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RPI Hockey 2012-2013 Part II: You Better Starting Posting the Engineer Way

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REDaero91 said:
While we're on a break this week and reminiscing about the RPI tournament, among other things, I thought I'd finally get around to posting this.

RPI has a new archives blog, which shows up in Morning Mail from time to time. A few months ago they had a mystery image of a crowd of people at some sort of sporting event, and were asking for input on when and where it was taken. This post details the answer-one man in the crowd is holding a game program, and from that they were able to pinpoint that the photo was taken during the 1959 NCAA Tournament, which was held at the Field House. In the article you can click on both the mystery photo and cover of the program to see larger images, and there is also a link to an archived version of the program, which is pretty cool.
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25 cents for the program, wasn't that expensive in those days? I remember gas was below a dollar in the late 70's.
 
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REDaero91 said:
While we're on a break this week and reminiscing about the RPI tournament, among other things, I thought I'd finally get around to posting this.

RPI has a new archives blog, which shows up in Morning Mail from time to time. A few months ago they had a mystery image of a crowd of people at some sort of sporting event, and were asking for input on when and where it was taken. This post details the answer-one man in the crowd is holding a game program, and from that they were able to pinpoint that the photo was taken during the 1959 NCAA Tournament, which was held at the Field House. In the article you can click on both the mystery photo and cover of the program to see larger images, and there is also a link to an archived version of the program, which is pretty cool.
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How does one subscribe to that, or is it something that only students get?
 
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Stay@homeDad said:
25 cents for the program, wasn't that expensive in those days? I remember gas was below a dollar in the late 70's.
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It was still 25 cents for a program when I entered RPI in 1964 and gas was about 20 cents per gallon. Hasn't that ratio remained fairly constant? (On the other hand, there is more information in programs now, but IMHO it is difficult to write down goals and penalties on glossy paper.)
 
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Ralph Baer said:
It was still 25 cents for a program when I entered RPI in 1964 and gas was about 20 cents per gallon. Hasn't that ratio remained fairly constant? (On the other hand, there is more information in programs now, but IMHO it is difficult to write down goals and penalties on glossy paper.)
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were they still using papyrus when you were there? :D
 
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turk181 said:
were they still using papyrus when you were there? :D
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I thought the program was carved in stone tablets for us back then.;) And if I remember correctly gas was 24.9¢ per gallon for leaded regular.
 
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Stay@homeDad said:
25 cents for the program, wasn't that expensive in those days? I remember gas was below a dollar in the late 70's.
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I was pumping gas on the Thruway while still in HS back then......Odd & Even days to purchase gas....the manager thought if he put HS kids out there people were less likely to go nuts...man, was he wrong!
 
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turk181 said:
I was pumping gas on the Thruway while still in HS back then......Odd & Even days to purchase gas....the manager thought if he put HS kids out there people were less likely to go nuts...man, was he wrong!
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Wasn't that 1973 when they had the odd and even days for gas (or for DrD since Sandy)?
 
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Ralph Baer said:
Wasn't that 1973 when they had the odd and even days for gas (or for DrD since Sandy)?
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We never went to Odd/Even here after Sandy. That was in effect in only the northern counties. I suppose it would not have mattered since for 8 days no one got gas around here. The stations were all closed with no power to pump anything. Back in the 70's we had odd/even here during the oil crisis. Supposedly I did not have to obey the rule though as I had Physician plates on the car and was considered an emergency vehicle-but I was afraid if I went to the pump on a day that i was not supposed to, I might get shot, so I obeyed the rule.:eek:
 
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Ralph Baer said:
I realize that, but REDaero91 wrote that it shows up in her mail which would remind me to look at it.
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It shows up in Morning Mail, which is a program the school started to keep students informed of the goings on at RPI through an email of headlines every morning.
 
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lugnut92 said:
It shows up in Morning Mail, which is a program the school started to keep students informed of the goings on at RPI through an email of headlines every morning.
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Thanks. I'll just have to look there every once in awhile.
 
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REDaero91 said:
It looks like you can't subscribe to Morning Mail unless you have an RCS user ID and password, but the website is here: http://morningmail.rpi.edu/ and the archives website, as FlagDUDE posted, is http://archives.rpi.edu/blog/
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I suspect that most of the content of Morning Mail wouldn't interest me anyway. I'll just have to check the archives blog every once in a while.
 
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RPI fan 4 life said:
Yep. And gas prices went from 35 cents per gallon to 75 in about two months. If that happened now, we'd be paying 7.50 a gallon!
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Yes, but they returned eventually pretty much to their former level.
 
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REDaero91 said:
While we're on a break this week and reminiscing about the RPI tournament, among other things, I thought I'd finally get around to posting this.

RPI has a new archives blog, which shows up in Morning Mail from time to time. A few months ago they had a mystery image of a crowd of people at some sort of sporting event, and were asking for input on when and where it was taken. This post details the answer-one man in the crowd is holding a game program, and from that they were able to pinpoint that the photo was taken during the 1959 NCAA Tournament, which was held at the Field House. In the article you can click on both the mystery photo and cover of the program to see larger images, and there is also a link to an archived version of the program, which is pretty cool.
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Does anyone know when they replaced the seats in the grandstands? My recollection, which may however be faulty, is that the seats which are there now were already there when I entered in 1964 or they were replaced by very similar seats at some time. They have been repainted -- more than once probably.

Edit: I wonder how many fans of the participating teams were there. The only fan with a logo that I see is the man in the lower left who looks half asleep, and I can't place it. Although that team jerseys were not worn my fans until quite recently, I would expect to see some logos of the participating teams: BC, MSU, NDak, and SLU.

Edit^2: I just noticed that there is a box on the right to subscribe to the blog. :o
 
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