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Jonathan Odell's avatar

I remember in Laurel we had fancy metal desks with hinged desktops that opened for your books. I moved to Hazlehurst in 1963 in the 6th grade and had to used the old wooden desks. I thought I was living amonst barbarians.

Boyd Campbell's avatar

The irony was always that the wooden desks lasted forever, while the more modern ones had to be replaced peroidically.