campus photo tour continued!
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nibotThese places are just a bit to the west of those in the last post.
Barrows Hall
I've never actually been above the ground floor in Barrows Hall, and that was to deliver graded homeworks to the students of CS 70. Why CS 70 was being held in Barrows is another mystery. I believe Barrows is home to Ethnic Studies, but more importantly (sorry), it's home to KALX! (KALX itself used to be located at Lawrence Hall of Science, but moved sometime in the last decade (?). Where is the transmitter?)
According to the Loafer's Guide: [named after] David Prescott Barrows, political science professor, University President, 1919-1923, international traveller, noted scholar. He announced to his class in the 1930s that another war was impossible. A man of vision, obviously. A couple of Barrowsisms: overheard on opening day--"It's much nicer from the inside looking out." "It would have to be." Graffito on fence around construction site--"Sonny Liston designed Barrows Hall with his gloves on.
Barrows hall was quite an ugly structure until a few years ago, when it received a fancy new paint job:
Old Anthony Hall
With its distinctive vine-draped arbors and the pelican sculpture, which someone has adorned with a straw hat.
Why the Pelican? The Loafer's Guide has the answer: ``In addition to all this, Anthony was notable in Berkeley history as the first editor of the Pelican, Berkeley's humor magazine; the name was 1920s slang for "wallflower". He donated the money for the building and supplied the bird himself. He'd been pleased with the work Bernard Maybeck had done for him here and in Los Angeles, and had originally wanted Maybeck to do the design, but the architect had retired--he agreed, however, to serve as consultant to Joseph Esherick. The building is now graduate offices; Pelican staff have sworn to take it back. And the mystery of the Packard hood ornament (is that really a pelican on the front of that car?) still remains.''
I admit I had to look up `wallflower': "2. A lady at a ball, who, either from choice, or because not asked to dance, remains a spectator. [Colloq.]" The allusion to pelicans is kind of funny.
Home to the Graduate Assembly (what do they do?)
After I took this picture, I ran through the sprinklers.
Adjacent to Anthony Hall is the Old Art Studio. I don't know of any other name for the building.
Old Art Studio
The Old Art Studio is a wonderful old brick building. I wonder if it was taken out of general service precisely because it was an old brick building (liable to fall down in an earthquake)?
Half of the Old Art Studio is now an electrical utility room, terminus of the Main Campus Steam Tunnel. Weirdly, it's full of batteries. (If you poke around, you'll see a utility yard surrounded by razor fence, and you can see where the steam tunnel crosses Strawberry Creek.)
The most distinctive thing about the Old Art Studio is its wonderful murals. Here's a detail:
Random Stream Crossing
South fork of Strawberry Creek, behind Moses Hall.
The same bridge, looking from the other direction:
Barrows Hall
I've never actually been above the ground floor in Barrows Hall, and that was to deliver graded homeworks to the students of CS 70. Why CS 70 was being held in Barrows is another mystery. I believe Barrows is home to Ethnic Studies, but more importantly (sorry), it's home to KALX! (KALX itself used to be located at Lawrence Hall of Science, but moved sometime in the last decade (?). Where is the transmitter?)
According to the Loafer's Guide: [named after] David Prescott Barrows, political science professor, University President, 1919-1923, international traveller, noted scholar. He announced to his class in the 1930s that another war was impossible. A man of vision, obviously. A couple of Barrowsisms: overheard on opening day--"It's much nicer from the inside looking out." "It would have to be." Graffito on fence around construction site--"Sonny Liston designed Barrows Hall with his gloves on.
Barrows hall was quite an ugly structure until a few years ago, when it received a fancy new paint job:
Old Anthony Hall
With its distinctive vine-draped arbors and the pelican sculpture, which someone has adorned with a straw hat.
Why the Pelican? The Loafer's Guide has the answer: ``In addition to all this, Anthony was notable in Berkeley history as the first editor of the Pelican, Berkeley's humor magazine; the name was 1920s slang for "wallflower". He donated the money for the building and supplied the bird himself. He'd been pleased with the work Bernard Maybeck had done for him here and in Los Angeles, and had originally wanted Maybeck to do the design, but the architect had retired--he agreed, however, to serve as consultant to Joseph Esherick. The building is now graduate offices; Pelican staff have sworn to take it back. And the mystery of the Packard hood ornament (is that really a pelican on the front of that car?) still remains.''
I admit I had to look up `wallflower': "2. A lady at a ball, who, either from choice, or because not asked to dance, remains a spectator. [Colloq.]" The allusion to pelicans is kind of funny.
Home to the Graduate Assembly (what do they do?)
After I took this picture, I ran through the sprinklers.
Adjacent to Anthony Hall is the Old Art Studio. I don't know of any other name for the building.
Old Art Studio
The Old Art Studio is a wonderful old brick building. I wonder if it was taken out of general service precisely because it was an old brick building (liable to fall down in an earthquake)?
Half of the Old Art Studio is now an electrical utility room, terminus of the Main Campus Steam Tunnel. Weirdly, it's full of batteries. (If you poke around, you'll see a utility yard surrounded by razor fence, and you can see where the steam tunnel crosses Strawberry Creek.)
The most distinctive thing about the Old Art Studio is its wonderful murals. Here's a detail:
Random Stream Crossing
South fork of Strawberry Creek, behind Moses Hall.
The same bridge, looking from the other direction:
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Date: 2004-05-04 11:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-04 01:27 pm (UTC)And the Graduate Assembly I believe uses money more wisely than the ASUC is all I can tell.
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Date: 2004-05-04 03:04 pm (UTC)Not hard to do!
I remember that stream well, very well.
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Date: 2004-05-04 04:25 pm (UTC)I love the photos of the creek behind Moses. I did not spend as much time there as I wished. I was mostly inside Howison.
The whole area behind Moses and Stephens is so lovely, I think (and not just because it is reminanct of Oxford).
Hey, take a photo of the Phi Beta Kappa/Graduate Study Lounge at top floor of Stephens Hall.
Still, not Bowles. :-(
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Date: 2004-05-05 03:49 am (UTC)Many years ago, I had the pleasure of meeting two old KALX DJs (from the late 70s and early 80s) who had worked at the station when it was still at the Lawrence Hall of Science. The station was actually part of the museum part of the Hall. The booth had windows for walls, so that tour groups could see inside a real radio station. DJs dubbed it the "fishbowl". The best thing about it though was that there was a spectacular view of the bay. Unfortunately, there were major downsides to it though too. First, it was difficult transportation-wise for late night DJs to get up there and do their shifts. Second, KALX being, well, KALX, some staffers used to regularly break into the cafeteria and steal food and coffee. I guess at some point this lead to KALX's expulsion from there.
I think after that they were in those temporary offices on Bowditch Street (for several years though), although I think there was some time in between where they actually broadcast from somebody's house. Where KALX is currently located, used to actually be the career center for the Haas School of Business. Back before Haas had its own fancy, new buildings, it was (at least partially, but maybe completely?) in Barrows.
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Date: 2004-05-13 04:13 pm (UTC)