Time On Our Hands:  Boys' Class Roosevelt School

Well, here are the boys from Roosevelt School.  I think this one must be in a city because there are enough boys of one age to fill a frame.  I love the little bow ties and dress shirts, slicked back hair for some of them.  For the most part the pant legs have been rolled up though one dark pair in the front fits perfectly, and then a little left of center one boy has very baggy pants of some kind.  Not sure I have ever seen anything like them.  

I always thought the kids in these pictures were clowning around and making faces but I examined this one more and think maybe they are squinting from the sun.  Heads are tipped down and eyes are squeezed almost shut.  

Exceptions exist.  The last boy on the right must be a movie fan.  He is deep into his Frankenstein pose.  He's quite convincing.  

The young man in the center of the back row looks strangely familiar.  Like Orsen Welles, maybe?   

So now the most popular boy...hmm.  I think it might be the one with all the golden curls, three from the end on the right, front row.  He is very cute, tall and lean.  Or maybe it's the banker in the middle in the tan vest and trousers.  

I am not worried about who the biggest cut up is.  I know he is Frankenstein.  He gave himself away for all posterity the day he posed for this picture with such enthusiasm.  

What year is this?  It could be as late as the 1950s but I am not sure.  Bow ties were in then and corduroy (mr. popular is wearing cords).  I don't think it's as late as the 1960s.  Any ideas?  

Cool, too, are the big schoolhouse windows and the window boxes with something just beginning to show it's little green head there.  Long sleeves with sun and little plants starting to grow.  It must be spring at Roosevelt School!