MU Campus 50 years ago.

[muwarrior69]

Looking East down West Wisconsin. I like all those classic cars.

[muwarrior69]

Looking East from 8th floor of Schroeder. That is what the intersection of 12th and Wells looked like before the AL.

[muwarrior69]

The Library. One of the few spaces with grass.

[muwarrior69]

Looking West from the 8th floor of Schroeder. Can you see the Student Union there? Where is McCormick?

[muwarrior69]

The Medical and Dental School.

[muwarrior69]

Joan of Arc near completion. Looks so out of place surrounded by apartment buildings.

[muwarrior69]

Engineering Building.

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Weir Chemistry Building under construction.

[muwarrior69]

Science Building (now Marquette Hall? ) and Gesu.

[muwarrior69]

Schroeder Hall looking north on 13th.

[muwarrior69]

Anyone have photos of campus when they attended?

[ChitownSpaceForRent]

The quality of those photos are incredible. Ever think about selling some to Marquette?

[jsglow]

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.

[muwarrior69]

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.

[4everwarriors]

So yo 69, ya ever go out drinkin' wit Fr. Jacques Marquette back in the dey, hey?

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

Queue Bryan Adams, "Summer of '69".

[warriorchick]

It's weird seeing so many cars on campus.

[muwarrior69]

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.

[muwarrior69]

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.

[muwarrior69]

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.

[warriorchick]

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/

[muwarrior69]

I'd give University Archives a call.

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

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

[jsglow]

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.

[ZiggysFryBoy]

Would be cool to see these as the blended pictures showing then and now.

[warriorchick]

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.