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
Yearbooks Looking For A New Home:
1950, and 1957
Contact me (Roger Bell) at kidagain@comcast.net with which one of the yearbooks you want,...but 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.

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.

Tightly rolled up or torn class pictures are easily fixed and can be made beautiful again.

Recent website additions are:

The 1964 Anacostia High School class held their 55 year Reunion on Oct 5th in Annapolis MD.
Hine Junior High School was not a feeder school to Anacostia High School; it fed Eastern High School, but I have added a 1935 Hine Junior High School class picture to my photo albums because I have discovered that my Aunt Julia (my father's younger sister) in the picture. Thanks to Robert Evans (AHS 1966) for sending me to photo and identifying his fathers location in the picture of a very large junior high school class. If anyone can identify the location of a relative of theirs in the picture, I will gladly add their name into the photo; just tell me at kidagain@comcast.net
Anacostia High in 1960 had the "Bob-o-Links" (later to become the Memories) as their home grown musical singing group. Anacostia High in 1959 had the "Naturals" as their home grown musical singing group. Anacostia High in 1954 had the "Columbians" as their home grown musical band of renown playing local venues the popular tunes of the day. Captured in this picture which I picked up at the 2019 Anacostia High Multi year Reunion in Ocean City, MD on Sep 30 - Oct 2, Pat Clarke and John Rachel could relive their memories. A memory added to my photo album of More Stuff....
Pictures that were taken at the 2019 Anacostia High Multi year Reunion in Ocean City, MD on Sep 30 - Oct 2, have been added to my HIGH SCHOOL REUNIONS tab at the top on this page. Select the REUNIONS tab above and then select Multi-year Reunion from the drop-down menu. Names identifying all the people in the pictures are given along with their graduating year from Anacostia. There are the pictures taken at the crab feast dinner on the day of arrival (Sep 30) followed by the pictures taken at the Reunion dinner in the hotel (Oct 1). Click or tap on any one picture to enlarge and then click or tap left or right to navigate to the other pictures.
I have added a 1950 Anacostia High School February Graduating class picture to my Anacostia Photo Album, thanks to Bill Neal was is seen front and center, was class Treasurer and was an Alpha Pi Epsilon (APE's) fraternity member I learned from the signings on the back of his photograph. Remember to click a second time on the picture for it to enlarge for best viewing.
I have added a 1952 Ketcham Elementary School picture of what I believe is the 4th grade class of Betsy Hall Prothero taken on the steps of the Ketcham school playground. Thanks to Betsy for sending me the picture, though she has not idea of how it got into her possession as her mother was not a camera aficionado to have taken the picture. Betsy was a 1954 Ketcham graduate along with me so I am familiar with almost all the kids in this picture. Remember to click a second time on the picture for it to enlarge for best viewing.
I have added a 1962 Hart Junior High School photograph of 9th grade class 309 thanks to the Facebook social media group "You Might Be A Native Washingtonian IF..." (DC Metro Natives included) and the posting of this picture which currently shows the name of only one Anacostia High School graduate. Remember to click a second time on the picture for it to enlarge for best viewing.
I have added a 1966 Anacostia High School 20 year Reunion picture to my HIGH SCHOOL REUNION album with many thank you's to Robert Evans (AHS 1966). Remember to click a second time on the picture for it to enlarge for best viewing. I have updated the picture many times since it as first added, but now the number of new names in the picture is slowing down. If you have a name to give me for someone still unnamed, send it to me at kidagain@comcast.net.
I have added a 1953 Ketcham Elementary School 6th grade class picture to my Ketcham photo album thanks to Puggie Pessagno Jones (AHS 1960) and Richard Cantilena. Remember to click a second time on the picture for it to enlarge for best viewing. The Ketcham Photo Album can be found by clicking on SCHOOL PHOTOS in the black banner at the top of this page and selecting Ketcham Elem from the drop down menu. My 6th grade class the following school year was with the same teacher but I have not yet found my class picture. Boohoo!

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.