Thomas A. Edison Elementary School OKC

04/22/2016

If you attended this grade school, please post a memory on this site. Maybe someday, we can have an Edison reunion!

04/11/2016

Thomas A Edison school was built in the early 1950’s. It was a standard Oklahoma City public school design of this time period. Large classrooms with sloping ceilings that open to shared courtyards. Very narrow hallways connect the classroms to central areas that inculde the restrooms, offices and a mulit-purpose auditorium, cafeteria, and gymnasium. Edison served as many schools did as a polio vacination center. It closed in the early 1970’s due to low enrollment and as part of the city’s de-segregation plan as well as one of many consolidation plans. Edison, for years, sat on the site of the Oklahoma City Public Schools Transportation center. The building was demolished in early April, 2016. This site was created by a student who attended Edison from 1952 through 1959, kindergarten t0 sixth grade, before moving to Millwood School. Teachers I remember from the 1950s inlcude, Mrs. Frielander, Mrs. Honska, Mrs. Ruble, Mrs. Brown, Mrs. Phillips (later the principal). Nice big playground in back. Haunted old mental hospital was just north on the gravel road behind the school. WHAT MEMORIES!

04/11/2016