Somebody sent me this picture of the old Hawthorne School. The way I was told the story, the Hawthorne Neighborhood was NOT named after Nathaniel Hawthorne. Rather the neighborhood was named after THE SCHOOL. The school was named after Nathaniel Hawthorne.
If anybody knows more, they can comment. In any case, it's a cool old picture.
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where was the school located?
In the Hawthorne Neighborhood, that is as much as I know. Somebody sent me the photo a while ago but I had technical difficulties getting the post up...today I backtracked and found the old pic when I was able to access some of my downloaded documents in a different way.
Hopefully, somebody else knows and will write something.
The Hawthorne School was at 2400 Sixth Street North. It appears the address changed to 426 24th Ave North when a house was built on the site in 1977.
This picture is a view of Hawthorne Elementary School, 2400 N. 6th Street as seen from the SW corner of 24th and 6th. As a youth I spent many hours playing baseball, kickball and basketball on that fine asphalt playground, not counting the time I spent actually attending school there.
The neighborhood is, of course, named after the school. When they were planning to build a new elementary school in the neighborhood I thought they should have named it Hawthorne (after all, the new school in the Whittier neighborhood that replaced the old Whittier school was named Whittier) but they did not. Us older folks who remember the old school weren't their target audience, I guess.
In the mid '70s they knocked down the school and replaced it with six houses of questionable quality.
KCz
From 1950-1957 I went to Hawthorne Elementary School. Lived at 240 24th Ave North and walked several blocks straight up 24th to the school. I love the old picture of Hawthorne.
I just added this to the website www.historypin.com.
And I think the comment at 11:08 helped to draw your attention to it, so isn't it cool how that works out?
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