My Life in Pictures
ELEMENTARY School
The Biggest. School. Ever.
While the above building is large, it ain't Andersen. Andersen was built in the 70s or something so a picture from the early 1900s wouldn't,
you know, show the school.
This is actually the Sears Tower, Minneapolis-style. It's a few blocks away from my elementary school. In its day, it handled every single Sears catalog
order, with a Sears store on the first floor. It was still open when I was at school, and I actually went in there a few times. It closed shortly
thereafter.
On to the actual school: I attended there from grade 4 to 8. Crazy-ass school. Or should I say schools. It had at least three separate schools in
the building: Open, Contemporary, and D-School.
I went to Open. We had no walls. We called our teachers by their first names. Very... open. Contemporary was more traditional, and D-School...
D-School was the thing of legend.
Rumors ran rampant: they were thought to be the really bad kids who couldn't be in regular school. They were kept behind a locked door and
they never interacted with the general poulation.
With the building the size it was, I think I was only ever in 25% of it. Some features included:
• a 2-story art room with floor-to-ceiling glass walls and a dark room in the back with a circular, revolving door. I went in there
once. Kinda weird.
• a funky library that was in-between the first and second floors. Man, when a blackout hit, being in the library was the freakiest thing
ever.
• elevators
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