George Wharton Pepper Middle School

[@MICHAELADAMS-dv5bf]

I am one of the original school boys of PEPPER MIDDLE SCHOOL. 1974 when it opened!!! I was a starter on the Basketball team & the gymnasium wasn't even built yet. Coach Danowitz was the BBall coach. The school was brand new and awesome. I was in Beta house my 1st year and Gamma house my 2nd. I was there for 7th and 8th grade. The gym was finished two+ years after we all graduated. Great memories...

[@tinamclaughlin1991]

I grew up on Bonsall Ave in Sharon Hill, just next to the Darby creek. I still loved the look of the building! The art is a bonus, and shows talent of the city there. I hope what's planned comes to fruition!

[@AhmadHamzabalad]

I attended this school in 1990. It was a great school

[@tommaso7994]

Retrofitting this fine building to bring it up to 21st century energy conservation standards would be quite a challenge - though not impossible. The big question would be: how to insulate? Nice video - good work

[@ace-gt4053]

My middle school! Of course when attending, I hated it as far as a student. But it was pretty cool waking the hallways, the lunch hall, the bus ramps, pick up zones. We had 4 different "Houses" back then... 4 sets of "scissor" stairways, Alpha House, Beta House, Gamma, and Delta.

[@jos414]

I also attended Pepper in 1976. It was a beautiful school.

[@skatebordstephen]

I went there in 1998. I forgot about the houses, but it does bring back vague memories. I think we were "assigned" different houses as means to organize the students. I remember the school being on the dangerous side because the students were from bad areas of Southwest Philly. I lived off of 61st and Woodland Ave. and that area was no joke at all in the 90s.

[@charlieg4732]

Damn so many memories graduate of 1996

[@lunabean2794]

I went there from 6th to 8th grade from 1983 to 1986.

[@barbaramiraglia4779]

Why did it clise

[@QuietExplorations]

I just drove by this today on my way to John Heinz. It's a shame, what's become of the school. I love the design, and think it would be a cool place in which to learn/to teach. The design of the building is strangely futuristic, which you remarked was an aspect of the designer's wishes. I don't see this particular building as being ugly or authoritarian as some of the other brutality designs to which you pointed.

[@QuietExplorations]

To your later points, they could rehabilitate this school as they did the BOK in South Philly. Could be an awesome hub for the neighborhood.

[@JazzyWillis-k9e]

I used to go there for eight grade and the step was weird

[@Lovemywaywithwords]

Never heard of this school

[@williamtodd3937]

Make a great television station

[@WinstonCathedral]

The graffiti stinks😂