High
School on Wheels
1935 to 1937
Railway Coaches on E. Lyndale Ave.
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| A few weeks
after the October/November 1935 earthquakes nearly destroyed
the new Helena High School on Rodney Street, a section of East
Lyndale Avenue two blocks north of the High School was closed,
and tracks were laid there to accomodate coaches donated by
both the Great Northern and Northern Pacific railway companies
for use as classrooms. They were in use from December 1935 to
June 1937. |
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Site
of the Railcar High School
From
the Helena Daily Independent...
*Note correct spelling: School Board
VP L. S. Hazard
Railcar
classroom entrances
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Marjorie Hazard
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Writes Helen Eden:
"My mother, Marjorie Hazard (pictured in the doorway of one of the railroad cars), spent most of her senior year attending school in railroad cars after an earthquake damaged fairly-new Helena High School in Helena, Montana, 1935. Her class themed many of their reunions around this unique event! Marjorie's father, Leon S. Hazard, was on the Helena schoolboard when the earthquake occurred." |
Railcar
classrooms in winter, 1935-36
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OF NANCY GOODSPEED
Photo by Gene
Goodspeed, class of 1937.
Activities
Ticket, 1935-36
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OF WENDI KOTTAS PETERSON
Students
on Their Way to Class
Railcar
Classroom Interior
Drafting Class
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First
Aid in the "High School on Wheels"
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School nurse Ethel
M. Dietrick (1880-1973) is shown attending to a shin problem.
Vision
Testing in the Home Economics Car
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Nurse Ethel M.
Dietrick tests a pupil's vision, 1935-36.
Mr.
Emmet W. Anderson's Reed Instruments Class
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OF NANCY GOODSPEED
This wonderful
photo was taken by School Nurse Ethel M. Dietrick.
Students
Form the Letter "H", 1935-36
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OF NANCY GOODSPEED
Railcar
Classrooms Out of Service, 1937
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COURTESY
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Railcar
Classrooms Out of Service, 1937
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Looking east on
E. Lyndale Ave. Some of the cars have been moved away.
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