Re: Hippie House 236 and woodburn
Date: November 27, 2020 03:03PM
Spacy Wrote:
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> Nick R Hader Wrote:
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> > Yup I went to wakefiekd forest too. Do you
> remember the house
> > closest to the gym,
>
>
> Wrong school.
>
> I am referring to "Commonwealth Christian
> School",
> a very small school that sat on the eastern edge
> of what is now the JCC complex. Some of it has
> also
>
> been redeveloped into residences and I think
> there
>
> might even be a road through the part where the
> main
> classrooms used to be.
>
>
> There was no gym!
>
>
> There was the admin building, which might have
> been
> a historic building. It was an old house.
> The JCC was using it for a utility building for a
> while.
> (The interior at that point having been
> destroyed.)
> Not sure if it still stands; haven't been over to
> see.
>
> There was a building that had one or two
> classrooms that looked
> like it might have been a converted dairy barn, or
> possibly
> another farm outbuilding.
>
> The main classrooms (all four or five of them)
> were in
> a more modern poured concrete building on the east
> side.
>
>
> Admin building was center, right by 236.
> Main classrooms on the east, Barn classroom on
> the west. Also on 236, above what I am calling
> the "barn" building, west of the admin building,
> was a swimming pool. Not sure if the school
> really
> owned it. I think maybe the campus was somehow a
> YMCA or something in the summer. Anyway, the
> pool
> was only open on graduation day (maybe only for
> the
> upper class). School had only grades 4-5-6.
> To the southeast of admin was the main
> classrooms,
> aligned N/S along the property border. Small
> wooded
> along the entire east border, then there was a
> road
> that intersected 236. On the other side of the
> property,
> west of the barn and pool, was a huge open field
> where
> we would play soccer, touch football, etc. No
> nets or
> other sports accessories - just a plain empty
> field.
>
> Past that to the west was a new fire station,
> a church, and I forget. Don't remember how far
> those were from the field or in what order.
>
> Someone who knows how to use the FxCo historical
> imagery browser should look all this up for us,
> but I tried once a long time ago and couldn't
> find
> any of it (perhaps incompetence).
>
>
> I think the school only operated for a few years.
> The principal was the woman who owned it.
> I went to grades 5-6 there, 1972.
>
> The most memorable teacher was a crazy guy who
> may
> have been German-Jewish, Math, with a huge afro!
> Name started with an "M" I think.
>
> I think some of the teachers, and definitely
> students,
> were refugees from the oppressive Fairfax
> Christian School.
> That was an amazing property on Popes Head Road,
> across from
> a secret Nike Fire Control (now a Fairfax
> maintenance facility
> using same old buildings, next to secluded luxury
> residential
> woods...) School property significantly reduced
> gor McMansion
> developments west. Most recently it was the
> infamous
> Islamic Saudi Academy.
>
>
> Lost of FXU references there for you!
> (Don't mix up the schools, please!)
tl;dr
Open my message, Spacy.
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