Lake View High School, Chicago, 1943

Original image available for purchase at time of writing from eBay here (search Lake View High School)

Boys Hitchhiking from Lakeview High School, Chicago, 1947

Can you even imagine this scene today? Any parent would freak out to hear his or her son or daughter was hitchhiking home from school.

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Lakeview High School, 1947

Lake View High School Football Team, 1908

Lake View High School, Ashland and Irving

My grandmother Elsie graduated from Lake View High School in the 1930s; I forget which year off hand. She married my grandfather Edwin shortly after.