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Junior's was founded by Wilbur Gold Jr. in 1948 as Pilgrim's and was originally located on North Avenue at Techwood Drive just south of campus. [2] [4] In 1958, the Georgia Board of Regents made plans to redevelop the property where Pilgrim's was located sometime in the future, and instead of accepting a year-to-year lease, Gold sold the business to James Klemis and John Chaknis, who changed ...
Located on Central Campus, the Georgia Tech Student Center is dedicated to recreation and socialization for Georgia Tech students. Constructed in 1970, the building initially covered about 100,000 square feet and contained, among other features, a Post Office , cafeteria, ballroom, and one of the only on-campus bowling alleys in the Southeast .
The building cost $418,000 to construct and was designed by the architects Bush-Brown & Gailey. [4] Brittain Dining Hall was renovated in 1964, [5] 1999, [6] 2002, and again in summer 2007. [2] During the 2007 heatwave, Brittain Dining Hall went trayless to conserve water due to Atlanta, Georgia's severe water shortage. [7]
The Georgia Tech Yellow Jacket Marching Band, also in the School of Music, represents Georgia Tech at athletic events and provides Tech students with a musical outlet. [203] It was founded in 1908 by 14 students and Robert "Biddy" Bidez. [199] The marching band consistently fields over 300 members.
Under the Couch, originally established by the Georgia Tech Musician's Network in 1995, was previously located underneath the Couch Band Building on West Campus. In the fall of 2010, UTC moved to a new location on the second floor of the student center, replacing the Music Listening Room and continuing the daytime use of the room for similar ...
The five-story, 220,000 sq ft (20,000 m 2) building houses classrooms, science laboratories, academic services, and common areas and is managed by and connected to the Georgia Tech Library. Named in honor of President Emeritus G. Wayne Clough, the Clough Commons cost $85 million and opened in the fall of 2011.
The Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology (GTCMT) [1] is an interdisciplinary research center housed at Georgia Institute of Technology College of Design. The Center, founded in November 2008, [ 2 ] by Gil Weinberg focuses on research and development of new musical technologies for music creation, performance and consumption.
The Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts is a college of the Georgia Institute of Technology, a public research university in Atlanta, Georgia.It is one of the six academic units at the university and named for former two-term Atlanta mayor Ivan Allen Jr., a Georgia Tech alumnus (Commerce, 1933) and advocate for the advancement of civil rights in America.