The latest featured subject are two pictures of the Isleton Elementary School track team from 1938. These pictures were taken in front of two different school buildings. The first picture with numerous students was taken in front of the building where just prior to the 1972 flood was used as the seventh and eighth grade classrooms.
When this particular building was first constructed it was the classroom building for the "Oriental" children.
The second picture where there are nine members of the track team sitting on the steps was in front of the building that was under the water tower. Over the years before the building was razed for the school parking lot, it housed the Isleton Boy Scouts, the band room for the award-winning Isleton Elementary School band, and a doctor's office. Some of its classrooms were also used as scenes in the 1976 Hal Ashby-directed motion picture "Bound For Glory" which filmed in Isleton late in the summer of 1975. "Bound for Glory" featured David Carradine of the 1970s television series "Kung Fu" portraying 1930s folk singer Woody Guthrie during the Great Depression. Carradine was at the height of his "Kung Fu" popularity when he starred in the biopic. "Bound for Glory" was also nominated for a Best Picture Oscar at the 1977 Academy Awards.
If you can identify any of these track team members/Isleton Elementary School students, please submit a comment at the end of this post or email pam@isletonhistory.org.
Part of the Isleton Elementary School is being torn down, has anybody taken pictures of this? Is the River Delta Unified School District going to put up a new building to make up for the ones they are tearing down?
ReplyDeleteI would like to see more recent school photos featured on the site, like 1960s and 1970s school pictures. For example some band pictures, some class pictures, and also some team pictures if any. Maybe then people will be more interested in historical information besides teachers, college students and graduates, and really serious researchers.
ReplyDeleteHistory Buff, if you had attended the general meeting on November 18th at the Museum you would have had an opportunity to view in person the 1960s and 1970s school pictures, band pictures, and an informal team picture. Our President and Secretary had these pictures on display. The Secretary had 1972 flood pictures and some interior photographs of the first floor of the Tong Building from 1973 on display and the President also had photos of past Isleton community events of the 1970s displayed. Please contact info@isletonhistory.org if you want to make arrangements to see these photos.
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