This unlabeled piece of architectural criticism emerged from a large bunch of boxes that I dragged out of the RMC this summer:
There’s no date but it was from before the time of Photoshop, as the gas pumps were actually cut out of another photo and glued onto this one. In those days mischief required more manual skill.
Bonus: Here’s another image from the fall of 1954. Does anyone know where it was taken?
I would bet that first photo comes from ’74 or ’79 when we had the oil embargoes. If I knew car models better, I could date it more accurately.
Actually, I don’t think Circle K entered the Houston market until about ’84 or ’85, and those pumps are definitely at least 1980’s pumps as opposed to 1970’s.
Circle K filed for the “Aero K” trademark on Dec. 14, 1979. It was registered on Jan 5, 1982, and cancelled on Oct 12, 2002. (source: http://www.trademarkia.com/aero-k-73242923.html )
I’m going to guess that the bulletin board was somewhere in the Fondren Library. The two rooms mentioned in signs large enough to be read in the photo — Exam Room and B-17 (Lost articles) — were located there, and the signs don’t indicate that the rooms are in some other building, so I’m thinking they’d be in the same one. Perhaps alums of that era would recall the specific location.
BTW, the March 16, 1956, Thresher had an article about B-17 on page 6 (scholarship.rice.edu/bitstream/handle/1911/66140/thr19560316.pdf).
B-17 is where you go to inquire about lost articles of any nature. And the Christian group apparently met in the “Exam Room,” which sounds like it belongs in a doctor’s office. The car is a 1986-88 Nissan Sentra coupe. Like this: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/86-88_Nissan_Sentra_coupe.jpg/800px-86-88_Nissan_Sentra_coupe.jpg
I think “B” means basement. This may be outside the bookstore/snackbar that was in Fondren basement. Wasn’t it called the Owls’ Nest?
It was known as “The Roost,” according to this Woodson caption of a photo that appeared in yesterday’s edition of this blog: http://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/71186
Here’s a link to a photo of The Roost: http://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/71186
Before the Ley Student Center (shown in the first picture) was built in the mid-1980s, the north entrance to the Rice Memorial Center also had a semicircular drive and carport. As a freshman in 1984-84, I recall some upperclassmen referring to that area as “the gas station”.