BILL FINDS HIS SCHOOL

Sept. 2015

Jeanne, Bill & Laurie at our 9172  Vienna apartment building

When our family lived in Vienna in 1972 my brother Bill was 7 years old and attended a Viennese elementary school in the 1st district.  
When he visited us here in September I wanted to see if he could find that school.  I had tried to find it but failed because I had only gone there once in 1972 to pick him up and couldn't remember much about it. 
So we had him start at our apartment on Tuchlauben and walk the route he thought he took to get to his school.  Sure enough, he walked right to it, even though it was 44 years ago since he attended there!
He had so many funny stories to tell.  He was beat up a few times and thinks it was because he wore American jeans and tennis shoes which were coveted items then and hard to get unless you were rich and had been to the U.S.  
Fortunately he had a picture of himself standing in front of his school that we used to make absolutely sure we were at the right place.  The building is still a school but has had a few changes made to it.  Can you see what has changed?

Bill was swinging around a sign pole on the way home from school in 1972 and it fell over!  He was accused of breaking it and police were involved.....

           Bill and Laurie ride the bumper cars at Prater, then and now.

Bill turned 8 years old while we lived in Vienna and
was baptized in this font in the Boeklinstrasse church building. The funny looking back wall is a mosaic.