MIT March 1979 - Photo Friday

 These faded, old photographs were found in one of those plastic, sticky photo albums at Vincent's parents' house in San Juan, Puerto Rico.  The photos were taken in 1979, and the heat, humidity and acid from the glue in the "magnetic pages" had taken their toll on the images.  We immediately removed them from the sticky plastic, photographed them on the dining room table, and took them home to scan them properly later.  

Well, we haven't gotten around to scanning all the images we found at the house in Puerto Rico. There were over 25 albums, and boxes full of photographs. Most were in very rough shape due to the climate in Puerto Rico. Some have been scanned, and others are still waiting.  I thought it would be fun to share these images now, before they fade away completely!  They are from March 1979, when my mother-in-law and father-in-law visited Vincent on the MIT campus.  I can't imagine how they must have frozen, coming from sunny, warm San Juan to raw, cold Boston and Cambridge in March.  If you have been to Cambridge recently, you'll know that the skyline has changed tremendously in the past thirty five years. 

The Great Dome at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts

The MIT campus seen from the top of the Prudential Tower

The "Infinite Corridor" on the MIT campus

Vincent and his Mom pose in front of

77 Massachusetts Avenue

The MIT playing fields, with the Kresge Center and the 

Great Dome in the background

"The Great Sail" sculpture on the East campus

Vincent and his Dad posing on Mass. Ave.

Vincent's parents in front of the

MIT Green Building

The Cambridge skyline seen from Boston's Back Bay

Vincent's dorm "New House" is near the middle

The snowy courtyard of New House, with

Boston's Back Bay across the Charles River

Vincent's parents posing at Harvard Yard

Vincent with his parents at Boston Harbor's Long Wharf

The visitor gallery at the top of the Prudential Tower

Vincent's parents in front of the Old State House

in downtown Boston

The label from the photo album where these photos were found

Vincent's mother had tucked this 1970s era postcard in with the photographs

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Cite/Link to this post: Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "MIT March 1979 - Photo Friday", Nutfield Genealogy, posted December 11, 2020, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2020/12/mit-march-1979-photo-friday.html: accessed [access date]).