Old UT Photos

[Vol Horn 4 Life]

When a virgin walks by the horses will fly!

I always heard when a virgin graduates from UT the horses will fly.

I actually knew a virgin who graduated....no, really! She was so naive she made a comment that she couldn't believe so many girls on campus had clitoris. No, really!

 

[WorsterMan]

Always loved the Littlefield statue and fountains.

 

[Vol Horn 4 Life]

Always loved the Littlefield statue and fountains.

I know, me too. I almost never went that direction though because everything on campus is east of the fountain. Only in the area if going to the PCL.

 

[WorsterMan]

Or to wander down South to oggle at the Kappa house

 

[Dionysus]

I almost never went that direction though because everything on campus is east of the fountain.

The breakfast taco trucks used be right there on 21st in front of the fountain. Mmmm.

 

[BevoJoe]

1944: In front of Goldsmith Hall, looking out from the West Mall toward the Drag. That's the original University Co-op bldg. From @JimNicar.

No Hare Krishnas out by the cross walk like in the 70's.

 

[BevoJoe]

Dallas architect Herbert Greene’s initial design for a new football stadium appeared on postcards across the state and was used to solicit funds for construction. Memorial Stadium was built and dedicated in 1924, though costs never permitted the completion of the ambitious Italianate facade.

From JimNicar.com: Postcards 1: 1900–1920s

As usual, not enough parking...where's the purple lot?

 

[HornDawg1957]

1945 — fans on the east side of the stadium, also from @JimNicar.

Those fans in 1945 would've been cheering for Bobby Layne and for my father's high school friend and teammate, Ralph Ellsworth. Ellsworth would throw a touchdown pass to Layne in the '46 Cotton Bowl win over Missouri, a game in which Layne had three rushing TDs, two passing TDs, the aforementioned receiving TD, and four extra-point kicks, accounting for all of Texas' 40 points in the game.

 

[blonthang]

"Saaaaalvation sandwiches! Spiiicey iced tea! Lemoney lemonade!"

 

[Dionysus]

1883: Earliest known photo of the UT campus. West wing of the old Main Building.

UT turns 134 years old September 15th.

@JimNicar

 

[WorsterMan]

1883: Earliest known photo of the UT campus. West wing of the old Main Building.

UT turns 134 years old September 15th.

@JimNicar

Amazing what a sharp contrast that photo is to that same campus view today!

 

[Dionysus]

Athletic Director Mike Perrin and O.J. Simpson at the LA Coliseum
September 23, 1967

 

[SunBurntOrange]

What a great thread. Love seeing old images like these.

 

[WorsterMan]

Athletic Director Mike Perrin and O.J. Simpson at the LA Coliseum
September 23, 1967

Great photo of Perrin.

I was in Jr. High but I remember the UT home & home series with USC with RB OJ Simpson. I was a passionate Horn fan in those early days of my youth. USC won both but both games were low scoring, hard fought and the Trojans won by only 3-4 points.

 

[Dionysus]

1899: The entire UT graduating class, seated on the steps of Old Main.

@JimNicar

 

[Dionysus]

1934: Removing the cornerstone of Old Main before it was razed and replaced by the Tower. Now in the Main Building loggia.

@JimNicar

 

[WorsterMan]

Ok, I have not read why but always wondered about the decision to raze Old Main?

 

[Dionysus]

Ok, I have not read why but always wondered about the decision to raze Old Main?

@WorsterMan See the post link below on the UT History Corner site by Jim Nicar. The main consideration was increasing the size of the library.

UT History Corner: How to Build a Tower

Excerpt from the post:

The Main Building with its 27-story Tower was to be the long-term solution to a problem that had plagued the Board of Regents for decades: how to increase the size of the library. The University library was initially housed on the first floor of the old Main Building, but as its holdings increased, the space needed for additional bookshelves literally squeezed the students out of the reading room. The problem was temporarily relieved with the construction of a separate library building in 1911 (now Battle Hall), but by 1920, its quarters were again hopelessly overcrowded. A new library was needed, but where to place it?

While the crest of the hill at the center of the Forty Acres was the obvious best setting for such a monumental building, it would have meant the destruction of the Victorian-Gothic Old Main. As the first structure on the campus, it was the sentimental favorite of both of faculty and alumni, and its offices and classrooms couldn’t be easily moved elsewhere. There simply wasn’t room.

Proposals included the addition of a new library north of Old Main, or, perhaps, to the south, where it would have sat in the middle of today’s South Mall and prevented the development of a grand main entrance to the University. A third scheme was to expand the existing library, double the size of the front façade, and add a 16-story tower for book stacks. All of the proposals either placed the library in an inconvenient spot or were too expensive.

 

[Dionysus]

More about Old Main and the new Main Building (from the same blog post linked above).

The back, lower part of the current Main Building was completed first, in 1934. Officially named the “library annex,” it was connected to Old Main, which can be see on the right. The Life Sciences Library, along with the Hall of Texas and the Hall of Noble Words, is still here.

 

[Dionysus]

1912: The new UT library — today’s Battle Hall — set the Mediterranean Renaissance style for the UT campus.

@JimNicar

 

[Dionysus]

1900: UT Chemistry Prof Gene Schoch spent $150 on instruments at a local pawn shop to found the University Band — today’s Longhorn Band.

@JimNicar

 

[Dionysus]

1936: A view of the football stadium and baseball's Clark Field II, with its chalk cliff outfield, now the location of Bass Concert Hall.

@JimNicar

 

[Dionysus]

1937: Library staff pose in front of the just-opened Main Building and Tower, then the new central library for UT.

@JimNicar

 

[Dionysus]

1915: Texas-OU week.

Ram the sooner!

@JimNicar

 

[MudHorn]

DKR and the Horns, 1963 Texas-OU game

@TexasExes

 

[Dionysus]

1904: Rush hour on University Avenue. To the right of Old Main is the brand new Engineering Building, today’s Gebauer Building.

@JimNicar

 

[Dionysus]

How UT Women’s Basketball got its start.
jimnicar.com/2016/04/25/in-search-of-womens-basketball

The 1902 women’s basketball squad, with Pearl Norvell in the center.

@JimNicar

 

[LousianaHorn]

Dedication program for Memorial Stadium vs Aggy.

 

[Dionysus]

1933: A rare view looking down University Avenue. For only two years — 1933 to 1934 — was the Littlefield Fountain seen in front of UT’s Old Main before it was razed to make room for the present Main Building and Tower.

@JimNicar

 

[Joe Fan]

On this day in 1969