Comments on: Ads You’re Not Going to See Again Anytime Soon – Chapter 16

By: manaen

manaen — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:35:19 +0000

S Hall for a week-long Explorer’s conference – ’67
T Hall, 7th floor as Freshman 1969-70.
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Loved the Towers and the friendships there! Had Bellamy Brown as floor’s Sr. Resident, where I met Jim F. during his frequent visits to Bellamy.
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You get a good tour of Deseret Towers in the “Sisterz In Zion” video because the Manhattan-ites stayed there for EFY in 2003.

By: queuno

queuno — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 06:03:57 +0000

Hah. Hardly.

By: Ray

Ray — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 05:13:40 +0000

queuno, you met your wife through visiting teaching? That’s a story I’d like to hear.

By: queuno

queuno — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:23:00 +0000

(My wife lived in T-Hall, albeit in a different ward, but the V-T combo was indirectly related to our meeting and marrying.)

By: queuno

queuno — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:22:24 +0000

Huh. I lived in V-Hall in 1988 as well.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:18:27 +0000

It is very strange to see an advertisement with LDS buildings on it. Not so strange in the state of Utah, but very strange anywhere else in the world.

By: Rick Grunder

Rick Grunder — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 04:50:43 +0000

Ardis writes (#5): “. . . the thrills I can find in a file of dusty old magazines.”

Yeah! You go, girl – your values are in the right place, firmly grounded in what truly inspires.

Rick Grunder-BOOKS (heh, heh!)

By: Maurine

Maurine — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 03:21:57 +0000

It is fun to see all of the old ads you come up with. Keep them coming.

By: Mark B.

Mark B. — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:29:17 +0000

I remember when DT was built. They used the “lift-slab” method of construction–all six or seven of the concrete floors were poured “on the ground, with heavy sheets of polyethelene between each slab. Then the slabs were jacked up and bracing and interior and exterior walls were built in between. This method of construction fell out of favor (“fall” is probably the wrong verb to use there) when a building under construction (the L’Ambiance Place in Bridgeport, CT) using this method collapsed due to inadequate bracing.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:49:08 +0000

I’m almost certain they did get to choose their suppliers, kevinf — there are so many ads not only for building materials, but for benches, organs, chairs, carpets, sacrament sets, and other furnishings, and the Improvement Era (where most of my ads come from) would have been an unprofitable audience unless the Wherever 3rd Ward building committee was seeing those ads.

I saw one picture — I wish I had copied it, but I didn’t — of a chapel under construction or newly completed, with the notation that the stake president had been the architect. I do hope there was some sort of approval process that local building committees needed to submit to …