This ain’t Long Beach, but I found myself attracted to today’s Los Angeles Times story on a venerable L.A. Catholic school–Precious Blood Catholic School–for the school’s historic campus and its, er, sanguine moniker.

The place of learning survives virtually intact from its Eisenhower Era beginnings (Class of 1953 was the first) in a converted house at Third Street and West Occidental Boulevard–and so of course I like that.

I like it so much so that I’ll even spare you a joke about a plasma-screen TV in the teacher’s lounge. I just don’t have the heart–or the stomach, liver, kidneys–for it. (Get it? Plasma? Precious Blood? Forget it.)

Someone else who appreciates Precious Blood’s long past is a certain Bob Reed, Precious Blood Class of 1963; the Times says he’s compiling a history of the school’s half-century. (Reed lacks class photos for 1954 and 1959–anyone?)

This all makes me wonder: what’s our most historically original school campus here in Long Beach? Is it Poly High? Wilson High? Hughes Middle School? Tucker? (I wrote about those last two last year.)

Feel free to jump in here and let me know.

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