Santa Clarita Valley History In Pictures
> HONBY   > CANYON COUNTRY
Honby School
Honby | Saugus, California


Click image to enlarge

The entire student body of the K-8 Honby School in 1938, the year of the Great Flood, which washed the school down the Santa Clara River. We don't know if this photo was pre-flood or post-flood. The school was rebuilt. See map below for location.

Image courtesy of Dolly Lopez, who obtained it from her cousin Irene Madrid (later Lilley), who is at far left in the middle row.

Identifications (from Irene Madrid Lilley via Dolly Lopez):

Front Row: Bill Gafferty, Bobbie Chacanaca, Glen ?, George ?.

Middle Row: Irene Madrid, Alice Jensen, Gladys Haddock, Nellie Jensen, Eleanor Haddock, Mr. Stuckey (teacher), Marlyn Gafferty, Leona Cundy, Beverly Cundy, Joyce Cundy.

Top Row: Danny Vorhies, Earl Vorhies, Henry Balsz*, Frankie Balsz, Lorraine Fisher, Verna Cundy, Emily Balsz, Jackie Russell.

* Not the same Henry Balsz as in the 1939 photo.



Yellow is the location of the original Honby School. Red is the old Soledad Canyon Road alignment (east-west) and Camp Plenty Road (north-south). Google Maps image, 2017. Location extrapolated from HistoricAerials.com. Click to enlarge.



Honby School shows at the bottom of this 1958 Thomas Bros. map, courtesy of Tricia Lemon Putnam. Click to enlarge.


HB3801: 9600 dpi jpeg courtesy of Dolly Lopez. Download the "most original" version here. Online image only.
[Original identifications page]

thumbnail

Honby Locator

1st HONBY SCHOOL

thumbnail

Student Body 1938

thumbnail

Student Body 1939

thumbnail

Structures ~1960s

2nd HONBY SCHOOL
Canyon Springs Elem.

thumbnail

Staff 1974-75

thumbnail

6th Grade 1974-75

thumbnail

Cookbook ~1970s-80s

RETURN TO TOP ]   RETURN TO MAIN INDEX ]   PHOTO CREDITS ]   BIBLIOGRAPHY ]   BOOKS FOR SALE ]
SCVHistory.com is another service of SCVTV, a 501c3 Nonprofit • Site contents ©SCVTV
The site owner makes no assertions as to ownership of any original copyrights to digitized images. However, these images are intended for Personal or Research use only. Any other kind of use, including but not limited to commercial or scholarly publication in any medium or format, public exhibition, or use online or in a web site, may be subject to additional restrictions including but not limited to the copyrights held by parties other than the site owner. USERS ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE for determining the existence of such rights and for obtaining any permissions and/or paying associated fees necessary for the proposed use.