As a retired Detective from the City and former SWAT Team Leader, I can tell you I walked those halls hundreds of times from 1991 until I retired in 2008. As a contracted instructor for the SWAT Team in 2016 we used the school as a training facility and it was truly weird walking down the halls seeing that little or nothing had changed over the years. You did a great job with your documentary....Thank you....
Hey! I remember watching "My Old School" live when it premiered back in 2013. Man, what a throwback. used to attend this very school back in the early 2000s and I'm very nostalgic for it. Thanks for the 10th anniversary update!
beautiful as always Jason. it feels like us 30 year olds should be too young to have formed memories in places that are now abandoned, but here we are. glad to see your old school now has opportunity at another life!
I was in the eighth grade at this school when it closed down, I watched your original movie on this years ago & loved it & this just brought back so many memories once again. Thank you ❤
growing up in NE is wild fr its just a certain atmosphere all its own must of been while roaming the halls again so many memories popping back up from a time so much more simpler (sometimes) flashbacks must of been everywhere I hope I get to do this with my high school.
I went to that middle school in the 80s. that school is huge!! I always got lost in the school going from one class room to another. I learned a lot in that school and lots of memories.
26:17 Scott was my neighbor and friend when I was little. He’d let me follow him around and help at the gas station he worked at. I also have a piece of his artwork. He did a portrait of my dad and framed it, only charging me the small amount I’d managed to save from my allowance. I didn’t realize until years later how silly and small the amount was, but he was good like that. The picture is now in my master bedroom.
Thanks for this. It's so great to see that the building will get a new life. It'd be such a shame to see it decay or be demolished. I hope the renovations don't strip all the original character from such a well built structure. Bravo!
The building was purchased for just $1 million. Goldman's website says they are turning it into a luxury complex, not affordable housing. They're gentrifiers.
Compared to most public schools that have the look of a prison or bunker, this school is absolutely beautiful. Too bad they stopped making schools look like a place of motivation and inspiration for the most part.
I purchased the original dvd ,,,,,,,,,,,, so glad to have it for my children and my grand daughter who was a student at the last day of school in those buildings,,,,
Man, that school looks so much cooler than my jr high, i went to Samuel Gorton Junior High in Warwick which is now some city building or whatever, then to Warwick veterans' memorial high school before it was turned into a jr high
I grew up in RI and hung out with a few kids who went there. I got to go there once for a Halloween party and when they found out I wasn't from there they took pity on me as I had no friends. I wasn't causing trouble and spent more time talking to the teachers than the students who'd brought me there. It's sad to see it in such a state. Especially given a lot of those supplies could be used at other schools.
Thank you for sharing this with us.. as a fellow WMS Graduate, I had the 7/8 grade split, those hallways were a challenge at first 😂 I remember waiting at the slope for lunch.. damn it's been a long time!!!!!
I assume permission was had from the new owner to flip all of the breakers? Like you said I would have been worried about burning the place to the ground.
I would like to make something like this for my friends, so we can remember what it was like to go there. How were you able to get in without setting the alarms off? I’ve heard of people getting caught there before and I don’t wanna get arrested.
We had permission from the owners and redevelopment company. There’s no other way in without getting arrested for trespassing - too many alarms and police patrols.
I wish you could document Coggeshall elementary school in Newport! It was built in 1899 and has been abandoned for many years. I attended there as a child, and something about that place always gave me a mysterious feeling. I wish they would do something with it. It is such a beautiful building.
Wow, this was super nostalgic. I remember singing in choir concerts on that stage and playing knockout in the gym. Haven't thought about this place in a long time. I love that its documented. Absolutely beautiful work. I think I was there around the same time as you - 2000 - 2003, Class of 07. Keep making cool things!
Jason you did it again with another banger ‼️ I really enjoyed it and all the history that you shared with us about this school was very interesting ❤ keep up the great work brother ✌️
Such great news that the school will be renovated. My high school closed a few years ago. Most likely it will be torn down, but I’d love to see it preserved and redeveloped. Great job Jason, your work is amazing.
It’s amazing to see. I graduated in 1970 when it was still the High School. I honestly do not remember a lot of the areas. I was one of the group in the Machine shop with John Bellville and the guys in the wood shop with Mr. Rivet. They called us the Pit Men back then. I turned 70 this year and have not been back into the building since 1970. I have memories and still remain friends with classmates still living even i f I was not real involved back then. I am now a Professional Santa and retired from many years working in Machine shops thanks to Mr. Bellville. It would be awesome to see it again but I get it won’t happen.
Jason, this video is perfect, just perfect. Thank you for inviting us back to revisit this important place in your life. So glad that this place sparked your love of filmmaking and urban exploration that we get to enjoy. This is excellent work!
Looking at this video brought back so many memories in that school: the mile run around the building, pillow hockey, learning pottery in the art room, and wood shop. This video encapsulated these core memories of being in that school. Thank you to you and your team, Jay!
Wow, just wow! What an amazing presentation of a perfectly produced video of a RI landmark. I felt as though I was walking through the halls with all youse guys. Thanks so much!
WOW!!! Just WOW! I went to school here when it was Woonsocket Junior High School from 1982-1984! This documentary video brought back so many memories! I can clearly remember walking those halls, sitting in some of those classrooms and eating lunch in that cafeteria! Thank you so very much for the memories! I really wish I could get my hands on the DVD or book!
This guy might have the old middle school in Keene too. And the main part of that building is also the same as the original of this building in your video.
I was in the 7th grade when this school was closed down and the two new middle schools were opened down the road in 2009. I remember being so excited at the time. This building was obviously old and falling apart. My classmates and I couldn’t wait to move into the new state of the art buildings. Now what I wouldn’t give to walk through these halls one last time. Generations of my family have attended school here including my siblings and parents. I remember dropping my older sister off here when I was still in elementary school thinking about when it would be my turn to be a student there. The architecture of the building is absolutely gorgeous despite the goofy layout. It just felt like Woonsocket. I remember waiting outside the lunchroom doors many winter mornings waiting for them to be opened for breakfast. I remember attending gym class in the old gym facilities with the divider and creepy spiraling staircase. I remember my sixth grade classroom that was right next to the entrance to the auditorium balcony. It seems like it was just yesterday but it’s been 15 years. I’m very happy this building was declared historical and cannot be torn down. But I’m also sad it will most likely be completely gutted to create luxury apartments. I hope they are able to keep certain architectural components of the building intact. Part of me hoped the city of Woonsocket would have just redone the building itself and maybe make it a high school again.
My grandmother lived in that neighborhood. Such an interesting place. I lived the next town over and glad to see its being restored. Hope they dont fuck it up
Love the video! How unfortunate the students were robbed of their last day. I'm sure they've got their memories, but it's quite different when given the opportunity to soak it all in-perhaps for the first time, but definitely the last.
I went to 7, 8, and 9th grades here, starting in 1984, when it was Woonsocket Junior High School (Juni Hi Hoo because letters were missing 😊) I was in Mrs. Maney's class in Rm 210? when we learned of the Challenger explosion, and I'm still friends with people I met here. 🥰
Wow what a shocker, they’re turning that beautiful structure into more renovated apartments. All of our old buildings, mills and plants are going in the same direction. It’s an easy cash grab for these developers. They’ll promise the world in keeping the structure intact as much as possible but in the end it’ll just be hollowed out keeping just the outside walls….smh what a waste it could’ve just been turned into something the people of ri should’ve been able to visit idk
It really sucks to see this beautiful school once opened, now it's closed, I went here in Junior High School from 7th grade to 9th grade only. Was a beautiful school with beautiful woodworking. Most teachers were nice, like Mrs Morin English teacher, who helped me out the most, Mr. CURRIN ON THE 1st fl that helped many out. It would be nice to rebuild it for the cost, it's cheaper to REHAB THAT SCHOOL AND HAVE ALL KINDS OF KIDS GO THERE, THEY HAVE WOODWORKING SHOP, METAL SHOP, ELECTRICAL SHOP WHICH I TOOK ALL. plus other classes like sewing with cooking. Many Friday night dances. Love the 9th grade gym class. Lunch room was wicked cool. It's almost in better shape for the high school if it would be kept up with, high school has many drop ceilings from hiding mold from many years of leaks, they fix roof, put up new drop ceiling about 8 inches down then they move the cameras and fire alarms.
It isn't the only large abandoned middle school in RI, there is also one in Warwick on Rt 1A that has been abandoned for almost as long. In Cranston, they have a bunch of former elementary schools that have been repurposed as condo's, both public and Catholic, except one by Park View, which is abandoned and I think used by the fire department for training. Seems in the old days there were 1 - a lot more children. 2- no busing, so small schools in walking distance. Now they are consolidating and building modern schools.
I just realized your name is similar to a former executive at Microsoft's Xbox division, a man closely affiliated with the development of the Xbox 360, J. Allard.
I didnt go to this school, but my parents lived on Harrison Ave for a while and its where I spent the first 6 years of my life. This was in the mid to late 70's. My earliest memories are from that neighborhood and watching the kids walk home from school in the afternoon while I played in the yard. I remember riding my big wheel around that school.
I went to middle school at the same time as you brother, we were probably passed each other in the halls, or even had the same classes together. That's insane, and super nostalgic to see a ghost of our past reappear.
One of my past schools no longer exists. It was torn down, replaced by a Comfort Inn and its lot subdivided to accommodate apartments and geared to income apartments. Now, our town needs more affordable housing but we lost the perfect lot for a public school. Of the school buildings in my town, it was the oldest, so it did need updating or full on replacement as it had narrow corridors in the old part and was two floors, making it relatively inaccessible to limited mobility staff and students. To this day, I wonder why that lot couldn't be repurposed by the school board for a brand new school as it was one of the most central areas in my town and perfect for a public (K-8/K-6) school.
OMG I thought from out with parents is just looking at it from general outside shots that this was the old one socket middle school and now you just confirmed it like you just said one socket and I knew this is being raised the first eight years of my life and having family who still live in socket, I forgot who Lily just graduated from the high school like a couple of weeks ago his older brother works at the new high school my mom, my uncle my uncle the father of the cousin who teases at the new middle school Saska cousin who just graduated high school a few weeks ago in the sister across to the school system as well as my aunt all went through the school system, my grandparents went to the one socket school system my grandfather, two brothers and their wives went through the school system. My mom saw the family for generations has gone through this once soccer school system is just with my generation where not all of us had gone through the school system at least not 100%, I went from kindergarten through second grade one school district for my brother was from kindergarten through fifth grade. I knew that was the old middle school. I could just tell if I'm some mother a few outside shots that that was the old ones so middle school before you even said the word Woonsocket, I just knew it just realized they would've been in 11th grade when the one socket middle school the old one socket no school closed my cousin who is now a teacher at the new middle school would've been a student at the old middle school when it called he were been in seventh grade in December 2009
My old middle school closed last year. I was there in 2001 when the US's world trade center was destroyed. I don't know whether they decided to abandon or demolish the building. I think my class was the last one on the 3rd floor.
I knew most of them all, even the opening over the gym, weird room that overlooks the gym. Yes the school is confusing but give it time, you know everything about it and where what goes where, teachers didn't know I think, I'd be late to classes at times, that's from many of us, Smoking in the boys room. They spent way too much money building 2 schools, they could of fixed that place for half the cost. I know alot of that school, the ins and outs.
this is fascinating! i know most of woonsocket like the back of my hand but i don’t believe i’ve ever seen this building, but i know well the others you named designed by the same architect. it’s so cool to see footage of an area i drive around all the time! im not an urban explorer myself, but there are so many dope looking abandon buildings in woonsocket, i wanna experience them in every state.
I forget what year it was, but I remember climbing the fire escape of this building an watched from the roof top a fire that had happened in a nearby mill.
I love urbex videos and this one was done with so much heart and was so nostalgic. Thank you so much for doing this documentary! Subscribed to your channel and will be checking out more of your vids.
Yes indeed a beautiful building and they should make low- affordable housing with a recreational place in it and well maybe even a side store shop in side to sell items small like if out side stores close and in need of a quick milk or bread etc
Excellent job with this 10 years later redux !! Brings back a lot of memories, good and bad . One caveat for me, is while the population was growing, the need for as ever larger school was because as the decades passed, more parents were insisting their kids get a full education K-12 . My parents generation, all my uncle’s and aunts went as far as 8th grade, if that even . But most of their children graduated
Gladstone elementary in Cranston would be a great school to do next. It's being replaced very soon so best to get to it before it's too late! It also is well known for having an abandoned indoor swimming pool which is something I haven't heard of anywhere else in the state.
As a retired Detective from the City and former SWAT Team Leader, I can tell you I walked those halls hundreds of times from 1991 until I retired in 2008. As a contracted instructor for the SWAT Team in 2016 we used the school as a training facility and it was truly weird walking down the halls seeing that little or nothing had changed over the years. You did a great job with your documentary....Thank you....
thank you for your service
Hey! I remember watching "My Old School" live when it premiered back in 2013. Man, what a throwback. used to attend this very school back in the early 2000s and I'm very nostalgic for it. Thanks for the 10th anniversary update!
beautiful as always Jason. it feels like us 30 year olds should be too young to have formed memories in places that are now abandoned, but here we are. glad to see your old school now has opportunity at another life!
I was in the eighth grade at this school when it closed down, I watched your original movie on this years ago & loved it & this just brought back so many memories once again. Thank you ❤
My parents graduated from that school in 1972 back when it was a high school. Definitely a lot of history in that place.
growing up in NE is wild fr its just a certain atmosphere all its own must of been while roaming the halls again so many memories popping back up from a time so much more simpler (sometimes) flashbacks must of been everywhere I hope I get to do this with my high school.
I went to that middle school in the 80s. that school is huge!! I always got lost in the school going from one class room to another. I learned a lot in that school and lots of memories.
26:17 Scott was my neighbor and friend when I was little. He’d let me follow him around and help at the gas station he worked at. I also have a piece of his artwork. He did a portrait of my dad and framed it, only charging me the small amount I’d managed to save from my allowance. I didn’t realize until years later how silly and small the amount was, but he was good like that. The picture is now in my master bedroom.
Thanks for this.
It's so great to see that the building will get a new life. It'd be such a shame to see it decay or be demolished.
I hope the renovations don't strip all the original character from such a well built structure.
Bravo!
The building was purchased for just $1 million. Goldman's website says they are turning it into a luxury complex, not affordable housing. They're gentrifiers.
Compared to most public schools that have the look of a prison or bunker, this school is absolutely beautiful. Too bad they stopped making schools look like a place of motivation and inspiration for the most part.
I’m about to make a trip back home (blackstone), and I think you just convinced me to go explore my home.
Wow same my old jr high was closed in 2014 demolished 2016 my senior year good memory’s
❤ really nice job! The changes in scenes, story telling and all the ways you put this story together was an enjoyable watch!
I went to Woonsocket Middle School from 91-94. This really took me back! Thanks for the memories
I purchased the original dvd ,,,,,,,,,,,, so glad to have it for my children and my grand daughter who was a student at the last day of school in those buildings,,,,
Man, that school looks so much cooler than my jr high, i went to Samuel Gorton Junior High in Warwick which is now some city building or whatever, then to Warwick veterans' memorial high school before it was turned into a jr high
You really did a fantastic video.
Man, I'm surprised that in Woonsocket there's no vandalism.
Having several active alarm systems definitely helps. If you trespass here you will be arrested.
Would be great for homeless?
@@paulmarshall690everyone wants to take the homeless to Woonsocket, let them breathe 😂
Even when 1 burned papers in that 1 room
I went to that school around that time, thanks for the nostalgic feeling
I grew up in RI and hung out with a few kids who went there. I got to go there once for a Halloween party and when they found out I wasn't from there they took pity on me as I had no friends. I wasn't causing trouble and spent more time talking to the teachers than the students who'd brought me there. It's sad to see it in such a state. Especially given a lot of those supplies could be used at other schools.
I went to that school. You did an amazing 👏 job. Thank you much success 🙌
Thank you for sharing this with us.. as a fellow WMS Graduate, I had the 7/8 grade split, those hallways were a challenge at first 😂 I remember waiting at the slope for lunch.. damn it's been a long time!!!!!
I was there for 7th through 9th grade. Woonsocket did not have a sophomore year. Class of 1975
Nice! Should've given the new owner a can(s) of Red Bull prior to the interview.
Time stamp 16:45 my Step dads nickname is Archie! he went there in the early 70!!
I also went to school there 6th through 8th grade. My 8th grade year was in 2005. Never thought it would end up closed.
Beautiful building. Nice job 👍
excellent documentary !
Excellent job!
I assume permission was had from the new owner to flip all of the breakers? Like you said I would have been worried about burning the place to the ground.
That’s a huge middle school
Usher at the school dance got me.
I would love to buy a old school and live in it
Great work!
So dope dude. 🤌🤌🤌🤌
I would like to make something like this for my friends, so we can remember what it was like to go there. How were you able to get in without setting the alarms off? I’ve heard of people getting caught there before and I don’t wanna get arrested.
We had permission from the owners and redevelopment company. There’s no other way in without getting arrested for trespassing - too many alarms and police patrols.
Hi, I have dime questions, Why many schools in América was abandones or close?, Is that normal?. Sorry im not from United States.
Your school, wow
Where can I watch the documentary
What happened to your school
Did you go to school with Exploring with Josh?
We were a few years apart but went to the same school
pristine buildings like this show why graffiti is so ugly and tasteless
Your from woony
what a waste - why hasn't it been converted into anything else?
I wish you could document Coggeshall elementary school in Newport! It was built in 1899 and has been abandoned for many years. I attended there as a child, and something about that place always gave me a mysterious feeling. I wish they would do something with it. It is such a beautiful building.
The Newport police acquired the key for training purposes I heard. I’ve wanted to revisit it for a long time! There’s still so much in there.
Wow, this was super nostalgic. I remember singing in choir concerts on that stage and playing knockout in the gym. Haven't thought about this place in a long time. I love that its documented. Absolutely beautiful work. I think I was there around the same time as you - 2000 - 2003, Class of 07. Keep making cool things!
Jason you did it again with another banger ‼️ I really enjoyed it and all the history that you shared with us about this school was very interesting ❤ keep up the great work brother ✌️
Such great news that the school will be renovated. My high school closed a few years ago. Most likely it will be torn down, but I’d love to see it preserved and redeveloped. Great job Jason, your work is amazing.
It’s amazing to see. I graduated in 1970 when it was still the High School. I honestly do not remember a lot of the areas. I was one of the group in the Machine shop with John Bellville and the guys in the wood shop with Mr. Rivet. They called us the Pit Men back then. I turned 70 this year and have not been back into the building since 1970. I have memories and still remain friends with classmates still living even i f I was not real involved back then. I am now a Professional Santa and retired from many years working in Machine shops thanks to Mr. Bellville. It would be awesome to see it again but I get it won’t happen.
Jason, this video is perfect, just perfect. Thank you for inviting us back to revisit this important place in your life. So glad that this place sparked your love of filmmaking and urban exploration that we get to enjoy. This is excellent work!
Looking at this video brought back so many memories in that school: the mile run around the building, pillow hockey, learning pottery in the art room, and wood shop. This video encapsulated these core memories of being in that school. Thank you to you and your team, Jay!
I had so many amazing memories in that school.1967-1972. Thanks for the journey.
Wow, just wow! What an amazing presentation of a perfectly produced video of a RI landmark. I felt as though I was walking through the halls with all youse guys. Thanks so much!
WOW!!! Just WOW! I went to school here when it was Woonsocket Junior High School from 1982-1984! This documentary video brought back so many memories! I can clearly remember walking those halls, sitting in some of those classrooms and eating lunch in that cafeteria! Thank you so very much for the memories! I really wish I could get my hands on the DVD or book!
I just found out that Exploring With Josh went to the exact same school you went to 🤯
Same I thought I was the only one 😭
2 legends in the same school
I went to woonsocket in 1972 when the ladies showers were functional
Mabye the ladder leads up to a storage room or an office
This guy might have the old middle school in Keene too. And the main part of that building is also the same as the original of this building in your video.
I was in the 7th grade when this school was closed down and the two new middle schools were opened down the road in 2009. I remember being so excited at the time. This building was obviously old and falling apart. My classmates and I couldn’t wait to move into the new state of the art buildings. Now what I wouldn’t give to walk through these halls one last time. Generations of my family have attended school here including my siblings and parents. I remember dropping my older sister off here when I was still in elementary school thinking about when it would be my turn to be a student there. The architecture of the building is absolutely gorgeous despite the goofy layout. It just felt like Woonsocket. I remember waiting outside the lunchroom doors many winter mornings waiting for them to be opened for breakfast. I remember attending gym class in the old gym facilities with the divider and creepy spiraling staircase. I remember my sixth grade classroom that was right next to the entrance to the auditorium balcony. It seems like it was just yesterday but it’s been 15 years.
I’m very happy this building was declared historical and cannot be torn down. But I’m also sad it will most likely be completely gutted to create luxury apartments. I hope they are able to keep certain architectural components of the building intact. Part of me hoped the city of Woonsocket would have just redone the building itself and maybe make it a high school again.
As a person who hates school it's just sad to see schools being left to rot
My grandmother lived in that neighborhood. Such an interesting place. I lived the next town over and glad to see its being restored. Hope they dont fuck it up
Honestly I teared up watching this video, I went to explore the old school, where do I go to get permission
Love the video! How unfortunate the students were robbed of their last day. I'm sure they've got their memories, but it's quite different when given the opportunity to soak it all in-perhaps for the first time, but definitely the last.
I went to 7, 8, and 9th grades here, starting in 1984, when it was Woonsocket Junior High School (Juni Hi Hoo because letters were missing 😊) I was in Mrs. Maney's class in Rm 210? when we learned of the Challenger explosion, and I'm still friends with people I met here. 🥰
Wow what a shocker, they’re turning that beautiful structure into more renovated apartments. All of our old buildings, mills and plants are going in the same direction. It’s an easy cash grab for these developers. They’ll promise the world in keeping the structure intact as much as possible but in the end it’ll just be hollowed out keeping just the outside walls….smh what a waste it could’ve just been turned into something the people of ri should’ve been able to visit idk
It really sucks to see this beautiful school once opened, now it's closed, I went here in Junior High School from 7th grade to 9th grade only. Was a beautiful school with beautiful woodworking. Most teachers were nice, like Mrs Morin English teacher, who helped me out the most, Mr. CURRIN ON THE 1st fl that helped many out. It would be nice to rebuild it for the cost, it's cheaper to REHAB THAT SCHOOL AND HAVE ALL KINDS OF KIDS GO THERE, THEY HAVE WOODWORKING SHOP, METAL SHOP, ELECTRICAL SHOP WHICH I TOOK ALL. plus other classes like sewing with cooking. Many Friday night dances. Love the 9th grade gym class. Lunch room was wicked cool. It's almost in better shape for the high school if it would be kept up with, high school has many drop ceilings from hiding mold from many years of leaks, they fix roof, put up new drop ceiling about 8 inches down then they move the cameras and fire alarms.
It isn't the only large abandoned middle school in RI, there is also one in Warwick on Rt 1A that has been abandoned for almost as long. In Cranston, they have a bunch of former elementary schools that have been repurposed as condo's, both public and Catholic, except one by Park View, which is abandoned and I think used by the fire department for training. Seems in the old days there were 1 - a lot more children. 2- no busing, so small schools in walking distance. Now they are consolidating and building modern schools.
I just realized your name is similar to a former executive at Microsoft's Xbox division, a man closely affiliated with the development of the Xbox 360, J. Allard.
I didnt go to this school, but my parents lived on Harrison Ave for a while and its where I spent the first 6 years of my life. This was in the mid to late 70's. My earliest memories are from that neighborhood and watching the kids walk home from school in the afternoon while I played in the yard. I remember riding my big wheel around that school.
I went to middle school at the same time as you brother, we were probably passed each other in the halls, or even had the same classes together. That's insane, and super nostalgic to see a ghost of our past reappear.
One of my past schools no longer exists. It was torn down, replaced by a Comfort Inn and its lot subdivided to accommodate apartments and geared to income apartments. Now, our town needs more affordable housing but we lost the perfect lot for a public school. Of the school buildings in my town, it was the oldest, so it did need updating or full on replacement as it had narrow corridors in the old part and was two floors, making it relatively inaccessible to limited mobility staff and students. To this day, I wonder why that lot couldn't be repurposed by the school board for a brand new school as it was one of the most central areas in my town and perfect for a public (K-8/K-6) school.
Total respect, my friend. So cool. You have such great talent! What a piece of work that will be referenced, used, and 'liked' for years to come.
Didn’t exploring with Josh come here too?
OMG I thought from out with parents is just looking at it from general outside shots that this was the old one socket middle school and now you just confirmed it like you just said one socket and I knew this is being raised the first eight years of my life and having family who still live in socket, I forgot who Lily just graduated from the high school like a couple of weeks ago his older brother works at the new high school my mom, my uncle my uncle the father of the cousin who teases at the new middle school Saska cousin who just graduated high school a few weeks ago in the sister across to the school system as well as my aunt all went through the school system, my grandparents went to the one socket school system my grandfather, two brothers and their wives went through the school system. My mom saw the family for generations has gone through this once soccer school system is just with my generation where not all of us had gone through the school system at least not 100%, I went from kindergarten through second grade one school district for my brother was from kindergarten through fifth grade. I knew that was the old middle school. I could just tell if I'm some mother a few outside shots that that was the old ones so middle school before you even said the word Woonsocket, I just knew it just realized they would've been in 11th grade when the one socket middle school the old one socket no school closed my cousin who is now a teacher at the new middle school would've been a student at the old middle school when it called he were been in seventh grade in December 2009
My old middle school closed last year. I was there in 2001 when the US's world trade center was destroyed.
I don't know whether they decided to abandon or demolish the building.
I think my class was the last one on the 3rd floor.
What a great video! Thank you. I'm curious as to what the apartments will look like and I am happy the building is being saved!
Hi Jason. You have such a talent. Your docs are awesome. The production is top notch. Very impressive. Keep up the good work 👏
I knew most of them all, even the opening over the gym, weird room that overlooks the gym. Yes the school is confusing but give it time, you know everything about it and where what goes where, teachers didn't know I think, I'd be late to classes at times, that's from many of us, Smoking in the boys room. They spent way too much money building 2 schools, they could of fixed that place for half the cost. I know alot of that school, the ins and outs.
this is fascinating! i know most of woonsocket like the back of my hand but i don’t believe i’ve ever seen this building, but i know well the others you named designed by the same architect. it’s so cool to see footage of an area i drive around all the time!
im not an urban explorer myself, but there are so many dope looking abandon buildings in woonsocket, i wanna experience them in every state.
I think this was exploring with Josh’s school too
I forget what year it was, but I remember climbing the fire escape of this building an watched from the roof top a fire that had happened in a nearby mill.
Glad you were able to go back Jay. It was good to see how the middle school has changed. Very surprised to hear it'll be apartments though lol
wow !! i attended woonsocket jr. high there 1973 4 and 5 crazy school and yes got lost a number of times
10:26 It goes up.
(Bill Murray/Ghostbusters reference for those around in the 1980’s)
I love urbex videos and this one was done with so much heart and was so nostalgic. Thank you so much for doing this documentary!
Subscribed to your channel and will be checking out more of your vids.
That was my junior high before it changed to a middle school. The dungeon gyms and the weird way one side of the building connected to the other.
I put my time in here from 1973 through 1976. I don't remember a good day there.
Yes indeed a beautiful building and they should make low- affordable housing with a recreational place in it and well maybe even a side store shop in side to sell items small like if out side stores close and in need of a quick milk or bread etc
Ol' Woony Middle School 😂 I grew up in Providence so this is pretty ill.
Excellent job with this 10 years later redux !! Brings back a lot of memories, good and bad . One caveat for me, is while the population was growing, the need for as ever larger school was because as the decades passed, more parents were insisting their kids get a full education K-12 . My parents generation, all my uncle’s and aunts went as far as 8th grade, if that even . But most of their children graduated
Looks like it would be GREAT FOR HOMELESS?
Some day this channel will blow up... should have already.
Managing partner at Goldman? How old is he? about 25?
I was part of the last classes in this school and the first graduating class of middle school villa nova 😢
Gladstone elementary in Cranston would be a great school to do next. It's being replaced very soon so best to get to it before it's too late! It also is well known for having an abandoned indoor swimming pool which is something I haven't heard of anywhere else in the state.
They had a tunnel under my old school terre haute Indiana state lab university to
I went to school there in 89-90! I use to live on Rathbun St!
Exploring with Josh went to that school when he was a kid
Last 8th grade class here thanks for making this video 🤝
I love learning about buildings being featured in urban exploration videos.