While getting ready to refile the “Elections” folder, I realized that it contains one more minor mystery. This undated photo looks to me like real voting booths:
But where are they? I don’t recognize this place, although I feel like I ought to.
Bonus: Uh oh.
Could it be here? http://binged.it/11fqj41
I was looking for something a bit more specific!
Double-arched ceiling, looks like limestone ribs. Brick or terra-cotta tile floor. From the light on the left, it almost looks like they are in a colonnade or archway which is outside somewhere. Or maybe inside a lobby area of an older building. Ooh, and there is a stairway on the far left that is made of suspended concrete risers. Reminds me of Bio, Geo, Spac buildings. But I am just guessing.
Or maybe Hamman Hall?
I think Gronke is right. That looks like the lobby of Hamman Hall to me. That’s where I remember voting being done for several years.
Deborah is right. Voting occurred in the Hamman Hall lobby for a while. The photo captures nicely that unique Hamman Hall style.
Wow, I amazed myself. I haven’t been in Hamman Hall since 1982 (spring). I walked by the front of the building two weeks ago, though.
And I haven’t been called “Gronke” for nearly as long, either.
I was thinking about Bio, but, no, Deborah’s got it. Hamman Hall lobby, against the black marble wall by the box office. I recognize the floor and the stairs from pre-Alice Pratt Brown days. http://theatre.rice.edu/uploadedImages/Theatre/Hamman_Hall/lobby02(1).jpg
Not sure why it didn’t work, probably the parentheses.
http://theatre.rice.edu/uploadedImages/Theatre/Hamman_Hall/lobby02(1).jpg
Nuts. Click on the thumbnail for “Lower lobby (ground level)”
http://theatre.rice.edu/Content.aspx?id=796#
Those are the old mechanical voting machines used in the 70’s. One went
In, drew the curtain and manipulated switches for the selections. I also believe they used Hamman as the voting spot