Today is National Name Your Car Day. I don’t know if I’ve named all the cars I’ve owned or driven, but I have named a few. When I went looking for a button to match the day, I saw this one and was reminded of the car the man who would become my first husband took to college.
I used that photo when I talked about the car on here before, and when I did, Mark mentioned that he’d like to see a particular photo I remembered taking of the car from my 11th floor dorm room window.
It has taken me over two years to scan the photo, but here it is.
The cars may seem closer than eleven stories away. On the left of the photo, you can catch a glimpse of floors of one of the other wings. The Boyfriend had come over that morning to give me two roses in honor of our two years as a couple (beginning our junior year of high school), and I watched from the window later as he walked back to his car–snapping this shot. There’s a white car next to the bottom rose, then a green car, and behind that is his orange Bug.
Here’s a photo I took of the dorm (Tutwiler Hall) in 2014 when I visited Tuscaloosa. You can see that it has three different wings extending from its center core. In researching to learn more about the building, I discovered that it was imploded in July of this year, when it was determined that it would be less expensive to construct a new residence hall than to update and renovate this one. I had no idea. I had some great times in that dorm my freshman year, and of the friends I made there, two remain beloved people in my life.
There’s a lot of information on this page about the dorm’s history and the woman for whom it was named, Julia Tutwiler.