Click a building and read a brief history about its namesake
https://tribetrek.wm.edu/


Interesting that Tyler reverted to Chancellor Hall and not Rogers, another prior name and the founder of MIT? Are they planning to name the ISC for him after the chemistry building lost its identity? Is there bad blood for Rogers or MIT?
https://tribetrek.wm.edu/items/show/8

Look at this gem

(11-22-2021 05:46 PM)nogretheogre Wrote:  Look at this gem

So that's Richmond Rd in the foreground then?

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(11-22-2021 06:06 PM)zablenoise Wrote:  

(11-22-2021 05:46 PM)nogretheogre Wrote:  Look at this gem

So that's Richmond Rd in the foreground then?

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Sure it is. Can’t you see all the pancake restaurants?


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(11-22-2021 05:42 PM)nogretheogre Wrote:  Click a building and read a brief history about its namesake
https://tribetrek.wm.edu/


Interesting that Tyler reverted to Chancellor Hall and not Rogers, another prior name and the founder of MIT? Are they planning to name the ISC for him after the chemistry building lost its identity? Is there bad blood for Rogers or MIT?
https://tribetrek.wm.edu/items/show/8

Wow. I didn't know about the KKK flagpole.

(11-22-2021 05:46 PM)nogretheogre Wrote:  Look at this gem

If I’m deciphering the code correctly, this photo is from August 1933. It appears that they’ve already cleared the land for W&M Hall AND the parking lot. Must’ve had some real visionaries running the show back then.

Yeah, but that, at least, tells us, for a fact, that despite the rumors, those construction trailers have NOT been there since the 30's.

What, no JBT? I’m bummed.

(11-23-2021 09:32 AM)billymac Wrote:  Yeah, but that, at least, tells us, for a fact, that despite the rumors, those construction trailers have NOT been there since the 30's.

But the real question is - will they be there in the next 30's?

I also love the "WILLIAMSBURG" on top of the dorm.

(11-23-2021 11:29 AM)Tribe1693 Wrote:  I also love the "WILLIAMSBURG" on top of the dorm.

Yeah, an interesting story revolves around that.

Under a WPA program, the same one that built Cary Field, a state was divided into sections of 20 square miles. Where possible, a marker with the name of the nearest town was painted on the roof of the most prominent building at each 15-mile interval.

At the time that the program was established, few pilots were flying on established airways or had the benefit of radios. With the aid of those roof markers, even the most inexperienced pilots could determine where they were.

After the bombing at Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Government determined that marked airports along the east and west coast were obvious targets for enemy identification and attack. Consequently, the workers, who had set about the work of marking some 13,000 sites, went about the work of blacking out those very markings they had diligently created.

The program started in 1933, so, as the picture date would suggest, the paint is probably still fresh.

(11-23-2021 01:03 PM)billymac Wrote:  

(11-23-2021 11:29 AM)Tribe1693 Wrote:  I also love the "WILLIAMSBURG" on top of the dorm.

Yeah, an interesting story revolves around that.

Under a WPA program, the same one that built Cary Field, a state was divided into sections of 20 square miles. Where possible, a marker with the name of the nearest town was painted on the roof of the most prominent building at each 15-mile interval.

At the time that the program was established, few pilots were flying on established airways or had the benefit of radios. With the aid of those roof markers, even the most inexperienced pilots could determine where they were.

After the bombing at Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Government determined that marked airports along the east and west coast were obvious targets for enemy identification and attack. Consequently, the workers, who had set about the work of marking some 13,000 sites, went about the work of blacking out those very markings they had diligently created.

The program started in 1933, so, as the picture date would suggest, the paint is probably still fresh.

Thanks for sharing. As someone who has spent his entire career in aviation, this is fascinating to learn.