No Recess Today by kjer_99
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Description
When I saw Dreamland's wonderfully elaborate and detailed one-room school set, I just had to have it. It reminded me of the one-room Kansas schoolhouse that my brother, Steve, and I attended during our Fourth and Fifth Grade years. It was called "SunnySide School." Our building was a bit smaller than Miss Kristi's above. There was no school yards swings or other play equipment. None of the outside objects you see here. Just two outhouse--one for each sex. There was a well and cistern by the front door but it was on the opposite side of what you see here. There were several front steps but no railing or sidewalk.
We did have the tree windbreak, which was planted after the Dust bowl Days--the "Dirty Thirties"--as they referred to it. We had electric lights and a forced air furnance by 1947 and 1948, when we attended. There was just the main school room and a small library-storage room. Our desks were very much like what Dreamland has in their model. Our Fourth Grade teacher was a second cousin of ours. It was her first or second teaching job. She was pretty, full of life, and nice to all us kids. We had another teacher the next year. She was old, bitter, and the nastiest person I ever had as a teacher. She did drive a Model T Ford, though! It was one of the last models, an all metal, completely enclosed coupe. It was Black and looked like it was new; although it was twenty years old if it was a day back then.
Well, I've rambled enough. Thanks for all your visits and previous comments.
Jeremy
CREDITS;
Vue Pro Studio 7.0, Poser 6.0, PSP 5.0.
Set: Dreamland Models Movies Sets, "Miss Kristi's Schoolhouse for Vue" (Renderosity).
Figure: Poser World's "Victorian Woman."
Car: "Ford Model T" by Daltimer (Sharecg).
Fence: Net freebie.
Road: "Gravel Road 3" by Transpond (RDNA).
Lighting: Net freebie.
Trees: Plants from Vue 7.
Grass Texture: Flink's Grasses (Renderosity).
Comments (20)
mininessie
very nice work!
DreamlandModels
Hi Jeremy, Nice render bud! thanks for supporting my efforts in working here at Renderosity! I grew up a little later than you but do have a fondness for the older stuff as it just seems to have so much charm and elegance. Please feel free to let me know anytime you do a render with one of my models as I get a big kick out of seeing what people do with my products. Kind regards, Tom
tennesseecowgirl
WOW what wonderful memories to read about, we have an area out near me where there is an old historic school house that I have visited you've inspired me with your story to get back out there and see it again and take some photos.. Great work, have a nice day!
Minaya
Great work, beautiful models and excellent light!
alessimarco
Very nicely done!!
jclP
nice work
kenwas
You show the model very well. Good job!
mrthirdeyeching
Cool stuff Jer!
geirla
Nice work and keep on rambling!
Spacer_01
Your story reminds me of the type of prairie schoolhouse my grandmother and her siblings attended to, albeit those were the Dirty 30's days before the luxury of forced air furnaces. It was still old wood burning stoves and stove pipes. It was raining and overcast earlier today, and man... To talk about your render, I'm really loving the dark sky, puffy clouds and dramatic lighting of the approaching thunderstorm. I can almost feel the soft humidity in the breeze and the scent of ozone in the air. You've got it just about right, with the flat bare open plains and fields, and the odd patch of bushes and trees scattered about. The school house seeming in the middle of nowhere's, and a rough dirt road. Thats the way it was back then, with farming homesteads often miles apart. Nice work!
ledwolorz
Fantastic work.
efron_241
would love to be there the weather has been good to us but it seems rain is on it's way
debbielove
Cool work,, Puts the depression right across.. Rob
Umbetro38
excellent atmo and a perefct composition
mermaid
so fine a render Jeremy, and so nice to read about your experiences... I do remember this sort of teacher too, as you described the old lady, I had one of those too in my second and third, I do remember her very well, as she looked to us like a witch, skinny with white hair, glasses, a hocknose and a shrill voice and even her name was fitting: Miss Stony
emmecielle
Great work! :)
jascorpio
Lovely work and it is really nice to read about the past days, it is good to listen and learn from others experience. Hope you did not stay long in that school with the bitter teacher.
Django
I like the lighting..but i miss some of your usually excelent foreground plantlive
RG19
Wow!!! Super details and and a most interesting personal historical perspective!!!
kanaa
oh, what a wonderful historic render!I loved your written description of the period.I too had a bitter female teacher too, who loved to whack kids on the palm of the hand with her wooden ruler...she had her name etched on it BACKWARDS so when you got the hit it left an impression in your hand like a stamp...