Second off, it’ s reader submission time! Bruce Jones kindly wrote in with this Denny Hall postcard from 1907. Take it away, Bruce:
I noticed you said submissions welcome… I bought this on ebay some time back. It was interesting to me because: 1. It stated “Washington State University” — betting most Cougars didn’t remember this on campus; 2. UW Digital Collections has a photo looking from the rooftop to Queen Anne
By coincidence, the back of the postcard states “This space may be used for Correspondence after March 1st, 1907″, which it was–in July, 1907. This was the first postcard I’d come across that mentioned the date when divided postcards were legal.
Bruce Jones
Via E-Mail
8/5/2009
By coincidence, the back of the postcard states “This space may be used for Correspondence after March 1st, 1907″, which it was–in July, 1907. This was the first postcard I’d come across that mentioned the date when divided postcards were legal.
Bruce Jones
Via E-Mail
8/5/2009
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| Rhodes Bros. Co. 10c Store, Seattle, Wash. 15803–Washington State University, Seattle, Wash. |
Sounds like a typesetter back east figured so small a state, there can be but one university… Traveling overseeas years ago I spotted a young kid proudly wearing a tee shirt that said, “University of Seattle”. I did not have the heart to correct him. Fun to go back and see how some of our state institutions have changed names.
In a different mode, this shot is before the Olmsteads had changed the campus, and therefore is showing the old, huge long forgotten Oval that Denny and Parrington, and Lewis and Clark halls all sat on…
Central used to be called the “State Normal School”. Guess it’s where all the normal people went!
One other thought… UW (or WSU as the card states) were not represented as Huskies… we were the aptly named, “Sun Dodgers”
The husky was selected as the school mascot by student committee in 1922.
“Everything smells fishy from the salt water”.
Love it.
If I recall correctly, “normal” schools were where people went to be educated to become teachers.
The Sundodgers are now the UW’s Ultimate Frisbee team name!
did the frisbee team use the old logo? that would be a hoot…
http://www.washington.edu/alumni/columns/sept05/briefings_mascots.html
also… Rhodes grew from a dime store to a large department store, was bought by Lamonts in the late 60′s and was shut down. The lamont’s in Crossroads, U village & Lake Forest park were Rhodes stores briefly. The beautiful store downtown was demolished for the new WaMu tower.
UW was the Territorial University of Washington from 1861 until statehood in 1889, when the “Territorial” was dropped.
And from the Wikipedia article on WSU: “The school changed names from Washington Agricultural College and School of Science to State College of Washington in 1905, and then to Washington State University in 1959″.
I love Denny Hall with a musty old love. Learned German on the third floor for three years, played hackey-sack out front. The front steps were always littered with windblown copies of the Daily. The building’s design was a smaller version of the Chambord in France, here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau_de_Chambord