maandag 7 maart 2016

The Baby boomers

This is my class at primary school in Amsterdam in 1954 with 43 children! We were all from 1947, the generation known as the Baby boomers. The end of World War II in 1945 brought a baby boom to many countries, especially the Western Europeans and the United States. My parents had the same idea as all the others and so we all marched into the classrooms of schools that were not required to so many children. We were packed together and I remember in the third year we were even with 50 children. I can't  say that I have suffered, you take things as a child for granted, and I always enjoyed my school period. The teachers however must have had a hard job.
And now of course you want to know which one I am, the second row down from above, the third one from the left. The second one left  next to me is my refound friend of yesterday's post.

This is the same class in the sixth year on a three day school holiday with only 30 children left,  I don't remember why but I think it had to do with money, the parents had to pay for it. The camp was organized by a foundation Vacation Kids founded in 1919 to allow city children (called "white noses") to get some fresh air in the country. I am on top row in the middle with that billowing skirt with my friend at the right next to me.

17 opmerkingen:

  1. Fotografias com uma história para contar.
    Um abraço e boa semana.

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  2. The photos are in excellent condition for their age.

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  3. How lovely photos. I'm also born in generation the Baby boomers (1947), but I don'r remember we had so big class.
    I think you look a bit more better clothed as we at primary school.
    But any way, it always nice to look old photos.

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  4. You are so lucky to have these Marianne, I would love to have old school photos. I agree with Andy, you've looked after these photos so well!

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  5. How wonderful to have photos from your primary school years. Wow 43 or 50 children in class, would be unthinkable now, I think the teachers would strike!

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  6. You need to thank whoever saved these photos for you! Having them is a real treasure. Wonderful to walk down memory lane!

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  7. The photos are just lovely Marianne. I can remember our class sitting on the front steps of our school. There were 47 of us baby boomers too. Ah, such nice memories and well kept photos.

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  8. These are great and so fun to look at. That girl in the bottom row third from the right first photo looks very mischievous. Bet she was a character when grown up.

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  9. That's a lot of students! I think our classes in primary school didn't go over 30 students.

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  10. From a fellow baby boomer, great photos! I ran across one of these class photos from my first grade and could still recognize the others.

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  11. Ja leuk he die oude foto's. Nu zou een klas met 43 kinderen echt onmogelijk zijn.

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  12. You took me back to my younger days. I recall my school days at this time.

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  13. They're all a very bright looking bunch. Kids do lose in large classrooms. My last three years teaching I had 37 kids in each class.

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  14. Those photos were fun to see. The children are all so beautifully dressed and neat combed. My primary school class photos didn't look that way. I can't imagine being the teacher of a class that large.

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  15. What cute kids, especially you. I was a 1946 kiddo.Also a baby boomer. the white noses...oh that's funny!

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  16. Great old photos. Classes sure were big in those days.

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