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The topo map shows the blue-ish lowlands of Georgia Tech that had to be considered as Tech grew. The Atlanta news article below says that Peters Park was favored below Grant Park in southeast Atlanta for the site of the new technological school in 1887 because of the low land location in Peters...

I remember a tunnel under the interstate when I was a freshman in Towers dorm in 1968. Extension of third st (Bobby Dodd Ave) to the east.

To me it looks like the new Peters Park connects directly to the north end of Bobby Dodd Stadium. I assume the red bridk building on the far left is the Fanning building. I guess there are no more streets for cars like Bobby Dodd Way. Makes you wonder about the parking situation on campus for...

Atlanta was in the country back then, and became the state capitol in 1881. There were many cities competing for teh Tech site, and even after it was selected as Atlanta, there were two other locations considered higher than Peters Park. The deal was sealed after the appropriations were...

The Peters Park Development Company continued to sell lots north through the early 1900's in the attempt to populate the area with houses. The state of Georgia continued to buy land from the Peters company to expand the school as it grew, stopping at 10th street. In 1929, Coach Alexander...

I see the plan is to make it like it was in 1884 when the Peters Land Development company was trying to develop Peters Park as an Atlanta suburb. Peters actually built a baseball park there which was home of the first Atlanta baseball team and where the Tech baseball team practiced and played in...

Bobby is quoted in the AJC when h e was hired that he was most impressed with having a shower in his office in the Edge. That and a $50,000 coaching salary did the trick. As a side note, I read in the GT development plan that Peters Park will be turned into a green space for students to relax...

42 years ago...the opening of the Edge building. Replaced the GTAA building built in 1942 that was built for an athletic department staff of 12 people and had 42 in in in 1982.

I doubt calculus will go away as a core requirement at Georgia Tech. The UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF GEORGIA, Academic & Student Affairs Handbook, Academics Affairs Division, 2.4 Core Curriculum states, "A calculus course is required in Area A2 for all engineering majors and for all programs at...

I suspect today's college athletes cannot imagine being in a fraternity. Basketball All American Rich Yunkus did in 196, an Academic All-American, and was drafted into pro basketball. Imagine a two sport athlete participating in ROTC. Basketball All American and baseball player Roger Kaiser...

Hopefully the athletes get some of the gold for their name use. And the GTAA gets some for the rights to use the copyrighted logos, etc. And some to the Athletes Thread sales and marketing staff. And a good share of the gold will go to Shiyam George, entrepreneur and founder of An...

Quite a step up from the Burroughs super computer we had in the late 1960's with Fortran language and card decks that could print out Abe Lincoln's picture. I could have used some of that artificial intelligence back then. Wonder what the cost of one of these new super computer servers with...

Thanks Charlie. You would have mad a great Army officer. We had good memories of Brent. I hope he is doing well over the years. We played his Putnam County team in the state class C basketball tournament. A good ball player.

Intentional or not, the 44 SS number likeness is not that surprising to me, considering the history of the Dassler family. Adidas was named after Adolph "Adi" Dassler. Adi and his brother Rudolph joined the Nazi party and Hitler Youth and served in the German Army in WW II. Before the war, Adi...

I agree that multi-sport athletes, especially football and basketball, use the body mechanics from one sport for the other. I recall in the early 1970's my friend and classmate Meade Sutterfield told me he used his hip movements learned from being a football guard as center on his Sandy Springs...

When I was a Tech 1968-72, it was IPTAY "I pay ten a year" for Clemson. I agree with you about GT not putting students last. Making them stand outside in the freezing cold until on hour before basketball game time, along with all the handicapped and elderly alumni and visitors. Of course the...

Actually, according to their mission statement in their 2019 budget, GTAA is a separate corporation from Georgia Tech, https://finance.gatech.edu/sites/default/files/2022-06/georgia_tech_athletic_association_fs_6_30_19-final.pdf (an interesting read if you are an accountant or shareholder). I...

That could be as well, but what I mentioned is what the was said by the captain said to Cool Hand Luke in 1967 - The Captain's speech " What we've got here is failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach." It appears that person to person communications are a thing of the past and that...