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Jog down memory lane with the latest installment in our series showcasing vintage color photos of bygone days on the Hill<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editor\u2019s note: Do you have additional info on these images? Do you or anyone you know appear in them? Scroll down to leave a comment!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Joe Wilensky<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another grab bag of vintage color photographs from the mid-1900s, we offer familiar signs of spring, a potpourri of places and spaces, and snippets of campus life and traditions from generations ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Did you know\u2014or, perhaps, do you remember\u2014that the site of today\u2019s Tang Welcome Center once housed Noyes Lodge, and boasted not just a pancake house, but a grocery store and ice cream shop? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That Dragon Day<\/a> used to be called Green Dragon Day, and ended in a traditional inferno on the Arts Quad? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or that Oliver\u2019s Deli\u2014one of Collegetown’s many bygone eateries<\/a>\u2014once occupied a prime spot at the corner of College and Oak avenues?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scroll down for our latest look back at the Cornell of yesteryear!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Two views from 1983: New bells are readied for the Chimes, and uniformed Hotelies prepare to welcome guests to the Statler for Hotel Ezra Cornell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Spring Day parade in the early 1950s passes Boardman Hall (where Olin Library stands today).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From 1984: A view from inside Oliver\u2019s Deli in Collegetown, and a collage of posters on a campus bulletin board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Open wide: Architecture students put the finishing touches on the 1984 dragon\u2019s pearly whites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The 1984 Dragon Day beast burns on the Quad, and a sign outside Noyes Lodge in the early \u201980s advertises its eateries, with Balch Hall visible in the background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rocking it, 1977 style: A student relaxes in a dorm room complete with hi-fi, rotary phone, shag rug, and sunset posters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Top: The dragon passes by Sibley Hall on Green Dragon Day, 1970. (All images courtesy of Rare and Manuscript Collections.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published March 25, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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