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A Tiny Surprise, 1952

Stuff flows into the Woodson steadily, week by week, like small river. Some of it is big important stuff and some of it isn’t, but it’s never boring. This afternoon a colleague showed me a recent acquisition that left me boggled:

Parking stickers are the very definition of “ephemera.” Buy one, put in on the window, then scrape it off or cover it over with a new one next year. That this survived for 66 years (and counting) seems like a miracle. It made my day.

People were already complaining about parking shortages in 1952, by the way. The stadium lot was considered too remote to be of much use.

Bonus: Campus Photographer Tommy Lavergne plays Stump the Band.

“Scare Owls. Do you know where?”

I have to confess that I don’t.

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