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THE BA I I ALIGN
THURSDAY, MAR. 11, 1976
Come To Diamond Country
Sankey Park Diamond Salon
Tent City
21 3 S MAIN
‘Only institution where students
forced to live in tents’
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Mathis Owns Varsity Shop
The Varsity Shop, located at
301 Patricia St., in College Sta
tion has recently come under
the new ownership of Susan
Mathis.
VARSITY SHOP OFFERS
COMPLETE HAIR
SERVICE
Under the new ownership
of Susan Mathis
Susan assumed ownership of
the shop and moved it from its
previous location at 323 Uni
versity Dr. in College Station,
Feb. 2.
“We offer professional per
sonalized hair service for men
and women, ’’ Susan said adding
that the service is “geared to
ward contemporary hairstyling
for business people and for the
family. ”
Susan said the salon offers
the full range of hair services
including hair cutting, curling,
coloring and waving, condition
ing and corrective treatments.
She said both female operators
in the salon were trained at the
local Charles & Sue’s School of
Hair Design in the Pivot Point
International method of hair
styling.
The Varsity Shop is open be
tween 9 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.
Monday through Saturday and
offers ample parking for its cus
tomers.
By JIM PETERS
Battalion City Editor
Those residents of Hotard Hilton
and Milner Manor who complain of
the foot-long roaches and peeling
paint should have seen Tent City.
The canvas town was located on
the site now occupied by Law and
Puiyear Halls. Covering ten acres,
the 243 tents provided rooms for
many of the students who attended
A&M at the turn of the century.
A&M Board President K. K.
Legett once said: “This is the only
institution in the civilized world
where a number of its students are
forced to live in tents during the en
tire school year.”
Besides, Legett said, the cost of
repairing the $60 tents was becom
ing too prohibitive and new facilities
were needed.
“Our educational institutions shall
not encourage such primitive
methods of living, ” Legett said when
Photo courtesy University Archives
‘Hollywood” looked much like a POW camp.
asking the the governor for $80,000
for new dorms.
Thus, in the early 1920s the tents
were replaced by 20-foot square
wooden shacks soon dubbed “Hol
lywood.”
Other students lived in the “firep
roof’ Legett and Milner Halls which
were built in 1911 or other buildings
around campus. “Hollywood” was
demolished in 1928 to make way for
Law and Puryear Halls which intro
duced the ramp style of living to Ag
gies.
Rather than private bathrooms,
the residents of each floor shared
common showers and commodes.
Langford, who was a professor in
the architecture department at the
time, said his classes were asked to
draw up proposed plans for the room
design. Final selections were made
but never considered by the ar
chitects, Langford said.
“Every effort was made to obtain
the greatest number of rooms at the
least possible cost,” Langford wrote.
“They are devoid of all the amenities
of comfortable living. ”
Hotard Hall was also erected dur
ing this period for the workers in
Sbisa Dining Hall. It was named
after J. C. Hotard, supervisor of the
workers.
No new dorms were built on cam
pus again until 1965 when five
balcony-style buildings were
erected. In the 1970s the country-
club style units of Krueger, Dunn,
Aston and Mosher were added.
Ramp-style dorms werenewin! geniies
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Four rooms were located on each
floor of the individual ramps. A pair
of rooms shared a bathroom suite as
in the modern dorms today.
The ramp set-up at A&M was
hailed as the latest trend in campus
dorm design and two others, Walton
and Hart, were soon constructed in
the same style.
. .
Staff photo by Douglas Winship
Hotard Hall was built to house Sbisa workers.
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The practice was abandoned in
1939, however, when $2.5 million
was appropriated for construction of
16 low-cost dormitories. These
dorms. The Corps of Cadets living
area and the North Dorm area, are
dull, box-like structures “which dis
regard all the amenities found in stu
dent housing,” said Ernest Langford
in his book on A&M Archtiecture,
“Here We ll Build The College.”
Photo courtesy University Into
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