Yesterday I looked in a folder called “Elections” and I was pleasantly surprised to discover a real jumble. The word really covers a lot of territory, doesn’t it? Some of the images were from campus elections in the 1950s, before the college system rendered the system of class officers obsolete. This was taken in 1954, by the gym I believe:
Then there was an entirely different set of images, these of students voting in the November 1984 election at a polling place in front of the gallery in Sewall Hall:
And note the candidates’s signs along the side of the building.
The “Andrews” sign may well date this picture from last week:
Tomorrow, one more batch, which seem unrelated to either of these two.
Bonus: See the two bluish doors on either side of the George R. Brown arch?
There are numbers on them. This is the one on the left:
And here’s the one on the right:
I find this quite amusing. I walked all the way around the building and if there’s a 2 I didn’t see it.
I think the fellow on the right in the 3rd picture is Bob Casey. The candidate was Mike Andrews; I think he lost to Ron Paul in that election, but my memory is playing tricks on me.
Ron Paul beat Mike Andrews for US Representative, district 22 in 1980. Ron Paul’s wikipedia page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_history_of_Ron_Paul) shows that Andrews only lost by a couple of percentage points. After the redistricting, Andrews defeated Mike Faubion for the newly-created district 25th district. He was re-elected in 1984, defeating Jerry Patterson.
My reference: “Representing Texas”, google books extract here: http://books.google.com/books?id=-14gbMQftG0C&pg=PA15&lpg=PA15&dq=Mike+Andrews+Ron+Paul&source=bl&ots=nnkaYO20ha&sig=E3MqMi6oGdgfkBTnp8n7xz8_FL8&hl=en&sa=X&ei=hthuUY3-O6Pl2QXPqYGwCQ&ved=0CDwQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Mike%20Andrews%20Ron%20Paul&f=false
I knew Paul beat Andrews once. This was my 2nd congressional election and was my home district; you would think that I would remember Andrews winning in 1984.
Many exterior doors have numbers. It’s so the FE&P guys can easily identify them for maintenance. Doors require a surprising amount of maintenance.
And I remember those exact voting booths at Sewall for both the November 1980 and 1984 elections. Unfortunately, even though I voted in both elections, I’m still not in the photo.
Yes, that’s me on the right in the 3rd picture. I think Doug Plummer is sitting next to me.
The guy on the left in the 3rd photo looks a bit like Tom Pellette ’86.
Check the second floor for 2 and 4?
I did not. I will tomorrow.
And I expected Marty to tell us what the cars are in the top photo.
Grungy, the front car is obviously a later-series Ford Model T from about 1925, give or take a year or two. There weren’t model year changes per se. The back car I’ve actually been working on a little. The little round lights under the headlight look like early-50’s Willys; most American cars of the period had much more elaborate grilles and parking lights by this time. Pre-1950 cars tended to have vestigial “wing-type” front fenders. However, I can’t find a Willys convertible at that time other than the Jeep. Also the large chrome strip on the fender wrapping around to the edge of the hood are a little unusual, as is the heavily chromed windshield surround. This car was probably customized a little. Something about it says “Ford” to me but I can’t find anything that will work.
It *might* be a 1950 Studebaker convertible, before the parking light redesign. The chrome strip on the fender is wrong, maybe an aftermarket addition, but the headlight, parking light, and chrome strip on the hood leading edge or grille are similar. Too bad we can’t see six inches farther to the right; the Stude would have the characteristic “airplane” pointed nose.
Might be a ’48 Ford, although the chrome is wrong (should be a strip on the hood and the fender one should be shorter.)
Is Rice still its own precinct. It was in the 70’s and could be picked out of a group by being far to the left of everything else in Houston. Then starting in the mid to late 70s (if I recall correctly) it made a swing to the right.
The fellow voting in the first picture wears one of Sid’s best T-shirt designs.