Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Poster I saved from trash now historic memory for WWU.

A replica of a poster I saved from my college days is now framed on the wall of a student lounge at WWU. Its in the corner of a small lounge in the LGBTQ+ space at Viking Union.

Someone else did the poster art, back in 1975 for a dance called A Gala Ball. Posters are normally thought of as temporary, but I kept a bunch of the posters, from back then, that are now part of a collection at WWU's Center For Pacific Northwest Studies. A few posters, I even got out of wastebaskets.

As was at that dance soon after I turned 20. It was held in the cafeteria of Fairhaven Dorms on campus.

The reverse side of the original poster has a bunch of colored lines as, I think, back in the 1980s, I used it to test a bunch of pens to see if they'd still write. I was going through a box of old pens. Fortunately, I didn't damage the front side of that poster.

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