Did anybody else have those "pod" classrooms?

Yup.

High school, in the 70s.

Noisy, crumby, cheesy.

My high school had pod classroom before I started there in the mid 70s, but because of the noise they installed walls again so I never had pods.

My elementary school had the same setup, but only on the first floor.

What the hell was the point of that setup? :eek: It sounds like somebody converted a warehouse into a school on the cheap?

Yep. Third to fifth grades, the school and two pods (Primary and Secondary, I think it was), connected by corridors to another corridor that had offices and the auditorium/music room/lunch room. The school library was in the center of one pod, the other pod had one of those “pit” seating areas–concentric rings of carpeted stairs. 4 “classrooms” per pod segment, but I don’t remember how many segments per pod.

ETA: It was a new school when I went there, in the early 70s.