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Retro RFH Rainy Day Lounging

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Since rainy days and Tuesdays sometimes get you down, it’s the perfect time to look back again on some upbeat lazy days of lounging at RFH as a junior. So, we reprise this Retro Pic of the Day originally posted in 2018 on, you guessed it, a rainy day …

  • Lounging in the RFH Junior Lounge circa late 1970s.
    Photo/George Day

Out came the sun on Monday. Then came the dank, drizzly rain on Tuesday. Everyone feels it. Even high schoolers. And everyone knows that usually with that dreary weather comes a little bit of an antsy, lackadaisical mood — especially for students cooped up in a high school all day. Yes, when it rains, it tends to pour mischief in the high school halls. Call it a little shut-in sickness.

But, back in the day, there was a remedy for what ailed RFH students when lazy, hazy days drenched with dismal weather set in. That remedy was the artfully 70s-style painted brick-and-pillar Junior Lounge.

Yes, back in the 1970s and even 80s, there was a lounge for juniors — and seniors. Hey, the seniors even had their own building. Ahhhh, RFH youth.

Yes, if you had a free or lunch time, an RFH junior could head over to the Junior Lounge to, well, lounge and hopefully not make any mischief. But, who’s telling on anyone decades later anyway?

So, the Retro Pic of the (George) Day captures the essence of typical Junior Lounge lounging on a dank day. After all, there was a courtyard for nice days. And if you were a good enough student, on a free period you could roam wherever your little RFH soul wanted to wander as long as you returned for class. Anyone remember frees?

The juniors pictured were just doing some typical chilling as others made their way to class. Or were they concocting some sort of mischief. Spit ball? Straw wrapper worm? Paper airplane? What else could an RFH junior with some time to spare do? Study?

Recognize these guys and girls in the background? Remember exactly where the Junior Lounge was?

— Many thanks, once again to the incredible George Day for capturing this moment in RFH time!