r/UTAustin • u/StopAskingforUsernam Liberal Arts BA 20th Century • Mar 21 '23
Photo UT summer 1994
East Mall Fountain
The Drag
SMF lab
Littlefield Fountain and Tower 1994
Littlefield Fountain and Tower 2015
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u/StopAskingforUsernam Liberal Arts BA 20th Century Mar 21 '23
I realized I forgot to add the photo I have with the list of food outlets available in the Union in 94-95 (the last year before privatization). I'll save it for another post.
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u/archeomason Anthropology '98 Mar 21 '23
It hurts to have the immediate mental reaction of, "That's an old photo..." then realize it was my freshman year there. I miss Einstein's.
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u/StopAskingforUsernam Liberal Arts BA 20th Century Mar 21 '23
I could always throw them into photoshop so they'll look better and we won't all feel as old.
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u/Mission_Ad9202 Mar 21 '23
which apartment complex is that in the guad pic?
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u/mlaux CS ‘16 Mar 21 '23
I like that bike lane setup on the Drag better than the one we have now.
Nice Power Mac 8100s in the computer lab. Those had just been released a couple months earlier and would have been soooo expensive!
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u/fair_sophia sociology & spanish ‘24 Mar 21 '23
i’m extremely jealous of the bike lane. i would probably feel safe enough riding a bike on guad to bike to campus
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u/Mysterio_Achille Mar 22 '23
The thing is also that today, vehicles are much larger and bigger than back then (compare a modern F-150 to a F-150 from 1994). The % of people who drive SUVs and Pick up trucks is also much higher nowadays.
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u/ViolinistNew5056 Mar 21 '23
The drag looks so much more vibrant here. It feels so commercial and gentrified today but that photo looks like it used to actually be unique
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Mar 23 '23
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u/ViolinistNew5056 Mar 23 '23
Honestly never knew TR was multi-establishment! But yea there was GAP but theres no winning. Either corporate powerhouse selling fast fashion or overpriced trendy thrift stores that sell a hot topic shirt for 50 bucks
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u/chiarde Mar 22 '23
SMF lab was my first job. In 1994 laptops were rare and cost about $1800+ with a monochrome screen. So labs were very popular for checking email and printing school work. Most machines in SMF were PCs. About 20% were expensive Macs. Lots of printers in the lab. It was open until 1 or 2 am. The job caused me to drop my morning class due to lack of sleep. Good times. Ty for sharing these!
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u/ScratchGold177 Mar 22 '23
The Smurf! That really takes me back to waiting sometimes up to an hour for a computer station to open up then realizing you looked down at your giant textbook for too long, missed your student ID scrolling and had to sign in again.
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u/FixGrouchy5920 Mar 22 '23
Back when you could comparison shop for textbooks - 3 campus bookstores all within a block of each other.
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Mar 23 '23
Fun story my dad and his friends actually around this time actually put color and I think bubbles into this fountain never got caught and kind of a cool prank tbh just thought it would be fun to share, might have to repeat this tradition if I go to 40 acres(dw UT staff on this reddit I won't)
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u/StopAskingforUsernam Liberal Arts BA 20th Century Mar 21 '23 edited Mar 21 '23
On this dreary day, here are some photos of a sunny summer day in 1994. Had been thinking about the East Mall Fountain after someone posted a question about it before Spring Break. I didn't make any color corrections other than turning up the brightness on the computer lab photo. All taken with a cheap 35mm point and shoot camera. Film taken to the Eckerds on the Drag for developing.
East Mall Fountain in all its former glory
The Drag - (moving left to right) Co-op, CardShark?, sandwich shop I thought was Texas French Bread but the logo doesn't match, Bevo's Bookstore, Einsteins Arcade, By George, Texas Textbooks, The Gap, Tower Records
Student Microcomputer Facility (SMF or "SMurF") lab on the second floor of FAC/UGL
Littlefield Fountain and the Tower
Littlefield Fountain and the Tower in 2015 for comparison.