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My husband and I recall the tiered classroom was used for the science classes of biology, chemistry, and physics with a Lab accessed through an internal door in the room. The school had a Shop classroom, a Mechanical Drawing classroom, a Home Economics classroom with sewing machines and attached full kitchen facilities in addition to Library, Art Room, Chorus and Band rooms. I don't remember there just being a wide open space on any floor in or all the skylights. Space was put to good use. My spouse and I graduated in 1958 in the last senior class to do so from this building. The building still reflects it's architectural beauty .
I just remembered those two large spaces/rooms at either side of the third floor were used as study halls that had desks to use to do reading or homework between classes if you had a open period in your day's schedule.
This makes a great All-Girls Public High School where the girls wear their own clothes and no schoolgirl uniforms. This is what I always think this way.
My mom graduated from this school in 1937. I attended 4th through 6th grade here from 1960-1963. Your video brought back so many memories. It’s been heart breaking to see it deteriorate over all of these years. When the previous owner had the school, he contracted my brother to remove all the cast iron radiators from all of the rooms. He said it was in rough shape then. Thank you for posting this video.
At 7:25 that was my old 4th grade classroom on the first floor. Delia Doerschug was the teacher. 1979 was the last school year for this building. At 5:00 in the main entrance is where we would all come down during Christmas and sing songs in front of a huge tree loaded with lights and ornaments. What great memories!
In the late 1950s, many school districts "centralized", a process in which small, rural one- and two-room elementary schools were incorporated into larger, centralized school buildings. This building was converted from "Silver Creek High School" (which both my parents attended) into a 3-6 elementary school in 1960. I was in the first group of elementary students who attended this school which became known as the "Main Street Elementary" or just the "Main Street School." I remember all the classrooms from my four years there. The large room at the back of the building was the cafeteria. One floor directly above was the gym. The large classroom on the second floor was the art room and the even larger room on the third floor was the music room. I don't know what the tiered room on the second floor was used for in the original high school, but in the early sixties it was used for audio-visual presentations and as a room for instrumental music lessons. I was in the elementary band that rehearsed on the stage, and I also sang in chorus. I eventually became a music teacher myself. At age 70 now, I am amazed at all the memories this video has revived from when I was age seven through eleven. I'd love to talk to you more about this building.
Thanks for the memories! Graduated there in 1950. I often brag about this school and recall the very wide range of subjects offered here. One fourth of us took the college entrance track, offering latin, chemistry,biology, physics, algebra,intermediate algebra, plane geometry, trigonometry, and solid geometry. And if course, language and history. Band and orchestra and choir were options for all tracks. The automotive, metal shop, wood shop, electrical shop were great, for a town of 3000. Then there was homemaking and commercial tracks. Any grad was prepared for employment. The big gym and auditorium were loved. Management thought that the sports field was too far from the school and that was an unfortunate reason why the central school was built. Instead of refurbishing this solid building. Asbestos was a further excuse.... an engineer could have told the board that there is no hazard in handling asbestos insulation: the problem was the asbestos dust clouds at the insulation factory.
I was part of the last 6th grade class to "graduate" from this building in 1979. Somewhere I likely have the black and gold t-shirt that commemorated our class as such... all our names were listed on the back. During warm weather, I used to walk here from my home across town. I do not remember any skylights, lol, but I was a kid so who knows? I do remember at Christmas time, all the classrooms would meet in the downstairs main lobby and on the stairway and sing Christmas songs. Many happy memories here
I attended that school from 2nd grade until 5th. I was part of the only 2nd grade class to attend that school, due to over-flow, from the K-2 school that was across the street. I performed on that stage in a Mary Poppins musical as well. Brings back many memories. The room at 10:50 was actually the art room. Yes, it was quite large for an art room. I'm surprised that you left out the humungous hole that now exists in the wall on the top floor. My beloved building, which I still look at every day, I've been a "Towny" my whole life, should just be torn down. It is now an eyesore, from the outside, and a hazard, because of pests and falling decayed wall structure. I hope you didn't inhale any of the asbestos. You're a braver man than I.
My mother went to high school here and I went to elementary school in the 60's. It is so sad, I don't even recognize many of the rooms anymore. One of the large rooms on the 3rd floor was the choral room. We've watched it deteriorate over the years wondering how it looked on the inside. Thank you so much for filming this.
My dad attended school there as did I! Remember well walking the halls- the stair cases- the teachers - running the projector in the AV room ( and Mr. Wilson) and so many other memories. Performing on the stage- climbing ropes in the gym- and oh, so many wonderful classmates. We were lucky to have experienced attending school in this fine building in the days- very sad to go back to town and see this rotting away-- watching the video, could recall the entire place of my youth by heart!
1978/79 was the last school year it was used as a school. It was the only year I attended this building and it was in pretty rough shape then. If memory serves the music room and library were on the 3rd floor, health office and art room on the second, main office was to the right of the entrance looking at the building. The cafeteria was at the back of the building, I think 2nd floor. There were no lockers in the hallways, just open coat racks with wire shelves across the top and a shoe/boot shelf. My classroom was the second on the left, first floor if you entered using the ramp with the steps at the back of the building.
I grew up in Silver Creek in the 90s and we used to sneak in and hang out in there. It brought back so many memories of friends I haven't thought of in years, sadly many of them are passed away, but this video brought back happy memories.❤😊
Nice video. I posted four of the inside of this school several years ago, and I see a lot of things haven't changed too much since then. I've been in there many times over a period of two years, with permission of the prior owner, to collect and restore truckloads of items. Still working on those to this day.
I believe they can’t tear it down because of the asbestos in it. And renovation would be a lot of money, so I think it’s just gonna rot away there. Always wanted to go inside so it’s super cool to see, My dad went there.
I really appreciate your attention to your filming and consideration for what we (the viewers) will see. Thanks for the exposure adjustments, and slow panning, amongst other things. Keep up the good content!
t That building was also built as a fallout shelter, the part that was flooded was the tunnels that are under the school, You enter threw the Boiler room that is under the kitchen
Thank small stadium classroom that he saw on the floor near the balcony section of the auditorium, back in the 1960s Mr. Wilson use to teach students how to use audio visual equipment
The 78/79 school year was the last it was used I remember going up to the art room the room with the risers was chorus room I think it was a great school
What a beautiful building. I love old schools like this. There was one like this in a town I lived in as a kid in the 70’s. I found out a few years after we moved, it burned down. Too bad schools don’t look like this anymore.
Choral room was likely one of the larger, now empty, rooms. I remember a large wooden bleacher-type seating so it was tiered. It likely rotted away or was taken out when the school closed
This video reminds me so much of the much smaller school I went to for 2/3 grade and again for 7th. The stairways brought back the memory of how worn the treads were in my day at that school. It's been torn down years ago but seeing this one made me miss those 'school days'. Also watching the video I started wondering when/why they stopped putting such nice big windows in schools. Don't think there are many now over maybe 3 stories. Must have been quite something at one time! (I see someone posting the subjects taught back then - don't think there's much to compare that to nowadays)
Was your mother Marie Richie and your dad called Red? If so, she was my dear cousin and had a beautiful soprano voice. She sang at my husband and my wedding. Even our parents went to this school, if they went past 8th grade, and in some classes we had the same teachers, teaching over two generations. Teachers were different back then, than now. They were true teachers and dedicated to preparing us students to be successful in life. My husband and I met each other in one of the first floor classrooms in 5th grade in Mrs. Wentworth's homeroom when the school was first centralized in 1950. We graduated in 1958 and were in the last senior class to graduate out of this building. I am Sherry Bull, married to Gene Bull, and we live in Pinehurst NC. Gene was class president. I was valedictorian. This building still reflects it's architectural beauty. I don't remember all the skylights. We both remember the tiered room to be the science room where biology, chemistry, physics teacher Mr. Lindstrom taught. Adjoining it was the Lab. I remember the gym and thought it had some viewing balcony seats accessed via the floor above. When I think back to all the facilities, we were very fortunate. In addition to the basic subjects, we had a great library, art room, mechanical drawing in addition to art room, shop room, home economics with full kitchen and sewing machines, band room as well as chorus room, gym with lockers and showers and access to the villages ball fields a short walk away. The teachers were the BEST. They would have never done any of us harm or seduced us as is common today. Those of us in the village walked to and from school. Buses were only provided for youngsters living out of the village limits. Our choruses, bands, and sports teams won many honors and titles because the teachers and coaches led us to do our best. In this small town there was no discrimination between us students. Whether your parents worked in the small factories in the area, were farmers, were professionals or business owners, were wealthy or poor, were black or white, we all were just friends in this school. No bullying, no fighting, no snobs. Life was good.
@Sherry Bull Yes, my mother was Mary (Panzarella) Richir, but she went by Marie. She passed in 2020 (85 years old) My dad is Jules Richir, but everyone calls him "Red", he is still with us and just turned 92. I still live in Chautauqua County and moved back after my military service in 1986.
David...My dad Angelo Cuccia was a brother of your grandmother Josephine Panzarella, Aunt Jay we called her. She and Uncle Frank lived on Burgess St. My parents built a home at 59 Robinson St. Am I remembering correctly that your parents had two daughters and you? Somehow we did learn of your Mom's passing in 2020. Was it COVID? Antoinette Williams the youngest of my Dad's siblings also died that year. Did you know that at the end of every Christmas Eve service at Mt. Carmel Catholic church your Mom sang the Ave Maria? It was so beautiful. We'd all go back to Grandma Cuccia's house and eat Italian sausage in grandma's home made rolls and get back to our own houses about 3 am. We were back to Silver Creek, Sheridan and Dunkirk last summer and visited all the cemeteries of my family and Gene's. We have about 15-20 relatives yet there. We used to get back every fall before Covid as we would attend a reunion and football game at Syracuse University with Gene's college buddies. We both will be 83 in a few weeks and married 60 years in July. We have two sons, 5 bloodline grandchildren, 3 new through marriage of three of those grandchildren. Our immediate family members live in VA, MA, IN, FL, and NC. It is wonderful to hear back from you. Tell me more about you and your family.
Brings back memories from my junior high days, though I didn't go to school here. The building is much like the school I attended in the early 70's. I can hear in my mind the noises in the hallways, the clatter of feet on the stairways, the echos in the gymnasium.
Great video. It would take millions of millions of dollars yo restore this place. It would be a waste, structures are not safe, nothing is safe in that building. Better to tare it down and then rebuild, be alot cheaper. Thanks for sharing.
Yes. Quite cost prohibitive. That's putting it mildly. The other issue is, after the late 1800s, Silver Creek was a small port, and mill town. When boat and train were primary means of transportation, the village thrived. Decline started around the late 50s, when the thruway was built, and traffic on 5&30 died down. Place was on life support by the mid 80s, and critical by 90, when we moved there, back in mom's case. The scale of economy im the area jiat can't supprt a project of the scale needed to fix the place, and even tearing it down, is not an economical option. Sadly, I see it falling within my lifetime, and I wouldn't want to be down wind, when, not if, it does.
Back a few years ago there was a meeting at the school one know about the school I stud up and spoke about the school trying to get the community to help and restore the school for the community and for the next generation.
About 5 miles west of the I 90, exit 58, along route 20. Silver Creek and Irving NY exit. Used to pass it every morning to get to the Central School. 90 to 93.
The room with the tiered seating may have been for some type of medical classes. With all those broken windows I expected you to run into at least 1 pigeon. The slowness of your video was a nice change.
Those round light fixtures in the hall and classrooms are familiar. I remember them from my elementary school days-and some of those books. So sad to see this beautiful building decaying. That’s a pretty ambitious project-to repurpose that building. It looks too far gone. But who knows? Hopefully the right developer can work a miracle. Great explore.
My grandfather went to school here when he was in high school I go to the the new school so cool to see someone come out and do something like this thank you man seriously 💯💪🏼
Happy birthday Dave. ❤This is epic. I'm hoping that it does get the love it needs. Got some really beautiful woodwork on the doors and windows. I'm wondering if this school had a cafeteria and a staff room because of the stove. I would like to see the blooming of nature in the auditorium. ❤😂😮😊 great explore Dave.
Yes this school had a cafeteria. I can still smell the sauerkraut they put on the hot dogs for lunch. I used to gag on the smell. Glad my mom made me peanut & jelly sandwiches for lunch😂
Ah man, talk about a trip down memory lane. Sad the building is in such sad shape. The last year for this school was 1979. I went to 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade here, (1976-79).
That is a very cool school building and that one different classroom is very cool as well and as soon as I saw it my first thought was that it's that way because of that very cool ceiling in the entryway that you showed earlier on
That might be the reason because that tiered classroom used for biology, chemistry, and physics classes likely was right above it. That room was on the second floor near the center. But there should have been a second tiered classroom to accommodate the full Groin Vaulted ceiling below and I don't remember a second tiered classroom. Class of 1958.
@@sherrybull5183 holy crap you actually went to this school that's incredible and yeah I was actually wondering about the other side of that wall I realize that he did not show two rooms like that and that room would only be half of that ceiling so yeah I was actually thinking about that myself
@@Zachalackalackalack My husband confirms there was only one classroom like that but perhaps the other side was used as a storage closet on the second floor. The teacher's desk sat on foor level in a narrow space at the bottom and had an internal door that led to the large Lab attached. A small Latin language classroom adjacent on the high end of the tier, that might have been next down the hall, possibly was same size as the science teacher's desk area. Together, the possible closet and Latin room size could have accommodated the Groin Vaulted ceiling below. We were teens, so we were into Elvis and Bill Haley and the Comets, not architecture Looking back and remembering all that school offered us students re education, we had a lot.
Our Class of 1958 was the last Senior Class to graduate out of this building. Considering the village of Silver Creek NY only has had about 3000 residents, they provided us with a beautiful building and a well-rounded curriculum for our time. Of course, centralization helped but it also added to the operating costs.
While the building may be in disrepair, seeing videos of it in this condition bring back all the GOOD memories of attending from grades 3-6. HOWEVER, glad you didn't go up to the showers in the gym. That was NOT a happy memory for me! Hated them! The locker room you have in your video was to the girls locker room. As for the room with the tiered seating, it was the audio visual room. One kid per classroom was selected to learn the audio visual equipment, and the class either went to this room or equipment was brought into the classroom, and the child who knew how to operated the equipment did so. I wasn't selected until 6th grade, so I had limited time running the projectors. The auditorium once was a regal hall! And, in the gym there is seating that appears to be walled in partially at this point. My mother was a cheerleader, and has since passed. I can't recall if she said they cheered down on the floor or up in the seats. Thank you for this. I hope hi brings attention to the right person who can restore it in time for me to move back and live there!
My parents went to that school, I went to it's successor. Unfortunately the building has been neglected for so long, and is full of asbestos and the flooding problem I don't think it's salvageable at this point.
Damn. A comment from someone I know. Yeah. Talkong to mom, and my uncles, as well as menbers of the Hopkins and Mohart families, as well as a few of the fosters, it was already having issues when mom attended on the early 60s. Worse when J Mohart was there, late 60s, and when jis wife attended. Still remember sneaking in with friends, after movong to Irving in late 90, after dad retired. Was getting really bad then. Wife and I drive by it now, and it seems like each time we do, more bricks have fallen. Paat trip by, the west wall of the third floor is gone. Big open hole. Damn shame. Part of why no one dod anyrhing with it is that, over the laat 30 years, it has become more work and expense than the property is worth, even to just take it down. Complete renovation would cost even more. But. At least they were able to savw the elementary school, the next street east. Senior and disabled housing with that one.
1979 was the last year it was open , so 44 years, if my Silver Creek math is correct. I was in the last 5th grade class there. The K-2 across the street (Babcock Ave) was sold and turned into apartments.
Been like that as long as I remember. Started visiting in 83, mom was class of 71, and moved there in 90. Never got to see it any other way than run down. Graduated in 93, and used to sneak in sometimes. Always found it relaxing and peaceful, when I had the placs to myself. One of mom's most vivid memories was sitting in class on 22 November, 1963, and hearing about the assassination of JFK. One weel after her 9th birthday. Stoppes ny, to lool at the building, and she pointed out the classroom window, that her desk sat by. We sat on the bikes, and she told me about it. Was an interesting feeling, family history, crossed by world history. Same with standing there, 3600 miles from where I was born. A moment that I never even considered possible, the first 16 years of my life.
yes i love it slow, to see everything, i saw a gear in the first of the vlog, it was in the green room which i think it was shop class, i wish you could get me that gear
Delco pa Tom here yep the hallowed halls still hold the ghost in the machine sounds of those of thus organ keys and fuzz guitar as they played the school dance in 1967 before two of them were sent to nam now they walk the halls with their cool granny glasses and striped pants wondering what happened to the battle of the bands ..like wow man groovy class of 69
I attended this school (when it was the middle school) from the September of 1970 to June of 1975. There were bricks falling from the exterior back in the 1970's. Someone recorded a video in 2007 - not near as detailed as your video. The creepiest part was the scene from the main office where the teacher's names were all still on the mailboxes. ua-cam.com/video/NpxUssi8DM0/v-deo.html
That's one of my videos. It was meant to be a brief scan over some of the highlights of that building. The next three videos I posted were a close look at every single room.
Sadly this structure is way to far gone to renovate. Would easily cost over $500k just for the remediation and demo before any new construction. All the collapsed ceiling areas are indicative of roof failure, which translates into major amounts of rotten wooden structural components, which would all need to be replaced prior to new roof. Once the roof is compromised it's essentially the end of the building, especially in cold climate regions like this as can be seen where plaster gas fallen off brick work. Water saturated these porus areas and when temps drop below freezing it expands and destroys masonry
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My husband and I recall the tiered classroom was used for the science classes of biology, chemistry, and physics with a Lab accessed through an internal door in the room. The school had a Shop classroom, a Mechanical Drawing classroom, a Home Economics classroom with sewing machines and attached full kitchen facilities in addition to Library, Art Room, Chorus and Band rooms. I don't remember there just being a wide open space on any floor in or all the skylights. Space was put to good use. My spouse and I graduated in 1958 in the last senior class to do so from this building. The building still reflects it's architectural beauty .
The ceiling style in the front foyer is called Groin Vault style.
I just remembered those two large spaces/rooms at either side of the third floor were used as study halls that had desks to use to do reading or homework between classes if you had a open period in your day's schedule.
This makes a great All-Girls Public High School where the girls wear their own clothes and no schoolgirl uniforms. This is what I always think this way.
My mom graduated from this school in 1937. I attended 4th through 6th grade here from 1960-1963. Your video brought back so many memories. It’s been heart breaking to see it deteriorate over all of these years. When the previous owner had the school, he contracted my brother to remove all the cast iron radiators from all of the rooms. He said it was in rough shape then. Thank you for posting this video.
Candace I was in there with him it was bad but no where near as it is now ,can't believe how much worst it got
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At 7:25 that was my old 4th grade classroom on the first floor. Delia Doerschug was the teacher. 1979 was the last school year for this building. At 5:00 in the main entrance is where we would all come down during Christmas and sing songs in front of a huge tree loaded with lights and ornaments. What great memories!
In the late 1950s, many school districts "centralized", a process in which small, rural one- and two-room elementary schools were incorporated into larger, centralized school buildings. This building was converted from "Silver Creek High School" (which both my parents attended) into a 3-6 elementary school in 1960. I was in the first group of elementary students who attended this school which became known as the "Main Street Elementary" or just the "Main Street School." I remember all the classrooms from my four years there. The large room at the back of the building was the cafeteria. One floor directly above was the gym. The large classroom on the second floor was the art room and the even larger room on the third floor was the music room. I don't know what the tiered room on the second floor was used for in the original high school, but in the early sixties it was used for audio-visual presentations and as a room for instrumental music lessons. I was in the elementary band that rehearsed on the stage, and I also sang in chorus. I eventually became a music teacher myself. At age 70 now, I am amazed at all the memories this video has revived from when I was age seven through eleven. I'd love to talk to you more about this building.
Thanks for the memories! Graduated there in 1950. I often brag about this school and recall the very wide range of subjects offered here. One fourth of us took the college entrance track, offering latin, chemistry,biology, physics, algebra,intermediate algebra, plane geometry, trigonometry, and solid geometry. And if course, language and history. Band and orchestra and choir were options for all tracks. The automotive, metal shop, wood shop, electrical shop were great, for a town of 3000. Then there was homemaking and commercial tracks. Any grad was prepared for employment. The big gym and auditorium were loved. Management thought that the sports field was too far from the school and that was an unfortunate reason why the central school was built. Instead of refurbishing this solid building. Asbestos was a further excuse.... an engineer could have told the board that there is no hazard in handling asbestos insulation: the problem was the asbestos dust clouds at the insulation factory.
I was part of the last 6th grade class to "graduate" from this building in 1979. Somewhere I likely have the black and gold t-shirt that commemorated our class as such... all our names were listed on the back. During warm weather, I used to walk here from my home across town.
I do not remember any skylights, lol, but I was a kid so who knows?
I do remember at Christmas time, all the classrooms would meet in the downstairs main lobby and on the stairway and sing Christmas songs.
Many happy memories here
Very atmospheric and impressively filmed.
This was great! My spouse and I both attended this school. Closed after I attended 6th grade so in 79 I would say.
I attended that school from 2nd grade until 5th. I was part of the only 2nd grade class to attend that school, due to over-flow, from the K-2 school that was across the street. I performed on that stage in a Mary Poppins musical as well. Brings back many memories. The room at 10:50 was actually the art room. Yes, it was quite large for an art room. I'm surprised that you left out the humungous hole that now exists in the wall on the top floor. My beloved building, which I still look at every day, I've been a "Towny" my whole life, should just be torn down. It is now an eyesore, from the outside, and a hazard, because of pests and falling decayed wall structure. I hope you didn't inhale any of the asbestos. You're a braver man than I.
My mother went to high school here and I went to elementary school in the 60's. It is so sad, I don't even recognize many of the rooms anymore. One of the large rooms on the 3rd floor was the choral room. We've watched it deteriorate over the years wondering how it looked on the inside. Thank you so much for filming this.
What school is this
My dad attended school there as did I! Remember well walking the halls- the stair cases- the teachers - running the projector in the AV room ( and Mr. Wilson) and so many other memories. Performing on the stage- climbing ropes in the gym- and oh, so many wonderful classmates. We were lucky to have experienced attending school in this fine building in the days- very sad to go back to town and see this rotting away-- watching the video, could recall the entire place of my youth by heart!
1978/79 was the last school year it was used as a school. It was the only year I attended this building and it was in pretty rough shape then. If memory serves the music room and library were on the 3rd floor, health office and art room on the second, main office was to the right of the entrance looking at the building. The cafeteria was at the back of the building, I think 2nd floor. There were no lockers in the hallways, just open coat racks with wire shelves across the top and a shoe/boot shelf. My classroom was the second on the left, first floor if you entered using the ramp with the steps at the back of the building.
when he came out of the gym up the small stairs turn left was the music room
I grew up in Silver Creek in the 90s and we used to sneak in and hang out in there. It brought back so many memories of friends I haven't thought of in years, sadly many of them are passed away, but this video brought back happy memories.❤😊
Are you the "Anna" in the graffiti? One said 1991, lol 😆 Another said "Anna, Jeff and Pat"
Nice video. I posted four of the inside of this school several years ago, and I see a lot of things haven't changed too much since then. I've been in there many times over a period of two years, with permission of the prior owner, to collect and restore truckloads of items. Still working on those to this day.
I believe they can’t tear it down because of the asbestos in it. And renovation would be a lot of money, so I think it’s just gonna rot away there. Always wanted to go inside so it’s super cool to see, My dad went there.
Sadly this is true very full of asbestos my dad and many if his siblings also attended this school
W Video, So Sad To See All The Memories From Pervious Students Who Attended Here Slip Away.
The last really big room 3rd floor- was the chorus / music room ❣️🎶
Yep. Mom mentioned that once, when I asked her how the school was laid out.
Hope this place gets renovated, would be sad to see it go.
I really appreciate your attention to your filming and consideration for what we (the viewers) will see. Thanks for the exposure adjustments, and slow panning, amongst other things. Keep up the good content!
I appreciate that!
Could I just say this is how you record derelict buildings...superb quality and superb shots!
Wow, thanks!
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That building was also built as a fallout shelter, the part that was flooded was the tunnels that are under the school, You enter threw the Boiler room that is under the kitchen
Thank small stadium classroom that he saw on the floor near the balcony section of the auditorium, back in the 1960s Mr. Wilson use to teach students how to use audio visual equipment
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The 78/79 school year was the last it was used I remember going up to the art room the room with the risers was chorus room I think it was a great school
i attended school here grade 3-6, i was so shy as a young girl. So sad the way it turned out.
I attended grades 5 through 8 in this school in the 50s. Thanks for the memories!
What a beautiful building. I love old schools like this. There was one like this in a town I lived in as a kid in the 70’s. I found out a few years after we moved, it burned down. Too bad schools don’t look like this anymore.
yea some buttheads probably burned it down. someone did it to my old elementary school too
Wow all these years finally get to see the in side wow what a loss
What a shame it can’t be renovated.
I went to this school. That funny tiered room was for music. That was a cool school to run around in. Great job and thank you for the memories.
The funny tiered room was the AV room ( NOT CHOIR) - and originally ( my sister went early years) was a science lab…
@@loisgallagher7115 Interesting, my first thought about that room was a medical class.
audio visual room
Choral room was likely one of the larger, now empty, rooms. I remember a large wooden bleacher-type seating so it was tiered. It likely rotted away or was taken out when the school closed
This video reminds me so much of the much smaller school I went to for 2/3 grade and again for 7th. The stairways brought back the memory of how worn the treads were in my day at that school. It's been torn down years ago but seeing this one made me miss those 'school days'. Also watching the video I started wondering when/why they stopped putting such nice big windows in schools. Don't think there are many now over maybe 3 stories. Must have been quite something at one time! (I see someone posting the subjects taught back then - don't think there's much to compare that to nowadays)
I live 10 minutes from this school and have always wanted to go inside
Nice one . And Happy Birthday 🥳 🎊 from Australia 🇦🇺
Thank you! 😃
Drive by this all the time cool to see the inside
My Mother graduated from High School there and I went to elementary school grade 3-6 there in the 70's
Was your mother Marie Richie and your dad called Red? If so, she was my dear cousin and had a beautiful soprano voice. She sang at my husband and my wedding. Even our parents went to this school, if they went past 8th grade, and in some classes we had the same teachers, teaching over two generations. Teachers were different back then, than now. They were true teachers and dedicated to preparing us students to be successful in life. My husband and I met each other in one of the first floor classrooms in 5th grade in Mrs. Wentworth's homeroom when the school was first centralized in 1950. We graduated in 1958 and were in the last senior class to graduate out of this building.
I am Sherry Bull, married to Gene Bull, and we live in Pinehurst NC. Gene was class president. I was valedictorian. This building still reflects it's architectural beauty. I don't remember all the skylights. We both remember the tiered room to be the science room where biology, chemistry, physics teacher Mr. Lindstrom taught. Adjoining it was the Lab. I remember the gym and thought it had some viewing balcony seats accessed via the floor above. When I think back to all the facilities, we were very fortunate. In addition to the basic subjects, we had a great library, art room, mechanical drawing in addition to art room, shop room, home economics with full kitchen and sewing machines, band room as well as chorus room, gym with lockers and showers and access to the villages ball fields a short walk away. The teachers were the BEST. They would have never done any of us harm or seduced us as is common today. Those of us in the village walked to and from school. Buses were only provided for youngsters living out of the village limits. Our choruses, bands, and sports teams won many honors and titles because the teachers and coaches led us to do our best. In this small town there was no discrimination between us students. Whether your parents worked in the small factories in the area, were farmers, were professionals or business owners, were wealthy or poor, were black or white, we all were just friends in this school. No bullying, no fighting, no snobs. Life was good.
@Sherry Bull Yes, my mother was Mary (Panzarella) Richir, but she went by Marie. She passed in 2020 (85 years old) My dad is Jules Richir, but everyone calls him "Red", he is still with us and just turned 92. I still live in Chautauqua County and moved back after my military service in 1986.
@@sherrybull5183 How are you related?
David...My dad Angelo Cuccia was a brother of your grandmother Josephine Panzarella, Aunt Jay we called her. She and Uncle Frank lived on Burgess St. My parents built a home at 59 Robinson St. Am I remembering correctly that your parents had two daughters and you? Somehow we did learn of your Mom's passing in 2020. Was it COVID? Antoinette Williams the youngest of my Dad's siblings also died that year. Did you know that at the end of every Christmas Eve service at Mt. Carmel Catholic church your Mom sang the Ave Maria? It was so beautiful. We'd all go back to Grandma Cuccia's house and eat Italian sausage in grandma's home made rolls and get back to our own houses about 3 am. We were back to Silver Creek, Sheridan and Dunkirk last summer and visited all the cemeteries of my family and Gene's. We have about 15-20 relatives yet there. We used to get back every fall before Covid as we would attend a reunion and football game at Syracuse University with Gene's college buddies. We both will be 83 in a few weeks and married 60 years in July. We have two sons, 5 bloodline grandchildren, 3 new through marriage of three of those grandchildren. Our immediate family members live in VA, MA, IN, FL, and NC.
It is wonderful to hear back from you. Tell me more about you and your family.
Brings back memories from my junior high days, though I didn't go to school here. The building is much like the school I attended in the early 70's.
I can hear in my mind the noises in the hallways, the clatter of feet on the stairways, the echos in the gymnasium.
Great video. It would take millions of millions of dollars yo restore this place. It would be a waste, structures are not safe, nothing is safe in that building. Better to tare it down and then rebuild, be alot cheaper. Thanks for sharing.
I agree with you
Yes. Quite cost prohibitive. That's putting it mildly. The other issue is, after the late 1800s, Silver Creek was a small port, and mill town. When boat and train were primary means of transportation, the village thrived. Decline started around the late 50s, when the thruway was built, and traffic on 5&30 died down.
Place was on life support by the mid 80s, and critical by 90, when we moved there, back in mom's case.
The scale of economy im the area jiat can't supprt a project of the scale needed to fix the place, and even tearing it down, is not an economical option. Sadly, I see it falling within my lifetime, and I wouldn't want to be down wind, when, not if, it does.
Indeed. From a restoration standpoint, once the roof has been compromised like this, it's a wrap.....
Really nice 4K vid Dave, love the intro!
Back a few years ago there was a meeting at the school one know about the school I stud up and spoke about the school trying to get the community to help and restore the school for the community and for the next generation.
Hope you had enjoyed your birthday and this was an epic Explorer thanks🤗👍
Thanks so much
This could make fantastic Condos.
"Bathrooms & showers, nothing to see there". Then don't mention it dude cuz I would have liked to see it. The elevated room is a lecture hall.
This was epic find where in NY is it ?
This is the old Silver Creek high school in Silver Creek, New York
About 5 miles west of the I 90, exit 58, along route 20. Silver Creek and Irving NY exit. Used to pass it every morning to get to the Central School. 90 to 93.
My grandmother went to this school in the ‘40s. I have a beautiful painting of the front of the school that she did.
I know this school! Watch out of all the asbestos
how many old schools like this in Canada that is over 100 years old thank you for a great video
Glad you enjoyed it
The room with the tiered seating may have been for some type of medical classes. With all those broken windows I expected you to run into at least 1 pigeon. The slowness of your video was a nice change.
Those round light fixtures in the hall and classrooms are familiar. I remember them from my elementary school days-and some of those books. So sad to see this beautiful building decaying. That’s a pretty ambitious project-to repurpose that building. It looks too far gone. But who knows? Hopefully the right developer can work a miracle. Great explore.
My grandfather went to school here when he was in high school I go to the the new school so cool to see someone come out and do something like this thank you man seriously 💯💪🏼
For a minute I thought this was the old school in Cattaraugus, they are very similar. Both are sad.
17:52 must be one of the original T-bar drop ceilings.
I am watching from Elmira NY that looks like the abandoned Hopkins street school on the Southside of Elmira NY
Enjoyed the video. Great filming job, lots of good detail. Sort of looked like you were going through a bomb site 👍
Happy Birthday Dave!!!
Happy birthday Dave. ❤This is epic. I'm hoping that it does get the love it needs. Got some really beautiful woodwork on the doors and windows. I'm wondering if this school had a cafeteria and a staff room because of the stove. I would like to see the blooming of nature in the auditorium. ❤😂😮😊 great explore Dave.
Thank you very much!
Yes this school had a cafeteria. I can still smell the sauerkraut they put on the hot dogs for lunch. I used to gag on the smell. Glad my mom made me peanut & jelly sandwiches for lunch😂
I went to this school from grades 3 to 6. That room at 8:40 used to be the old cafeteria. Boy that video brings back memories
my dad went to elementary school there! he’s 61 now and excitedly sent me this video saying he recognized so much, like the books!
This is my dad's childhood school!
Ah man, talk about a trip down memory lane. Sad the building is in such sad shape. The last year for this school was 1979. I went to 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade here, (1976-79).
I went school there , live in the villiag. Remember that school well. Remember doing a play in auditorium, taking gym in that gym!!!!!! So sad!
That is a very cool school building and that one different classroom is very cool as well and as soon as I saw it my first thought was that it's that way because of that very cool ceiling in the entryway that you showed earlier on
That might be the reason because that tiered classroom used for biology, chemistry, and physics classes likely was right above it. That room was on the second floor near the center. But there should have been a second tiered classroom to accommodate the full Groin Vaulted ceiling below and I don't remember a second tiered classroom. Class of 1958.
@@sherrybull5183 holy crap you actually went to this school that's incredible and yeah I was actually wondering about the other side of that wall I realize that he did not show two rooms like that and that room would only be half of that ceiling so yeah I was actually thinking about that myself
@@Zachalackalackalack My husband confirms there was only one classroom like that but perhaps the other side was used as a storage closet on the second floor. The teacher's desk sat on foor level in a narrow space at the bottom and had an internal door that led to the large Lab attached. A small Latin language classroom adjacent on the high end of the tier, that might have been next down the hall, possibly was same size as the science teacher's desk area. Together, the possible closet and Latin room size could have accommodated the Groin Vaulted ceiling below. We were teens, so we were into Elvis and Bill Haley and the Comets, not architecture
Looking back and remembering all that school offered us students re education, we had a lot.
Our Class of 1958 was the last Senior Class to graduate out of this building. Considering the village of Silver Creek NY only has had about 3000 residents, they provided us with a beautiful building and a well-rounded curriculum for our time. Of course, centralization helped but it also added to the operating costs.
Hello from Mönchengladbach Germany. The Sealing in the Entrance is called in German "Kreuzgewölbe". The Translation must be called "Cross Vault".
While the building may be in disrepair, seeing videos of it in this condition bring back all the GOOD memories of attending from grades 3-6. HOWEVER, glad you didn't go up to the showers in the gym. That was NOT a happy memory for me! Hated them! The locker room you have in your video was to the girls locker room. As for the room with the tiered seating, it was the audio visual room. One kid per classroom was selected to learn the audio visual equipment, and the class either went to this room or equipment was brought into the classroom, and the child who knew how to operated the equipment did so. I wasn't selected until 6th grade, so I had limited time running the projectors. The auditorium once was a regal hall! And, in the gym there is seating that appears to be walled in partially at this point. My mother was a cheerleader, and has since passed. I can't recall if she said they cheered down on the floor or up in the seats. Thank you for this. I hope hi brings attention to the right person who can restore it in time for me to move back and live there!
Happy Birthday Dave 🎁📍🥳my birthday was March the 10th Love the old School . Thanks for sharing . ❤❤❤ Stay safe love you
Thanks 👍
My parents went to that school, I went to it's successor. Unfortunately the building has been neglected for so long, and is full of asbestos and the flooding problem I don't think it's salvageable at this point.
Thanks for visiting Silver Creek, hope you enjoyed your time.
Damn. A comment from someone I know.
Yeah. Talkong to mom, and my uncles, as well as menbers of the Hopkins and Mohart families, as well as a few of the fosters, it was already having issues when mom attended on the early 60s. Worse when J Mohart was there, late 60s, and when jis wife attended.
Still remember sneaking in with friends, after movong to Irving in late 90, after dad retired. Was getting really bad then. Wife and I drive by it now, and it seems like each time we do, more bricks have fallen.
Paat trip by, the west wall of the third floor is gone. Big open hole. Damn shame. Part of why no one dod anyrhing with it is that, over the laat 30 years, it has become more work and expense than the property is worth, even to just take it down. Complete renovation would cost even more.
But. At least they were able to savw the elementary school, the next street east. Senior and disabled housing with that one.
I like the look of old schools. The new ones are blah
1979 was the last year it was open , so 44 years, if my Silver Creek math is correct. I was in the last 5th grade class there. The K-2 across the street (Babcock Ave) was sold and turned into apartments.
happy birthday dear friend
Thank you so much 😊
Its really a shame they can't repurpose this building. They have waited to long and now it's really just a ruined building with a lot of history 😢
For some reason this place seems so sad, more so than other places I've seen you film
Been like that as long as I remember. Started visiting in 83, mom was class of 71, and moved there in 90. Never got to see it any other way than run down. Graduated in 93, and used to sneak in sometimes. Always found it relaxing and peaceful, when I had the placs to myself.
One of mom's most vivid memories was sitting in class on 22 November, 1963, and hearing about the assassination of JFK. One weel after her 9th birthday. Stoppes ny, to lool at the building, and she pointed out the classroom window, that her desk sat by. We sat on the bikes, and she told me about it.
Was an interesting feeling, family history, crossed by world history. Same with standing there, 3600 miles from where I was born. A moment that I never even considered possible, the first 16 years of my life.
Happy birthday nice
I'm just now seeing this video, Wishing You a Very Happy Birthday,I hope You had a Great day.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! ----------The place is what we call a handyman special ? or WHAT THE HELL?!
So sad to see nothing happening to the old school
19:59😂😂😂 Did they not know what magnets were back then
Little phone... LoL!!😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣❤❤🪓🪓
yes i love it slow, to see everything, i saw a gear in the first of the vlog, it was in the green room which i think it was shop class, i wish you could get me that gear
Bro needed to be wearing a respirator, jesus fucking christ. Cool seeing the inside of this building after walking by it for years though.
Delco pa Tom here yep the hallowed halls still hold the ghost in the machine sounds of those of thus organ keys and fuzz guitar as they played the school dance in 1967 before two of them were sent to nam now they walk the halls with their cool granny glasses and striped pants wondering what happened to the battle of the bands ..like wow man groovy class of 69
Cool
Was at school today and warned about the high level of asbestos dust..good luck.
My high school had one of those rooms like a college lecture room. Just one as far as I know.
Where is this located at it looks like the school I went to as a kid in Grant Co. Kentucky
new york state
Can you make a video on the M.M. Rose School in Detroit?
Due to the very poor conditions of the building it probably will be demolished! It’s cost to much money and time the fix it up!
Just what I was thinking. Too costly to renovate, and would be easier for it to be demolished. Love the auditorium, though.
The room across from the auditorium balcony was the audio-visual room where we watched movies. I attended school there from 3rd-6th grade.
What city is this
@@psilva2462 Silver Creek, NY
Happy birthday
Is this the school they demolished and built a library on the grounds?
Would take some work if someone takes it over hope the building can be used again
Mainly as sxrap and recycled material. Place wouldn't survive being gutted, to jave a clean slate to start from.
I attended this school (when it was the middle school) from the September of 1970 to June of 1975. There were bricks falling from the exterior back in the 1970's. Someone recorded a video in 2007 - not near as detailed as your video. The creepiest part was the scene from the main office where the teacher's names were all still on the mailboxes. ua-cam.com/video/NpxUssi8DM0/v-deo.html
That's one of my videos. It was meant to be a brief scan over some of the highlights of that building. The next three videos I posted were a close look at every single room.
The hall with the sky lights is where the 6th grade classes were when it was an elementary school.
Happy b day!
Sadly this structure is way to far gone to renovate. Would easily cost over $500k just for the remediation and demo before any new construction. All the collapsed ceiling areas are indicative of roof failure, which translates into major amounts of rotten wooden structural components, which would all need to be replaced prior to new roof. Once the roof is compromised it's essentially the end of the building, especially in cold climate regions like this as can be seen where plaster gas fallen off brick work. Water saturated these porus areas and when temps drop below freezing it expands and destroys masonry
me and my friend went in there and u can go on the stage it’s stable enough to go on and there’s a way on the rooftop
The class room that different could be the choirs room or acting classroom
That large room on the second floor at 9:30 mark was probably the cafeteria in the back of the school l.
That Class room across from theater baloney more than likely was the Drama Class.
Stove is from the 1920s
I KNOW WHERE THIS IS HOW DID U GET IN HERE I'M AN EXPLORER TO I NEED TO KNOW HOW TO GET HERE I'M NOT FAR FROM HERE PLEASE HELP ME TELL ME HOW TO GET IN MUCH APPRECIATED EXCITED HERE
Hopped over the 4 foot chain link fence and walked in?
Happy birthday 🎉