Thanks.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
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From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2012 6:55 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: Old Main Dorm, 1952
> Nice building. Too bad it's gone.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
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> 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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