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)