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Burg_Grad_77 · Post by **Burg_Grad_77** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 5:24 am

thenino wrote:webster has NOOOO chance.. nil, zip, nada, not happening!

Little late there Skippy. The game was played last Friday. :lol:

Mad-Dogg · Post by **Mad-Dogg** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 9:29 am

Burg_Grad_77 wrote:A little bit of trivia about the current gym.

Who was the last player to score a basket at the old gym?

i don't know 77. who was it?

Mad-Dogg · Post by **Mad-Dogg** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 9:30 am

drrabbit wrote:

This would have been his high school building. Someone should ask him about the cow and the third floor. Wouldn't surprise me if he was part of that practical joke. I always thought that was one reason why they have gone with a single story high school design ever since.

hey doc where was that school located at?

drrabbit · Post by **drrabbit** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 9:57 am

You know the steps in front of the football stadium.... They are there for a reason.

Mad-Dogg · Post by **Mad-Dogg** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 10:11 am

drrabbit wrote:You know the steps in front of the football stadium.... They are there for a reason.

i kinda thought that was it but i wasn't sure. thanks doc

alabama mike · Post by **alabama mike** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 12:06 pm

ROFL

Dogg you're killing me man. :roll:

yabbadabbadoo · Post by **yabbadabbadoo** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 1:54 pm

Wait!!!!! Those steps went to a school!!!!!!!

I thought since they were in front of the football stadium they were the stairways to heaven, seeing how good the Pirate football team is.

Mad-Dogg · Post by **Mad-Dogg** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 2:19 pm

yabbadabbadoo wrote:Wait!!!!! Those steps went to a school!!!!!!!

I thought since they were in front of the football stadium they were the stairways to heaven, seeing how good the Pirate football team is.

good one yabba

Mad-Dogg · Post by **Mad-Dogg** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 2:20 pm

alabama mike wrote:ROFL Dogg you're killing me man.

if i'm killin you bama then how are you talkin to me. :lol:

Burg_Grad_77 · Post by **Burg_Grad_77** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 4:16 pm

Mad_Dogg wrote:
Burg_Grad_77 wrote:A little bit of trivia about the current gym.

Who was the last player to score a basket at the old gym?

i don't know 77. who was it?

It was answered above Dogg.

OZZIEOHIO · Post by **OZZIEOHIO** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 4:26 pm

What is this? Pick on Mad_Dogg day. :lol:

BigOrangeOne · Post by **BigOrangeOne** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 6:19 pm

BigOrangeOne wrote:
drrabbit wrote:You know the steps in front of the football stadium.... They are there for a reason.

I may be wrong here Doc, but I believe that picture is of the high school that was behind where Koch's (or whoever owns it now) hardware is. That would be the school used prior to the current high school and last used in 1958(?).

The old, OLD high school that was up on the hill was a dark brick building and I think only had one entrance at the top of the steps going up the hill.

BigOrangeOne · Post by **BigOrangeOne** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 6:28 pm

Burg_Grad_77 wrote:A little bit of trivia about the current gym.

Who was the last player to score a basket at the old gym?

Since we got the answer to that one so quickly, here's another one Burg_Grad

Wrong forum I know, but who was the 1st player to score a TD on the current Pirate field?

rxburgfan · Post by **rxburgfan** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 6:33 pm

Taxes are up and the new gym is small. Ain't it great to be in Wheelersburg. Someone really dropped the ball on the gym. We are among the last to get new schools and its a shame to see the lack of atheletic updates. I realize the state money only builds so much gym, but there are other ways. Leave it to the lack of leadership for the boondoggle.

BigOrangeOne · Post by **BigOrangeOne** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 6:41 pm

RxBurgFan wrote:Taxes are up and the new gym is small. Ain't it great to be in Wheelersburg. Someone really dropped the ball on the gym. We are among the last to get new schools and its a shame to see the lack of atheletic updates. I realize the state money only builds so much gym, but there are other ways. Leave it to the lack of leadership for the boondoggle.

..... and where were YOU oh Great Leader?? :lol:

drrabbit · Post by **drrabbit** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 8:28 pm

Actually you are right on that. I never saw any of the buildings. But that was the third Wheelersburg High School and it faced Gallia Street there where Koch's Hardware and Wheelersburg Baptist sit.

This is the first Wheelersburg High School and it sat behind the third high school and faced South Street. It was the one that they took the cow up the stairs--very narrow halls from what I understand. Apparently they were only about the width of a good size cow. The first and third building were connected when they added the third high school.

During WWII they collected paper for the war effort and stored it in an enclosed walkway between the (3rd) high school and the shop building--until it spontaneously combusted and had a really nice fire one day.

drrabbit · Post by **drrabbit** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 8:30 pm

This is the second Wheelersburg High School at the Football stadium location.

BigOrangeOne · Post by **BigOrangeOne** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 9:51 pm

drrabbit wrote:

This is the second Wheelersburg High School at the Football stadium location.

There ya go...... :lol:

The classrooms in the back of that high school building were used as dressing rooms for the football team when Pirate Stadium was first built and used in 1956.

BigOrangeOne · Post by **BigOrangeOne** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 9:55 pm

drrabbit wrote:Actually you are right on that. I never saw any of the buildings. But that was the third Wheelersburg High School and it faced Gallia Street there where Koch's Hardware and Wheelersburg Baptist sit.

This is the first Wheelersburg High School and it sat behind the third high school and faced South Street. It was the one that they took the cow up the stairs--very narrow halls from what I understand. Apparently they were only about the width of a good size cow. The first and third building were connected when they added the third high school.

During WWII they collected paper for the war effort and stored it in an enclosed walkway between the (3rd) high school and the shop building--until it spontaneously combusted and had a really nice fire one day.

I went to the 1st and second grade is this building. The adjoining structure you see to the lower left (just above the car) was actually the high school gym that was used just prior to the current gym.

BTW. If this was the building they took the cow in, I doubt Pug had anything to do with it. I would say that he went to high school in the 2nd school up on the hill.

drrabbit · Post by **drrabbit** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 10:43 pm

He went to the third one on Gallia street but my understanding was that the cow incident was when the third school was in existance and the first school was still attached to the back of the building. But I have to admit that the story is certainly second hand from someone who also simply heard about it.

To be honest, I have more direct memory of the dead horse incident in the early '70s. And no I was not part of it but my older siblings did come home talking about what had happened and speculating on who might have been responsible (including someone who later became a principal.) Of course that was probably the same group that managed to put the volkswagon inside the current high school building.

BigOrangeOne--I would love to hear some of your family stories about these buildings. I also would love to copy your scrapbooks sometime. It could save some hours of research over the coming year or two.