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Sallyport Parking Lot, 1959

I dropped my laptop today and wrecked the screen. Seriously! It was time for a new one anyway but I didn’t have the happy-go-lucky afternoon I expected when the day dawned. Still, I perked up a bit when I came across this image of the front parking lot. It’s labeled 1959 and I’m prepared to believe it based on the cars, especially that nifty little one at right:

If the date is correct this would be very near the end of its useful existence as a parking lot. By the time Kenneth Pitzer was inaugurated out there in 1960 it was a lawn. I’ll show you a picture of that tomorrow, after I’ve had a chance to get my new technology squared away.

Bonus: This is kind of how I feel.

 

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