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.

I am doing a display (seen above) of Anacostia High School Totem Pole yearbook covers for which I either possess or have had emailed to me. To display yearbook covers for which I do not have shown, I need pictures of yearbook covers for 1939, 1943, 1945, 1946, 1948, 1949, 1951, 1967 and 1971 and later. If you have access to any of these Anacostia yearbooks, please snap a picture of its front cover and email the picture it to me at kidagain@comcast.net. I will resize the pic to fit the website and add it to the above display.

Recent website additions are:

I've updated the 1955 Congress Heights Elementary School picture with a few more names thanks to Richard Xander. Remember to click (or tap) a second time within the picture for it to enlarge.
When doing some website housekeeping I found that my link to 1964 Anacostia High 50 year Reunion pictures no longer functioned. Find the corrected link in the HIGH SCHOOL REUNIONS tab at the top of this page and select the 1964 Reunion. I believe I have fixed the problem.
I have added the 1959 Kramer Junior High School Commencement Promotion Exercises brochure to my Commencement Programs album which link is found at the very bottom of my introductory website page. Clicking a second time on each brochure will greatly enlarge the viewing for easy reading. Remember the names of everyone who graduated Kramer Junior High School in 1959 to move onto Anacostia High while there are others who moved onto other high schools. You can navigate to other commencement programs by clicking on the left and arrow advance arrows (< >) seen at the left and right of the page.
I noticed that I had never added a Washington Post newspaper clipping of opening day for the new Stanton Elementary School on June 12, 1950. This error has now been corrected. Thanks to Margie Hopkins Standfest for sending me this clipping to share.
With help from Ron Mummert the other day, I was able to add about another half dozen names into the 1956 Sousa Junior High School picture. While doing it I decided to update the picture with a white border and a picture title, which I noticed the previous picture did not have. Thanks Ron Mummert.
My VIDEOS tab seen above is updated with a movie I made of the 2018 Multi year Anacostia High School Reunion held each year in Ocean City, MD. This is the one Anacostia Reunion held yearly where you can meet and greet those icons of Anacostia past who still venture to Ocean City every year to remember the way it was. Rather then clicking on the VIDEOS tab to find the video you can click on this link to be taken directly to the movie. youtu.be/6Mx7G2i2Lac If you meet the qualifications for attending, plan on being at the next Multi year Anacostia Reunion where you can become one of the icons from Anacostia High School 's past.
Updated the 1962 Ballou High School class picture with 80 to 90 names thanks the Gene Cherrico and his memory; that's a whole of names Gene provided. Many more classmate names are still needed in the picture and possibly in time more will be added.
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.

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.