Have any pictures of Memphis School?

If you have any pictures of Memphis School or interesting stories about your time at Memphis...Please contact me at gzaryk118@gmail.com

Thanks!

This picture was taken facing the front of the school from W. 42nd Street.

Cleveland's Brookside Park Swimming Pool

Remember this place? Thanks to our friend Attila Barandi (Class of '68)...here are some shots of the old Brookside Park Swimming Pool. This was once located where the Cleveland Zoo's BP Amphitheater is today. To see larger, click on any image to enlarge.
I'm sure many Memphis alums have swam here! I had the best time swimming here, especially jumping from the platform at the center of the pool!

A very old 'post-card' image of the old neighborhood pool, judging from the bathing suits, this image may be from the 1930's.

Meet Attila Barandi...Memphis Class of 1968

A fellow Memphis Alum, Attila Barandi discovered this Blog in his hometown of Hungary. Attila graduated from Memphis in 1968. Here's Attila's Memphis' sixth-grade school picture. Read Attila's excellent collection of memories of Memphis below. As always, click on any picture to enlarge.

Yes, that's our very own fellow Memphian meeting Princess Di. Attila was a military twin-turboprop pilot. We'll hear more from Attila in the near future.

Current photo of our friend, Attila Barandi.

My Memories of Memphis School by Attila Barandi.

For some reason I just decided to type in “Memphis Elementary School Cleveland” in Google and your site came up. I, too, along with a gazillion others, am an alumni

from Memphis. I started there 4 years earlier than you, it seems (I graduated HS in 1974---and never flunked a grade). Anyway, I remember Donald Sopka as a new teacher then, teaching Science. Also had Miss Krzepina for like the 4th and 6th grade. And back then the school year was split into As and Bs. If you were on the normal cycle, you started school as a B in Sep, then became an A in January (example they had grades 4A and 4B). Some kids were on the reverse cycle meaning their school year started in January as a B and they became an A in September.

Some other notable teachers, and this is a stretch of the memory: Mrs Dorn; Mrs Rieger; Mrs Florence Walzak; Principal Mrs Durkin;

I remember in 1968 one of the teachers brought a large radio in and we listened to the Russians quelling a revolution in Czechoslovakia.

Upon reaching the 5th grade, students were then “changing classes”, meaning you had more than just wanted teacher during the day.

I remember in 1963, in the 2nd grade, in the afternoon, a teacher came into the room crying, whispered to my teacher something, then they both left and the classroom became unattended. Before I knew it, we were all released from school early and sent home....President Kennedy had been shot. A few months later, the kids in class were buzzing about this musical group that would be on TV that coming weekend on the Ed Sullivan show. The Beatles.

There used to be CD (Civil Defense) emblems on the corners of school in case of nuclear attack, the basement would have been our refuge. I don’t recall ever having to do those drills where kids dive under their desks in case of nuclear attack, though.

I was also one of the school guards maintaining law and order on Henritze and W 41st, though I don’t think I ever had to strike anyone with my flag.

I remember the gym had ropes that you had to climb (or was that Mooney?) as a measure of a persons physical well-being.

I moved from the Cleveland area in Feb 69 (7th grade then at Mooney) and never really returned to the area. I mentioned to my sons that the school was something like you saw from an old 40s movie. The kids were well-behaved. When I got to Mooney, everything changed. First week of school, a punky kid named Charlie Brown, went to the teacher and punched him in the face a few times before the teacher could restrain him. Never saw the kid again. So it was a big change from Memphis where there maybe was a playful fight on the school grounds once a year.

In 1997, I returned to the Cleveland area with my young sons—we were living in Arizona then. We visited the Cleveland Zoo. Upon entering, I asked the ticket-taker what happened to Brookside Pool. She was in her 20's or so, said that there never was a swimming pool there. I told her there was, and evidently it was before her time.

Thanks for putting this Blog together and a big hello to all my classmates!...Attila, Class of 1968

My Buddy...Mark Hollan...R.I.P.

This entire site is dedicated to Mark William Hollan, Memphis classmate of '72.

Mark lived just a street away and was my friend during the time we both attended Memphis and briefly at Chas. A. Mooney. Mark and I were in Mrs. Bridges 6th Grade class, he did very well in that class and loved Memphis!

Mark's life was cut tragically short on January 3, 1976. All of us knew him as a funny and a super friendly kid!

Miss you good buddy!

Wanted!!!....Memphis School Teachers!!!

Our old baseball diamond and where we would go for outdoor gym class. This photo (above) was taken in the November before the demolition. Click on any image to enlarge.

I'm hoping to connect with any Memphis School teachers that may have come across this Blog. Any teachers that once taught at Memphis Elementary School in Cleveland, Ohio. Please email me at: gzaryk118@gmail.com

Also, I'm looking for any photos of the school from any era. Please email me! Thank you!

The Old Science Desk and Blackboard from Memphis

Our daughter uses her Memphis School blackboard alot! Needless to say these were extremely heavy to move. This particular blackboard came from Room 101.

Our son is posing next to his beautiful Oak science desk which we removed from Room 307, shortly before Memphis came down. This is a "before" shot as we are planning to restore it someday.

Back in 1971 or '72, our science teacher, Mr. Donald Sopka used this desk for his experiments. Before the demolition, this desk was the only fixture left standing at Memphis, possibly because it was bolted down to the floor. In the front of the desk just below the black-top are two electrical outlets which makes it easy for our son to plug his microscope into.

In our son's tank is his Bearded Dragon, Nefiteria. Click on this image to enlarge. Once this image is enlarged...click a second time to super enlarge.

Thank you Old Brooklyn News!

I wish to thank Old Brooklyn News and my friends Robyn Sandys, Executive Director of OBCDC and Lori Peterson, Residential Marketing Manager for publishing my reminiscent story on Memphis School. This is essentially the same story that was posted on this blog from October 2009. This story was published in the February 2010 issue of Old Brooklyn News and can also be viewed on-line at www.oldbrooklyn.com
Look under the February 2010 issue.

Thank you Robyn and Lori!

The Memphis School story as it appeared on page 4. Soon after the story appeared in the Old Brooklyn News, I received some interesting email comments from students that attended the school from the 1940's through the 1970's. Some still live in the Old Brooklyn area! Double click on this image to see closer.

Please email me your Memphis School story to: gzaryk118@gmail.com