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  1902-1903 academic year. Operating in the

  old Garland College building on the west

  side of 9th Street between Avenues A & B,

  the faculty offered primary,  intermediate,

  high school and college-level instruction.

  Civic convocations were held in the

  auditorium, which accommodated crowds

  like the one shown here ca. 1912.

  side of Jupiter Rd across from the present 

  Raytheon/E-Systems plant, was operated

  by theDallas County School System. Miss

  Grace Davis (Glaze) is pictured ca. 1930

  with students in front of the school building,

  which was later moved and converted to a

  band hall at Garland High School.

  established in 1908, was located northwest

  of the present intersection of Avenue D

  and First Street. Rumored to be the site

  of occasional wagers, the facilities also

  offered animal breeding services and

  hosted the Garland Stock Show each May.

  The park's slogan was "The best is the

  cheapest."

  official varsity squad for GHS and the

  first to play on an advance schedule,

  instead of drawing opponents by the week.

  Its record was one win, two ties and three

  losses. Local teams of this area played

  without football helmets.

  Baseball was probably the earliest team sport

  played in Garland. The shirt of the catcher,

  photographed ca. 1915, indicates that his team

  was sponsored by the city's Geo. A. Alexander

  Insurance Agency.

  The Rosehill Baseball Team, pictured in 1925,

  won 7 of 11 games that year against teams

  from neighboring communities. Sports teams

  for men beyond high school age were common

  in those days, and their best players were

  graduated into more advanced leagues.

  Golfing on the Kingsley Ranch, shown here

  ca. 1930, provided a special treat for these

  local men. W. C. Kingsley built the course

  and his house on high ground south of present

  Kingsley Rd. between Glenbrook Dr. and

  Saturn Rd. He also raised buffalo on the

  ranch.

  apparently reserved for girls as football

  was for boys. It was also an outdoor

  sport, probably played on dirt courts,

  since the school had no gymnasium

  in those days. Shown here with their

  coach and referee is one of the

  earliest GHS teams, which played in

  sailor tops and bloomer.

  The red brick schoolhouse was

  completed for the 1899-1900 term

  and extensively remodeled in 1912

  and 1925. It faced east onto 9th Street

  in the block between Avenues A and B,

  hosting instruction from the first through

  the eleventh grades. Grammar school

  classes met on the first floor of the

  building while high school  classes

  occupied the second until the Garland

  High School campus was completed in

  1936. Destroyed by fire in January of

  1946, this building was replaced with

  the present one story structure.

  The old red brick school house, by then

  designated Garland Elementary School

  and fronting on 9th St. between Avenues

   A & B, was destroyed by fire in January

  of 1946. Since this was Garland's only

  elementary campus at the time, classes

  convened in local churches and a temporary

  building until the completion of a

  replacement structure, still standing

  on the site.

  east onto 9th St. between Avenues

  A & B. Erected in1889 by the

  non-profit Garland College Association,

  the structure became the plant of

  the Garland Independent School District

  when voters created it in 1901. GISD

  trustees assumed existing operations

  of the college, whose curriculum

  covered primary, high school and college

  levels. The building was significantly

  enlarged and remodeled in 1912.

  setters. W. C. Kingsley and his sister, Dixie

  Jeanne are shown (l-r) with Mr. &  Mrs.

  J. C. Davis, ca. 1910, in a photo that

  appeared to have been snapped before,

  rather than after, a strenuous match.

 The Garland Little League Baseball Association,

 organized in 1951, laid the foundation for organized youth

 sports in Garland. Pictured in that year with coaches

 Tom Aven and Dick Lowe (l-r) is the team sponsored by
 Corley & Range. Games were initially played on a field

 adjoining the B. H. Freeman Elementary School.

 

  helped  kick off a successful grid

  season in the fall of 1951. Standing

  l-r are Virginia Lewis, Jerry Burch,

  Jo Ann Wyrick and Virginia Hurst.

  Kneeling are Louise Turner and

  Joan Eggleston.

  shown here during WWII, consisted of

  plant employees who played after hours

  against other adult teams of the area.

  Operating in the early core of the present

  Kraft Foods complex, Continental produced

  both tank and aircraft engines from 1943

  until the end of the war.

  billed as a fundraiser by Garland Civic

  Theater in 1968, the group's charter

  year. GCT staged the melodrama

  inside a borrowed room at 905 State St.

  Adult tickets for performances during

  its three-week run cost $1.25.

  Tigers football team competed in Class

  A of the Prairie View League. Pictured

  is action during their outstanding '64.65

  season, the Tigers advanced to the state

  finals, losing to Bartlett High 8-6.