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

No WEB DESIGNERS, this is not a business website. I don't need help making the site customer friendly and all that jive. This site is the avocation of a senior citizen reliving his childhood. STOP with all the emails.

Site for sharing old school photographs from your school days in the 1950's and 1960's in Southeast Washington DC. There are links provided below to about 24 photo albums. There are also links which I call Tabs, shown on the banner above, to the same of those photo albums as found below, but the Tabs have links to other interests, such as school newspapers. 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.

Totem Pole Yearbooks: ********************************************************
Anacostia Yearbooks
Yearbooks Looking For A New Home: 1955 and 1957
Contact me (Roger Bell) at kidagain@comcast.net if you want the yearbook and remember to provide me a mailing address of where to mail it.

I will find it a brand new home for any Anacostia High School yearbook needing one. Tell me.

Missing these Anacostia Class Pictures - I have many Anacostia High School class pictures from 1940 through 1963 but I do not have class pictures for the following years: 1941,1942, 1943,1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1953, 1956, 1957, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, and later. If you have one or know of someone who has one from these years to share on my website, please mail it to me to share with others, it will be return mailed to you.

Recent website additions are:

Added a new video slideshow of pictures taken at the 1960 Anacostia High School 55th Reunion to my HIGH SCHOOL REUNION album tab seen at the top of this page. Select the tab, then select 1960 Anacostia and then select the 55 year Reunion.
1959 Anacostia Pow Wow newspapers Issues #2 through #9 have been added to my School Newspaper tab thanks to Bobby Distin (AHS 1959). In doing so I have relocated the School Newspaper tab to the top of this page for easy access. Click on the tab to open a dropdown menu and navigate to the Pow Wow of your choice. I have used the Flirkr photo storage website to improve the display of the newspapers pages which when you to click twice within the picture, it will enlarge, enhancing readability. Each Pow Wow page is 11"x17".
An Anne Beers Elementary School picture sent me by Charlie Riecks (AHS 1961) of his 4th or 5th grade in 1952 or 1953 showing a class project learning TV broadcasting productions wherein on the wall appears a Louie Allen weather forecast drawing for March 16th drawn by Louie Allen in the fashion he was famous for drawing.
One of the very few Junior High School diplomas ever given to an Anacostia Junior-Senior High student has been added to my SCHOOL PHOTOS tab and found within my More Stuff photos. Bear witness to its words, structure and classical style, the signatures, date and the honoree. Go to the SCHOOL PHOTOS tab seen at the top of this page and select More Stuff from the drop down menu. There is also a link provided near the bottom of the page. Always remember to click on/in the picture a second and third time for the picture to enlarge.
The 1955 Anacostia High Commencement Program has been added to my Commencement Programs Album the link to which is found at the very bottom of my web page. Again, thanks go to Don Stanford (AHS '55) for not holding onto his Anacostia memories any longer and sending them all to me to share.
A 1958 Anacostia High School picture of DIGS sorority has been added to my SCHOOL PHOTOS tab for Anacostia High thanks to Don Stanford (AHS '55). Always remember to click on/in the picture once or twice for the picture to enlarge for best viewing. For Your Information : All the links to photos found further down this page connect to the same photos found on the tabs at the top of the web page.
A 1955 Anacostia High School 40 year Reunion group picture has been added to my HIGH SCHOOL REUNIONS tab thanks to Don Stanford (AHS '55). Everyone is identified. Select the HIGH SCHOOL REUNIONS tab at the top of the web page and select the 1955 class 40 year Reunion from the drop down menu.
I have added a Washington Post news article from 1950 to my Stanton Elementary School album that explains Stanton Elementary School's need for a new school with picture of the old Stanton Elementary School buildings that were replaced. Opening day of the new Stanton School, the school I remember at Naylor Road and Alabama Ave, was Sep 12, 1950. Go to my SCHOOL PHOTOS tab at the top of the page and select Stanton Elementary from the drop down menu.
A 1949 Stanton Elementary School class picture has been added to my SCHbOOL PHOTOS album thanks to Don Stanford (AHS 1955) who attended the original Stanton Elementary School before the school was replaced with a new school at Alabama Ave and Naylor Road in Southeast DC. Always remember to click on/in the picture again for the picture to enlarge.
A 1951 Kramer Junior High School class picture has been added to my SCHOOL PHOTOS album thanks to Robert Pugh (AHS 1954) for having sent me the photo. Robert Pugh and Pat Clarke were immensely helpful with identifying most all the kids you see identified in the photo. Click on the SCHOOL PHOTOS tab seen at the top of this page and select Kramer from the drop down menu or you can click on the link to the Kramer Photo album found below. Always remember to click on/in the picture again for the picture to enlarge.

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.