Big mistake. I put a light in my red school house, which sits right in the front of the layout. Now, you can see into the room. Just gave up researching the internet, no school desks. So, now I have to make them myself. Did someone say all model railroading was all fun? I will try for the ones that have a drop down seat, with a desk attached to the back. You know, the kind you could dunk the girl’s pig tail in front of you into the ink well. Time to draw some desks.
You could always remove the light.
I remember those desks, usually bolted to a black floor.
Dave
My school had the absolute latest thing in kid-desks in '53:
For some reason, some of the sites I visited call these “antique”. Weird, eh?
I’d surely hate to have to make 30 of those.
Ed
PikeStuff plastic coach seats cut apart easily and you could add the desk part to the back of the seats.
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It would never pass a close-up inspection, but should look good through a lighted window.
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-Kevin
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You mean like this?
Or these
Mel
My Model Railroad
http://melvineperry.blogspot.com/
Bakersfield, California
I’m beginning to realize that aging is not for wimps.
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Yes! Waterlevel route.
Design them to be constructed of folded heavy paper like cardstock. You should be able to print them, cut them out and fold them to shape. Print in color and save the trouble of painting.
Inside the building, no one will notice they’re only paper.
Or the kind you could duck and cover under?
Photos of Cold War era ‘Duck and Cover’ drills are a surprising source of photos of 1950’s class rooms.
The desks in our '60 classroom were a table for two: a solid top with two holes for ink wells (which were no longer there.), a shelf under it, maybe 6" opening and four simple legs. For chairs there were regular wooden ones. Many schools had older desks, my first school had single desks with the inkwells still in place before I moved in '53.
Good luck,
Richard
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Or these
Mel
My Model Railroad
http://melvineperry.blogspot.com/
Bakersfield, California
I’m beginning to realize that aging is not for wimps.
Those integrated seat-snd-desk units were the latest thing on 1950s classrooms. They were available as late as the early 1970s from school supply companies. The seat was height adjustable and the desk held a good capacity of materials. Later versions of this desk used formica writing surfaces glued to particleboard tops and plastic seat and back materials instead of real wood. As a student, I gad these throughout elementary and junior high but they were rapidly disappearing when I hit high school due to their large space footprint and resulting space inflexibility. As a career educstor, every school I taught at had a single version of this old chestnut preserved as an “antique” usually in the main office. But-compared to the cheesy plastic crap that came later and is around on schools today, they were durable and gave significantly more value.
Cedarwoodron
It is amazing how similar those 1950s desks were to my elementary school in the 1970s.
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In fact, the whole classroom look very similar.
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-Kevin
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1956 We had wooden desks and separate chairs. Maximum protection for nuclear bombs.
They may have changed to wooden tops and metal “benchwork” by 6th grade.
In junior high, 1963 (Beatles on Ed Sullivan) we had wooden chairs with a right sided fixed extension that served as a desktop. Somewhere along the line these became metal, with a formica desktop that folded down by the side.