Students around Kelowna are returning to school this week.
However, the hallways they’re returning to look very different than the ones their grandparents might have walked through in the 1950s.
This week, the popular Facebook page Old Kelowna has been posting pictures of what some of the city’s schools looked like nearly 70 years ago and the images are quite amazing.
Kelowna Secondary in 1952 looks like a bonafide prison.
Glenn Avenue Elementary, which is now the Okanagan Boys and Girls Club’s downtown youth centre, looks eerie and historic in a picture from the same year.
South Kelowna Elementary School, Black Mountain Elementary School and Glenmore Elementary School appear to be in the middle of nowhere.
The Facebook page also posted a colourized photo postcard of Central Elementary School from the 1920s and it looks like the building hasn’t changed in the last 100 years.
As we discuss the incredible architecture of the region’s newest education, Canyon Falls Middle School, it’s quite amazing looking back at these shots from many decades ago.
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