MIKE JORDAN

J. O. Johnson: A Photo Requiem For A Dying American High School

12/3/2013

 
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"The system's broken -- the school's closed; the prison's open."
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The front entrance to the school, which was usually closed.

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The science side of the school. Where the nerds where.

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The sign the seniors would always ignore, no matter what year it was.

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The full side area, where we'd fight/play/curse/grab/rap/stunt.

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The covered side area, where those of us who could walk home would wait to watch the girls/guys go home first, because we had nothing better to do but play Sonic the Hedgehog.

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The yard, next to the student parking lot. Where it all went down.

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The front, where we'd wait to be picked up, back when we were freshmen and sophomores, before we had cars.

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The side angle. The path towards the side door that we took every day before classes began.

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The "new" gym. If you were around in the early nineties, you remember the "old" gym. The hot, tiny, shitty gym.

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Outside the baseball field.

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The field, on the other side of Cedar Point (my house was about three houses to the left).

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Football practice.

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The track.

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Where the band director once led practice. The band is breaking up for good; the band will get back together again.

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Here come the shadows.

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The sun sets.

2 Comments
Antonia Strong-Etheridge (Toni…℅'93)
12/3/2013 12:21:14 pm

Beautiful…I remember ALL of those spots. I hate what is happening to JOJ!!!

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Kurt
12/3/2013 12:47:04 pm

Good ol JOJ

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