Bryden Gym: 1956

  
Santa Paula Daily Chronicle
Thursday, May 24, 1956

1956 was a big year for construction at Santa Paula High School.  Construction began on the new Gym (pictured below), which eventually was named the McMahan Gym.  The cafeteria, student store and Educational Services building were also built during this period, although in those days the district was not separate from the school, so the school the board room, business managers office, and the health office as well as the faculty lounge were included in the building.  A new Agriculture building was built at the same time (our current Agriculture building was built in the 1990s).  The Jones' field stadium was also refurbished during this period and was almost renamed the "Lemon Bowl"!

GOING UP! - Santa Paula High School's new gymnasium is taking shape adjacent to the Lemon Bowl off Palm Court, and the sidewalk superintendents are having themselves a field day advising two crane operators how to maneuver these steel arches into place. Each arch Is 115 feet long and 40 feet high In the center. The new gym should be ready for use by the time basketball season rolls around next winter.

The New 1925 Studebaker!

Although it doesn't have much to do with Santa Paula High School, I thought that this Newspaper ad from the Santa Paula Chronicle was interesting. A new six seat coach Studebaker for only $1,595 from A. J. Koch Studebaker on 122 North Mill Street, just down from where the Glen Tavern Inn is located.

Spirit Week 1962!

Santa Paula Chronicle
November 8, 1962

Spirit week has been a fixture at Santa Paula High School for quite some time - this article in the Santa Paula Chronicle lists the different activities that went on during the week. Surprisingly, most of them are similar to the current ones, although the Slogan Day seems to have fallen by the wayside.

Oddball Shoes, 'Mad' Hats Take Over SPUHS Campus

By Alex Stalcup

An innovation on an old theme was seen at Santa Paula High School this week in the form of Spirit Week, which will be climaxed tomorrow with traditional homecoming activities.

Each day this week has featured an unusual and amusing theme.

Spirit week received spirited acceptance beginning Monday, when all loyal and true-blue Cardinals wore white shirts to school. This was simply to signify the wearer's spirit and willingness to participate in the other spirit week activities.

Tuesday saw unusual and varied foot garb sported by Cardinal supporters. Unmatching shoes or oddly colored or styled shoes were the rage. And "in the spirit" of the affair, many Cardinals found themselves limping home.

Manners Test

The student body had a test in manners Wednesday, at least in the hat-doffing category. The mad-hatter had a field day that day, previously declared "Hat Day."

"Plaster the Pioneers," "Slug Simi," Punch the Pioneers" and "Peg the Pioneers" were among the slogans seen in great profusion today, declared "Slogan Day." They were on signs, placards, posters, streamers and lapel buttons all over campus.

The climax to Spirit Week comes tomorrow, "Color Day," when the Cardinal campus breaks out in red and white, the school colors/. Evidence of Color Day will be especially visible at the rally tomorrow afternoon when the crowded stands appear as a jumbled mass of riotous color.