

To prepare for each class, I would hand-letter and hand-draw notes the night before and have the notes photocopied for the students. This was in 1972, a time before personal desktop computers, when the mimeograph machine was being replaced gradually by the photocopier, and letters, memos, and other correspondence were being typed on an IBM Selectric.

In my first teaching job in the School of Architecture at Ohio University, one of my assignments was an architectural graphics course. To mark the 40th anniversary of the publication of my first book, Architectural Graphics, I want to give a brief history of its birth. Posted in Culture, Drawing, Urban Sketchers Omission With just six locations, Dick’s remains a Seattle institution, not only due to its burgers, fries, and shakes, but also because it offers fair wages, provides employer-paid health insurance coverage to all of its employees, grants employee education scholarships, and gives generously to local charities that serve the homeless. Initially offering 19-cent burgers, Dick’s menu has expanded but still focuses on the American classics-100% fresh beef burgers, hand-cut fries, and hand-whipped shakes. Despite bank executives not believing in this business model, the first Dick’s Drive-In opened on January 28th, 1954, at 111 NE 45th Street in the Wallingford neighborhood of Seattle. President, and Elvis Presley made his first recordings-Dick Spady, Warren Ghormley, and Tom Thomas had an idea for a place where one could park easily and enjoy quality food at low prices with instant service. In 1953-the year Frank Sinatra signed with Capitol Records, Dwight D.
