Here's some shots from 1946-47 which would be six years before I was born. Don't know if we were called SLI back then or USL. I do recognize many of the buildings and other features.

Cool picture here. In the foreground is the quadrangle, upper right is McNaspy Stadium (or McNasty as we called it). Never saw a game there because my first year at USL was the year. Cajun Field opened. Earl K. Long Gym is located to the left of McNaspy and Girard Park the heavily wooded area at the top of the photograph.


Here's another shot of McNaspy.


This is a shot looking down Johnston Street headed south. Amazing to see how open everything is. The upper middle of that photo is a residential area I believe was called Arbolota where a number of professors had homes. I had an apartment on Smith Street and walked my dog in that neighborhood. Can't tell but I bet that apartment was there in 1946 and probably a dump then too.

The front door then, the center of campus now.


Main building


Kays Stadium. Now the library parking lot.


Lewis Hall. What the dorms used to look like.


For homecoming we had static floats that lined Aggie Road. When I was kid it was a yearly ritual to cruise Aggie Road and look at them. That tradition is now gone.


This is the Agri Barn. It was located on the hill near where the Convocation Center is now.


View of the campus in 1927. You can see the A&M Arch in the background which is now the center of campus.


Football game at Kays Stadium with old physical plant in background.


Track meet


Pretty sure this is the 1948 homecoming game. The building with the two peaks behind was Indian Fieldhouse where we played basketball until the 80's when the Convocation Center was built. The other building is where the library, museum, and clock tower are now.


This photo and cartoon is from the day we gained University status. The sign was on the northwest corner of Aggie and Caraway in front of where the Student Union is now. In the cartoon, the Indian is sporting a new tie with "University" on it.


Another view of the old Admin Building. At the time we had more cows than students.


Looking at the visitor side of Kays Stadium. The new science building is in the background (it is still there). This was homecoming versus Drake in 1969. It ended a tie but we had a rematch in the Pecan Bowl at the end of the year and beat them.

USA is a relatively newer school compared to a lot of schools out there. We are only 51 years old, so we don't have a lot of retro pictures, but I'll try with a couple. Lol

Rogers River Resort now part of The Meadows Center for water and environment

Pride of the Hill Country - 1920 edition

Evans Field

Very awesome thread!

New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (NMSU) 1948


Goddard Hall, date unknown. Built in 1913


Goddard Hall as seen through the old gates of Miller field.


McFie Hall, NMSU's first building. All that remains is a cornerstone.


Hadley Hall Commencement 1913


Milton Hall built in 1941. Served as the student union building until 1968

The buildings built 100 years ago were really pretty. I'm glad TXST has been able to preserve pretty much all of ours...especially along the quad, old main, and the resort/hotel (aka meadows center).

C'mon the rest of you. Start scanning. I want to see some more schools.

(05-09-2015 07:19 PM)ark30inf Wrote:  C'mon the rest of you. Start scanning. I want to see some more schools.

I'll add some more I found:
Manual Arts Building, circa 1912. Became Student Union in 1947 then Honors College

Renamed Lampasas Hall in 2003

Map layout of the campus in and 1928 vs 2014

Normal Hill 1910

Oldest Building "Old Main" shown with San Marcos Federal Fish Hatchery in the foreground (deeded to TXST in 1965). Today the Performing Arts Center and JC Kellam Hall sit where the hatcheries were.

And TXST history would be incomplete without a picture of Ralph the Swimming Pig

Did a search and couldn't find it but I've seen a photo online of Arkansas State players boarding an airplane for the school's first ever road trip by airplane. They were flying to Lafayette.

Appears stAte has a long history with Marshall football.

Fanatico, when these were posted on RaginPagin, I had made the comment that the wide open area to the bottom right of McNaspy is where I took about 75% of my classes while I was in school. Crazy how the "new" part of campus has blown up. Library is there, along with both engineering buildings, and both biology and chemistry buildings.

(05-11-2015 06:13 AM)CajunFan3406 Wrote:  Fanatico, when these were posted on RaginPagin, I had made the comment that the wide open area to the bottom right of McNaspy is where I took about 75% of my classes while I was in school. Crazy how the "new" part of campus has blown up. Library is there, along with both engineering buildings, and both biology and chemistry buildings.

Yep, that circle is where Dupre Library was build with the biology building right along side. Chemistry on the corner of Rex and St. Mary and the English building off towards the dorms down Rex. College Inn just across the street.

I suspect those smaller quarters in the upper right are what was married housing at the time. When I attended, that's where McCollugh and Stokes dorms sat along with some married housing behind. I recall some of those married housing units being moved out off of Hwy 90 in Broussard. Wonder if they're still there?

This is pretty much all I could find.

1930's:


1932 baseball team with Babe Ruth:


1941:

These are videos of Boone, the surrounding countryside and Appalachian back in the 1930s. The second is one of a train excursion on Tweetsie Railroad from East Tennessee (IIRC) to Boone for a football game. The railroad was washed out in Boone in the early 1940s and never replaced (except as a theme park, of course). I'll try to get some pictures up (if nobody beats me to the punch) when I have time.

Students inside Kell Hall 1946



Bolling-Jones Building (Ivy Street Garage), 1945 (Now Kell Hall. This is the building that has ramps instead of steps since it was an garage)

Story of the first 3 African-American students to integrate GSU in 1962



Aerial of Georgia State University campus, 1985




223 Walton Street circa 1930

History of some of GSU's early buildings downtown from 1914 - 1931


First Classroom Building on GT campus in 1913. We moved downtown in 1914.

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Sparks Hall 1955


Courtland Building 1966


Business Administration Building 1968


General Classroom (1971)


Library Plaza under construction 1972


Alumni Hall (acquired 1979, occupied 1982), formerly Atlanta Municipal Auditorium


Students celebrate becoming a university by removing “COLLEGE” from the entrance to Sparks Hall, 1969.


Collapsed building at 6 Ivy Street (1949)(Peachtree Center) with the Hurt Building across the street. (LBGPNS6-034a)


Aerial view of the Hurt Park area in 1946 (detail). The warehouse that would collapse is across from the Hurt Building and Kell Hall is at lower left. Atlanta’s major concert and event hall, Municipal Auditorium (now Dahlberg Hall), is just visible on the lower right at the opposite end of the park. (AJCNS1946-00-01c)


School Newspaper Article (April 8, 1949)


Murphy Building, 18 Auburn Ave, 1950s; Same view, 2013

This is a great thread. Would love to see more photos.

Strutters (1960's)


Old Main (about 1903-1905)


Aquarena Springs Drive bridge (late 1800's)


Aquarena Springs Drive bridge (present - bridge in background)


San Marcos City Hall / Fire Dept (early 1900's)


Fire Station Studios (present - location of TXST Sound Recording Technology academic programs)



Spring Lake spillway (1960's)


Spring Lake spillway (present - foggy morning, co-eds are still asleep)


Downtown San Marcos (early 1900's)


Downtown San Marcos (present)