I took a short ride today before it was suppossed to storm. I decided to go back to my old stomping grounds. Here's what I got.......
Sign at the main entry
(http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f14/catchaj19/Marian/PHOT0037.jpg)
Another historical sign at the main entry
(http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f14/catchaj19/Marian/PHOT0036.jpg)
The ghey fountain they spent like 250K on....
(http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f14/catchaj19/Marian/PHOT0034.jpg)
The seal.....
(http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f14/catchaj19/Marian/PHOT0033.jpg)
My old dorm
(http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f14/catchaj19/Marian/PHOT0032.jpg)
Statue of St. Francis (notice the yellow caution tape?)
(http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f14/catchaj19/Marian/PHOT0031.jpg)
Allison Mansion. The Allison transmissions dudes old mansion. The nuns bought it when they moved the college to Indianapolis.
(http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f14/catchaj19/Marian/PHOT0030.jpg)
Wheeler-Van Camp-Stokely Mansion. Wheeler was a track guy. Van Camp-Stokley was the pork and beans/veggie dude. This mansion is haunted. Wheeler offed himself in the room on the top left.
(http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f14/catchaj19/Marian/PHOT0029.jpg)
More Stokley Mansion... the long thing on the left is a covered dog walk. You can still hear the dogs chains at midnight.
(http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f14/catchaj19/Marian/PHOT0028.jpg)
More Stokley
(http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f14/catchaj19/Marian/PHOT0027.jpg)
Japanese tea house on campus
(http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f14/catchaj19/Marian/PHOT0026.jpg)
Gratuitious bike pic
(http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f14/catchaj19/Marian/PHOT0039.jpg)
My sister went to school there in the late '50s. I'd never gone back since(no real reason too). Some of those pics look vaguely familier. Thanx for the memory jog. I'd forogotten all about the trips up there (pre-Interstate system) when I was a pup. Thanx for the post :thumb:
Please share these with your sis if you are able. :thumb:
SWEEEET! I want to install a japanese tea house on my property.
Good school :thumb: Nuns are terriffic teachers and people.
Well I actually never had a nun as a proffessor. I did have Fr. Leo for Natural Science.
Quote from: billlang675 on June 28, 2006, 11:43:55 AM
Good school :thumb: Nuns are terriffic teachers and people.
WHAT!!!!????
shaZam!, I used to get the F*ck beat out of me with text books, new paper, and their hands, Italian Nuns are horrificaly mean
Quote from: groff22 on June 27, 2006, 06:16:29 AM
SWEEEET! I want to install a japanese tea house on my property.
:laugh: Me too! Me too!! I was thinking the same thing.
Cool pics AJ. But I thought you were going to put fur on your bike? :dunno_white: :icon_razz:
No freaking fur!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and what if it's out of beaver?"
mmmm natural fur.....
(http://www.alaskrafts.com/images/hat-af-beaver.jpg)