Well, my high school wasn’t “foo-foo” per se, but it too had its gym and auditorium as separate rooms. The gym was also used at times for music concerts. Graduation was at the football/soccer/track stadium.
My tall, brick high school, probably built near the turn of the last century, was like the classic ones in old movies.The front door was above ground level…. reached by massive stairs… The auditorium was the centerpiece… right in the middle of the first floor…high-ceilinged and impressive.
The gym, on the other hand, was in the “basement” …which I believe was really more like the ground floor…alongside the junior high classrooms and the lunchroom.
Not fancy… but solid and sturdy and traditional….and torn down in the 1980’s.A shame, I think.
I had two gyms… and an auditorium. A nice auditorium. But its easier to sell fancy as two gyms (plus a phsyio room, a weight room, and a pool). Wasn’t a private school though!
Second question first – when I was growing up my nickname was “Mouse” and I am still an honorary Aunt Mousie to several people the age of my own children.
I guess most folks would call me “fancy”. (They also call me other, less flattering, things.) My mum’s mother came from money, refused to eat in the kitchen, would never enter another woman’s kitchen, and insisted upon using cloth napkins. I still use cloth napkins, and our kitchen was designed with no eating space, but that’s it.
@Tony I’m not too fancy at all, my elementary had one room that was the gym, auditorium and cafeteria but my high school for 9th grade (it closed after that) looked a lot like Susan’s but my gym was in a separate building on the street behind the school. I loved having gym at the end of the day, I left directly from the field house (as the building was called.)
@JPW I had several nicknames, some of them very mean, I will share that my dad called me Pumpkin.
Yes, I’m fancy and my name is Nancy. Our school had a beautiful auditorium with plush seats like a theater. The gym was at the back of the school by the pool and football field. All still standing with a few buildings added. - Funny – when you are going to school, you think you’re school is just like all schools.
I, too, went to school in a big brick two story building. We had a beautiful auditorium but no gym. It was a girl’s school, and when it was built (in the 30s) girls didn’t play sports. A shower/locker room and a tennis/volley ball/ basket ball court was added in the 40s.
Then in the 80s they found out that half the school wasn’t earthquake proof, so they tore down and rebuilt that half, then moved another girls’s school into ours when their school fell down in the Whittier quake. Sigh
QOTD #1: My high school was all one floor, gym, cafeteria separate but the gym also served as the auditorium. In my younger years all three were in the same building so I thought it was fancy.
QOTD #2: Had several nicknames use varied as to what I was doing. However the one that has sticker the longest is the name I use on any site that I have to sign in to leave messages.
Templo S.U.D. over 8 years ago
Well, my high school wasn’t “foo-foo” per se, but it too had its gym and auditorium as separate rooms. The gym was also used at times for music concerts. Graduation was at the football/soccer/track stadium.
Last Rose Of Summer Premium Member over 8 years ago
Tony and Schmancy BevFancy? I’m eleganter than Bev!
SusanSunshine Premium Member over 8 years ago
My tall, brick high school, probably built near the turn of the last century, was like the classic ones in old movies.The front door was above ground level…. reached by massive stairs… The auditorium was the centerpiece… right in the middle of the first floor…high-ceilinged and impressive.
The gym, on the other hand, was in the “basement” …which I believe was really more like the ground floor…alongside the junior high classrooms and the lunchroom.
Not fancy… but solid and sturdy and traditional….and torn down in the 1980’s.A shame, I think.
Knightman Premium Member over 8 years ago
Am I fancy? No, I’m still in my Jammies!!!
sbischof over 8 years ago
I had two gyms… and an auditorium. A nice auditorium. But its easier to sell fancy as two gyms (plus a phsyio room, a weight room, and a pool). Wasn’t a private school though!
GROG Premium Member over 8 years ago
Our high school auditorium and gym were in the same building but different locations.
I’m just an ordinary average guy.
Plods with ...™ over 8 years ago
Burp Pardon me… nope. no fancy here.
Dani Rice over 8 years ago
Second question first – when I was growing up my nickname was “Mouse” and I am still an honorary Aunt Mousie to several people the age of my own children.
I guess most folks would call me “fancy”. (They also call me other, less flattering, things.) My mum’s mother came from money, refused to eat in the kitchen, would never enter another woman’s kitchen, and insisted upon using cloth napkins. I still use cloth napkins, and our kitchen was designed with no eating space, but that’s it.
nosirrom over 8 years ago
My daughter’s school has a Cafetorium.
QuietStorm27 over 8 years ago
@Tony I’m not too fancy at all, my elementary had one room that was the gym, auditorium and cafeteria but my high school for 9th grade (it closed after that) looked a lot like Susan’s but my gym was in a separate building on the street behind the school. I loved having gym at the end of the day, I left directly from the field house (as the building was called.)
@JPW I had several nicknames, some of them very mean, I will share that my dad called me Pumpkin.
Perkycat over 8 years ago
Yes, I’m fancy and my name is Nancy. Our school had a beautiful auditorium with plush seats like a theater. The gym was at the back of the school by the pool and football field. All still standing with a few buildings added. - Funny – when you are going to school, you think you’re school is just like all schools.
KEA over 8 years ago
thought the phrase was Frou-frou
Last Rose Of Summer Premium Member over 8 years ago
Some people started Judi Cootie, but I stomped on that pretty quick!So…..noAnd for dog’s sake Please don’t say: Judi Judi Judi.I may have to hurt you.
Last Rose Of Summer Premium Member over 8 years ago
I, too, went to school in a big brick two story building. We had a beautiful auditorium but no gym. It was a girl’s school, and when it was built (in the 30s) girls didn’t play sports. A shower/locker room and a tennis/volley ball/ basket ball court was added in the 40s.
Then in the 80s they found out that half the school wasn’t earthquake proof, so they tore down and rebuilt that half, then moved another girls’s school into ours when their school fell down in the Whittier quake. Sigh
neverenoughgold over 8 years ago
Never thought of it as “Foo Foo”; I thought it was pretty much “SOP” for every high school…
neverenoughgold over 8 years ago
@Tony“Are you fancy?”
Are you kidding?
neverenoughgold over 8 years ago
Did you have a nickname?
Buzz…
Steven Wright over 8 years ago
QOTD #1: My high school was all one floor, gym, cafeteria separate but the gym also served as the auditorium. In my younger years all three were in the same building so I thought it was fancy.
QOTD #2: Had several nicknames use varied as to what I was doing. However the one that has sticker the longest is the name I use on any site that I have to sign in to leave messages.