Estill County. 

@Colonels_Wear_BlueI love reading the history.  Thanks for adding that.  

 

 

Campbellsville High School 

DeSales with the similar setup to Campbellsville

On 1/19/2023 at 8:50 AM, Ram said:

You probable know Raceland as the "Rams", one of only two schools in the state that have that mascot, but in the early years, Raceland was not the "Rams", but the "Ramblers".  They were so called because they did not have a home gymnasium for home basketball games, nor did they have a home football field to play their games; so they "rambled" to play their games on the road.  Initially, the home football field was, quite literally, in the parking lot shown below, and it was a parking lot then too, with gravel and dirt.  

Then, when the actual football field was located where the current field is located, it was mostly sand and keeping grass was not a real possibility.  Also, the area wasn't quit big enough for a regulation football field, so indoor/outdoor carpet had to be placed to make the end-zone corners.  Many renovations took place, including dirt being added to grow grass, crumb rubber being added to make the field more playable and some Booster Club President, wink wink, had the corners of the track cut out to make a regulation field.  Don't worry, the track was not regulation and couldn't host actual track meets anyway and the carpet was a safety hazard.  But, it may have upset some members of the community that liked to walk the track for exercise; it was time though.  

Now fast forward to 2023, Raceland has one the nicest gyms in the state, lovely called "The Palace" and a very nice, new field turf football field, with a very nice surrounding area, including a miniature turf field for the future stars to play on each Friday night, and getting ready for a new Fieldhouse to accompany it.  

Good Shot Ram, did you take that with your drone?

3 minutes ago, GOREDDEVILS said:

Good Shot Ram, did you take that with your drone?

No, honestly the picture is not mine and I don't know for sure who took it.  It is available through an internet search and had seen it before used by other people and the school system.  

Just now, Ram said:

No, honestly the picture is not mine and I don't know for sure who took it.  It is available through an internet search and had seen it before used by other people and the school system.  

Thanks, I didn't know if you had a drone or not. I would probably crash a drone if I had one. But they take some dang good photos.

25 minutes ago, GOREDDEVILS said:

Thanks, I didn't know if you had a drone or not. I would probably crash a drone if I had one. But they take some dang good photos.

I thought about getting one when people started posting such great pictures, but I never did.  But, they definitely changed the photography world.  

I remember back before drones, Raceland paid a guy some crazy dollar figure to take some aerial pictures of the campus to plan some renovations and to make some blueprints.  Funny, because now just about anyone can do that for $5. 

2 hours ago, Ram said:

I thought about getting one when people started posting such great pictures, but I never did.  But, they definitely changed the photography world.  

I remember back before drones, Raceland paid a guy some crazy dollar figure to take some aerial pictures of the campus to plan some renovations and to make some blueprints.  Funny, because now just about anyone can do that for $5. 

Monthly aerial photography is a common requirement written into the general conditions of commercial construction contracts. It was something that used to be worth thousands of dollars of the contract, oftentimes, depending on what and where a project is located. Nowadays it's sometimes worth less than two hundred bucks. Lol, crazy.

21 hours ago, Colonels_Wear_Blue said:

Monthly aerial photography is a common requirement written into the general conditions of commercial construction contracts. It was something that used to be worth thousands of dollars of the contract, oftentimes, depending on what and where a project is located. Nowadays it's sometimes worth less than two hundred bucks. Lol, crazy.

They definitely changed some industries.  I know realtors used to have to pay a lot of money for pictures of large pieces of property they were placing on the market, now, not so much.  It is crazy. 

Picture I shot a couple years ago of Lafayette’s field. I graduated from Lafayette, hence the oldgeneral name. The current field is not the same as when I was there. The old field ran parallel with Reed Lane, the new field is positioned with the end zone at Reed Lane. My grandson also played his freshman & sophomore year there before transferring out. 

Spencer County Bears, located in Taylorsville. Not even 20 years into their varsity history, starting in 2004. Complete with a slew of vehicles lining KY-44 it is small-town Friday nights to the letter. Also the best grass field in the state, for my money.

On 1/19/2023 at 11:32 PM, Colonels_Wear_Blue said:

We've come a long way from the what the Park Hills campus looked like when it opened in 1955. And a hell of a lot of money raised to do so. Decades worth of fundraising spread over the course of several separate capital campaigns...one to build the Marianist Brother's residence and complete the old baseball field behind the original school building, the SCORE committee for the original Wooton Field, the addition of the Scott Knochelman Alumni Building, another to raze the 1955 building and build the 2003 academic center, another to expand the athletic field to become Griffin Stadium, another for the STEM center addition, the chapel renovation, the Drees Alumni Center, the addition of practice fields, the Marian Grotto, the Schott Sports Center, the Yung Family Tennis Complex, renovating the baseball field into Jerry Collins Field at Tom Berger Stadium. There's a lottttttt of time and hard work that's in that picture.


1955

1959

Odd to drive past now and try and picture how the building I attended classes in fits into what you see now.   The unrecognizable gym is all that remains.

I would hope someone will share some old photos of schools that no longer exist.  Like M.C. Napier, Evarts, MMI, and any others that folks may have.

Boyle County High School