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Posted: Sun Feb 8th, 2004 06:30 am |
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Bess here is a pic of Miami Jackson I just found on the web.
(Picture apparently from 1987.) (Click picture to enlarge)
Its a new picture to me, I had never seen the building or a photo with the east wing added. I remember still the old center part and the building of the west wing. Just where the east wing connects used to be a fire escape coming out of the second and third floors.
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Posted: Sun Feb 8th, 2004 06:31 am |
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Somewhere in a family album is a picture of the west wall of the old part of Jackson High. It was taken on an Easter Sunday and kids are looking for eggs hidden in the scrubs under the windows of the school Library, (around 1939); this was prior to the west wing being added. At that time there were no businesses in front of Grandmother's house. She had a large back yard all the way to the sidewalk on 36th street. It was later they built a dentist office in front of her house. Sperling's 5 and dime came all the way back to the alley. Downstairs of the dentist was a barbershop. a couple of doors east of Sperling's was a walkway that went from 36th street back to the alley, on the east side was Jackson's Dept. Store, later J Byron already mentioned. On the west side was the Hole in the Wall Shoe Store, about 10 ft wide and maybe 20 feet deep. The owner later opened another store close to 17th Ave. and one around the corner on the east side of 17th. He had the shoe market in Allapattah sewed up. I bought military style black leather shoes for $6.00; the Highway patrol also bought the same shoe. Last time I bought a pair, they were $49.00 and that was several years ago. I shall continue to look for an older picture of Jackson High..
I was a photographer in the Air Force, spent half my tour in SAC, at Pinecastle/McCoy in Orlando, Barksdale in Shreveport, La. and half overseas, first in Germany and then Japan.
Marvin L Mobley, Msgt. USAF retired, AF14452463 MRGRG (Member military retiree grass roots group)
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bessnfloyd
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Posted: Sun Feb 8th, 2004 06:32 am |
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I would surely like to see that picture of the old Jackson High, Marvin. Have you found it yet? And I'd forgotten the "Hole in the Wall". That was one narrow store!
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Posted: Sun Feb 8th, 2004 06:34 am |
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I am still looking for that old picture of Miami Jackson High School. Hope all is well with you and yours, Hotter than hades here in Myrtle Beach, Some powerful thunderstorms help cool us down, but then the humidity is terrible for several days before it all disipates.
Hang tough, God Bless,
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Posted: Fri Sep 24th, 2004 05:30 am |
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| Just to let you guys know, Jackson is being torn down as soon as they build the new school. (I understand it's being built on the athletic field.)B. Lewis "58"
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Posted: Mon Apr 25th, 2005 12:33 am |
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| That's the first I heard about it! It's possible, but they have been rebuilding and adding on the Jackson for years.
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