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MUScoop => The Superbar => Topic started by: muwarrior69 on August 15, 2017, 01:22:40 PM
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Looking East down West Wisconsin. I like all those classic cars.
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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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The Library. One of the few spaces with grass.
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Looking West from the 8th floor of Schroeder. Can you see the Student Union there? Where is McCormick?
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The Medical and Dental School.
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Joan of Arc near completion. Looks so out of place surrounded by apartment buildings.
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Engineering Building.
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Weir Chemistry Building under construction.
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Science Building (now Marquette Hall? ) and Gesu.
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Schroeder Hall looking north on 13th.
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Anyone have photos of campus when they attended?
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The quality of those photos are incredible. Ever think about selling some to Marquette?
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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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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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So yo 69, ya ever go out drinkin' wit Fr. Jacques Marquette back in the dey, hey?
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Queue Bryan Adams, "Summer of '69".
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It's weird seeing so many cars on campus.
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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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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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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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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/
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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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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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Would be cool to see these as the blended pictures showing then and now.
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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.
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Thanks for sharing 69.
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The photos in here look more like what Marquette did when I was there (1974 to 1978) than the campus today.
We didn't have cars parked on Wisconsin Avenue and. by and large, many of the apartments were down. Though it was nice in one shot to see the old KofC building the was once at 15th and Wisconsin. Also, was looking for the old Journalism mansion at 12th and Kilbourn which I think was in one shot but you really could not tell. That building was were the J School was in 1974 and 1975, before it moved into Johnston Hall.
We were a very gritty campus back then, back when grit was in vogue.
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Lots of Falcon's and Bugs iin those pics. Also noticed Real Chili, which appeared to be on Wisconsin too.
Neat pic of the Vasity and the K of C, which was torn down my soph year.
The view was even better from 10th floor. ;)
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The photos in here look more like what Marquette did when I was there (1974 to 1978) than the campus today.
We didn't have cars parked on Wisconsin Avenue and. by and large, many of the apartments were down. Though it was nice in one shot to see the old KofC building the was once at 15th and Wisconsin. Also, was looking for the old Journalism mansion at 12th and Kilbourn which I think was in one shot but you really could not tell. That building was were the J School was in 1974 and 1975, before it moved into Johnston Hall.
We were a very gritty campus back then, back when grit was in vogue.
There was actually a petition to save the K of C building when I was at MU. Some were proposing moving it across from Schroeder on 13th Street. It was a classic looking building.
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Chili was on Wisconsin Ave, then moved to approximately 15th and Wells near Lanche before settling in its current location sometime in the mid 70s.
By the late 70s when I showed up, I believe there were only 5 privately owned buildings within the core campus area (11th-16th, Clybourn-Wells). The Plankinton mansion came down in '80 I think in a very controversial 'midnight' demolition. It's unclear if it could have been properly restored which might have been the correct move but not really in keeping with the urban renewal times. MU was about to purchase or maybe already had Abbottsford, today a very nice Frosh dorm. Next came the Old Line Life building (707 today), an extremely well constructed office building originally built as a bank near the beginning of the 20th century. MU bought that around 1997. Then there's the Grebe's bakery building on 12th that went away in the early '80s. Lastly, was the horrible 'tenement' Biltmore apartment building that sat squarely on Wisconsin Ave. in front of Brooks Union, the site of today's Raynor library. The owners held out a very long time on that horrible eyesore.
Kids today have no clue how beautiful and unique Marquette truly is as an urban campus. Kudos to warrior69 for giving them a glimpse of the old days.
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Is the 707 building even used for anything? The only thing I've seen come out of that building are bats.
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Chili was on Wisconsin Ave, then moved to approximately 15th and Wells near Lanche before settling in its current location sometime in the mid 70s.
By the late 70s when I showed up, I believe there were only 5 privately owned buildings within the core campus area (11th-16th, Clybourn-Wells). The Plankinton mansion came down in '80 I think in a very controversial 'midnight' demolition. It's unclear if it could have been properly restored which might have been the correct move but not really in keeping with the urban renewal times. MU was about to purchase or maybe already had Abbottsford, today a very nice Frosh dorm. Next came the Old Line Life building (707 today), an extremely well constructed office building originally built as a bank near the beginning of the 20th century. MU bought that around 1997. Then there's the Grebe's bakery building on 12th that went away in the early '80s. Lastly, was the horrible 'tenement' Biltmore apartment building that sat squarely on Wisconsin Ave. in front of Brooks Union, the site of today's Raynor library. The owners held out a very long time on that horrible eyesore.
Kids today have no clue how beautiful and unique Marquette truly is as an urban campus. Kudos to warrior69 for giving them a glimpse of the old days.
Was that the reddish building on the corner (see picture below) or was it further down towards Brook? The tan looking building on Wisconsin, was that where the faculty offices were? I can't remember.
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Was that the reddish building on the corner (see picture below) or was it further down towards Brook? The tan looking building on Wisconsin, was that where the faculty offices were? I can't remember.
It's the tan building past the red building.
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It's the tan building past the red building.
That was the Biltmore?
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Chili was on Wisconsin Ave, then moved to approximately 15th and Wells near Lanche before settling in its current location sometime in the mid 70s.
By the late 70s when I showed up, I believe there were only 5 privately owned buildings within the core campus area (11th-16th, Clybourn-Wells). The Plankinton mansion came down in '80 I think in a very controversial 'midnight' demolition. It's unclear if it could have been properly restored which might have been the correct move but not really in keeping with the urban renewal times. MU was about to purchase or maybe already had Abbottsford, today a very nice Frosh dorm. Next came the Old Line Life building (707 today), an extremely well constructed office building originally built as a bank near the beginning of the 20th century. MU bought that around 1997. Then there's the Grebe's bakery building on 12th that went away in the early '80s. Lastly, was the horrible 'tenement' Biltmore apartment building that sat squarely on Wisconsin Ave. in front of Brooks Union, the site of today's Raynor library. The owners held out a very long time on that horrible eyesore.
Kids today have no clue how beautiful and unique Marquette truly is as an urban campus. Kudos to warrior69 for giving them a glimpse of the old days.
You're right. See it on the right. Glow, do you know what that building was further back behind the K of C and what was the other building off to the left behind the white tractor trailer?
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That was the Biltmore?
Pretty sure...it definitely was an apartment building that was there in the early '80's.
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Is the 707 building even used for anything? The only thing I've seen come out of that building are bats.
Just renovated- http://www.marquette.edu/707-hub/
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Yes, the tan building is the Biltmore. By the late 70s those red buildings were gone. MU had a pretty well established and wide park style walkway past Memorial Library to the west and the Biltmore to the east heading toward Brooks Union and the heart of campus. For you young pups, that's the exact current site and similar footprint under the Raynor bridge.
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Lots of Falcon's and Bugs iin those pics. Also noticed Real Chili, which appeared to be on Wisconsin too.
Neat pic of the Vasity and the K of C, which was torn down my soph year.
The view was even better from 10th floor. ;)
....but the lakeside view was the best. ;D
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Yes, the tan building is the Biltmore. By the late 70s those red buildings were gone. MU had a pretty well established and wide park style walkway past Memorial Library to the west and the Biltmore to the east heading toward Brooks Union and the heart of campus. For you young pups, that's the exact current site and similar footprint under the Raynor bridge.
I visited Campus in '96 while on a business trip and isn't the bridge where 14th street was located? Is the Brooks Union still there?
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Just renovated- http://www.marquette.edu/707-hub/
I'm very happy about the fact that MU's Master Plan acknowledged the long term viability of 707. It had been used for general office space since the late 1990s and has now been repurposed as indicated. I sincerely hope that building is around for many decades. It's a special place for our family.
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Is the Brooks Union still there?
Long, long gone warrior.
You need to get on a plane brother!
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Here's a pic guys. Note that 14th is still open so this is prior to 1970 ish.
(http://www.bobbundy.com/Auctions61/761WiMilwaukee4.jpg)
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Here's another one from what looks like closer to my era. I think I can read 1982 on the Senior Week sign. BTW, that's the crappy Biltmore to the left.
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vS8FXNvp-XA/UAnqsxC0CuI/AAAAAAAAAqQ/to9g8TN5Ffc/s1600/Marquette%2BWest_facade_of_Brooks_Memorial_Union_1981.jpg)
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Long, long gone warrior.
You need to get on a plane brother!
My son-in-law and I are planning to attend an MU game in Milwaukee when the new arena opens. The 2018-19 season will be my 50th. It's on my bucket list, God willing the bucket is a long way off.
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My son-in-law and I are planning to attend an MU game in Milwaukee when the new arena opens. The 2018-19 season will be my 50th. It's on my bucket list, God willing the bucket is a long way off.
No time like the present.
FYI, Raynor Library was built on the site of the old Biltmore in 2003 and is connected to Memorial Library via a bridge over that walkway. The connector is affectionately known at Club Raynor. You can see it in this pic. These kids today have no idea. Am I right?
(http://www.marquette.edu/visit/images/raynor-library.jpg)
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Let's put on man on dis job, ai na?
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No time like the present.
FYI, Raynor Library was built on the site of the old Biltmore in 2003 and is connected to Memorial Library via a bridge over that walkway. The connector is affectionately known at Club Raynor. You can see it in this pic. These kids today have no idea. Am I right?
(http://www.marquette.edu/visit/images/raynor-library.jpg)
No computers, no cell phones, no tablets, no internet. I dreaded those 20 page term papers typed on my old Olympus, measuring the margin on each page to make sure it was exactly an inch and making sure each footnote was indexed properly. Using my slide rule to do log to anti log conversions. Using graph paper to to do regression analysis. Only engineering students were allowed to use the mainframe. Yeah, no idea at all.
...and yes, I had a Tyrannosaurus Rex as a pet.
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I'm very happy about the fact that MU's Master Plan acknowledged the long term viability of 707. It had been used for general office space since the late 1990s and has now been repurposed as indicated. I sincerely hope that building is around for many decades. It's a special place for our family.
Phonathon used to work in the 707 building until they moved to Zilber in 2011(ish).
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No time like the present.
FYI, Raynor Library was built on the site of the old Biltmore in 2003 and is connected to Memorial Library via a bridge over that walkway. The connector is affectionately known at Club Raynor. You can see it in this pic. These kids today have no idea. Am I right?
(http://www.marquette.edu/visit/images/raynor-library.jpg)
I lived in the Biltmore in the mid 1990s when it was grad student housing--had studio and one bedroom apartments. Half was renovated and half wasnt. I was in the good part and it was preety comfortable. It was great to live in the middle of campus with no undergrad dorm rules.
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Here's another one from what looks like closer to my era. I think I can read 1982 on the Senior Week sign. BTW, that's the crappy Biltmore to the left.
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vS8FXNvp-XA/UAnqsxC0CuI/AAAAAAAAAqQ/to9g8TN5Ffc/s1600/Marquette%2BWest_facade_of_Brooks_Memorial_Union_1981.jpg)
Very cool! This would have been my sophomore year.
Awesome pics, Warrior and Glow!
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I just did the google street view of campus. The place is gorgeous, though looking back, campus was just a tad more interesting in my day. By that I mean it was not all university. You also got a taste of life in Milwaukee outside of school, you know visiting all the local establishments especially the ones that provided liquid refreshment.
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What an evolution-thanks guys! Any pics, by chance of the area between brooks memorial and lalumiere filled with tents camping out for season tickets? When did that start and end?
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What an evolution-thanks guys! Any pics, by chance of the area between brooks memorial and lalumiere filled with tents camping out for season tickets? When did that start and end?
Don't know when it started. Pretty sure last year was '78.
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Don't know when it started. Pretty sure last year was '78.
'78 sounds correct. Wasn't happening in '79 but all the upperclassmen still spoke about it. Jim Scott, VP of Student Affairs put an end to it. Let's just say that the students had taken things 'too far' in the administration's mind. My Frosh year students got the 'Blue' or 'Gold' half season package and then scrounged for the rest.
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'78 sounds correct. Wasn't happening in '79 but all the upperclassmen still spoke about it. Jim Scott, VP of Student Affairs put an end to it. Let's just say that the students had taken things 'too far' in the administration's mind. My Frosh year students got the 'Blue' or 'Gold' half season package and then scrounged for the rest.
I'm pretty sure anything the students did was "too far" from Dr. Scott's viewpoint.
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I'm pretty sure anything the students did was "too far" from Dr. Scott's viewpoint.
Jim was a pretty buttoned up guy, no doubt.
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Jim was a pretty buttoned up guy, no doubt.
Dr. Scott and Dr. Quade could only take a dump once a month.
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Actually, I sat next to Dr. Scott and his wife for several seasons at the BC. Got to know them fairly well, in a basketball setting. Don't let the crewcut fool you, he enjoyed the finer things in life, like most of us. Plus, he was four square in Marquette's corner, without question.
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Actually, I sat next to Dr. Scott and his wife for several seasons at the BC. Got to know them fairly well, in a basketball setting. Don't let the crewcut fool you, he enjoyed the finer things in life, like most of us. Plus, he was four square in Marquette's corner, without question.
I knew him pretty well too as a Brooks Union supervisor. I always found him to be a solid guy.
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I'm pretty sure anything the students did was "too far" from Dr. Scott's viewpoint.
my freshman year, i'm looking out at that tent city thinking-hmmmm, this doesn't seem like a good start to developing very good study habits. maybe if they had a chem/bio study club tent ::) looking back, probably one of the better decisions i made: not flunking out my freshman 1st semester-check, still found a ticket to every home game-check AND not ending up living in a van down by the river-check-check!!
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These pics brought back a lot of memories. I arrived in the Autumn of 1970. I had never visited the campus, so when my Dad drove me up from Ohio, I was expecting a Notre Dame type campus. (All I ever saw was a brochure--the rest was my imagination).
As we drove west on Wisconsin Ave. from downtown, we were wondering "where's Marquette?". Then we passed Marquette Hall. Hmmm, this must be it. I was HORRIFIED that MU was a bunch of buildings on a busy urban street. I was literally in shock. It took a few days to recover and then I came to love everything MU for the rest of my life!
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Dude, where ya bin at da past 4.5 years, hey?
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Was that the reddish building on the corner (see picture below) or was it further down towards Brook? The tan looking building on Wisconsin, was that where the faculty offices were? I can't remember.
Ah, look very closely, on the left edge, yes, there it is, can't believe my eyes, the VOGUE Cocktail Bar....you made my day, thanks.
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Ah, look very closely, on the left edge, yes, there it is, can't believe my eyes, the VOGUE Cocktail Bar....you made my day, thanks.
Here is a better view.
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Here is a better view.
And all this time I thought vogue65 got his name from this....
(http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view/907040/madonna-vogue-cool-o.gif)
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I'd give University Archives a call.
http://www.marquette.edu/library/archives/
Thanks for the suggestion. A very nice young lady in archives is helping me transfer some 120 images of campus, classmates, the Milwaukee lake front and the tip off parade to the MU archives. When I was in the MU Chorus we also recorded two LPs and those will be archived as well. She was pretty excited because everything they get is usually sports or admin related. She said they have little information of the other MU student organizations so this is the kind of thing they really appreciates getting. So a thumbs up, Chick.
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Thanks for the suggestion. A very nice young lady in archives is helping me transfer some 120 images of campus, classmates, the Milwaukee lake front and the tip off parade to the MU archives. When I was in the MU Chorus we also recorded two LPs and those will be archived as well. She was pretty excited because everything they get is usually sports or admin related. She said they have little information of the other MU student organizations so this is the kind of thing they really appreciates getting. So a thumbs up, Chick.
I am glad to hear that they were excited to get it. :)
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Here is a better view.
Thank you, great shot. It was the real deal, you can get some of the flavor from the glass block wall. Before A&W we had the original Real Chili, they were directly across West. Wisconsin from the library. I was a bartender at the Vogue 1966, my year before the Marines, but that's another story.
Any photos of Real Chili?
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Any y'all old farts 'member da Stratford Arms Hotel on campus, later known as da Jesuit Residence on 14th and Wis., hey?
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Anyone else here down wit Dal's, hey?
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How 'bout da Blue Deli, hey?
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Any y'all old farts 'member da Stratford Arms Hotel on campus, later known as da Jesuit Residence on 14th and Wis., hey?
It was actually a dorm in between. Chick jr's roommate's mom lived there in the 70's.
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Ya for sure she wasn't a Jesuit, hey?
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I was HORRIFIED that MU was a bunch of buildings on a busy urban street. I was literally in shock.
Grunge was really popular in the 1970s.
We did not expect much and we were not disappointed.
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Any y'all old farts 'member da Stratford Arms Hotel on campus, later known as da Jesuit Residence on 14th and Wis., hey?
The Stratford was real class, I lived at the Abbot Crest. Pool hall in the basement, caged elevator, sink in the room, shower down the hall. I left a suitcase with winter clothes in the basement, probably still there, ha.
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It was actually a dorm in between. Chick jr's roommate's mom lived there in the 70's.
Yeah! What was the name of that dorm?
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Thank you, great shot. It was the real deal, you can get some of the flavor from the glass block wall. Before A&W we had the original Real Chili, they were directly across West. Wisconsin from the library. I was a bartender at the Vogue 1966, my year before the Marines, but that's another story.
Any photos of Real Chili?
See reply #35.
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Here is a picture of Schroeder Hall in the winter of 1964-1965, my freshman year. Still had to wear a coat and tie to dinner. They added two floors to the dorm that year.
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Here is a picture of Schroeder Hall in the winter of 1964-1965, my freshman year. Still had to wear a coat and tie to dinner. They added two floors to the dorm that year.
What was the building to the left...short brick building?
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What was the building to the left...short brick building?
I believe it was a power supply hub run by the local utility. I remember seeing "hard hat" guys going in and out. I could be wrong though. Perhaps it served as the university maintenance facility.
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Have to go with MUwarrior69 on that. I don't recall. I don't think it had anything to do with the University, but could be wrong.
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Here is a picture of Schroeder Hall in the winter of 1964-1965, my freshman year. Still had to wear a coat and tie to dinner. They added two floors to the dorm that year.
So my freshman year '65-'66 was the first year for floors 9 and 10? I was the most popular guy on 8 south as I had these clip on ties; just button up your shirt and clip on the tie and off to dinner.
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So my freshman year '65-'66 was the first year for floors 9 and 10? I was the most popular guy on 8 south as I had these clip on ties; just button up your shirt and clip on the tie and off to dinner.
I was one year behind you (66-67) as a freshman at Schroeder Hall (4 South). No dress restrictions for the dining hall whatsoever. Really bad food discouraged attendance, though.