Livermore High School as it looked in 1908

Livermore High School on 7th Street, in 1908

From The Livermore Herald, September 14, 1918:

“All California schools teaching domestic science will be supplied with sugar for class-room work and for use in school lunch rooms. Sugar for this purpose had not previously been included in California’s allotment because of the present shortage which called for rigid saving.

“The Quartermaster’s department has stated that sugar is one of the chief articles of diet in a new emergency ration which is served to the troops in the front line trenches just before going into battle, and this is one of the vital reasons that it must be saved here in spoonfuls so that it may be shipped to ‘our boys’ in shiploads.”

Livermore High School was originally build in 1893 on 7th Street. By 1908 an addition was made on the East (left) side of the building with a domestic science room on the second floor. The high school was condemned by the state in 1929 and a new high school built on Maple Street. The old school site became what is now know as Bothwell park and contains the Bothwell Art Center.