| A Maxwell Field pilot coming in from the west took dead
aim and dived his plane at Samford Hall moments before this picture was
taken in the 1930s. The water tower at upper left is just behind
Toomer Drugstore. The class numeral "34" appears to be painted on
the tank. To the left of the water at the edge of the picture is
the Post Office opened in 1933 at Gay Street and Tichenor Avenue.
The word "Auburn" is on the roof of the Toomer Building, painted as a guide
to aviators. The building due west of Samford Hall is Alumni Gym,
and that is a tennis court on the Thach Avenue side of the gym. Across
the street is the President's Home, later named the Social Center and finally
Cater Hall. Up the hill on Thach is the library, surrounded on three
sides by homes of faculty members. On the south side of Magnolia
Avenue are the recently completed Textile Engineering Building and Ramsay
and Broun halls. The first house across the street from Ramsay is
the S.L. Toomer home, with a pasture on the downhill side. For several
years, cows in that pasture provided the milk that went into ice cream
sold at Toomer Drugstore. -- Photo: AU Archives |
