Niagara Falls about 1959-60
Skating in Ceaderbrook Park about 1958
Reminds me of a Currier and Ives print.And two in color.
The East Range, University of Virginia, part of Jefferson's original college village. These are the doors to single student rooms, and each had a fireplace. In the winter students would stack firewood by the door which was safe because of Virginia's strict honor code. There were about ten rooms to a block.
For 4 years I lived in one of these rooms near the distant end. By that time they had been renovated from Jefferson's days to have a hot water radiator and in a small alcove on one side of the fireplace there was a washbasin with hot and cold running water and a medicine cabinate., such luxury. The other alcove served as a small wardrobe. Toilet and shower facilities were in rooms, with an entrance in the back, shared by two adjacent blocks or 20 students.
The University had about 5 000 students in those days and despite being strongly fraternity oriented it was a very heterogeneous institution and the non affiliated were not isolated. In my undergraduate years I freely associated with graduate students studying for their PHD as well as law and medicine. There was little class distinction.
The Rotunda at the head of the Lawn was the focal point of Jefferson's original University Village. It was partially destroyed by fire in the 19th Century and rebuilt by Stamford White. Until the late 30s it was the University library being replaced just before the war by a "modern building" which has been greatly expanded.
Wahoowa!
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