Thanks to The Recicar's for submitting these photos to The Gazette.

Written By Roy Grover

This picture is of the first school of Piru. On the picture bottom it is written 1st Piru School and 1st M.E. Church Building (Hart Wilson Bldg. 1982). It says on the two identified children as Sis and Alice. I have no doubt that is was the first Piru School, and in my upcoming picture of Piru in 1890-1892, it shows the building there then, but in that same picture it also has the present Methodist Church in it also. I don't know if this building served as the M.E. Church plus the school while the present Methodist Church was being built or not. What I do know is that the girl identified as Sis, was my Aunt, Thelma Wilson, later Floyd, because she gave me the picture and told me what I know about it. In the 1940's this building on the corner of Main and Center Street across from the Round Rock Inn and across from Ben Molina's La Victoria Market and diagonal to the Bank of America was where Thelma and her then husband Doctor Hart Wilson lived and he worked out of it. Doc Wilson used to make house calls to me and others that were sick back then. I used to do yard work for them in the yard of their old home. After Doc Wilson died, Thelma Wilson and my uncle Alan Floyd married and they then sold this home at that time, in 1982. If I was down there I would go back and look at the home to see how much it has changed, but I do know that my upcoming 1890-1892 picture of Piru shows this building and the Methodist Church farther up Main Street with no buildings in between them, and all the old-timers who helped me identify the buildings, homes, orchards, etc. had me write on it as the second of two churches, so it confirmed my Aunt's telling of it, if her recollections are right. This picture was supposed to be taken of the class in about 1915 to 1920, not the year the school was built.