1. Window openers: Our classrooms at Hawthorn Ave. School had huge windows. You couldn't open them from floor level. We had long (I'm guessing 12 feat at least) wooden poles with matched steel fittings on the end that fitted small receptacles on the window tops that we used for opening and closing the windows.
2. Eraser cleaners: Down in the furnace room was a fast turning buffing wheel that was used to clean chawky erasers. It was considered a great privilege to be nominated to take the classroom erasers to the basement and hold them against the running wheel to clean off the chawk. The privilege came from leaving the routine of the classroom and getting to this room that was a dark mystery....to be totally on your own. Today liability considerations would probably not allow any kid to run a powered wheel on their own, much less to be in the furnace room of a school.
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