Monthly Archives: November 2016

Someone in the comments to yesterday’s post mentioned that you could spend a month talking about the families whose names encircle the border of the map. (Don’t be afraid, I’m not going to do that.) It did strike me as … Continue reading →

Among the things that have arrived in the Woodson this week are some issues of a defunct Houston magazine called the Gargoyle. This publication was launched in 1928 as the first real Houston city magazine and it survived into the … Continue reading →

It’s labeled “Psychology, rat in maze, 1952”: I know the feeling.

For those of you in desperate search for fresh content on Thanksgiving Day, here is the program for November 23, 1954 at Temple Emanu El:   Bonus: Here’s where I sit.

Cohen House kitchen, circa early ’70s: We were laughing in the kitchen at my house today too:

I was flipping through a file of exterior shots of Abercrombie Lab when this one just jumped out at me: Do you see where it was taken from? The roof of the Chemistry Building! It’s dated 1950 and I’m basically … Continue reading →

Sometimes technology that seems obsolete really isn’t but I think this one is actually fit for no purpose today. I came across this small fuzzy photo of the new Addressograph system in a copy of the March, 1958 Sallyport. I wonder … Continue reading →

That is actually how this photo is labeled. The arrows were for visitors to the Rice Review (a successor to the old Engineering Show). Completely inconceivable today. Bonus:

Five years ago (!) I wrote a post here about a short-lived but entertaining Rice humor magazine called The Bird. We only had one issue and there was no way to know if any others had been produced. A while … Continue reading →

Last week I found this little note describing the founding of the Owen Wister Literary Society. I was taken rather aback. Apparently a two year prison term for sexual perversion was frowned upon by the authorities. Huh. Who could have predicted … Continue reading →