Olden days classroom with a bunch of props. Not quite sure how many visual classrooms influenced this…there have been so many visual representations of classrooms in my life. But a few: Schoolhouse Rock, Our Gang (Little Rascals), The Little House on the Prairie TV show, and an old black and white photograph of my mom's classroom from around 1950, where are the kids were sitting at their desks. There's also an Old Spaghetti Factory restaurant near us, it's built in the old Duarte school administration building. It's decorated with photographs of the kids from the early part of the century.
When I was a teenager, I also spent a few summers working for the Portland Public Schools, and there were still a few surviving schools from WAY back. They always had a certain look to them. Usually they were Italianate or Beaux Arts buildings with lots of wood and giant double hung windows. They couldn't be built today, because of safety codes and cost (lots of fiddley hand work by skilled craftsmen…who were once common and their services didn't cost too much). But they always took my breath away. Sooo charming on the inside. .
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