How did you travel to school when you were young?

Bus, walked and drove in that order from Elementary to High School. I should say I flew to High School. I drove a Dodge Dart with a small block high compression 340 cubic inch V8 engine. It had milled high-flow heads, dual timing chains, 2.02 inch intake valves and 1.60 inch exhaust valves, and a 850 cfm four barrel carburetor. Like I said it flew.....🦅
 

Walked 2 miles both ways summer and winter. Sometimes when it rained heavily, we'd all pile on the back of the bus and overwhelm the bus conductor with our sheer volume ( there was no school buses)...and by the time he got around to asking for our fare we'd hop off the bus... and with luck we'd have got at least 1/2 the way home...:D
 

When I started school we lived on my grandmother's farm and I took the bus.

When my mother married my stepfather I became a townie and walked to school.

I remember that my sister and I took different routes or left at different times so we wouldn't be seen with each other. She was too old to be seen with me and I didn't want people to think that she was my babysitter.

Today kids K-8 that live within a mile of our city schools still walk through some pretty sketchy neighborhoods in all kinds of weather.
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"You Drive Your Kids to School Because the Neighborhood Doesn't Feel Safe. The Neighborhood Doesn't Feel Safe Because Everybody Drives." - Charles Marohn
 
I also walked to and from every public school that I attended. When it was pouring rain or sleeting hard and if she was so inclined, my mother might have taken pity on me, and provided car transportation. Walking two miles+ every day had cardiovascular benefits, and it was a safer age…
 

How did you travel to school when you were young?​


Why of course, we travelled to school in our chauffeur driven Rolls Royce..........

No, I'll tell the truth, we hoofed it like everyone else did. :giggle:
 
Just a few blocks in elementary school and got there via footmobile.

High school 1.9 miles also via footmobile. We had to live two miles from school to ride the school bus.

It wasn't fun in the rain or sNOw and especially wasn't fun in the dead of winter when the temp was often as much as -30F. The schools only closed if the temp got down to -40F. In those days if anybody had ever heard of wind chill, it wasn't shared with mere mortals.

A time or two a blizzard would roll in while we were in class. If it was expected to get worse, school would be dismissed but not until school had been in session for more four hours. The reason for that was that state funding only paid if more than half the school day had been completed.

Also a time or two the day after a blizzard, my older brother and I would ski to school. We'd climb out his bedroom window to the front porch roof and ski down from the roof because our doors were blocked by the sNOw.

Those were the good old days?
 
I walked to school with about 3 other kids about a mile or so. In the wintertime, we walked also but if it got down to zero we rode with the principal with the kids to school as he lived next door to me. 3 blacks, principals son & daughter & me. all crunched into a Desota car. Sure was croouded. Back then NO seatbelts.
 
I walked both to Elementary school and High School. It was 5 blocks to Elementary school and about 20 blocks to High School. I remember one time walking home from High school when a boy from my neighborhood offered me a ride home from High school. I said Ok then he said that there was something I had to do to get the ride. I asked what do I have to do? He said you have to make out with me. I said I would rather walk. He said well Carol always takes my offer and I said then ask Carol!
 
I walked, and it was exactly one mile, each way. And how do I know that? In order to ride the bus to school, you had to live one mile away from the school. I lived at 244 Pleasant Street, If I lived next door at 246 Pleasant Street, it was over the line, and I could rode the bus. So I had to hoof it to school. But the real indignation was that all the kids, who could ride the bus, stood in front of my house to catch the bus. I had to walk out my front door, through the bus riding kids, and walk to school.
 
Walked to elementary school. Lived in a small town, no such thing as busing, if you lived
too far away most boarded with family or friends. First two years of high school I took
the bus, then I went to a boarding school. After I graduated, I took a business course
and then either took the bus or a streetcar(tram).
My children walked to both elementary and high school as we lived near both.
 

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