POPULATION: 14,415
HOUSES: 3,560
- Park Theater in East Walpole closes, and re-opens as home to Peggy Lawton's Kitchens.
- New Echo Inn at south end of downtown is replaced by Walpole Arena, which hosts wrestling matches on Saturday evenings.
- Clark's Pond (Stone Street) and surrounding land is purchased by the town per recommendation of the newly minted Walpole Conservation Commission
SCHOOLS
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| New high school science teacher Tom Brown, with students Kevin Dillon, Paul Deeley, and Gregg Ferrara |
- Anticipation of continued explosive growth in the school population reinforces ongoing concern regarding classroom capacity.
- School Committee notes stark difference between class size of graduating seniors (153 students) and incoming first graders (449 students)
- Glut of elementary school students requires move of three elementary classes to high school, and seven to recently opened East Junior High School
- Construction begins on addition to Boyden Elementary School
- New school teacher hires include George Collins (elementary school music), Peter Paglari (high school Spanish) and Tom Brown (high school science)
1 comment:
The Park Theater was great. Always well maintained, always the best films. We used to wait by the ticket window for it to open so we could run down and get seats in the first row. Attached to the theater was the "Snack Bar" Cafe. My mother worked behind the counter and I used to walk from Bird School so she could fix me grilled cheese sandwiches. The movie tickets were 20 cents and when the price was raised to 25 I had to collect more soda bottles to cash in for the deposit money. I think a milk shake was 20 or 25 cents too, hot dog sandwiches were 15 cents. A cherry coke was 5 cents. The early 50s was a great time to be a kid in East Walpole.
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