Crossing Guards and School Buses
Keeping on the grade school in the 1960s theme, I was reminded of my encounter with the urban phenomenon: crossing guards. We moved to Fox Point in fall 1961 where I went to first grade at Indian Hill School. Here's the class picture (I'm at the lower right): source: https://archive.org/details/MapleDale/Maple%20Dale6/page/n3/mode/2up For some reason I remember Mrs. Smith as being really OLD :) I HATE the fact that 4 of those 21 kids are dead in 2026 :( Now except for maybe one time (that was a civil defense thing where school was let out early and we walked home from Maple Dale) I usually rode the bus. The suburbs didn't have sidewalks or crossing guards or even that many stop lights. So it was probably asking a lot for a 4, 5 or 6 year old kid to walk 1.8 miles unsupervised to school and back home. Bing chose this route to Indian Hill where I went to 1st grade . Bing doesn't like direct routes :) this time to Maple Dale But I ...