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Looking Straight Up In Abercrombie

Earlier this week I had a peek at a lab that’s being renovated over in Abercrombie. Happily, this gives me my first opportunity to use that aerial Raymond Brochstein brought in–what we’re talking about is at the very far northern end of the building where you can see a long horizontal strip of window:

I was at first quite taken with those windows, which extend around the side and provide beautiful light to the room:

But then I looked up and saw what had been hidden for years behind an ugly drop ceiling:

I knew instantly where I’d seen it before:

That was September, 1949.

Bonus: I very nearly lost my cell phone today in my excitement over seeing a blimp behind Lovett Hall.

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