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fire on the Hill destroys Post Office at Georgia Tech was destroyed by fire on the night of January 21. The building, which was built originally in 1898 to eliminate the possibility of an encore of the devastating fire that flattened the Old Shop Building in 1892, has had a checkered career on campus. It first housed the smith shop, boilers, and cupolas for the foundry, then became a warehouse, and finally after World War II it was converted to a combination Post Office and office supply store. The fire began soon after the Tech-Georgia basketball game and within an hour hadjieft the building a smoking hulk. Atlanta firemen fought successfully to prevent the fire from spreading to adjacent structures—the IE Building and the Old Shop Building—and were cheered for their efforts by a lively crowd of students who had been attracted to the scene of the action by the spectacular flames that appeared from the dormitory viewing areas as if they were taking the entire hill. In the crowd was Alumnus photographer Bill Sumits and on these pages appear his impressions of the evening's happenings.
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The Tech students turned out in droves (right) to watch the spectacular fire that destroyed the 65-year-old Post Office (above).