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Author Topic: MU Campus 50 years ago.  (Read 13221 times)

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MU Campus 50 years ago.
« on: August 15, 2017, 01:22:40 PM »
Looking East down West Wisconsin. I like all those classic cars.
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Re: MU Campus 50 years ago.
« Reply #1 on: August 15, 2017, 01:24:36 PM »
Looking East from 8th floor of Schroeder. That is what the intersection of 12th and Wells looked like before the AL.

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Re: MU Campus 50 years ago.
« Reply #2 on: August 15, 2017, 01:25:52 PM »
The Library. One of the few spaces with grass.

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Re: MU Campus 50 years ago.
« Reply #3 on: August 15, 2017, 01:29:11 PM »
Looking West from the 8th floor of Schroeder. Can you see the Student Union there? Where is McCormick?

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Re: MU Campus 50 years ago.
« Reply #4 on: August 15, 2017, 01:30:24 PM »
The Medical and Dental School.

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Re: MU Campus 50 years ago.
« Reply #5 on: August 15, 2017, 01:32:55 PM »
Joan of Arc near completion. Looks so out of place surrounded by apartment buildings.

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Re: MU Campus 50 years ago.
« Reply #6 on: August 15, 2017, 01:33:57 PM »
Engineering Building.

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Re: MU Campus 50 years ago.
« Reply #7 on: August 15, 2017, 01:34:50 PM »
Weir Chemistry Building under construction.

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Re: MU Campus 50 years ago.
« Reply #8 on: August 15, 2017, 01:36:20 PM »
Science Building (now Marquette Hall? ) and Gesu.

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Re: MU Campus 50 years ago.
« Reply #9 on: August 15, 2017, 01:37:33 PM »
Schroeder Hall looking north on 13th.

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Re: MU Campus 50 years ago.
« Reply #10 on: August 15, 2017, 01:39:53 PM »
Anyone have photos of campus when they attended?

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Re: MU Campus 50 years ago.
« Reply #11 on: August 15, 2017, 01:59:33 PM »
The quality of those photos are incredible. Ever think about selling some to Marquette?

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Re: MU Campus 50 years ago.
« Reply #12 on: August 15, 2017, 02:14:41 PM »
So warrior69, you peg these in the fall of 1967?  That sounds and feels about right to me.  My memories of campus are a few years later than that (let's say beginning about 1972) and it's interesting to see how many of those old multi-family units had been cleared out by then.  I'm particularly interested in your shot east toward the courthouse from Schroeder.  That looks quite alien to me from just a few years later and I knew that area pretty well because my dad worked right there.

Good stuff.

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« Reply #13 on: August 15, 2017, 03:34:23 PM »
So warrior69, you peg these in the fall of 1967?  That sounds and feels about right to me.  My memories of campus are a few years later than that (let's say beginning about 1972) and it's interesting to see how many of those old multi-family units had been cleared out by then.  I'm particularly interested in your shot east toward the courthouse from Schroeder.  That looks quite alien to me from just a few years later and I knew that area pretty well because my dad worked right there.

Good stuff.

The picture toward the courthouse was taken in Jan. 1966. The Marquette interchange was not even under construction, which started over the summer in '66. There was a laundromat on the corner of Wells and 12th I used quite a lot, only 10 cent per load of wash and a quarter to dry. If some one has a picture of the intersection today it would be a neat comparison. The students that go to MU today are really lucky to have a campus that looks so beautiful. Whe I attended MU looked like a war zone with all the old buildings being cleared. None the less it is the people that make the university not the buildings.

Here is a another shot of the tip off parade. You can see all the broken and boarded up windows in the back ground along Wisconsin Avenue.


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Re: MU Campus 50 years ago.
« Reply #14 on: August 15, 2017, 03:39:47 PM »
So yo 69, ya ever go out drinkin' wit Fr. Jacques Marquette back in the dey, hey?
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Re: MU Campus 50 years ago.
« Reply #15 on: August 15, 2017, 03:42:21 PM »
Queue Bryan Adams, "Summer of '69".

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« Reply #16 on: August 15, 2017, 03:53:26 PM »
It's weird seeing so many cars on campus.
Have some patience, FFS.

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« Reply #17 on: August 15, 2017, 03:55:57 PM »
So yo 69, ya ever go out drinkin' wit Fr. Jacques Marquette back in the dey, hey?

Nah, I was before his time and he didn't have ID.
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« Reply #18 on: August 15, 2017, 04:07:19 PM »
It's weird seeing so many cars on campus.

Only the faculty could park in the few lots available. Everyone else had to park on the streets, though there was a lot on 12th that allowed 2 hour free parking for the laundromat, 35 cents an hour or 75 cents for the day.

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« Reply #19 on: August 15, 2017, 04:13:12 PM »
The quality of those photos are incredible. Ever think about selling some to Marquette?

I sent one to Marquette magazine informing them I hard more to share, but have not heard back. Let's face it campus did not look so hot back then.

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« Reply #20 on: August 15, 2017, 04:40:22 PM »
I sent one to Marquette magazine informing them I hard more to share, but have not heard back. Let's face it campus did not look so hot back then.

I'd give University Archives a call.

http://www.marquette.edu/library/archives/
Have some patience, FFS.

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Re: MU Campus 50 years ago.
« Reply #21 on: August 15, 2017, 05:01:21 PM »
I'd give University Archives a call.

http://www.marquette.edu/library/archives/

Thanks, I'll let you know if anything comes of it.

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« Reply #22 on: August 15, 2017, 05:17:01 PM »
The picture toward the courthouse was taken in Jan. 1966. The Marquette interchange was not even under construction, which started over the summer in '66. There was a laundromat on the corner of Wells and 12th I used quite a lot, only 10 cent per load of wash and a quarter to dry. If some one has a picture of the intersection today it would be a neat comparison. The students that go to MU today are really lucky to have a campus that looks so beautiful. Whe I attended MU looked like a war zone with all the old buildings being cleared. None the less it is the people that make the university not the buildings.

Here is a another shot of the tip off parade. You can see all the broken and boarded up windows in the back ground along Wisconsin Avenue.

My dad spent his entire professional career at Old Line Life after graduating MU in '56.  So I would get downtown on occasion as a youngster in the 1960s.  As I said, my memory of campus goes back to about 1970 or so.  I do remember when the boilerplate barriers went up on Wisconsin and blocked off the side streets.  I think I may have mentioned before thinking how radical it was to 'walk in the street' when I was a young kid.

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« Reply #23 on: August 15, 2017, 05:24:31 PM »
Would be cool to see these as the blended pictures showing then and now.

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« Reply #24 on: August 15, 2017, 06:42:53 PM »
Thanks, I'll let you know if anything comes of it.


Check out the old yearbooks while you are at it. They have every one up until the stopped publishing them in 1996.
Have some patience, FFS.