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Re: [OM] IMG: Old Main Dorm, 1952

Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: Old Main Dorm, 1952
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:55:49 -0500
Nice building.  Too bad it's gone.

Chuck Norcutt



On 2/20/2012 3:43 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:
> Old Main Dormitory at Mississippi State University consisted of four
> sides surrounding a quadrangle, and was considered to be the largest
> dorm under one roof in the USA.  It was completely destroyed by fire
> in January 1959.  The stories told by students who lived there will
> be told over and over.  One of my classmates, an accomplished
> photographer for the college newspaper, was forced to move off-campus
> our final year because, after students got into a fire-hose battle on
> an upper floor, he was caught drilling a hole in the wooden floor of
> his room, to let the water out. ;~)
>
> This view shows the original South face of Old Main, in 1952.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Old+Main+Dormitory+MSU+1952+edit.jpg.html
>
>  Leica IIIa with Coated Elmar 50/3.5
>
> Comments and critiques welcomed.
>
> Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA
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