South Park High School

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Little Red School
    from "The South Park Story" by Ray Asbury

  • Original Pietzsch Elementary School
    from "The South Park Story" by Ray Asbury

  • L. R. Pietzsch
    from "The South Park Story" by Ray Asbury

  • New School (from 1922 School Annual)

  • Home Economics Cottage
    from "The South Park Story" by Ray Asbury

  • The Original Lamar
    from "The South Park Story" by Ray Asbury

  • Lamar University's Past (Beaumont Enterprise, 8/24/09)

  • George Maxwell and John E. Gray
    from "The South Park Story" by Ray Asbury

  • Tribute Video to '53-54 by Timothy Lynn

  • Jerry Moseley remembers, "Couldn't be caught in green in French Stadium"

  • Sparky: South Park Mascot (with appendix - pictures)

  • The Fighting Greenies by Buddy and Jane Hebert

  • South Park Greenies Band

  • South Park Greenies vs Goose Creek Ganders
    Official Program, November 14, 1957
    provided by L.J. Daniel


  • South Park High School 1954 Heritage Page

  • The Death of South Park ISD
    provided by Angela Walker

  • The Last Class - The Class of '86, Photo and Graduation Program
    contributed by Stacy Leonard (Blankenship), Senior Class Vice-President
    and School Mascot 84-85 and 85-86


    HOUSTON CHRONICLE ARCHIVES

  • 'We bleed green'/South Park students, parents, alumni, fight to save their school
    by Richard Stewart, Thursday, 01/09/1986

  • Beaumont school seeks new 'home'
    by Richard Stewart, Saturday, 01/25/1986

  • Tears, singing, mark high school closing/South Park students, alumni exhibit loyalty
    by Richard Stewart, Friday, 05/30/1986

  • School trustees confront differences/Pains of past widen Beaumont racial split
    by Richard Stewart, Sunday 02/14/1993

  • South Park Neighborhood

    featuring South Park as Seen Through the Eyes of
    Buddy and Jane Hebert

    (*as published in the South Park
    Neighborhood Association Monthly Newsletter)


    TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • "Origin of South Park Neighborhood and Schools"
    (pictures added)

  • Alice Keith Park: "Remember when we could smell the roses???"
       Supplement: "Alice Keith Pool" "Depression-era pool going down the drain/1938 Beaumont facility will likely be replaced"
    (Houston Chronicle archives, Jun 1, 1997)


  • L. E. Bell Variety Store

  • Don Barton's Barber Shop

  • "Bowen Appliance - Dorothy & Al"

  • "Golden Arrow"

  • Highland Avenue Pharmacy (with appendix)

  • "Lamar Bank"

  • "Lamar Theater" (with Gallery)

  • "The Pig Stand" (with appendix and gallery)

  • "Raney Plumbing Company"

  • "South Park Baptist Church" (with appendix)

  • "South Park Fire and Rescue Team"

  • "Exporters Stuart Stadium (now Stadium Shopping Center)" (with appendix)
          Supplement: YMBL Rodeo Began at Stuart's Stadium

  • "From South Park Green to the Blue of Law Enforcement"
    by Jane Hebert (large pdf file)

  • "Taystee Bread"

  • Texas Coffee Company "Remember the Big Coffee Pot - Smell the Coffee" (with appendix)

  • The Trolly Came to South Park

  • "Uncle Joe"-"The Colonel"-Joe Vincent
    Principal-Superintendent

    (with appendix: J.J. Vincent Retires)


    (*Appendices and supplements added by Sherry Sharp)