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Yeah, we called them “Portables.” They were there long before I came, and will be there long after I am dead. Long live our plywood fortresses.

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For me it was containers like these:

Long live our tin fortresses

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At least you had windows. My kids are in a pretty new school building, but most of the classrooms are located in the middle of the building without windows and natural light. Seems like another one of those “only in America” things.

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Yeah the “middle” was the school yard surrounded by narrow buildings

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My school had several holes in the middle of the building to avoid this. Most of them just have gravel at the bottom

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I’m sad to report it’s very much not limited to America. My local university had these things pop up to some considerable height because one of the buildings was condemned due to mold. Condemned about three years ago and is still standing. There’s also a number of schools using these things because they burned down or got condemned or whatever, I’m not entirely sure. At least one of those has been going two years longer than it was supposed to.

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What’s with the cable at the top between sections?

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Not only at the top, there’s also cables at the bottom between sections and what looks like a cable duct mounted in front of it with a bunch of cables coming out at the top

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Grounding, to make sure the containers stay at the same electric potential

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Demountables for us

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Did you go to Summer Heights High?

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Not far off

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I’m pretty sure ours was asbestos… back in the 80s.

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I’m pretty sure ours are still there 23 years later.

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Portables

Yup, that’s what I was told they were called.

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I was searching the thread to see if everyone called them that or if it was regional.

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