McDonogh 23 Crossing Guards, 1930s

ID: 1685 ~ Source: Image courtesy of Buddy Adams, private collection.
This file appears in: McDonogh No. 23
McDonogh 23 Crossing Guards, 1930s

Buddy Adams, third from the left, served as a school crossing guard in addition to dropping water bombs on police officers from the second-floor window of the building.

This file appears in: McDonogh No. 23

By Adrienne Luck
Several years after New Orleans annexed the Town of Carrollton in 1874, the former Carrollton Courthouse began to be used as a public school. The city was able to make the purchase because of the donations of John McDonogh. In 1889, after…