Dad brought a grinder to take down the big 10" bell (the bolt holding it to the facade was rusted), but I didn’t think to get the backboxes with it… Would’ve tried, if I knew. I only had two days to work in the building before the asbestos abatement team returned to work, and I was focused on salvaging as many of the indoor devices as I could.
Just looked it up. Those signs are rather unique.
That’s really sad… It’s the same in my area, with almost every town replacing their old schools (some of which I’ve gotten tours of) with new ones. All gone too soon… At least some of them are still around.
there’s a small town west of Akron (Medina) that still has all of their original schools left, all the FA stuff is 1980s Simplex. My GF lives in an eastern suburb of Akron (Stow), which still has the majority of their old schools
Akron’s basically had the same “erase and replace” mentality since the late 60s, when they constructed all of those urban renewal projects
