1. Blach girls used to be required to take home economics class, and boys were required to take wood shop. But girls couldn't take woodshop, and boys couldn't take home economics.
2. Blach often used to have "Father and Son nights".
3. Boxer Archie Moore, in person, appeared at the "Father and Son night" banquet in March of 1966 to talk about his ABC (Any Boy Can) program.
Taken from Blach scrapbook
4. In October 1966, the city of Mountain View held an emergency test: "Thirty Students at Blach school in Los Altos were injured, some critically, when the boiler exploded in the basement".
5. Blach shared it's music concert with Carmel and Oak Schools on May 24, 1967.
6. Blach used to teach a separate reading class.
7. The eighth grade used to have a core class.
8. An actual constitution was written for the Blach student body, but it is unclear if anybody still uses it anymore.
9. Blach used to have separate dances for seventh and eighth grades. There were three dances for each grade, totaling six dances a year plus the grad dance!
10. The dances used to be from 7:30-10 in 1959. Now they are from 7:00 to 9:00.
11. Before there was a multi, the dances were held in the home arts room, with games in the shop room. A little later, they were held in the music room. It must have been really crowded, because there used to be a lot more students enrolled at Blach than there are now.
12. Blach students used to have to take Civics class.
13. The only source of income for the student council in the late 50's to early 60's was to sell ice cream bars every Friday for anly 10 cents a piece. Five cents from every bar went to the Blach Treasury.
14. For after school sports, Blach used to have a football team.
15. Blach used to have annual science fairs. When they would print the winners in the newspaper, not only would they put their name and age, but they would put who their parents were and their home address.
16. Linda must have been a popular name in 1961. On the ballot for the June, 1961 Student Body election, there were 4 people running with the name Linda. On top of that, they were all running for completely different offices, and 3 out of 4 of them won.
17. The student store used to be held in the little room beside the soda machine. In fact, there is still an old student store sign in there. The student store was moved in between room 8 and 9 October 3, of 1994. Everything was the same prices then as it still is now, but now there is a lot more things for sale.
18. Friday music was taken away around 1993-1994, because the janitor had to move the sound system from the multi purpose room to the quad. The students begged and begged, and finally it was brought back.
19. Blach's football team was taken away in 1994 due to lack of schools perticipating.
20. Students used to either get Health or Science.
21. Late start was only once a month until 1994 when they moved it to once a week.
22. The journalism class used to write the yearbook, until the publications class came around.
23. The Blach student store used to be organised by Blach's leadership class, and all of the profits went directly to the leadership class, where they distributed it eavenly to many different places. The student store sold hot foods like pizza then too.
24. In the early 80's, one of the winning homeroom prizes included a togos party or bowling!
25. The computer classes in the 80's taught kids how to program in the Basic language.
26. Also in the 80's one of the offices of election was a student store manager.
27. Practically nobody carried backpacks around 15 years ago. Everybody just used their lockers.
28. Blach's school colors were Green and White in the 50's and 60's. Now they are Green and Gold (Yellow), I couldn't find out when this change was made, or why.
29. In the 80's, dances were from 6:30-9:30pm. And the prizes for the raffle included things as big as phones!
30. Blach's P.E. locker rooms once burned down, but were rebuilt.
31. In March of 1983, Permanente bypass creek overflowed, sending a wave of muddy water over the intersection of Carmel Terrace and Altamead Road, then on to the Blach School campus. Blach was flooded, and the school was closed for days.