First, let me apologize for the sorry quality of these images, which you can probably tell are just iphone pictures. This was the last thing I did before I left for Washington and I was rushing so fast I just didn’t have time to scan them properly.
I was pretty excited to find this brochure in a box of materials that John “Grungy” Gladu recovered from somewhere deep in the bowels of the stadium. (More odd items from this box next time.) I’ve written about the Tidelands, its various Rice connections, and its later incarnation as Rice’s Graduate Student Housing before. I even found some great black and white images taken in its heyday in the Houston Metropolitan Research Center collection some years ago. But this was the first time I’ve seen the full glory of the thing in color. And it’s amazing.
It’s hard to pick out my favorite thing here but it might be the credit cards accepted, which might actually help nail down a date now that I think about it.
Here you go:
Bonus: A loyal reader sends in this picture of the bent, safely reinstalled.
