This past week, the Superior Telegram released it’s 24th episode of Archive Dive, which is a monthly history podcast where we “dive” into the archives of historic events, people and places in Superior and Douglas County.
For this month’s episode, Telegram reporter Maria Lockwood and local historian and retired librarian Teddie Meronek explore East and Nelson Dewey high schools in Superior as they discuss the building of both schools, how the students and teachers survived the Great Depression and World War II, as well as the rivalry that grew between East High School and Central High School.
"I grew up in East End so I remember that it was just like a small town, and the schools in East End weren't built next to businesses, they were built in neighborhoods and they were all surrounded by homes," said Meronek. "East End had a high school, it had a public grade school and two parochial schools, within blocks of each other and their business district included a movie theater and East End had the only branch library — an actual library building — and we had a dime store, dry cleaners and a bank, two drug stores, two hardware stores, restaurants, two hair salons, dentists, doctors. I mean, it was like a small town in itself."
You can find that episode at superiortelegram.com or wherever you also get this podcast. You can find addtional episodes here.
In case you missed last month’s episode, we are resharing it here. In December, Maria and Teddie looked back at the lives behind lens' of three famous photographers from Superior: David Francis Barry, Ray Jones and Esther Bubley. Enjoy!