It’s time once again for #FlashbackFriday with the Whitewater Historical Society.

Continuing our deep dive into the East Side School (Washington School), here is a photograph from the period 1945-1955. In this image, the school has received a new front entrance since 1907, but more interestingly, there is a large tube “fire escape” on the side wall. This fire escape was put on the school building in the summer of 1945 and was seen as a way to quickly move students out of the second floor in case of a fire. I wonder how many readers remember sliding down this tube in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Did fire drills use this tube? Did kids slide down without permission?

Join us next week for more from the Whitewater Historical Society.

(3684P, Whitewater Historical Society)