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Jun.12,2010The Historic Brandywine Elementary School was built in 1904 was destroyed in November 2007 THe building meant much to many of those who went to school there through the years. The classes had stopped in 1977 and the building stood empty since 1984 dustinetan@yahoo.com schenectadyvideos
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Its too bad they tore that down , what was going to be put in its place?
What have they done in that place now … that’s a murder, done to all those who spent an important part of their life in that school.
WOW!!! I was NOT prepared to see that. It was a great school! My friends attended there. I went to Halsey School on Albany & Stuben Streets. I played at Brandywine though. I felt bad when it closed and then for a brief time it served as the building for The School District offices. As teens, we often met behind the school to decide where we would go hang out for the evening. Lots of memories! Its very sad to see. My City dwindles a little more each passing year. It makes my heart ache.
Watch this video in much higher quality at the
WEBSITE FOR THE BRANDYWINE SCHOOL
which is on
schenectadyvideo.tripod.(com)
click on the “WATCH IN HIGH QUALITY” link in blue
Nice inside shots….Always wanted to go in there but never got the chance.
Yeah that was a great video but also sad
My cousin posted a comment about playing in the building, its true, it was crazy, the place was so nice inside, we had a lot of fun (even got arrested haha) hide and seek was nice, i hid by the brick wall past the kitchen or whatever that was, and under the stage you guys where jumping on.. the place was awesome and i loved the video.. looks like you guys had some good times there, i wish i knew the teachers of the rooms that we walked through…
sad that some kids just took it to far… i remember walking past when the sprinklers where still on there and the place was a huge pile of ice after the fire…. Beautiful place, i loved living over there.
This video brings me to tears everytime I watch it. It holds a great many memories for me there. Thank you David for holding onto what’s left of any memories we have of the school. I attended Brandywine for 4th through 6th grade. We were the LAST 6th grade graduating class. We also were the first 8th Grade Class to go out of Central Park Middle , and also was the 1st – 9th to enter Linton. Brandywine School, gone but not forgotten.
isnt that a lot now? – right across from vale cemetery?
it is i never saw the school there though thats a shame because my friend used to go there and she was telling me about it before -and i used to hang out in vale cemertery
dam a rember when i used 2 sit on the steps there at like 1 in the moring just chillen and smokin dam shits sad
I went to Halsey school also. During kindergarten(1967-1968) they were building ML King Jr school, & I can remember walking afterschool from Halsey to my friend Jimmy Versocki’s house on Stanley St. We’d go to the old Schenectady Museum, which was where King school is now. Jimmy lived across the street. Mrs. Urowsky walked us from Halsey to the new King school for a tour before it officially opened. Mrs. Isabella Brown’s 4th grade was my last class there, as we moved to Milwaukee in 1972.
When we were at Halsey I remember that our whole class walked down Hamilton Hill to see a Disney double feature at Proctor’s. The films were “The Living Desert” & The Vanishing Prairie”, which I saw again years later on the Disney channel in the late ’80s. The Carl Company was still there then. We lived at 939 Emmett St, corner of Backus-a ghetto area now. Saw it last March when I was there last. Some Indian guy is remodeling the house now