Presidents' Day

[mrv3000]

Wiki says that "Presidents' Day" came into being in 1971, but I swear I remember having both Washington's and Lincoln's birthdays off well into elementary school. Hmm. Maybe it was just something my school did for a good decade or so after?

I saw a comment by someone over on the Snopes syndication feed that said the majority of people (unless gov't workers, banks, schools, etc.) don't get this day off. I wonder if it's a regional thing because every company I've worked for has always had Presidents' Day off. And so did my Dad and Mom in whatever job they had - we'd always go up to the mountains with two other families every Presidents' Day weekend.

Well, I'm being very presidential today, as long as presidential means going out for breakfast (samkicksass and sesaworuban - the converted beach house place we went to) and then seeing the Curious George movie with the friend's kidlettes.

ETA: Am now feeling nostalgic for the mountain weekends we used to have. The trip wouldn't be complete without a trip to the Ice Castle in Blue Jay (we'd usually stay in either Big Bear or Lake Arrowhead). It was a *beautiful* ice rink. One side was completely open and two sides were semi-open. Sadly, it collapsed after a big snow storm a few years back. They didn't rebuild. :( I could only find one picture of it online.

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[wiliqueen.livejournal.com]

Maybe it was just something my school did for a good decade or so after?


I think a lot of them still do. amilyn mentioned being off last Monday as well as today, and that's Chicago Public Schools. Which also has apparently random days off *not* for holidays, but the teachers generally have to work on those. So I assume Lincoln's birthday is what that was about.

[lorie945.livejournal.com]

In all of Illinois, Lincoln's birthday is a state/school holiday. Land of Lincoln and all that, which is what I was going to ask MV. If you attended grade school in Illinois, you probably did have both those holidays.

[wiliqueen.livejournal.com]

*facepalm* Of course.

Not just IL, though, or at least it wasn't when Michelle and I were in elementary school. I had both in DoD dependent schools.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Yeah, everyone that I knew in the L.A. area got both off back then.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Nope, I grew up in the Los Angeles area. But it *was* a while ago that I was in elementary school... Heh heh.