These two photos are of the SUNY Oswego Campus taken in 1964.
A student named Jim Nichols took flying lessons out of Fulton (Fulton has an airport?), when he was a freshman. He posted these photos and I was amazed to see how the campus looked in those days. This was before they built "New Campus", also known as "West Campus" today.
In this first photo, you see Sheldon Hall, just as it has always been on the far bottom right. At the far left (connected) are the two buildings that are now part of Campus Center, Poucher and Swetman. You may remember I went looking in Poucher Hall, for the brick background that I needed for a photo recently. Also, the Lakeside Dorms are there at the top, of the picture, sitting on the Lake and the President's Home, Shady Shore is there at the top right, with no Niagara Mohawk smoke stacks.
This second photo shows the two tall dorms in Center Campus, Hart and Funnell. They had been just built and there is absolutely nothing after them.
Note that the road that now days makes a sharp left turn into the residential area adjacent to the campus, used to go directly through the campus and connect to the road that runs out to the stands.
This road no longer exists and as a matter of fact, the elevation change is mighty in that area of campus.
If you would like to compare these photos to the current map of campus, you can check out the interactive one, HERE.
I think it is a very cool time capsule of my school, before I knew it.
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