And no, you can t get a goose liver sandwich there. Don t even ask. Private instruction at the hands of German tutors was the only proper way to learn. Well, yes, I gathered that almost immediately. As far as I can determine, the school itself, which was built on North Parkway in 1909, was never segregated by sex.
Nobody seems to know.
I spoke with several former students, who remembered the separate entrances but never really thought about them. Everyone just hung around the front until the doors opened, and then lined up by class and filed in, says Kathy Klyce, who attended Snow-den in the early 1950s. The boys and girls never went in together. My supposition is it had something to do with the bathrooms. You were coming in off the playground, and you could go right to the bathrooms.