If you didn't
attended Main Street School, than none of this probably means
much to you.. But for those many of us that did, the memories
are incredible. Main Street School was to be Lisle's first
big project as a town. I talked to an old man (Mr. Van Bueren
who
still
lives
in Lisle and visits the Book Nook on occasion) who
helped load the bricks off the train in the 1920s.
Anyone who went to school there probably still remembers the old gym downstairs. Or those old bathrooms with the windows that open right to the parking lot outside. You could always find some numskull in there smoking. It was perfect because you could flip the cigarette right out that window at any time. How about the smell of lunch lofting through the entire school around lunch time? Mrs. Borg was THE ORIGINAL "Soup Nazi." I can still hear her scolding someone to this day! I STILL think of her whenever I see one of those big wooden spoons! She'd nail ya right across the knuckles! Ouch!!! The real die hards will remember an old wooden door. It was in the hallway on that ramp that led out of the back of the lunch room and to the back stair case. If you ever sneaked in there like we did, you would have found an old dirt floored room that was used as storage. It was old, dark and scary as hell. Many called it the dungeon. I believed it! Finally, remember the old boiler room? It's where they used to heat the water for the radiators that heated the school. They used to burn the trash from the lunch room in this huge metal incinerator down there. The smoke would just go right up the stack and out to the center of town. Let's see ya try that nowadays!
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