• Sunday-What'sUP November 5 - 11:00 am

Yesterday the Huskies defeated Hillsdale 42-14, in a game heard streaming over at Pasty.NET, and it inspired me to look for an old football scene among the numerous photos we have accumulated from the J.T. Reeder collection from Michigan Tech Archives. The top scene is simply labeled "Football" with no date or mention of the visiting team, but it appears among a group of shots on-campus. By the look of the cars, it had to be early 1920's, or even late teens.

Edie and I are spending the weekend in Negaunee, where the Calumet Copper Kings fell to Negaunee in High School Football playoffs Friday night. (That was also a game streamed on Pasty.NET.) We woke up this morning to earlier daylight, as the clocks "fell back" an hour overnight. There's actually a couple of inches of snow on the ground in Negaunee, looking out our window here at Quartz Mountain, a place we have enjoyed staying for several years. This are the last days for Quartz to provide a soft bed for travelers, before they close later this month. Our thanks to Jack and Nola for their hospitality, and best wishes for their retirement.

Remember to vote Tuesday! Have a good week :o)

Pretty building in that second photo.
Charlie and Edie, safe trip home.

Good morning Charlie:

Isn't the second photo of the old MTU campus reversed R-L? I don't recall Hubble Hall being in that position when I was there.

JT

J T (Jtinchicago):
"Isn't the second photo of the old MTU campus reversed R-L? I don't recall Hubble Hall being in that position when I was there."

Nope, that's right where it was, on the north side, with ol' McNair Hall to the east (right).

I virtually lived in Hubble Hall (Math Department) for several years (≈1960-1964) — when I wasn't in the Digital Computer Lab in the Ores Research Building!

I sure was unhappy that they couldn't find a way to preserve that building, too!

J T (Jtinchicago):
"Isn't the second photo of the old MTU campus reversed R-L? I don't recall Hubble Hall being in that position when I was there."

Whoa, I spoke (writ) too soon! (Am I having an Alzheimer's moment today?) I think you're right!

The building with the hexagonal element atop the tower was McNair Sperr Hall (Mining Engineering), while Hubble Hall tower had the white peaked roof, with the lower Koenig Hall between them, and Hubble Hall was certainly to the east of the other two.

Let's look at the flipped image:



Is that more like it?

Greetings FRNash:

A bit tough to tell until the photo is flipped, but going East to West the EE building forefront was on the right followed by Spear, McNair (shops) and Hubble. The towers are noticeably out of position.

I, too, agree that the destruction of Hubble was a grave mistake by the board. I figure that MTU has lost $1BB in alumni gifts over past 44 years and probably could have maintained Hubble Hall for many years just through separate donations.

So many universities keep a part of their past just for alumni donations that it was a complete shame that MTU saw fit to quickly destroy their heritage.

JT

Greetings again FRNash:

YES.

That is the campus that I recall from the mid 1960s, less snow.

JT

Having been born and raised in a house on the corner of Houghton Ave and Blanche St, the Tech campus was our playground. You folks are correct, the first photo was reversed. The building on the front right (which I can't remember the name) housed the mineral museum that is known all over the world. Hubble Hall was the figurehead building in all Tech printings. This side of it was the Chem building but it was set back so it isn't visible. The next bulding was the Mech. Eng. building. Most people don't know it housed the steamheating equipment heating the whole campus, but I don't remember the year they built the heating plant down on the water's edge.

Just before it was torn down in 1976, Hotchkiss Hall
housed the Seaman Mineral Museum (and the Electrical
Engineering Department). The museum had been in
Hotchkiss Hall since 1931. Before that is was in the
Administration Building and before that Hubble Hall.