The gym at the old school

Washington · USA · Castle

He was forty feet up putting in a basketball hoop when the ladder broke.

When this school at Vancouver, Washington was built in the 1930s, a maintenance man was forty feet up fitting a basketball hoop when his ladder broke and he fell to his death.

Late at night in the gym, people hear the sound of a ladder going over, a crash, and a man falling.

No name is set down here.

The sound is the whole account, and it is unusual in being a sequence rather than a single noise. What witnesses describe is the order of events, which is the order somebody standing in that gym in the 1930s would have heard them.

Forty feet is a specific figure and a plausible one for the roof structure of a school gymnasium of that era, which was built high to clear the ball.

The school has moved and the site has changed use.

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