In Galveston the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) absorbed a bunch of property adjacent to one of the marinas, and in the processed displaced some people. On the back of the PMCH (Preventive Medicine and Community Health) building, itself a rather uninteresting structure, there is “The Face.” When I was in high school, “The Face” was part of an urban legend, the face of an old man, and old fisherman who had been displaced. We would go out on weekend nights and drink beer and sneak behind that building and view the face.
It was real. It wasn’t just discoloration in the building material, which I guess was cement. It looked sort of like Obi Wan Kenobi.
Well, some of us got caught one night and it became an issue (a venue for underage drinking!) so the UTMB sandblasted away the face.
March 21st, 2006 at 6:47 am
Regarding the ghost stamp
In Galveston the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) absorbed a bunch of property adjacent to one of the marinas, and in the processed displaced some people. On the back of the PMCH (Preventive Medicine and Community Health) building, itself a rather uninteresting structure, there is “The Face.” When I was in high school, “The Face” was part of an urban legend, the face of an old man, and old fisherman who had been displaced. We would go out on weekend nights and drink beer and sneak behind that building and view the face.
It was real. It wasn’t just discoloration in the building material, which I guess was cement. It looked sort of like Obi Wan Kenobi.
Well, some of us got caught one night and it became an issue (a venue for underage drinking!) so the UTMB sandblasted away the face.
About a year later, “The Face” was back. NO LIE.