West Main Travel Coin Hotel Traditional Cache
richwhip: The cache has been stolen again. I'm tired of replacing it. I'm sorry because this was a good place.
West Main Travel Coin Hotel
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I’ve installed this cache as a hotel for GeoCoins and very small travel bugs. It should be a fairly quick find, do watch for muggles and remember they are inside the library as well. Pencil included but in case it walked off BYOP. Please, please, please put it back where you found it.
Note: coordinates changed 2/19/2012
Built in 1907, West Main School was on the cutting edge of educational architecture at the time. The building included three stories and a basement built around a central dome. The lower floors featured six classrooms, superintendent’s office, principal’s office, teacher’s restroom, library and auditorium. The third floor was the balcony for the auditorium.The basement featured three rooms for home economic laboratories and three vocational laboratories. There was a large center room later used for a cafeteria. Included were state of the art lighting, laboratories, ventilation and heating.
In 1927 a new high school, now the sixth-grade building of Flores Elementary School, was built on North Getty Street, and West Main School became first a junior high, then an elementary school.
In 1965 the school district sold the West Main property. Demolition began in November 1967. However, it remained dear to the hearts of many former students. When plans began to relocate the El Progresso Library the citizens of Uvalde raised funds to build a new building on this site. The lines of the current building are reminiscent of the West Main School and it is, again, a state of the art building.
Not having had the privilege of growing up in Uvalde, I never got to go to West Main School. But, if you look across the street to the current Shell station you’ll see the site of my granddaddy’s service station, a Texaco. He built it there shortly after WWII and operated it until his death in 1963. Granddaddy wore a Texaco uniform to work every day, complete with leather bow tie and peaked cap. He’d fill your tank, check your oil and clean your windows back when gas was twenty-nine cents a gallon. The highlight of any visit to Uvalde was going to Granddaddy’s station and getting a Delaware Punch out of the ice-chest soda machine.
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