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Originally Posted by AusTex
When was the glass exterior added? I remember the concrete was the original exterior cladding. Am I remembering correctly?
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Yep, 1989 as others have said. My freshman year, and I lived there. They actually didn’t finish in time for the Fall ‘89 semester, and many residents had to temporarily live in the Radisson downtown. There were lawsuits, and I recently found in my old documents where my parents took a settlement Dobie offered to all residents that year. You had a choice of a free meal plan or discount for the following year.
I lived on the 20th floor, facing the UT tower. It was cool because the clock was right at about our level so it was always prominently in our view. After learning how long it would take to catch the elevator down and walk to class, I could time it by the minute hand. The elevators could get quite crowded about 15 mins til each hour.
And the Dobie theatre was nice.. tiny, but cool. It almost wouldn’t seem like a real movie theatre to someone coming for a large city, the screens were so small. But each room had a theme, I recall. One was Egyptian. I remember seeing “Ilsa, She-wolf of the SS” there, as well as one of the first short films by Mike Judge (Frog Baseball I think was the title.)
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