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I once had a tourist brochure about Lawrence, KS when I visited KCMO and always wondering how Lawrence skyline looks like....now I realize that Lawrence doesn't have a skyline, so ... myth cleared.
Lawrence is one of the major cities in KS right? |
Looks like a nice place!
Did you see any basketball places, like Allen Field House, or the DeBruce Center? Did Lawrence seem like it was only a college town, or dd it seem like other things balanced it out? For instance, State College is only a college town, since there's no county government there, and it's not as big as Lawrence. It seems to me like you could have a life in Lawrence outside of the college's sphere of influence. |
Very nice! Great shots some great classical architecture.
Football stadium need an upgrade! |
Looks like a beautiful campus, and a charming town! Thanks for sharing your photos.
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Good looking place!
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Lawrence looks a lot like a smaller Ann Arbor. Same gently rolling hills, proximity to major metro (but still separate) and similar architecture and feel. Same craftsman-style houses. And I bet you hard-right KS considers Lawrence to be a crazy place (and vice-versa).
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Looks very charming!:cheers:
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Thanks for the tour! I love a college town and have heard Lawrence is nice, but don't recall ever seeing a thread of it before. Looks not too bad at all.
I love this building especially. It would look so good fronting on a much bigger/more urban piazza. |
Charming!
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beautiful
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Cool!
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no idea about this place, but it looks very pleasant. even the oread bldg (?) — its good to have at least one funky looking structure.
its quite a contrast looking at this bucolic thread with a crackhead screeching outside our building here in staten usa land. ha. |
Thanks everyone! Back when I was about to finish my undergrad degree, I actually applied for a position in Lawrence, but didn't get the job. It was nice to finally visit. Seems like it would have been a pleasant place to start out post-college.
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Very nice photos! It totally has the quintessential small college town look to me.
I'm sure I'm dating myself, but in the early 1980s, when I was in junior high, there was a TV movie that came out (total Cold War thing) called "The Day After," about a nuclear holocaust and its aftermath, and it was filmed and set in Lawrence, Kansas, so when I saw this thread, I was reminded of that film. And then in the mid-1990s, after college, I worked with a guy who was about 5 or 6 years older than me, and he actually went to the University of Kansas in Lawrence, and he told me that they filmed "The Day After" there, and it was a really big deal. I think he said they used actual residents for extras, and everyone was all excited because a film crew was there---which is funny because film crews can actually be very annoying, especially when they block off streets and yell at people to get off the sidewalk even though it's a public sidewalk... hehe they can act very self-important. But again, great photos! |
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ahh why did i feel like i knew the place outside of sports! that is why, the day after movie. that movie was quite an event on tv back then. very scary too. so there must be a military base and icbm silos somewhere nearby? |
Well, to date myself even more, I was a Freshman at KU when "The Day After" aired on ABC. It was a BIG EVENT. University sponsored watching parties, etc., with disucssion groups after, there was a special Nightline after the movie. It was a big event in the US and doubly so in KC and Lawrence. It was weird to watch a movie on campus and see a movie with missiles taking off from a landscape I knew. Used to be a tons of missile sites in the Midwest. You grew up knowing that all around you were ICBM missile sites. You could see the gates to them on rural roads. https://coldwarheartland.ku.edu/land...-missile-sites
The pictures are great and call up wonderful memories. I haven't been back for some time but I keep up on what is happening (my fraternity constantly dinging for money for the latest million $ rehab). Allen Fieldhouse (not shown) is truly one of the greatest places to watch basketball. Packed in tight, right on top of the court, loud. Just fantastic. The football stadium does need updating I suppose, but that sport has generally taken a back seat to bastketball in Lawrence. They have added buildings that have cut into the parkland under the Campanile and that irritates me. The "funky" building that has caught everyone's attention is called Dyche Hall, which of course everyone thought was hysterical. Has (had?) a decent natural history museum. Something not apparent in the pictures is that most of the buildings appear 1-3 stories taller on the back side. The oldest part of the campus is on Mt. Oread and the older buildings front Jayhawk Bouldevard. The hill falls away and the thus the buildings seem taller from the back. Lawrence is a great town. Thanks for the pics! |
^ i was hoping for this — thanks for your insightful alumni reply.
and that cold war missle sites link — yikes. ps — if you want to know what the aftermath of a nuke exchange would be like read a contemporary 1980s book called ‘warday.’ totally frightening and haunting. |
i don't like sports, but i like these photos.
loved the happy lil' bungalows didn't care for that...thing of a hotel. |
Thanks for the pics! I've heard good things about Lawrence, and the architecture does not disappoint. Solid.
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