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Here are some old Class Photos from
Charnock Road School
in the Westside Village area of Los Angeles, CA 90034.


Were you born in 1944?
Are you about 66 years old?

Do you know or remember any of these kids?

 1947 to 1959 - Original Charnock Road School
(bungalows at Midvale Ave. - 12 years)

Class of 1955 - Charnock Road School, Palms, CA - 1955
Class of 1956 -
Charnock Road School, Palms, CA - 1956
             1957 -
Kindergarten - Class of 1963
Class of 1958 - Pls send me a photo if you have one - 1958


1959 to Present - "New" Charnock Road School
(at Sepulveda Blvd. - 45 years)

Class of 1960 - Charnock Road School, Palms, CA - 1960
A6 Class of Jan. 1962 - Charnock Road School, Palms, CA - 1962
A6 Class of Jun. 1962 -
Charnock Road School, Palms, CA - 1962
A6 Class of Jan. 1964 - Charnock Road School, Palms, CA - 1964

Where the new school now sits, I remember that property on Sepulveda as a big Victorian mansion, set far back on a huge lot.
Located in the "Westside Village" section west of Palms, CA
That would be "West of Palms" (Overland Ave.), NOT East of Mar Vista.


List of responders to this page

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My Schools
1949
K

 Palms Elementary School, Los Angeles, CA
 I lived on
3345 Mentone Ave.

 Mrs. Ethel Tarbox

1950
B1
A1

 Palms Elementary School, Los Angeles, CA
 3520 Motor Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90034

 Lillian Morgan,
 Lillian Morgan

1951
B2
A2

 Palms Elementary School, Los Angeles, CA

 Lily Cable,
 Anna Bond

1952
B3

 Palms Elementary School, Los Angeles, CA
 I lived at 3432 Motor Ave.

 Jeri Ann Stack (Cardiff Ave.),
 Donald McQuaig (Mentone Ave.)

52 - 53
A3
B4

 Shenandoah Elementary, Los Angeles, CA
 I lived at 1966 Preuss Road

 Wanda Walters,  Eva Alper
 
Eddie, Meyer, Steve
 (Guthrie, Cadillac, Shenandoah)

54 - 55
A4
B5

 Charnock Road School, Los Angeles, CA
 I lived at
3559 Veteran Ave.

 Ruth Connell,
 Mrs. Dorothy Feland

55 - 56
A5
B6
A6

 Charnock Road School, Los Angeles, CA

 Mrs. Marion Bates
 Mrs. Linda Mattern
 Mrs. Edris Magee

Other Charnock Road teachers of the same time period:
Mrs. Rinker, Mrs. Sukloff, Mrs. Lusher, Mrs. Schoul, Mrs. Nelson, Mrs. Hughes, Mrs. Wagenhime, Mrs. Collard,
Mr. James (janitor) - all compliments of Dan Holloway




1955
5th Grade (B5) Graduation Photo -
Charnock Road School
West Los Angeles, CA 90034


Charnock Road School 1955

(posed randomly by Mrs. Dorothy K. Feland, Room 17)
Back Row - Donna, Harriet, etc.
Third row - Pamela, etc.
Second row - Nancy, Paul, Tom, Rodney, Dennis, Stanley, __?__, Patty
Front Row - Me, Louie, others

A5 - Mrs. Marion Bates

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1956 - B6 - Mrs. Linda Mattern
6th Grade (A6) Graduation Photo -
Charnock Road School
West Los Angeles, CA 90034

Where are they now?
Charnock Road School 1956

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(posed by gender) Please show me the Above Photo REALLY BIG (please ignore my pimples and nerdy Cross pen)
Back Row - __?__, __?__, Paul _____, Stefan Highsmith, Jimmy (the artist) McDaniels, __?__, __?__, Dennis Hall, Stanley Organ, __?__, , Steven Gunn

Middle row - Eugene Bennett, Steve Gordon, Vaughn Aubuchon, _____ Surratt, Mrs. Edris Magee, principal Mrs. Rose V. Thompson, Nancy Club, Leo Hicks, Michael Bullock, Ted Lonsway

Front Row - Jean Ann Ryan, __?__, __?__, Harriet Shaw, __?__, __?__, Donna Patton Deem, __?__, Pamela _____, Patty Brandt

(Would anyone like to help me out here? Contact I would like to fill in all the names.)
Many thanks to Christine Atwood for the info.

I particularly remember marbles with Louie, football with Paul, tether ball with Stan, the Culver City mall with Dennis, writing poetry and word puzzles with Jean Ann, and riding the bus to Hamilton High with Michael in 1960.
Where's Rodney and Virginia Magnor, Cay Beaver (pseudonym), David Keep (and the egg escapades), Frank Duoflinger ?
I remember many a Saturday matinee at the Palms Theater on Motor Ave. at Venice Blvd.,
run by Jim Allan and Actor Merritt Stone.
"Dark, slender and gaunt MERRITT STONE played the spider-eaten dad Pete Flynn
in 313-EARTH VS. THE SPIDER; a clergyman in 414-TORMENTED;
a consoling cop (uncredited) near the end of 319-WAR OF THE COLOSSAL BEAST;
and the wigged king in 411-THE MAGIC SWORD". . . . from
MST 3000.)

Donna's former house sat smack-dab in the middle of the soon-to-be 405 (San Diego Freeway).
After it was stripped and abandoned, I helped destroy it.
The ceramic top of a toilet came flying through a plate glass window, and hit me on the head.
Now you understand why I am this way. Ha!
Mom never knew.

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1957 - Kindergarten - Old Charnock Road School - Class of 1963
Old Charnock Road School -  1957
Mrs. Xxxx with her 1957 Kindergarten class, including Chuck and Miles.
Palms Junior High can be seen in the background.

Most of these students went to Palms Junior High School, on Palms Blvd. (formerly Ocean Park Blvd.)
between Sepulveda Blvd. and Overland Ave.,
which swallowed and leveled the old Charnock Road School shown above (now a playing field),
Most then continued on to

Hamilton High on Robertson Blvd., between Pico Blvd. and National Blvd.,
where I spent the 10th grade in 1960.
My Mom had Mr. Luce for 10th grade English - so did I.
My Mom had Mrs. Hadley for 10th grade geometry - so did I.

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The First Southern California Shopping Mall -
Culver Center, circa 1955

Culver Center- Culver City - 1955
The caption reads: "A scene from Thieves Market In Years Past - Excitement Galore!!"
The idiot with the finger in his nose is me, apparently expecting a flood (pants cuff), with Dennis Hall on my left.
On the left, I see a Market Basket, a Torrey Jewelers and a New Yorkers Bakery.
On the right, W.T. Grants, and Berlands.
Anyone remember the street name? Other store names?



Dan Holloway kindly writes (11-09-04) -
"Saw your cool photo of Culver Center on your site, I believe the street name was Culver Center Dr.? Some other Stores I remember are:

Thrifty Drugs

Bank of America

F.W. Woolworth

Tom McCan Shoes

Charleston's Women's Clothes

Mode-O-Day Women's Clothes

Culver Center Department Store

Martin's Music

Learner's Men' Clothes

Sears

Hardey's Shoes

The Surprise Store

Curries Ice Cream

Ships Restaurant

Culver Stationary

Barber Shop

Shoe Repair

Wellington Drugs

McMans Furniture

Household Finance

Culver Florist

Ha-ha-ha! There you have it.
How's that for memory! Many thanks, Dan.

Garrett Belmont writes about Hacienda Drive, in another
Old Culver Center Businesses List at the official Culver City website, in the history section.

This is where I used to fire my clothespin match-gun from my cruising J.C. Higgins bike (Sears).
With two common clothesline clothes pins, a knife, and a rubber band,
you could make a matchstick gun, which fired and lit the match, at the same time.
Never set anything on fire, but then, that wasn't really the intent ... it was just cool.
Added note: I have determined that Diamond Match is now a total stick match monopoly,
after having purchased Ohio Match. Result: the matches are terrible,
and will not light in the match gun . . . game over.
NOTHING is as it was!

Remember the
RollerDrome on Washington Place (Blvd.)? Adohr Farms dairy trucks? Helms Bakery Trucks?

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1956
7th

 Palms Junior High School
 Palms Blvd.
 Los Angeles, CA 90034
 I lived at 3559 Veteran Ave.

 Told teachers to "Eff" themsleves
 Played Hookey
 Got swats from Boy's VP Adler
 Achieved straight "F"s
 Shipped off to Oregon in mid-56

Nov. 20, 1956

Suzanne Died - It was literally over a half-century, before I found out where my little sister was buried. Disfunctional family, much?

1957
7th

 Yankton Grade School
 St.Helens, OR
 I lived at Route 1, Box 475

 Mrs. Rutledge,
 Wife of the Baptist Minister

1958
8th

 Yankton Grade School,
 St.Helens, OR
 I lived at Route 1, Box 475

 Jack DeLashmutt,
 Oregon Teacher of the Year

1959
9th

 St.Helens Junior High School,
 St.Helens, OR
 I lived at Route 1, Box 273

 Val Humble, Pat Cassidy, Art Brasmer,
 plus the Yankton kids

1960
10th

 Hamilton High School Yankees,
 Los Angeles, CA

 2955 S. Robertson Blvd.
 I lived at
3559 Veteran Ave.

 Dan Aron, Michael Bullock, Dan Moser,
 Joan Adelman, Evy Benjamin, Karen Roth,
 Sheldon Koiles, Dieter Guerke

1961
11th

 Hillsdale High School Knights,
 San Mateo, CA
 I lived at 118 W. Hillsdale Blvd., in the Hillsdale Garden Apartments. Later, I lived with the Fisher (MacGibbon) family, at the same address.
March 2006 - I bought a 1961 HHS Shield yearbook on eBay.
It turned out to be RON FISHER'S! But, I'm not in it. Yet I remember the photo sitting on 19th Avenue - bureaucratic error, I guess.

On the one hand, I was happy to get the yearbook; on the other, I hope that this does not signal the demise of Ron. I'm afraid it might. I haven't spoken with Ron for 48 years, not his sister Adria Fisher. Nor Greg MacGibbon (teacher), nor Paula (Fisher) MacGibbon (boy, she sure could belt out Mellisonde (sp?) (church operatic singer). She is instantly remembered, everytime I see Bea Arthur, her "spittin-image", as I recall. Just as tall, too.

 Dick Vermeil, famous football coach, started here;
 He was the football and basketball coach.

 
Ron Fisher, Louis Schick, Mike Young,
 Rick Schweiger, Greg Strong, Kris Cavalli,
 Jamie Barnard, Barbara Lucy,
 Joan and John White




Update -
Ron passed in 2004
Gregg passed in 200?
Paula passed in 200?

1962
12th

St.Helens Senior High School
St.Helens, OR
 I lived on Aubuchon Drive (my dad Fred was a developer/ subdivider/ builder - still fixing up houses at age 89 in Ontario, OR).

 Sharon Olson Oliver,
 Lorrie Wegner Obermeier

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1960
6th Grade (A6) Graduation Photo -
"New" Charnock Road School at Sepulveda
West Los Angeles, CA 90034

Where are they now?

Charnock Road School - 1960
Click on the photo above for a
LARGER photo.

Row 1

Ron Jacquet, Linda O'Neal, Randy Robson, Carmen Harbert, David Retzlaff, Timmy ???, ??? ???, Ben Frenchman, Linda Peedan

Row 2

George Stillman, Charmaine Songer, Jack Woodman, Ross Stucker, Bobby Karp, Darrell ???, Candy Nowitzki, Gary Mandell, ??? ???

Row 3

Jeffrey Katz, Carol Ewens, Randy Battista, Pamela Mickles, Jack Callahan, Randy Zomar, ??? ???, Mark Erickson, Alison Holtzman

Row 4

Gary Leeburg, Linda Carichner, Paul Rodrigues - School Entrance - Bonita Pastor, Steve Piewitz, Paula Cruise


Many thanks to Jack Callahan for providing the photograph and information above.

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1962 (January)
6th Grade (A6) Graduation Photo -
Charnock Road School
West Los Angeles, CA 90034

Where are they now?

Charnock Road School - January 1962

Row 1

John Mayville, Lucille Chavous, Susan Peterson, Charles Graham

Row 2

Brad Blanck ("Squeak"), Melanie Warren, Richard Cunningham, Jeanene K., John L., Louise Weinberg, James George

Row 3

John Schubert, Marnette Mock, Bruce Loenthal, Wendy Winders, Henry Taylor, Diana Tigaris, David Parks

Row 4

Andy Quint, Ryan Ito, Tim _____

--- John Lien, a good friend of John Schubert, informed me of the correct spelling of John's last name, which is wrong in the photo. John Schubert passed away from cancer around 2004. Thank you, John Lien. And for Brad's nickname.

Many thanks to Melanie Warren for providing the photograph and information above.

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1962 (June)
6th Grade (A6) Graduation Photo -
Charnock Road School
West Los Angeles, CA 90034

Where are they now?

Charnock Road School - June 1962

Row 1

Doris Knight, Lee Adams, Camille Tarpinian, Xxxx Xxxx, David Matsumoto, Melody Benis

Row 2

Shelly Hanson, Richard Garfield, Christine Klopfer, Richard Barnett, Kathy Lewis, Gary Stillman, Xxxx Xxxx, Eddie Xxxx, Dolores Scalise

Row 3

Judy Tannenhouse, Willy Gunderson, Bernice Napolitano, Wayne Hunt, Xxxx Xxxx, Donn Lawrence, Xxxxx Xxxxx, Herbie Xxxxx, Mary Xxxxx

Row 4

Nadine Kaplan (Buck), Jimmy Greene, Hilda Xxxxx, Iris Sulwick, Xxxxx Xxxxx, Susan Higgs, Alfred Xxxxx, Barbara Simeral

Here are the names of the 5 asterisk ladies above (can't match them up) -
Katie Harrelson, Mary Kirby, Mary Weisser, Marsha Baker and Karen Fisher

Many thanks to Marlene Steinberg for providing the photograph and information above.

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1964
6th Grade (A6) Graduation Photo -
"New" Charnock Road School
West Los Angeles, CA 90034

Where are they now?

Charnock Road School - 1964

Row 1

Jeff Ryne, Sheila Levin, Bob Curtis, Carol Hatch, Randy Williams

Row 2

Sal Lombardo, Patty Beetley, Steve Smith, Lynda Nickelson, Andy Zepeda

Row 3

Fred Dohle, Vickie Zomar, Pam Martin, Becky Washington, Roland Fisher

Row 4

Reubin Lelah, Marlene Steinberg, Mrs. Bates, Criss Collins, Jack Avila


Many thanks to Marlene Steinberg for providing the photograph and information above.

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1987
"Old" Charnock Road School
West Los Angeles, CA 90034

Charnock Road School - Old Location
In the background is Palms Junior High School in 1987.
The old Charnock Road School was situated on the grass field.
Below I have tried to recreate the building layout at the school in 1956.
The layout is approximate - the memories are fading.


Charnock Road School layout

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Who has responded to this web page?
Date

 Name

 Note

6th Grade
Class
Me

 Vaughn Aubuchon (Santa Cruz, CA)

Lived at 3559 Veteran Ave.

1956
1-05-03

 Marlene Steinberg

Lived on Tilden Ave.

-

2-01-03

 Eileen Straussman (New York)

Lived on Veteran Ave.

-

6-18-03

 Ron Koiles (Los Angeles)

From Hamilton High School

na

6-28-03

 Sheldon Koiles

From Hamilton High School

na

6-29-03

 Leslie Harris

From Hamilton High School

-

8-08-03

 Christine Atwood

From Venice High School

na

8-15-03

 Stuart Victor

From Military Ave.

-

2004

7-05-2004

Dan Holloway

From Overland Ave.

-

7-24-2004

David Lyles

Now Paul Liles

na

8-01-2004

Betty Johnson, friend of Jackie McClure

Teacher was Mrs. Weber

-

9-12-2004

Melanie Warren

Lived on Westwood Blvd.
Many thanks to Melanie for the 1962 photo

1962
9-12-2004

Deanna Dahl Wefel

Lived on Veteran Ave.

-

12-3-2004

Brad Shetrone (Little Rock, Arkansas)

Lived on Woodbine Ave.

1958

2005

June

Michael Bullock

In 1956 graduation photo above

1956
June

Stanley Organ

In 1956 graduation photo above

1956
June

John Clausen

Lived at Charnock Rd. and Kelton Ave.

?
July

Dave Decker

Lived on Robertson Blvd.

1956

November

Candace ??? (Nowitzki-?)

Candace is trying to locate Jeanette Piddy Lawrence or Donnie Lawrence who lived at
3539 Kelton Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90034
Please email me if you have this info.

1960-?

December

Marlene Steinberg

Many thanks to Marlene for the 1964 photo

1964

2006

October

Jack Avila

In 1964 graduation photo above

1964

2009

November

Jack Callahan

In 1960 graduation photo above

1960

2010

-

John Lien

Friend of John Schubert

1962

August

Marlene Steinberg

Lived on Tilden Ave.

-

August

Nadine Kaplan

I snuck Chuck in here, what the hay?

-

Please email me, if you want your email address added - (too many "email address harvesters" out there).
Melanie and Deanna gave me express permission.


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Vaughn Aubuchon
Me (1975)
Photo by Lawrence Siquig


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This Vaughns Old Charnock Road School, Los Angeles nostalgia webpage was last updated on 2011-02-09.