It just broke my heart to see this beautiful place i such ruin. I was Class of "71 and I have some very fond memories of friends and just a great place to go to school.
Such a gorgeous place. The architecture is mind blowing and it breaks my heart to see such a place in the condition it is in. Hoping and praying that it can be saved and preserved for future generation. 😀
I went to Cleveland high from 82 to 84. Freshman and sophomore years. Absolutely loved this school. ❤ we hated when they turned it onto a military prep school and we tried to fight it but to no prevail. The female basketball team won the state championship that year too. Tears fall when I see it now.
My dad was Class of 46. My brother and sister went there in 70-71, while I was at Scruggs. We moved to Webster, so never passed through the doors. I think I would have loved it.
I went to Southwest High in 1970's - I remember seeing written on bathroom wall "Flush twice - long way to Roosevelt." Lol...those were some days back then! 😄
i think it should be saved. national registry of historic places, and there and there are many other organizations that could at least keep her safe from the wrecking ball. We have a grand hotel up here. built circa 1920. It closed in the 70s and was abandoned. in the early 90s, The city council chose to demolish it. people banded together to save it. they sued the city and got it protected. A development company took it from there. they gutted it to the floors and remade everything. its an absolute gem and is now housing for the elderly. take heed! don't lose a piece of your history! you'll only have it once
The building identified as Central High School I believe was Yeatman High School. The first Central was located downtown, the second at Grand and Bell. It was demolished in the horrific tornado of September, 1927, and the Central faculty and student body relocated to Yeatmen, where they had been two years while Central when being renovated and updated. Eventually, Yeatman was renamed Central. All the St. Louis public high schools were exemplary and known nationwide for their excellence and innovative and the theory of high school as a democracy resting on student responsibility.
I was born in Muskogee Ok. I went to Irving Elementary school, Alice Robertson Junior High, for 10th grade I went to "Old" Central High, and for 11th and 12th grades I went to the new Muskogee High School. My Dad, Ken Ritz, had graduated from "Old" Central. That School disappeared before I finished the 11th grade. It was one building 4 stories tall and the stairs were killers. The new school was like 6 buildings with only one building being 2 stories. I graduated in 1968. My dad graduated in the 40s after he got out of the air force. Irving is now a new building and AR bit the dust last year; a replacement will be built someplace else. One of my sons went to the new Irving. These schools are all gone now except the new high school. I still have the memories.
I once had something of a pseudo-grandfather, he was actually the father of my mother's long term boyfriend, though he was very similar to my own maternal grandfather in a lot of ways, who was a Cleveland alumnus. He would often sing a song whose lyrics started like this. I wonder if anyone else can confirm the genuineness: Oh this town has five great high schools And these high schools too are fine But one of these great high schools Is pointed out as mine It's the Grover Cleveland High School It's the one that is the best It represents the dear ole south The southeast and southwest
Class of '76. It was the pride of a proud neighborhood. Now the neighborhood has no pride, gone ghetto and in deep decline. Thanks to forced integration mentioned in this video. It wasn't all roses as implied here.
Fatima Alatwani That's a by gone era. It's so sad that young people like yourself can't enjoy it the way it was when the streets were actual a place to gather and not to beware.
Fatima Alatwani It's unfortunate that happens before people even get to know you. Show people around you that your are a good person and you'll see that prejudice disappear with them.
👁👁I do not call integration in this instance, of the disintegration of this High school. Cleveland, Soledan , SouthwesternHigh Schools had the same fervor. I do not like how subliminally that they are blaming this on integration. They were Dutch, how in their immigration status could rule that other people could not come in their own USA St. Louis town. And the Black folk built the street brick by brick. How dare these immigrants. You leave your country and want to exclude the very people. That is born and raised in this Country of USA. And their gown St. zlouis, MO. Black Folk produced their blood, sweat and tears, in this city, in which they enjoyed, and their fun times.😤
Hi Laura👋 My maiden name is Broch. My mother went to Cleveland high school and graduated in 1942. She went to high school with Coach Cliff and he was my art teacher.
@@lavenderhearts101 , I wish I could find something good to say about Coach Cliffe, but sadly cannot. My most admired teachers and counselors there were Harry Justice, Weise, Mildred Kovacovich, Roland, and Barbara Cordes.
@Laura Louzader, Mildred Kovacavich was my favorite teacher. I think I had Weiss for Latin and Roland for History? Liked them both. The other two you mentioned I know their names but I really didn’t remember them. Mrs. Fisher was my guidance counselor and I really liked her. I talked Miss Kovacavich on my last day of school and thanked her and told her she was my favorite teacher and I really enjoyed her classes. She seem surprised, and very happy that I told her how much I appreciated her. ❤️
It had nothing to do with demographics. Here is a fantastic article about the demise of the St. Louis school system, which, at one point was a shining example of public schools for the nation. Bad politics from both parties and from state and local governments killed St. Louis City schools. Here is a great (but lengthy) article on the demise of the school. www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/09/07/the-sad-story-of-public-education-in-st-louis/%3foutputType=amp
The surrounding neighborhood went to the dogs, that simple. It was the safest place on Earth when I was a teen there, but I wouldn't drive through it now. Poor St. Louis is very, very blighted.
I went to a small school, connected to St. Peter's Parish in Kirkwood. It was Eugene Coyle High School....graduated in 1957 and still lunch with about 4 or 5 girls from there and also from St. Mary Magdalen Grade School in Brentwood, MO
Grand ave on the fenced in yard and meramac on the backside st.louis mo 314 still standing but not open just drug addicts and homeless u will find in there trespassing that is.lol
