My sister Laura & I attended King Elementary School in West Akron for Kindergarten through fifth grade. (Emily was in private school K-8.) It was a great elementary school and I have many memories from my days there. I went up to Akron last Sunday & Monday to visit my parents and see my sister who was in town from Chicago, and Monday morning, after a 2 mile walk in Sand Run Metro Park (many good memories there too!), my mom, sister & I headed to King School... to say goodbye :-( They are tearing down and rebuilding many of the Akron Public Schools, many of which are beautiful, historic buildings. I currently teach in a building that was built in 2003... so I see both sides of this issue, as there are tons of problems with old buildings and advantages to having a new one. Still, it is sad. The building is long, so I don't have a picture that shows all of it (and the trees in West Akron are so big it blocks part of the building anyways.) Here are a few of my partial pics: 
On the Summit County Historical Society blog (Mom, did you know they have one?!?), I found out this building was built in 1922!! Crazy. So perhaps it is time for a little updating... We were only able to visit the outside as they have already started work on the inside, doing whatever it is you do before you demolish and old building. Here are some pics of Laura & I at our favorite recess and gym class spots: (Please keep in mind they stopped landscaping and weeding b/c there's no point anymore... it used to look much better!)
Here's the good old kickball field:
The small portion left of the playground that existed when we were students there... they have done some upgrading, but why would I want pictures of the plastic new stuff ??:
Close-up of the double monkey bars... pretty sure we used to race on these:
The soccer/tag/tetherball/Mother May I (all-purpose??) field:
Standing on the steps where we once took 5th grade graduation pics... Adieu King School :-(
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