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I was a student at the old Edmonds High School – now the Edmonds Center for the Arts – for six years. Yes, you read it right, six years.

No, I was not a slow learner – at one time the Edmonds High School building housed more than a four-year high school. With a shortage of space at Edmonds Grade School, for several years the seventh and eighth grades of the grade school were assigned to continue their schooling at the high school building.

When I entered seventh grade in the EHS building, it was 1939, and the school had just been remodeled from the old red-brick building to the more m...