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Post by DFW HOYA on Dec 23, 2011 13:43:41 GMT -5
With a campus as old as Georgetown, there are a lot of what-ifs had certain buildings been built or not built, such as a 25,000 seat Memorial Stadium where the business school now sits, or the planned third building alongide Copley and White-Gravenor. Some were thankfully shelved, such as the idea to convert Healy lawn into an concrete plaza in the early 1970's. Below is a photo of the planned Three Sisters Bridge which would have deposited cars near the bottom of what the Canal Road entrance. (Yes, that is the Georgetown campus, circa 1963.) 3.bp.blogspot.com/_BZaPGsbLyHM/TIR-yy25YVI/AAAAAAAAFlI/SSxAeurs5gI/s1600/Three+Sisters+Bridge+Looking+east+640.jpg |
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Post by wildhoya on Dec 23, 2011 13:58:05 GMT -5
How early in the early 70s? This "idea" was something more than the 2 a.m. musings of a few undergrads in a Burleith living room in a Cheech and Chong haze? please do tell......
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Post by DFW HOYA on Dec 23, 2011 14:17:37 GMT -5
Found this drawing in an Oct. '71 issue of The HOYA archived online. The plans had a plaza for Healy Lawn and to tear down the 37th Street wall to open the plaza to the neighborhood. bit.ly/saJmoY |
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Post by strummer8526 on Dec 23, 2011 23:42:46 GMT -5
For a school that has made some bad decisions, that one would have been a doozy.
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Post by jgalt on Dec 24, 2011 11:28:14 GMT -5
For a school that has made some bad decisions, that one would have been a doozy. But one relatively easy to undue |
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Post by RusskyHoya on Dec 30, 2011 20:22:35 GMT -5
The best account of the battle over the Three Sisters Bridge and other plans to build a series of freeways through the middle of DC that I've come across is in Zachary Schrag's The Great Society Subway, his history of the creation of the Metro. Although this particular episode didn't make it into the exhibit, I would highly recommend Unbuilt Washington at the National Building Museum, which showcases many alternate plans for buildings, monuments, and the city itself. On a more humorous note, the Washington transportation planning community is 'blessed' with the frequent presence of one Douglas Willinger, noted highway planner/crackpot freeway-fetishist. One of his primary conspiracy theories highlights the nefarious role of the Catholics and Jesuits in scuttling the freeway free-for-all: "Jesuit Order run Georgetown University, which gave us the Georgetown Law Center
and its numerous efforts against a continuous inside-the-Beltway highway system
regardless of the environmental issues
asides from keeping the highways far away from Georgetown and Catholic Universities,
for the 'PATRIOT' Act,
against a South Capitol Mall,
for the Nationals Stadium blocking the South Capitol Mall,
against freedom of diet and medicine,
for the general distraction that we simply can't afford that much public infrastructure
minimizing questioning of the bloated prison-military budgets." |
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Post by DFW HOYA on Dec 30, 2011 20:52:58 GMT -5
On a more humorous note, the Washington transportation planning community is 'blessed' with the frequent presence of one Douglas Willinger, noted highway planner/crackpot freeway-fetishist. One of his primary conspiracy theories...highlights the nefarious role of the Catholics and Jesuits in scuttling the freeway free-for-all. He also claims the Masons and the Jesuits have something to do with Nationals Park, but failed to connect the nefarious Montreal Expos or a stadium named after a Catholic attorney general to the whole thing...but give him time. I'm waiting for his next jug-wine theory: " Why is there no J Street? Because the Jesuits said so!" |
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Post by The Stig on Dec 31, 2011 11:32:08 GMT -5
RusskyHoya is now part of the conspiracy, according to one of the comments on the page he links to....
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Post by RusskyHoya on Dec 31, 2011 17:47:11 GMT -5
RusskyHoya is now part of the conspiracy, according to one of the comments on the page he links to....  |
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Post by jgalt on Jan 8, 2012 16:05:00 GMT -5
Weird how a school which struggles to maintain its Jesuit identity in this modern era can pull off such large conspiracies with the greatest of ease. Wish there would be a Jesuit conspiracy to get the MSF finished or a practice facility built...
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Post by CTHoya08 on Jan 8, 2012 16:28:56 GMT -5
Weird how a school which struggles to maintain its Jesuit identity in this modern era can pull off such large conspiracies with the greatest of ease. Wish there would be a Jesuit conspiracy to get the MSF finished or a practice facility built... That is part of the conspiracy. The SJs know that people are onto them, so they're downplaying their own role at Georgetown so they can sneak more of their schemes past people. |
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Post by kchoya on Jan 9, 2012 15:41:24 GMT -5
Weird how a school which struggles to maintain its Jesuit identity in this modern era can pull off such large conspiracies with the greatest of ease. Wish there would be a Jesuit conspiracy to get the MSF finished or a practice facility built... That is part of the conspiracy. The SJs know that people are onto them, so they're downplaying their own role at Georgetown so they can sneak more of their schemes past people. I'm reading for the downplaying phase to end, and the implementation phase to begin. |
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Post by DFW HOYA on Feb 9, 2012 23:04:20 GMT -5
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