Historic Hood River
Coe Primary School
5-4-2016
Notes
Here’s a 1955 image of the Coe Primary school, which was built in 1916. The school will be celebrating its 100th anniversary tomorrow. It now holds district offices.
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Arlen Sheldrake
Boy, how memories fade…..did grades 1 & 2 here I think in the mid 40s….not a long walk from 701 Prospect.
Kenn
Classic, beautiful, impressive, and built to last.
L.E.
It looks larger here. When you drive by, between those two ninety degree corners, the school seems all scrunched in by trees and houses.
So this school and the Park Street School existed at the same time and quite close to each other??
Bill Seaton
I was in Mrs Dicken’s room for 1st grade and Miss Roberts’ for 2nd grade. This was the same time as Arlen, but we were in different rooms. Mrs. Frick was the principal. First and Second Graders were not allowed to play marbles "for keeps".
leslie
I was in 1st grade in the back building and in 2nd grade in the front building
1950 and 1951. 3rd, 4th and 5th was at Park Street and 6th was split between the May Street Gym and Park Street. We went to the New May Street school for 7th and 8th.
Susan Turner
It’s great to see that building, and Ha[[y Birthday, Coe School! My grandmother, Lanora Frick, was principal there in the 50s and 60s. My mom taught first grade (I always wondered what it wa like for her to have her mother as her boss!). I have some very happy memories with my friends and classmates.
Arlen Sheldrake
Susan, I always had a lot of respect for your grandmother…stern but fair and a nice lady. and a fellow Prospect resident…..
Judy
My kids went to both Park Street & Coe Primary. Sad but true, not many people in Hood River even know that there actually was a school where the play park is located now. Even some young school teachers I asked. 😜
Kenn
I would like to see this building next time in HR, an address for this outsider please..
Arthur
1009 Eugene St. Follow 9th up from State and follow the traffic to the right. It will be on your left.
Carl Shinkle
Hi had Mrs. Yeck in the upstairs room closest to the camera. One o our assignments was to write the numbers from one to a thousand.
Roger Sheldrake
I lost most of my marbles in the Park Street school yard. That said I got through life OK!! Where does Carl Shinkle live now; I remember him. Went to the 1964 reunion of Hood River high school; saw a few people that remembered me–moved in 1961
Carl Shinkle
I live in Salem now. I didn’t go to the Hood River reunion because I moved to The Dalles after my sophomore year. Didn’t quite feel right going to either reunion.
Jackie Cooper
I remember having 1 & 2 grade here, I remember there was a coed side and a girls side to the playground. I had Ms. Dickien’s for 1st grade. I still have my report cards and the comments were always I was a social butterfly. I remember Jimmy Henderson kissed me on the playground. I think I went there in 1957.
I now live in Reno, NV
Peggy Bradley Gaston
My memories of Coe Primary was whenever a kid had a bleeding nose, Mrs Dickson (first name Pansy) would have me take them to the lavatory to stop their bleeding. My mother was a nurse and she taught me how. I was elected class president, not for the nose bleed treatments but because I was taller that the rest of the kids. There were only a couple of boys taller than me. Finally, that Summer between Freshman and Sophmore years, the boys had a growth spurt.
Carol Jean Hawkins Solomon
I was in Mrs. Pansy Deskin’s first grade class in 1953. She was wonderful! Her husband was my bus driver. I also remember Mrs. Frick. I also remember that the year Mrs. Deskin retired was the same year her 1953 first grade class graduated from Hood River High School. A bunch of us went to visit her that day. She was very special to us and we loved her. Our first grade classroom was in the newer building behind the old two story building where I attended Mrs. Fisher’s 2nd grade class – I,might have been the girl with the nose bleeds, Peggy. Yes, I went to Park Street School and May Street School as well.
Jeffrey W Bryant
Built for $18,000 in 1916.
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn97071110/1916-12-14/ed-1/seq-1/
Judy Lipker Palmer
I, too, was in Pansy Disken’s 1st grade classroom. I remember having to crawl under our desks when the air raid horn sounded. Also, Mrs. Yeck in 3rd grade. Remember citing multiplication tables in front of the class. Went to to 4th Grade with Miss Dohma at Park Street. There was an outside covered play area south of the building that collapsed during a heavy snow storm. Went on to Mrs. Clark’s 5th grade class and transferred in the middle of that year when we moved to Bend, Oregon.