There are a lot of great, old photos of Vancouver students, but few can beat W.J. Moore’s 1921 rendering of John Oliver’s enrollment. Moore was a commercial photographer who roamed the city with his fancy Kodak No. 8 Cirkut camera that allowed him to produce panoramic photos up to eight feet wide. When South Van High moved from 49th and Knight to Fraser and 43rd, the opening of the new building demanded a special group pic to commemorate the event and the name change. Moore used his expensive, wind-up, spring-powered camera to capture all the students and staff. The Kodak Cirkut was tricky to operate. The camera rotated atop the tripod, scanning up to 360 degrees. Subjects had to remain perfectly still while the lens was on them, but once it swept past, a prankster could run to the other side of the frame and appear twice in the same pic! Apparently, there were no jokers among these Jokers on this day, probably because their no-nonsense principal, Jake Palmer, was seated front and centre with his arms crossed – and eyes in the back of his head.