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ALMA MATER BASH: When we went to St. Joseph's School -- and for the thousandth time, not the all-girls high school in Lakewood, but the co-ed grammar school on Palo Verde Avenue and Willow Street in Long Beach -- the big event of the year, aside from maybe St. Joseph's feast day, was the school/church carnival. It's why we still get a bit buzzed over the idea of a school carnival even some 35 or so years after graduating with the highest possible honors (unless that's look-uppable, in which we'd downplay it to merely matriculating) from the place, along with all those kids from kid- happy Catholic folks -- your Burkes and Quirks, Maises and Donderos, Ensches and Keyes, Cassaras and Senskes, Lowens and Larkins.
St. Joseph's, which turns 50 in June, is throwing its almost- 50th carnival from 4 p.m. till 10 tonight, 11 a.m. till 10 p.m. Saturday and noon till 8 p.m. Sunday at its sprawling, farm-size field. On account of the school's acreage, it's able to throw a life- size carnival, with plenty of rides, as well as games of skill and chance.See the full content of this document
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Old-School Carnival
There will also be, ominously, a dunk-tank, which carnival organizers tried, with no possible chance at success, to get us to partici...
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