1971 Yellow Pages Cover: SMU Gets the Karl Hoefle Treatment
by Paula Bosse
University Park gets Hoefle-ized… (click for larger image)
by Paula Bosse
Karl Hoefle’s wonderfully detailed (and painstakingly rendered) Yellow Pages illustrations were pretty much loved by everyone who saw them. As a kid, I loved searching for the hidden jokes — the dinosaurs, the cowboys, the rocket ships. I’ll try to write something in-depth about Karl someday. But, in the meantime, here is one of his covers from 1971, showing the SMU campus, Hillcrest, Snider Plaza, that water tower on Northwest Highway, and, heck, even an observatory. And possibly an elephant (although it might just be an elephant-ish-looking mustang…). (Click the image!)
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I also have fond childhood memories of his covers.
Here is a higher resolution version of the 1971 cover that was autographed to KRLD’s Alex Burton: https://i.imgur.com/yZjS7VJ.jpg
A partial 1967 cover: https://i.imgur.com/DEuChan.jpg
Here is downtown in 1973 but I don’t think this one was actually used on a cover: https://i.imgur.com/UdjYv4M.jpg
A 1964 cover: https://i.imgur.com/QEOdRIK.jpg
Here is a 1980 cover done by Norm Baxter: https://i.imgur.com/CwPJxha.jpg
And also a 1979 cover done by Norm Baxter: https://i.imgur.com/jv9J5uf.jpg
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The observatory is still on campus–although it is not used very often. Designed by SMU professor J.D. Boon, it was built in 1934 when the night sky was not so bright as today.
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There’s actually an observatory?!
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Yep! I park near it every day. 🙂
Like Joan said, I don’t think it’s used now except for maybe storage.
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I had no idea!! I’m going to have to go check that out!
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