Which school field trips do you remember going on?

[tvguy]

I remember that smell. There were a couple of large-scale bakeries making white bread in the East Bay. One was the Kilpatrick's Bakery off of 880 in Oakland. The name might have changed a few times (maybe Rainbo?) as the owner started consolidating names. I could smell that even traveling 60 MPH on the freeway. Another was at the Safeway warehouse in Richmond. It was primarily a warehouse space, but they also baked soft bread there. We passed by there because it was the best way to get to Price Club.

The San Francisco French Bread Company also had a bakery in Oakland near the Coliseum. It was mostly baking sourdough, and I don't recall the smell to be that powerful. I do remember buying bread that was just delivered, and it was still warm.

Or onion smell in Vacaville.

 

[monorailsilver]

Kindergarten we went to the town hall, I vaguely remember they finger printed us and locked us in jail. Not sure if it was the same field trip but we went to the grocery store next to the town hall and toured the butcher department.

I remember liking Sturbridge Village but I don't recall too much about it...my older 2 hated it and my youngest will go in June.

I remember with Girl Scouts we went to tarrytown NY to some doll museum and we went to NYC (very early 80s) and we went to the twin towers. I remember the escalator and going up to the top and looking down. I feel like there was a bar to lean against and the window was curved in such a way that you could see straight down (I also went in HS so I am not sure which memory that is from). And all I thought about from 9-11 was the jumpers and how scary and far down the road was looking down. It was their only option .

I went to D.C./Williamsburg in 8th grade (or 9th). It was just a busload. No parents and it was fun! Our bus driver was able to get us in for a tour at anheiser Busch. Yep a bunch of 8th graders in 1985 learning how to make beer. I am sure our chaperones loved the free samples!

9th grade we went to Boston for the day (I grew up in Fairfield County, CT) and we were able to roam the city, ok maybe we were supposed to just roam Quincy market and that area but myself, a friend and 2 boys roamed farther then we should. We found Cheers and we ate at some diner.

I don't think we had a ton of field trips like my kids have now.

 

[bcla]

My kid has been on a bunch of field trips. At day camp they scheduled a field trip maybe once a week. One preschool field trip was to a nearby market to look at pumpkins.

Before Halloween our kid had a chance to go on a field trip to a farm. It wasn't particularly close either. The cost each family paid would include one pumpkin. They also had a variety of included activities with admission, including a petting area. My kid was so psyched to go on that trip, but the farm indicated that they would close based on the weather report.

 

[Kitty 34]

I remember a "train" trip which took us to one station and then back in 3rd grade.
5th grade I remember going to Henry Ford Village near Detroit
I remember a couple of weekend trips one of my HS clubs took to Chicago
And I will always remember my first trip to New Orleans (Bourbon Street) my Senior year in HS.

In college we took a week long trip sponsored by the college to Jamaica. That was fun, too.

 

[soccerdad72]

I don't recall many off-hand. 8th grade trip in Catholic grade school, we went to Cedar Point the last day of the school year. We never did a DC trip or anything.

My boys' school does some really nice trips - 6th grade, they go to Chicago for 4 days. 7th grade they go to the Smoky Mountains and 8th grade is DC.

 

[bcla]

I remember a "train" trip which took us to one station and then back in 3rd grade.
5th grade I remember going to Henry Ford Village near Detroit
I remember a couple of weekend trips one of my HS clubs took to Chicago
And I will always remember my first trip to New Orleans (Bourbon Street) my Senior year in HS.

In college we took a week long trip sponsored by the college to Jamaica. That was fun, too.

My cousin told me about his Amtrak trip in elementary school. I'm not sure where it would have taken them, but I think it was only one stop. Right now I'm a train enthusiast to some degree and participate in a train message board. Members have an annual "gathering" although I missed it the year they came to the San Francisco Bay Area. Their field trip was to actually take a train ride from Emeryville to Berkeley, which is about 2 miles and generally about 3 minutes. Often the conductor won't even get to those passengers, and the word I've gotten is "don't worry about it" with the ticket still being valid if "unused". However, they were looking to get a minimum number of points under Amtrak's frequent rider rewards program and insisted on tracking down a conductor to "lift" over a dozen tickets.

I don't think the trip ever happened, but I took a class on the study of wine in college. It was only 1.5 unit survey course without any prerequisites. The professor owned a winery in Sonoma and offered to open it up for a tour after someone asked. A lot of the students weren't 21, so he said no tasting. It was a really small boutique winery though. It wasn't an estate winery; he bought grapes from vineyards and it was basically he, his wife, and maybe a couple of friends brought in for all the production. That would have been so cool if we could have pulled that off.

 

[DLmama]

I remember a few, some of them I went to multiple times.

SF Zoo
CA Academy of Sciences
Happy Hollow
Great America
Center for Performing Arts to see Annie
The water/waste place where all the sewage goes - thankfully I had a cold and couldn't smell anything!
The missions in Santa Clara, Fremont and San Luis Obispo
Tech Museum of Innovation
Children's Discovery Museum

 

[bcla]

I remember a few, some of them I went to multiple times.

SF Zoo
CA Academy of Sciences
Happy Hollow
Great America
Center for Performing Arts to see Annie
The water/waste place where all the sewage goes - thankfully I had a cold and couldn't smell anything!
The missions in Santa Clara, Fremont and San Luis Obispo
Tech Museum of Innovation
Children's Discovery Museum

San Jose? I think the theater company that did most of the shows there closed a few years ago. I went to see Chess when they were still operating as the San Jose Civic Light Opera, but that was as an adult.

My memory is being jogged, and I believe one of my first school field trips was to the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum in San Jose. Seemed kind of weird to have a museum like that where it was.

 

[DLmama]

San Jose? I think the theater company that did most of the shows there closed a few years ago. I went to see Chess when they were still operating as the San Jose Civic Light Opera, but that was as an adult.

My memory is being jogged, and I believe one of my first school field trips was to the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum in San Jose. Seemed kind of weird to have a museum like that where it was.

Yep, San Jose. Went to school in Sunnyvale. Lots of good options for field trips!

 

[Mrs.Milo]

Grade school trip to Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village.
Tour of the Ford Auto Plant with Girl Scouts, and the Ford Rotunda.
Middle school trips to Detroit Art Museum; Belle Isle and submarine parked at entrance to Belle Isle bridge; Fisher Theater for Carousel (with Harve Presnell) and for Second City.

 

[MomofKatie]

1st grade- we visited an Amish farm in Ohio. We made butter by taking turns shaking a jar with fresh out of the cow milk in it.

2nd grade- we went to the rainforest (we lived in Puerto Rico at the time)

3rd grade- Chicago Museum of Science & Industry- we lived in southern WI at the time.

7th grade- Williamsburg, VA. We also spent a day at Busch Gardens Williamsburg.

8th grade- Washington DC

 

[AllisonK]

I remember several field trips. In fourth grade we went to the Roger Williams Zoo in Providence. In fifth grade we got to go to Jordan's Furniture, a furniture store that also had a simulator ride (kind of like Star Tours) and our end-of-the-year class trip was to Water Wizz. In sixth grade we hit up the New England Aquarium and the Museum of Science in Boston. My entire eighth-grade class went to see the third Harry Potter movie, and my Spanish class went to NYC that year (we did Ellis Island, South Street Seaport, Medieval Times in NJ where our hotel was, a Spanish restaurant and the United Nations).

In high school I went to Boston several times for the state-level drama competitions, as well as to see a Broadway show in NYC my junior year and a tour in Providence my senior year. I also got to go to Washington, DC with my mom's school when I was a junior. She was the National Honor Society advisor and was taking her officers to a conference. Since the NHS at my school didn't do anything beyond induction night and a senior banquet, my dad and I tagged along on the trip. While my mom and the kids were at the conference, my dad and I went sightseeing and then we all hit up some of the bigger spots (the Smithsonian American History museum, the Holocaust Museum, etc.).

 

[bushdianee]

I remember a couple. In elementary school I remember going to the Corning glass factory in Corning,NY. I remember going to the Toronto Science Museum in 8th grade. The biggest one was 5 days in Quebec City with the high school french club. We stayed in The old part of the city during carnival time. I remember going to the VA Hospital with the future medical careers club. I remember going on some with church too. Old Fort Niagara and Old Fort Erie and the Toronto Science Center. That had just opened when I was in 7th or 8th grade and EVERYBODY went there for field trips! I think I was there times in about a year. I think we probably went to the Historical and Art Museums too. I went to school in Western NY. I taught in Nebraska and have visited the Henry Doorly Zoo many times on field trips. I've also visited the SAC Museum, Children's Museum, Children's Theater, Mormon Center to view gingerbread displays and tour their Winter Quarters Museum, Boystown, walked over the Bob Kerrey Pedistrian Bridge that goes from Omaha to Council Bluffs, Iowa. We used to take 1st graders to Nebraska City to J Sterling Morton's Home (where Arbor Day started) and apple orchards, various pumpkin patches and several other places.

 

[BigAlsGal]

I can only remember a couple of field trips. My kids seem to go on a field trip every month! I feel cheated.

 

[FlightlessDuck]

Fifth grade we went to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. It was my first time at NYC and I thought the place was amazing. I remember some of the dioramas, the blue whale, and eating lunch outside.

Third grade we went to Ashland, PA, and took a tour of an anthracite coal mine. It was pretty claustrophobic. I don't remember too much about the actual tour, but I remember buying coal rock candy (licorice) that was one giant rock of sugar and you used a little hammer to break pieces off. On the way to Ashland, the bus driver drove us through Centralia, PA, which is an abandoned town that has a coal fire burning underneath. I'm surprised we were allowed to do that, although it was before the government forced out most of the citizens, so that probably explains why we were able to drive through the town.

 

[RedAngie]

Plenty of places in Philly

Franklin Institute and Planetarium-I loved walking thru the giant-sized replica of a human heart
Independence Hall, Betsy Ross House, Liberty Bell, etc.
U.S. Mint
Naval Yard-got to go in a docked submarine, but they wouldn't take us for a ride below the surface
Museum of Natural History
A few others

Hershey Chocolate factory-the actual factory before Chocolate World opened
Crystal Cave
Willow Grove amusement park, long since torn down, now a shopping mall is on the site

Before 7th grade we moved to New Jersey, during junior and senior high we went to
New Jersey State House and related buildings, briefly met the-then governor, Brendan Byrne
Edmund Scientific
Great Adventure
Batsto Village historic site
NYC-World Trade Center and United Nations

A local movie theater had artsy type of films maybe once a month as a special matinee
Our English class saw the 1966 version of Romeo and Juliet and another time Tom Jones (not the singer, the film based on the British author Henry Fielding's novel)

 

[RedAngie]

Fifth grade we went to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. It was my first time at NYC and I thought the place was amazing. I remember some of the dioramas, the blue whale, and eating lunch outside.

Third grade we went to Ashland, PA, and took a tour of an anthracite coal mine. It was pretty claustrophobic. I don't remember too much about the actual tour, but I remember buying coal rock candy (licorice) that was one giant rock of sugar and you used a little hammer to break pieces off. On the way to Ashland, the bus driver drove us through Centralia, PA, which is an abandoned town that has a coal fire burning underneath. I'm surprised we were allowed to do that, although it was before the government forced out most of the citizens, so that probably explains why we were able to drive through the town.

We drove thru Ashland, PA on the way to Knoebels amusement park and saw the sign for that coal mine tour. We said "maybe on the way back," but it didn't happen. Anyway, I liked driving thru that town; it seemed to be over 2 miles in length and only 3 or 4 blocks in width. I was curious about nearby Centralia, but I think it was off-limits by the time we in the area.

 

[Gary M]

I graduated from a very small school in Indiana. We had 37 graduates in our class in 1960. It was a tradition of the graduating class to go to Washington D. C. and New York City in May during our senior year. We took a train on the trip. It was a great experience for us country bumpkins. We had fund raisers so everyone could go on the trip.

 

[winterman]

I grew up in the Boston area so I'm sure we went to most of the many historical venues in the area, but the only place I still remember is the Boson Museum of Science.

 

[PollyannaMom]

I grew up pretty much in the middle of nowhere, so probably not as many as others have mentioned, though I'm sure we did some. The only one from elementary that I actually remember, though, was Mumford Village. - I was fascinated by the Octagon House!