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Our College in Paris - Year 1964-65 Photo Album.
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Intro
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Since our ACP class of 1964-5 never had a school Year Book, depsite
the fact that there was a Year Book staff assembled, when I was in Paris
and since I always loved photography, I took snaps of frieneds, places and events
which since the Year Book never materialized, provides the only visual record of my time
at ACP. I have given some shots to friends over the years, but have never had the
opportunity to put it together as an album until now. The internet allows me to
share the photos with all my class mates some of whom will be contributing
some of their own snaps to enlarge the collection. If any of you also have
some surviving snaps that you would like to share, I will be happy
to add them to the collection. Please make sure to identify
the people as best you can. Email them to me.
Visit the blog I set up too.
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In Our Time; long, long ago!
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In our day, the college was only a couple of years old and rented space in the basement and some uppper rooms of the American Church in Paris on the Quai d'Orsay. There were also some rooms rented in the American Cathedral across the river (where my parents were married at the end of the war.) There was also a dreary building down an alley across rue Dominique that was used as school cafeteria serving slop that kept us from starving at least although it contributed to the coating of the arteries. Since the student population was approx. 2/3 military offspring, they were kind enough to take us a guests to the US Offercers Club in rue Marbeuf, north of the river and just off the Champs Elysée, a 15 minutes walk and well worth it for a hamburger, fries, cokes, shakes and sundaes. It was an unofficial ACP club.
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Shot of the American Church from the west end. Walking down the street to the right side, took us to rue Dominique and the cafeteria. The church faces the Quai d'Orsay and the Seine.
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The fine cuisine that so characterises France for most of the world was not part of our Paris experience. Other than the cafeteria slop, our main exposure to French cuisine was in the cafés and bistros. This consisted of "sandwiches jambon or fromage" made with previous little of those ingredients and mostly of crusty baguette. There was also "croque monsieur" or cheese with ham melted on toast or a soupe d'onions. Many of us had small "camping gaz" burners or electric hot plates in our rooms, and fix our own meals. Some of us lived with families who provided the family table to their student guests.
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