I banged out FORTRAN code on the keypunches in the basement of Evans Hall, showed up late nights to take backups of the machines Bill Joy and Bob Fabry were using to make BSD on 4, learned some deep CS from faculty on the ground floor, hung in the Math Library on 1 and wrote a huge pile of POSTGRES in 608-3 and 608-11.

That concrete monstrosity means a lot to me. Super excited about the Gateway. Still...

https://www.dailycal.org/news/campus/4-floors-of-evans-hall-to-be-vacated-by-fall-2026-departments-move-into-new/article_a2a0b2dd-407f-4cfa-ba81-2b34fdc4cb40.html

4 floors of Evans Hall to be vacated by fall 2026, departments move into new campus buildings

The residing departments, programs and classrooms are mainly relocating to two soon-to-be-completed buildings: the Undergraduate Academic Building and The Gateway building.

Daily Cal | Berkeley news
@mikeolson
Huh! I was there when they painted Evans. Interesting to hear it's ok the way out. End of an era indeed