpants]

17. I thought we were just talking about school

Worms too

[Harker]

20. A friend of a friend's friend I knew in H.S. regularly ate napkins with ketchup

despite many offers of fries.

[underpants]

4. Banging chalkboard erasers on the outside of the school to clean them.

I’d guess it’s all whiteboard now.

[debm55]

7. You didn't have the machine that did that?

[underpants]

15. At one school yes we did

I went to 4 elementary schools

[Harker]

24. There's a mechanical eraser clapper?

How decadent!

[debm55]

28. It was actually a little vacuum cleaner for eraser. It came out of the cupboard every Friday..

[Cracklin Charlie]

5. Some of my teachers hung paddles on the wall.

Some paddles had names.

I was watching “The Waltons”, and saw a confederate flag hanging on the schoolroom wall.

[Harker]

9. I haven't been in a classroom since the summer of 1977...

Back when my high school had one computer.

[debm55]

13. We didn't have any computers Were your chalkboards green or black? I had the black

[Harker]

18. Gads... I'm uncertain, though I think they were black at Fairview High School.

My plan was to spend as little time as possible in classrooms, thinking I was getting better educated elsewhere.

My wife chides me sometimes, telling me I would have made a good professor.

Professor of what, she hasn't said.

[cos dem]

14. Overhead projector, purple mimeograph, colored pencils that never got used (crayons were much better

Dot matrix printers, tractor-feed paper.
Typewriters.
Film strip projectors
16mm projectors
Pull-down atlas of the world.

[debm55]

16. I remember those. Film strip projectors made a beep sound when it was going to next slide.

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Oh and slide projectors.

[lastlib]

21. Our biology room had an anatomy chart of a man......

...until some clown drew the, um, genitalia on it........

[cos dem]

32. Just making it accurate (LOL!)

[asiliveandbreathe]

26. OMG..purple mimeograph...it was in a small room off the office..I got to work the

mimeograph and still remember the aroma from the ink...not bad!!

[debm55]

33. I remember when I was teaching, students were not allowed to bring Sharpies to school because some

were sniffing them.

[Mr.Bill]

43. At the school where I went from grades 3-6,

They did not allow crayons. We were only allowed to use colored pencils. I don't know why.

[cloudbase]

19. The large slide rule hung over the chalk board. n/t

Typewriters.

[lastlib]

22. Our math room had one of those!

I'd like to find one!

[debm55]

34. Royal manual or electric? We had both in High School.

[cloudbase]

39. We had both as well.

I liked the electric a whole lot more. Easy carriage return.

[asiliveandbreathe]

23. Walpole, Massachusetts, 1953 elementary school desks were bolted to the floor..wooden..

yes, ink wells, and yes..ink pens and ink..our elem. school had 3 classrooms..2 grades in each classroom..we had the alphabet on the wall in front..and learned cursive through much practice with those pens and within the lines of the paper..

Anecdotally - this one fellow behind me, 6th grade.we rode the school bus together, he flicked his ink pen and the ink spattered on the back of my pretty white blouse..yes, I can see it like it was yesterday..I know his name, but will not say to protect Richards reputation..we ALL went through high school together..small community..(he really was a good kid, as I recall)..you do have to know..I was a spoiled brat. so, I probably said something...so there is that!!! I am still a brat, just ask hubby...

[Ocelot II]

25. I remember wooden desks that had a slot for pencils and a hole for an ink bottle.

They didn't have a hinged lid but there was a space under the desktop for books. They always had names and initials carved into them. Later there were desks with hinged formica tops and space for books inside. Blackboards were black, sometimes green and used chalk - I'm so old that I never saw whiteboards with ink markers, even in college. In college we had desks that were connected to the chairs and the top just flipped up, no storage space.

[Freddie]

27. A friend got one of those newfangled "calculators"

Cost over $100, I remember him showing it off to everyone. Spoiled brat.

[debm55]

29. My dad went to K-Mart so he could buy a calculator for work. I went with him. I'll never forget they

had the calculators locked up in a glass display case , like they do for jewelry. Now you can buy them at Dollar Tree for a buck.

[Freddie]

31. They used to give them away with logos, like key rings

Probably not anymore since everyone has a calculator on their phone.

[Ocelot II]

30. Library paste. It smelled kind of minty and some kids in kindergarten ate it.

Finger paints, "musical" instruments like tambourines and maracas; mats or rugs on the floor for naps which never lasted long.

Some reddish powdery stuff the janitor spread on the floor to soak up kids' vomit.

[debm55]

35. I remember that! It was like cat litter. Didn' t kill the smell, though.

[hippywife]

38. In our schools...

that was sawdust.

[central scrutinizer]

36. We had to manually type set business cards in shop class.

Using drawers full of individual letters, punctuation marks, em dashes, en dashes, em spaces, en spaces. Then roll some ink onto the type set block and print some cards.

[debm55]

37. Does anyone remember the manual pencil sharpener bolted onto teacher's desk or wall?

[Ocelot II]

40. Yes, of course!

And you could never get a good point with the thing, you'd just grind your pencil down to a nub.

[debm55]

42. Usually, at least once a year, a student would bang into the one on the wall.

[Ahna KneeMoose]

41. Atomic Air Raid Siren

At the sounding, us (elementary school) kiddos were ushered outside next to the nearest avenue, whereupon we squated on the sidewalk with our heads facing moving traffic until the siren-sounding stopped. Some few (of the nicer) teachers offered apple-brown-betty custard (afterwards) in tiny bowls, to calm our frayed nerves...good times (!).

[IcyPeas]

44. These chalk holders that could draw 5 lines on the blackboard

[debm55]

45. Icy, forgot all about those. Was used for Music class and handwriting. I never used one myself as my

board had preprinted lines on it.