Getting to the point: Homer Goldberg, AB’47, AM’48, PhD’61, then assistant professor of English language and literature, finds meaning in the plays of Anton Chekhov on a 1956 broadcast of the WTTW television program The Humanities. (Photography by Stephen Lewellyn, AB’48, UChicago Photographic Archive, apf1-06402, University of Chicago Library)

Things that aren’t there anymore: The bartender waits to take your mai tai order at Ciral’s House of Tiki on 53rd Street, which served Hyde Parkers from 1962 to 2000. (Copyright 2018, The Chicago Maroon. All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission.)

As many as you can carry: Literature lovers browse the tables at the 1991 Hyde Park Cooperative Society Book Sale, an annual fundraiser now run by the Hyde Park–Kenwood Community Conference. (Photography by Adam Lisberg, AB’92, UChicago Photographic Archive, apf7-04723, University of Chicago Library)

Jimmy of Jimmy’s: James Wilson, the proprietor of the Woodlawn Tap, who died in 1999, is pictured here at his bar in an undated photograph. Wilson served libations to the University community for more than half a century, first at the University Tavern and then at the Tap, which he bought in 1948. (UChicago Photographic Archive, apf7-01596-001, University of Chicago Library)

Be true to your school: Alumni and students mix amid the crowd at the Maroons’ 1977 Homecoming football game. Write us at uchicago-magazine@uchicago.edu if you recognize any of these faces. (Photography by David Rieser, AB’77, UChicago Photographic Archive, apf7-03859, University of Chicago Library)

Formal attire is optional: Members of Henderson House in Pierce Hall, who were intramural sports champions in the 1972–73 academic year, gather for a portrait. (Copyright 2018, The Chicago Maroon. All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission.)

Staff assemble the 1970 College yearbook, issued as a kit known as the Yearbox. (Photography by David Travis, AB’71, UChicago Photographic Archive, apf4-02615, University of Chicago Library)

Best and brightest: Students in the Small School Talent Search program, which recruited high achievers to the College from high schools in small, often rural communities, socialize over a meal in 1968. Paula M. Poindexter, EX’72, from Prairie View, TX, is at center. For more about the Small School Talent Search, see “No Small Talent.” (Photography by Uosis Juodvalkis, EX’68, UChicago Photographic Archive, apf1-06858, University of Chicago Library)

Folking around: A group of musicians plays at the Fret Shop in Harper Court in 1965. From left to right: washtub bassist Thomas Kruskal, LAB’64; guitarist Nate Herman; banjoist Thomas Adler, LAB’64; and mandolinist Carmi Simon, LAB’64. The Fret Shop was run by Peter Leibundguth, EX’46. (UChicago Photographic Archive, apf2-04013, University of Chicago Library)

Summer is for reading—on the beach, in a hammock, with a nightlight, by the hum of your air-conditioner. This July and August, the University of Chicago Magazine revisits nine alumni essays for your reading pleasure. 

Remembrance of meals past: Food preparation staff at the former Pierce Tower serve plates to students in 1993. (Photography by Richard Kornylak, AB’95, UChicago Photographic Archive, apf7-02162, University of Chicago Library)