Doesn’t look good, circa 1998:
I have a better picture of this but it lacks the fabulous background view.
Doesn’t look good, circa 2012:
This was part of the Centennial cleanup, which put the annual Commencement cleanup to shame.
The guts of the thing are kind of pretty, though:
Bonus: I had to get inside the area marked in red in order to make out where that area is. This might be more of that “irony” I keep hearing about.
Keck Hall MRI?
Yes, sir. I’ve been hanging around in that area recently, cleaning out some old files from Chemistry.
Not friendly to credit card stripes either.
I woke up in the middle of the night thinking about this. It’s not Keck, it’s Dell Butcher. I get the names mixed up because I think of them as “Chemistry” and “The Other Chemistry.”
I see. I was thinking about the MRI facility that was added to the east side of the back end of Keck . I know there were warnings inside the building about that one. I assumed they had added one to the outside in the last 15-16 years!
Poor “Chemistry”! It must have an identity complex being on its third name (“Chemistry Laboratory”, “Dell Butcher Hall” [not to be confused with the current “Butcher Hall, Dell” on the map], and “Keck Hall”).
While playing tourist in the Willis Tower in Chicago, on the SkyDeck (103rd floor), I used the compass app in my phone to check directions.
It was near sunset, so I had a pretty decent idea of where west was going to be, within reason.
My phone, after calibrating itself, said something clearly false.
Walking around the SkyDeck, I found several places that turned the compass needle around to various un-truths.
Its antics during the elevator descent were particularly amusing.
Yet they don’t warn visitors about those magnetic fields – so the fields near the MRI must be significantly stronger.
I wonder if the Willis Tower aberrations are due to magnetic materials in the structure? Or due to electromagnetic fields?
Speaking of confusing names, it will always be the “Sears Tower” to me.