Anacostia, Hart, Kramer, Sousa and More...

Site for sharing old school photographs from your school days in the 1950's and 1960's in Southeast Washington DC. There are links below to about 24 photo albums. There are links that I call Tabs above to some of those photo albums but also other interests. The site can be viewed superbly well on your smartphone also.

The school photos displayed below in a rotating gallery of pictures (call them teasers) are meant to show only the sample of all the pictures that are stored elsewhere (call it in the "cloud") which you advance to by clicking on an icon.

Clicking on the "click here" icons will advance you to the "cloud" where you can view all pictures up close and personal. Clicking a second time on any picture in the "cloud" will enlarge the picture. Below each picture there is a comment box where you can communicate a correction or update you find in the picture. I have set my "Flickr" preferences to receive notification of a comment. I encourage you to use this commenting feature to help me add more names into all the pictures.

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Anacostia Yearbooks - Looking For A New Home:

Don't trash your unwanted Anacostia Totem Pole Yearbook, tell me and I will find it a brand new home where it will be wanted and cherished.

Recent website additions are:

Added another video to my VIDEOS tab seen at the top of the page of the 1961 57 yr Anacostia High School Reunion held on June 23, 2018 at the Waldorf Jaycee Hall. A top quality HD video this time using my little Canon Camera. I inserted classmates names in the movie video so you will know who the old people are if you haven't seen them since your high school days. Listen to Paul Benner (AHS 1943) take the Reunion down memory lane of the old Anacostia as he knew it. Click on the VIDEOS tab seen at the top of the page and it will be the first Reunion video you scroll to.
Added a new video to my VIDEOS tab seen at the top of the page of a dozen video clips taken by me at the 1961 57 yr Anacostia High School Reunion held June 23, 2018 at the Waldorf Jaycee Hall. Click on the VIDEOS tab and it will be the first Reunion video you scroll to. Using my Amazon Fire 8" tablet I recorded a dozen clips for my Anacostia group on Facebook using Facebook's "Go Live" mode or feature. Little did I know at the time but when I returned home, I discovered that I could download each video clip from Facebook and with my video editing software attach each of them all together to produce one continuous video that is 26 mins in length. Not a quality video by any means but its better then nothing.
Added a 1961 Anacostia High School PALS sorority picture to my Anacostia High photo album thanks to Pat Combs (AHS 1961) for sending me the picture. I notice that in my computer files that I also had PALS sorority pictures from Anacostia High School classes from 1958, 1959 and 1960 which I had never posted to my Anacostia High photo album, but that error has now been corrected and they are also in the album.
Added two photographs of an Anacostia High School fraternity Sigma Kappa Alpha from 1941 and 1942 which were discovered in the closet by the wife of one those fraternity member's who's son, Steve Rohmann, sent me the pictures to share for all to see. Collecting names for who's in the pictures is a chore and what you see is probably all I will get. The photos have been added to my MORE STUFF album found within my SCHOOL PHOTOS tab seen at the top of the page. Click on SCHOOL PHOTOS and select MORE STUFF... from the drop down menu.
Added a 1956 Kramer Junior High School Girls Athletic Association picture to me Kramer Junior High School photo album thanks to Betsy Hall Prothero. The photo has been added to my SCHOOL PHOTOS album found by clicking on its tab at the top of this page and selecting Kramer from the drop-down menu. Remember to click again inside the picture for it to enlarge for your viewing pleasure. Many names are still missing from this picture, so if you recognize someone I haven't identified, please email me (kidagain@comcast.net) so I can add their name.
Information regarding the 2018 Multi Year Anacostia High School Reunion in Ocean City, MD has been added to my HIGH SCHOOL REUNIONS tab seen at the top of this page. It's planned for Sep 30 to Oct 2 at the Dunes Manor Hotel for class years 1938 through 1962. All information is displayed and is downloadable.
A newspaper clipping of the 1940 Anacostia High School June graduating class was discovered to be inside the 1940 Anacostia Totem Pole yearbook I have. Since I don't find a class picture inside the yearbook as seen in all other school yearbooks, I assume that this picture is the only one taken of the whole class. I'm not likely to add any names into this picture as no names were provided to identify them. There was a baseball action picture on the backside of the clipping indicating to me that the class picture was relegated to sports section of a DC newspaper.
A wonderful closet discovery of an old school photo was sent me by Elizabeth (Liz) Benson Bio's, a 1952 Patterson Elementary School 6th grade class. I've added it to my SCHOOL PHOTOS tab seen above. Click the tab and select the school name from the drop-down menu. Remember to click a second time within the picture and it will enlarge and get bigger.
Added a 1947 Kramer Junior High School class picture to my Kramer Junior High School Photo Album seen below thanks to Betty Fraser King (1953). Link to the photos by clicking on picture icon of Kramer School seen to the left of the album heading and then scroll to the photo inside the album. It's interesting to observe Kramer's class sizes from 1944 through 1947 remembering that Kramer first opened in the spring of 1943. Betty Fraser even went so far as to identify the man she married in the picture. I have learned that she's the sister to Pip, Ralph (Monk) and Wayne Fraser who all graduated Anacostia.

Before Seattle had their Starbucks,
Washington DC had their Wilkins Coffee.
Talk about some old commercials,....Wilkins had them also. They are so politically incorrect in today's society but back in the 60's they were what helped Jim Henson's Muppet's and Kermit become popular. Before Kermit was green.