November 25
The Bula School was operational from 1925 through 1975, so those things in the cabinet of what appears to be the home economics room (to use an outdated term!) have been there for nearly forty years.
Bula School, 3 of 4
Corner of Farm Road 54 and Farm Road 37
Bailey County, Texas
photographed 2.4.11
Posted on November 25, 2012, in architecture, Photography and tagged abandoned buildings, architecture, bailey county texas, black and white photography, bula school, bula school texas, columbia cemeteryc, haiku, laurie jameson, one day one image, photo a day, photography, texas. Bookmark the permalink. 6 Comments.
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Such a messy mess!
Is there nothing to salvage?
Even coffee cups?
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Do you know the rest of the story? Why was everything just left there? Why is it a mess now?
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I don’t know anything at all about what happened here. I was on a trip with some co-workers when we found this place – a happy occurrence for me, since this is the sort of thing I really like to find.
Thanks for stopping by the blog, and thanks for the comment – sorry I can’t give you any answers!
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I graduated a bit before this school was shut down, but HomeEc was one of my least favourite classes. My mother could (and still can) cook very well in the French and Italian traditions (having lived in both places). The stuff (I won’t call it food) that HomeEc teachers made us learn to cook was gross. I bet if you poked around in here you could find boxes of macaroni dinner and their little sachets of sauce powder – probably still as viable as the day they left the factory. Even for all the bad memories, I like this picture. That plastic bucket doesn’t look like a mid-70’s one, but perhaps it is.
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I graduated in 1974 – and I absolutely REFUSED to take home ec. Didn’t take typing, either. Instead I took drafting; my 8th grade counselor changed my life (I am not exaggerating!) when he told me “girls can’t take drafting” but was unable to give me anything resembling, you know, a REASON. (I did take drafting, and eventually got a degree in architecture. Almost entirely to show him that he was an idiot.) Anyway, I am sure you are right about the “stuff’ that was taught in home ec. And it makes me sort of want to go back to Bula and look around that room because I am positive that “cheese” powder is still there, just as tasty as ever.
I hope you learned your mom’s culinary traditions – my mom wasn’t too much of a cook (“burnt” was her main tradition) but for some reason she make excellent pie crusts. That doesn’t make sense!
And – that bucket looks a lot newer than mid-70s to me, too.
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I get the impression that counselor did not stand a chance, and if it had not been that one, it would have been another person telling you some kind of old fashioned fable. Still, nice outcome for sure!
And, you are joking of course – that cheese powder is not calling your name, is not for you.
Oops, did I just make it more likely you will be back there soon?
I learned some from my mother, and still am. She is very much in the mood to pass on her knowledge these days as she is in her 80’s. The grand kids are benefiting somewhat with more and more recipes.
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