Darn! That would be a long walk on a cold night. The privy would across that lane from where the Pavilion would eventually be located.

Bingo, from 1894, labeled Natatorium:



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I wish I could find a way to make a living doing stuff like this.

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Class of '99 - Shameless Self-Promotion Wanderlust

And the Natatorium sits right beside Bagley per the photo in your 1235am/2/22 post! Two solutions in quick order. Good work.

Well if Bagley was built in '04 then the Privy was not raised in 1900.

Well, that was fun.

But hold on a minute, Houston ... we have a problem. The following is from a February 1894 edition of the Battalion (which was describing recent improvements on campus such as an electric-light plant with a capacity of 750 lights; an ice factory with a capacity of two tons every 24 hours; a steam laundry; a standpipe that hold 59,165 gallons of water from a nearby artesian well close by .... and a NATATORIUM. (A Natatorium WAS built in 1894 and razed in 1908.)

Now I quote from the Batt story Feb/1894:
"This Natatorium is the pride of the College. The College has needed this for many years and now it has one, and one of such rare beauty. Just to think of a fine Natatorium consisting of a handsome frame structure about 80 feet in length and 40 feet in width in which is a large pool 51X26 feet and tapering from five to seven feet in depth. On both sides of the pool are rooms. On one side dressing rooms and on the other are nine small bathing rooms in which beautiful marble slab bathing tubs are placed. There is a large sitting room in the building. This Natatorium is the most beautiful one, considering its size, in the State."

The questions are: 1. Was the Batt reporter prone to exaggeration, or 2. Is this the 1894 Natatorium?

p_bubel and denied .... More than one Privy. I can understand why photographers of stately buildings in the past would try to avoid having a privy in a shot.

The second Natatorium was built in 1908 and demolished in 1934. The pic below is captioned 1911 so without doubt this is the second ... and the one pictured above must be the 1894 model. (The Batt reporter must have benn exaggerating a bit.)

fossil, this is a little off topic, but if you have access to old Batt's do you think you can find the one with the picture of Jackie's Ol' Sarge Mascot that was killed before it ever hit Kyle Field. I seem to recall it being about 1985 or 1986.

Burd ... I do not have access to old Batts. The quote above about the Natatorium was lifted from the book "The Story of Texas A&M" by George Sessions Perry printed in 1951.

What a Privy, a ****ter? I'm about as curious about this Privy as I am about all the natatoriums that A&M has apparently had.

Regarding Jackie's Old Sarge Mascot, didn't I see something that looked like this?



If you look at that little crappy Dallas Cowboy mascot, you will realize it's this guy in a Cowboy uni. So it probably made its way to Dallas with Bum Bright.

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With all the various activity taking place at the field now, I would hope someone has painted great big Xs at the end of anything that looks like a runway. (That big tower you mentioned is one of the activities that concerns me.)

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Here's the Google Earth shot of the Riverside site/Bryan Air Base. The only X's I see are on the taxiways, which is surprising because the runway layout is not all that different from Easterwood, and it's possible to be off course and go to this instead.
http://www.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&q=&z=15&ll=30.636657,-96.478372&spn=0.019016,0.053988&t=k&om=1

A good pilot would notice that this is not servicable, but still, that doesn't make me feel comfy.

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I did find out that the second hospital that was evntually replaced by Beutel was turned into the Northside Laundry.

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Yeah, that’s where I did my laundry in the early 90s. Although that was just in the basement. I think they had offices in the rest. I heard it was torn down, but haven’t been over to that area of campus in a while to verify.

God, the stuff AMC had! It is hard to get over how many incredible buildings, incredible working labs, etc we had. The advanced archetecture, incredible looking buildings and the sheer size is hard to imagine they were built when they were. It is a shame for the fate of some of them.

The runways at Riverside still get used for airplanes from time to time. I've seen crop dusters and other small planes take off and land there while doing firearms qualifications.

Regarding indoor plumbing and sanitary facilities. Without water under pressure you have neither. Perhaps this is the reason the Batt reporter in the Feb 1894 article was so excited about the construction of a 100 foot tall standpipe that would hold 59,165 gallons of water.

The standpipe is pictured on the previous page located at the northwest corner of Bagley Hall. (Bagley was built in 1904.) I was unsure about the function of the tall object beside Bagley until I found early photos of the tall metal Water Tower that showed it located in almost the same spot near Bagley as the old standpipe (you know the watertower that said Welcome to Aggieland.) I do not know when the watertower went up but the ME Building is visible (1919.)

By 1894 a dozen prominent buildings were in place and a dozen more at least would be built before water mains and sewer mains could be laid. Thus the outdoor privys would have been a way of life about the first 34 years of A&MC life.

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Great stuff folks. This thread just keeps getting better.

btw Handyburger sponsored my first CS Little League team.

What happened to the old Bryan Courthouse? Did it burn or did they just decide to replace it with the beautiful structure that is there now?

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What happened to the old Bryan Courthouse? Did it burn or did they just decide to replace it with the beautiful structure that is there now?

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How to Demolish a Texas Courthouse in 14 Days:

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Way back in 1954, before "urban renewal" entered the American vocabulary, county commissioners of Brazos County decided that they needed a new courthouse. The one they were using was sixty-two years old and was looking every month of it. Besides, it had always been considered a little "fussy" to some Brazos Countians.

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More at the below link:
http://www.texasescapes.com/CentralTexasTownsSouth/BryanTexas/Brazos-County-Razed-1892-Courthouse.htm

Brazos County has had 6, count 'em 6, courthouses.

The Courthouse Cedar:

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The Bryan Courthouse Cedar is a fine example of arboreal tenacity. Its longevity however is directly tied to its location. If it didn't grow directly in front of the courthouse it would've been a fence post long ago. It has outlived four courthouses so far and we hope it will outlive the one it currently shares space with.

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More at the link:
http://www.texasescapes.com/TexasHistory/TexasHistoricTrees/Bryan/BrazosCoCourthouseCedar.htm

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Ok, let's see if I can post this picture. This is a photo of my great-grandfather, Tom Heath, standing on top of the Academic Building at A&M, c. 1915(?) We don't know why he was up there. He was not an Aggie. We think maybe he visited A&m to talk to someone in the Botany Department. He was a seed salesman.

http://www.myfamily.com/isapi.dll?c=Content&htx=View&siteid=WvqTAE&contentid=ZZZZZZ5H&contentclass=PICT&categoryid=20

LWInk2

Rats.....didn't work.

Let's try this:

[Ed. - OK, didn't work.]

LWInk2, if you'd like, I could possibly put the image on my flickr account, or my server if I have room. email me if you like: p(dot)bubel@gmail(dot)com

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http://www.myfamily.com/isapi.dll?c=Content&htx=View&siteid=WvqTAE&contentid=ZZZZZZ5H&contentclass=PICT&categoryid=20.html

p_bubel ... I just got a red X. Clicking on the X and Properties it indicates the pic is only 28X30 pixels ... tiny.

Double rats......help me somebody!;-)

Well, I thought it was too big to post. But I wanted the pic to show up in the post. I used the & tags.

I emailed it to p_bubel. We'll see if he has any luck. ;-)

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YIPPEEEEE!!!!!! Ok, now how did you do that???


LWInk2

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/154/399446349_fda258a999_m.jpg

Hmmmm.....now I'm really stumped.

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I used the bracket and img tags.


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rookies can't post pics

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D'oh! I forgot about that.

Since I'm already here, Northgate:

ok, so where exactly was the gate in relation to what is there now? was it in the vacinity of the post office on that street?

i still cant get over the stuff AMC had. the construction and archetecture that had risen out of the prarie is amazing. just to think when those structures were built, the size, and the incredible aspects of all of them.

We need to restore some of the campus to its original layout and grandeur.

Bryan / College Station
Source: TxDOT archive library
December 12, 1966 Overpass Construction at FM60 (University Drive) and FM2164 (Welborn Rd) (202 kB)



fixed it. Thanks denied, I had just copied it from the sources website.

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