vtg DEVILBISS HIGH SCHOOL T SHIRT Defunct Toledo Ohio TIGERS Second To None LG

Description: - Fantastic DEVILBISS HIGH SCHOOL "SECOND TO NONE" T-SHIRT!!! - Black cotton tee with print on front. - Good vintage/used condition with flaws: lightened dots/spots. No holes or rips noted. Size: Marked size adult Large. Vintage and pre-owned item sizes can vary. CHECK MEASUREMENTS to ensure fit. It measures 22 inches across the chest and 27 inches from the back of the collar area to the bottom. ************************** Thomas A. DeVilbiss High School was a public high school in Toledo, Ohio from 1931 to June 1991. It was part of the Toledo Public School District, serving students from the DeVeaux, Elmhurst, Grove Patterson, Longfellow, Mayfair, McKinley, Nathan Hale, Old Orchard, and Whittier elementary schools. The building still sits at 3301 Upton Avenue near the Central Avenue intersection. The DeVilbiss Tigers were members of the Toledo City League and donned the colors of orange and black. On the contrary, the school colors were the colors of the rainbow, hence the yearbook being the Pot O' Gold, and the school newspaper/newsletter the Prism. Their main rivals were the Start Spartans, although rivalries existed with the St. Francis Knights and the Libbey Cowboys, whom they annually played football against on Thanksgiving day from 1933–1963. In 1974 DeVilbiss received an obscure salute when 1965 alumnus, and then budding satirist P. J. O'Rourke, along with fellow Ohioan Doug Kenney, used the Pot O’ Gold and DeVilbiss as templets for the National Lampoon 1964 High School Yearbook Parody. That issue contains dozens of direct and indirect references to DeVilbiss and west Toledo. O’Rourke later said that they “… used DeVilbiss because Ohio and Toledo and DHS just seemed so perfectly 1964 American prelapsarian typical…” By “prelapsarian” he meant before the social and political unrest and violence that occurred in the intervening ten years. Due to a declining enrollment and low finances, DeVilbiss was closed along with Macomber and Whitney high schools by TPS at the end of the 1990–1991 school year. The DeVilbiss district was split up so students could attend Bowsher, Rogers, Scott, or Start high schools. The building has been renovated by Duket Architects and currently serves as Toledo Technology Academy, which opened in 1997. DeVilbiss served as the home of Scott High School for two years while Scott's building underwent renovations from 2010–2012. DeVilbiss' Page Stadium was fully torn down at the end of May 2012. ************************** Please contact me if you have any questions or concerns. I appreciate your business. Thank you!