| This photograph, circa 1960, shows us the future site of Gulf High School (later Gulf Middle School), located on Louisiana Avenue at the corner of Harrison Street. The ground had barely been broken for the school, which opened in 1961. The lower section of the photo depicts Riverside Subdivision, with Colonial Drive encircling the Lake, with Woodland Drive sprouting off to the east, with its 4 lonely houses. On the north side of Louisianna Avenue, to the left of what will become a new school, can be seen Alaska, Tennessee, and Illinois Avenues. The far left unpaved road going in a northward direction from Louisianna Avenue is Van Buren, and to the very east (left) of the photo, running north along the site of the future school, stands a very rural and obviously unpaved and unused Congress Avenue. Photo by Angelo Deciucies; caption (2008) by David A. Henry. |
