Highland Park Elementary School

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Highland Park Elementary School . 1212 5th Street SW . Roanoke . 24016

Park Street School opened in 1907, was damaged by fire in 1920, and rebuilt in 1921. Its name was changed to Highland Park Elementary in 1924. Click Here for some interesting reading on the history of old southwest...scroll down to page 6 "The First Public Park" and you can see an old picture of the school, and park.

Highland Park Elementary is still in use and is now a magnet school. Visit their website HERE

Linking with Tom's Tuesday's Treasures

Willy Nilly Friday 5 No. 138

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1)
This morning's sunrise...the Blue Ridge Mountains in the distance...it's going to be a gorgeous day!

2)
Wednesday was Ashlyn's 23rd birthday! I went over and picked her up so we could spend a few hours together. She wanted to go to Black Dog Salvage and look around for a table...everything was way out of her price range...they have cool stuff there, just pretty costly...I've heard from people around here that the prices went up after they started their show...that's too bad...anyways, after leaving Black Dog empty handed I took her to lunch at Tuco's Taqueria which is one of her favorite places...we both had a shredded beef taco and a chicken taco...oh, and a margarita :)
After that we went back to her apartment and walked around the block with Riley...

3)
This one is a couple of houses down from her...

4)
This one is on the corner...can you see the porch curtains on the left? I love when big porches like this have curtains!

5)
The little alleyway that runs behind her street...

I've got to get the boys up shortly and head to the mall...we need to do some back to school shopping...boo...school starts Wednesday...booooo :(

I put shopping off till almost the last minute and wouldn't you know, today and tomorrow are "tax free" days for back to school stuff such as clothes and computers and school supplies...you couldn't pay me to get out and shop tomorrow but maybe the crowds won't be so bad this morning and I can save a few bucks!

That's my 5 this week friends! I hope you will play along too! Post 5 randoms, link back and visit others! Have a great weekend :)



I'm linking up with Macha's Weekend Green & Five on Friday