Texas Texas Texas Texas Texas Texas Texas — 1930
by Paula Bosse
by Paula Bosse
Cool endpaper from the 1930 Woodrow Wilson High School yearbook.
I really like this, for a variety of reasons:
- I have a book background, and I love unusual decorative endpapers and bookplates.
- I love Texas kitsch (which I’m going to say this is, even if that wasn’t the original intent).
- I’m a Woodrow alum.
Thank you, anonymous budding (or professional!) typographer!
While we’re at it, here’s the rather oddly and unattractively landscaped school in 1930. (All those “Texases” and no Texas flag?!)
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Sources & Notes
Both images from the 1930 Woodrow Wilson High School yearbook, The Crusader.
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Copyright © 2015 Paula Bosse. All Rights Reserved.
Flashback : Dallas 
I have always thought Woodrow was a beautiful building – in fact, the whole generation of public architecture of which it’s a part is special to me. They had something that today’s public buildings, especially schools, libraries, and courthouses, lack. I wish I knew what to call it. If today’s architects attempted it, they’d probably screw it up.
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I totally agree, Steve.
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When I thought what qualities a public building should embody, “dignity” and “appropriateness” came to mind. Either (or maybe even both) of these are sometimes missing in modern architecture to my mind. I googled those words, along with “architecture” and got a fair number of hits from others who seem to agree. Woodrow Wilson certainly looks the picture of a big city high school at a certain point in the twentieth century.
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