{"id":14,"date":"2012-11-26T02:40:31","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T02:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westboylstonstreetschool.com\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2022-11-10T13:44:31","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T13:44:31","slug":"welcome-to-west-boylston-street-school-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/westboylstonstreetschool.com\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to West Boylston Street School"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15\" style=\"width: 996px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15\" title=\"West Boylston St. School\" src=\"https:\/\/westboylstonstreetschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/West-Boylston-St.-School2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"986\" height=\"688\" srcset=\"https:\/\/westboylstonstreetschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/West-Boylston-St.-School2.jpg 986w, https:\/\/westboylstonstreetschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/West-Boylston-St.-School2-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/westboylstonstreetschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/West-Boylston-St.-School2-429x300.jpg 429w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 986px) 100vw, 986px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thanks to Megan Finn-Halloran for this rare photo<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<h6>This site was recently hacked. It needed to be turned back to an earlier version. If you posted something that does not appear on the site, please take the time to repost. We want to include everyone.<\/h6>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Thousands of kids in the Indian Lake area of Worcester, MA attended West Boylston Street School. The building was demolished to make way for the\u00a0Worcester Expressway, I-190 extension.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the people who attended the school are still with us. Quite a few still live in the area. Others are scattered around the country and around the world.<\/p>\n<p>A few of the many graduates recently met for lunch not far from where the school once stood. We began talking about the school and decided we\u2019d try to reach out to other WBSS veterans.<\/p>\n<p>This site is just the beginning. We want to gather the following,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Photos<\/li>\n<li>Names and email addresses of graduates<\/li>\n<li>Details on the history of the school, when it was built, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We\u2019ll set up the site to collect this information. Meanwhile, post any messages you&#8217;d like to contribute below. Please use your name so we know who we&#8217;ve located.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">WT&amp;G Article about WBSS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Then &amp; Now: West Boylston Drive, Worcester<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Worcester Telegram &amp; Gazette, posted May 21, 2018 at 3:25 AM<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/westboylstonstreetschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/WTGSchool.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-325\" width=\"535\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/westboylstonstreetschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/WTGSchool.jpg 432w, https:\/\/westboylstonstreetschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/WTGSchool-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 535px) 100vw, 535px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Where a ramp to Interstate 190 now bisects the neighborhood, the West Boylston Street School once played a memorable part in hundreds of children\u2019s lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Worcester in the late 19th century had thousands of families, with thousands of children to be educated. Around 1900, the city built West Boylston Street School, a solid brick elementary school for children through eighth grade, in northern Worcester (Northville and Greendale on maps from that ear). As the population expanded, more schools were built, and the school became a kindergarten through Grade 6 school, the way most of its students alive today remember it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They also remember Eky\u2019s, or Ekengren\u2019s Market, the neighborhood store where they bought snacks and got to know the family. There was also Strand\u2019s Ski Shop (still standing) as well as an A&amp;P supermarket (long gone), a pizza shop and many other businesses that made up the landscape of their childhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the 1970s, the school fell to the wrecking ball to make way for the highway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This interstate \u201cspur,\u201d numbered 190, went 19 miles, from where West Boylston Street School once stood north to the Leominster-Fitchburg area, where it joined with Route 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And while that sounds like a good idea, many objected to this highway splitting the north Worcester neighborhood and passing through acres of pastoral beauty on its way to Fitchburg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The street that led to the on-ramp was named West Boylston Drive, but to many that homage didn\u2019t make up for the loss of their childhood memories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8211; Melissa McKeon, Correspondent<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>THEN &amp; NOW ARCHIVES<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Memories of West Boylston Street School are from the school memory website&nbsp;<strong>westboylstonstreetschool.com<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/westboylstonstreetschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/WTGSchoolNow.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-326\" width=\"547\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/westboylstonstreetschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/WTGSchoolNow.jpg 432w, https:\/\/westboylstonstreetschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/WTGSchoolNow-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 547px) 100vw, 547px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.telegram.com\/news\/20180521\/then-amp-now-west-boylston-drive-worcester10\/20\/19\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to Leslie Munns for transcribing this article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This site was recently hacked. 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