St. Anthony Today

Let's take a tour around the outside of the campus as it looks today. We'll start at the corner of 6^th and Olive.

The convent is now a Parish Center as seen in the right side of this picture:

Walking along Olive, this is the former girls' school---

Now we just about reach 7^th and the corner of the boys' school:

This is the 7^th Street side of the building today.

and the St. Anthony relief is still there.

After walking through the alley (nothing new) and turning the corner onto 6^th Street,

we see a major change at the 6^th Street entrance:

Since St. Anthony's has had empty classrooms and the Long Beach Unified School District

has a shortage, the district is renting out the old (girls') Science Building and using

it for a middle school. Let's look inside the gate:

St. Anthony students stay on the far side of the fence while the middle school students

use the side near 6^th Street.

Continuing the walk along 6^th street, we come to the back side of the old convent (now

Parish Center):

Looking across the street, we can see the church and the bus stop:

and the gym (the shops along 6^th have long been gone and there is a

parking lot in their place)

Ahhh! The Alamitos side of the gym . . .