Rayen

[Towntalk]

Unfortunately I don't. The picture came from eBay and I couldn't enlarge it enough to be more useful and still preserve the text in readable form so I didn't save it for my files.

[AllanY2525]

Towntalk,

You are right - it is an artist's rendition of the proposed Rayen High School - in the photo
below, the Roman-Style looking columns were to be built on the Eastern side of the
building, where the bleachers stood (stand?)

I took the Alumni farewell tour of the building right after their final homecoming game,
and happened upon a painting depicting the building with that fascia - either it was
never built that way, or they eliminated it(?) when they built the stadium bleachers...
Wish I had taken a photo of the artist's rendition...it looked like it had been
hand painted.  I graduated from The Rayen School in 1981.

Do you have a larger scan of that photo?  Would love to see it...

I remember a tunnel from the original gymnasium (below ground level) that used to
come out through the bleachers onto the football field, from what I was told. The
football team would come rushing out of the tunnel at the beginning of a game.

The other two photos are great historic photos.  I wonder what was done with all
the photos that were hung all over the school after it was closed?

[Towntalk]

That's what I thought, but the ad clearly says Rayen, and it certainly doesn't look like the Rayen I knew.

It was an artist rendering rather than a photograph so I wonder if someone made a mistake when putting the ad together.

[jay]

The building looks similar to the old Warren G. Harding in Warren, Ohio

[Towntalk]

Found this ad on eBay showing Rayen High School dated 1923. This picture doesn't seem right. Is there anyone here old enough to verify the picture as shown?