THE EXPANSION TO THE NORTH

The unrest that follows a war, followed World War One. The 1920 movement of the movie colony to Hollywood because of the climate, caused a heavy migration to this area. New population in Buena Park continued to concentrate south of the Southern Pacific Railroad, and the area between Western and Stanton Avenues became firmly established.

Ralph P. Maskey, a real estate man, began the accumulation of land in the original Whitaker area north of the railroad. In 1924 he began to re-record tracts east of Grand Avenue. His first plot was upset in 1925 by the extension of Manchester Boulevard through Buena Park that became part of the Santa Ana Freeway through the town, but other development went forward.

THE LINDBERGH SCHOOL, 1928

A strong evidence of this growth in the older section was the building of the third school on the land of the first Buena Park School, and the changing of the name to Grand Avenue School. A reason for the changing of the name of the original Buena Park School was that the northern development forced the building in 1927 of a second school at 4th Street and Stanton Avenue. This was named for Charles A. Lindbergh who had just made his famous flight over the Atlantic Ocean. The first and second grades of this new school in its first year indicate something of the growth of the area.

1ST AND 2ND GRADES, LINDBERGH, 1928

Of further significance in this growth is the picture of the 16 pupils who graduated in 1923 from the four room building of the Buena Park School, and the 50 who graduated from the new Grand Avenue School in 1931.

1931 GRADUATES AT THE NEW SCHOOL

Also, the group of teachers in the picture taken at that time shows the expansion from the first two room school that was built just 34 years before.

BUENA PARK SCHOOL DISTRICT TEACHERS, ABOUT 1931