Old UT Photos

Discussion in 'In The Stands' started by Dionysus, Jul 28, 2017.

  1. BurntOrangeLH

    BurntOrangeLH 2,500+ Posts

    What a quaint vision West Campus back then. I remember the last wood structures on the Drag at NW corner of 2nd and SW corner of 24th. Then there was the Matchbox on San Antonio.
     
  2. DrRad

    DrRad 250+ Posts

    The wife and I had a long time friend, Benny (H Y Benedict Jr) who would have been about 11 at that time. We never discussed his early history with him (and now we wish we had), don't know if he had any input!
     
  3. TEXnSEATTLE

    TEXnSEATTLE 1,000+ Posts

    amen!!!
     
  4. TEXnSEATTLE

    TEXnSEATTLE 1,000+ Posts

    were those the old barracks that used to be South of the Texas Exes building?
     
  5. TEXnSEATTLE

    TEXnSEATTLE 1,000+ Posts

    Did you ever hear that all the big flower beds going down the drag and circling campus were put there in case they had to put fences up above them to keep protesters out....they didn't know if that was going to be a common thing or not....I knew the head guy on the University Police and we had lunch one day and he told me of his being in front of the Tower behind a boxwood during the entire shooting...
     
  6. TEXnSEATTLE

    TEXnSEATTLE 1,000+ Posts

    omgosh...80 years later, we were doing the same physics experiments...
     
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  7. TEXnSEATTLE

    TEXnSEATTLE 1,000+ Posts

    Speedway isn't a street?
     
  8. Giovanni Jones

    Giovanni Jones 2,500+ Posts

    Speedway is permanently closed to vehicular traffic, IIRC. For pedestrians only now.
     
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  9. Giovanni Jones

    Giovanni Jones 2,500+ Posts

    Here's a couple pics of the Speedway reconstruction project that I took in June 2016 when we were at UT for our daughter's Freshman Orientation -
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  10. Giovanni Jones

    Giovanni Jones 2,500+ Posts

    This is the new Speedway (Fall 2017)
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  11. Horns11

    Horns11 10,000+ Posts

    That would have been helpful when I was getting hit by cars 25+ years ago.
     
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  12. Giovanni Jones

    Giovanni Jones 2,500+ Posts

    Yes, but over time the fancy bricks will erode, get chipped and damaged, thereby causing students and faculty to trip and do faceplants on the hard and unyielding surface, leading to missing teeth, fractured and broken bones, concussions, spilled coffee, and broken tablets. The carnage will be unimaginable.
     
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  13. TEXnSEATTLE

    TEXnSEATTLE 1,000+ Posts

    THIS was a great idea....just hope the materials hold up over time....in Fall of '72, it was DAUNTING to ride your bike down this street with cars parked on both sides....thank you for the update!!!
     
  14. Giovanni Jones

    Giovanni Jones 2,500+ Posts

    In 1982, I had to keep a careful eye on the traffic just to cross the street to get to the PCL or the GSB.
     
  15. Giovanni Jones

    Giovanni Jones 2,500+ Posts

    Speaking of Gregory Gym and stuff we wish we had at UT back in the day: I wish that Gregory had these outdoor pools back in 1982:
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  16. Clean

    Clean 5,000+ Posts

    No I never heard that. I don't think there were as many real radicals then as there are at UT today.
     
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  17. Chop

    Chop 10,000+ Posts

    During the first half of so of my time at the 40 acres, grackles were a huge problem--especially along Speedway. There would be hundreds of grackles in the trees and they would poop on people. If you walked under the oak trees along Speedway, you may end up with bird poop on you. You'd also have to walk through plenty of bird poop along the way. So the University started doing things like netting some of the trees, using firecrackers, and then grackle guns with blanks, to scare them off. Eventually it got a lot better. I think grackles are like cockroaches, you have to remain vigilant to keep them at bay.

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    That Time UT Austin Waged a War on Grackles

    http://www.fretna.org/openrecords/texan_110705.pdf
     
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  18. Chop

    Chop 10,000+ Posts

    Posture Contest at UT:

    One of Anna’s major concerns for the coeds at UT was how they carried themselves. She introduced a required class for women called Freshmen Fundamentals. The coeds spent hours walking around the gym to practice their posture under the watchful eye of Anna or a staff member. In 1938, the first posture contest was held as celebrity judges determined the winner. This unique event endured until 1969 when it was finally discontinued.

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    The University of Texas at Austin Recreational Sports celebrates its 100th anniversary – NIRSA
     
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  19. Chop

    Chop 10,000+ Posts

    Below is the "new" Clark Field--basically between Jester and the stadium. It's now the Caven Lacrosse and Sports Center "at Clark Field". Waller Creek ran on the stadium side of the "new" Clark Field. The concrete structure near the bottom with separating walls and chain link fences are outdoor concrete racquetball courts for student use. There were also outdoor concrete basketball courts nearby that resembled some of the ones you'd see in NYC with chain link fences around them. With student rec facilities like that, the University could charge less than $500 per semester tuition (that and a lot of State $...).


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    In the late 80's, the football team would sometimes use this "new" Clark Field for some pre-season drills on a grass field (often in scorching heat). Things were a lot more open and less secretive back then. It was the first chance to watch most of the incoming recruits on the field. All you had to work with before that was the Austin-American Statesman Fab 55 list and Dave Campbell's Texas Football. That and regionally biased Houston and Dallas newspapers.
     
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  20. Hideo Gump Jr.

    Hideo Gump Jr. Summer Soldier and Sunshine Patriot

    The original surface on the basketball courts were these plastic mesh tiles that were great when the courts were wet. Problem was they didn’t hold up well and when you fell you were convinced these things doubled as cheese graters.
     
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  21. Chop

    Chop 10,000+ Posts

    I was a bit underwhelmed by the state of the rec sports facilities as they existed back then. Most large high schools had better. Still, at less than $500 per semester tuition, I didn’t complain. I bet today’s students would trade the fancy new student weight rooms and that nice pool behind Gregory for $500 per semester tuition in a heartbeat.
     
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  22. Clean

    Clean 5,000+ Posts

    My first semester at UT, fall 1969, my tuition including blanket tax was about $150!
     
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  23. BurntOrangeLH

    BurntOrangeLH 2,500+ Posts

    The stone beds certainly introduced a discontinuity. In the old days, one could step onto the campus just about anywhere. Not so sure about the defensive aspect, but in the late '60s and early '70s one could light a joint almost anywhere outside. On campus band concerts were common. Then there were things like Gentle Thursday. Stokely Carmichael spoke at the Union too when there were less than 300 black students among the 24K.
     
  24. BurntOrangeLH

    BurntOrangeLH 2,500+ Posts

    There was a Quonset hut on Inner Campus Drive where RTF and the KUT studiios were.
     
  25. TEXnSEATTLE

    TEXnSEATTLE 1,000+ Posts

    I worked at Intramural Sports for three years in the early eighties....once, while being in charge of the "lower courts" as we called them....there was a guy that I watched go up for a shot and get shoved and land on that WAFFLED SURFACE...he had deep "tears" in his side/hip area and looked like he'd sat on a waffle iron for an hour....after helping him clean the wound with what we had, he went off to the Health Center and ended up coming back with a bandage that looked like he'd been in a fire or something....
     
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  26. TEXnSEATTLE

    TEXnSEATTLE 1,000+ Posts

    when did that go away? I started in '72...I don't remember the RTF building being there in '72
     
  27. Hideo Gump Jr.

    Hideo Gump Jr. Summer Soldier and Sunshine Patriot

    Did you work for Bob Wallace?
     
  28. TEXnSEATTLE

    TEXnSEATTLE 1,000+ Posts

    that is a good question...I worked there from '83-'85...what was he in charge of?
     
  29. WorsterMan

    WorsterMan SEC here we come!!

    I think RTF building came along about 74. My brother was an RTF major and was in classes there in 75 and beyond.
     
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  30. Hideo Gump Jr.

    Hideo Gump Jr. Summer Soldier and Sunshine Patriot

    Bob Wallace headed the Recreational Sports program until he left the position ~1981. I don’t remember the name of his replacement. Eric something, I think. Funny how I could learn ~150-200 names a year teaching HS but now I can’t get my own kids names right half the time.
    Bob Childress was head of intramurals during my time there. Looks like I left the year before you started working there. I’m surprised it took them so long to replace that surface.
     

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