UCLA Kinsey Hall - A Secret Message from the Past?

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Some people may know that I like to look at the details of buildings and things and try to figure out what the architect was trying to say.

Ok, here's one I've been working on in my "spare" time recently.

I've been taking extension classes in the UCLA "Humanities" building, among others. This used to be called the Kinsey Hall before its recent reconstruction. It's also one of the four main buildings that originally made up the current campus in 1929. That is a great period in time where architects used to love to put stuff like this into buildings.

One of the things I've noticed about the building are the windows that surround it. It appears as if there is some sort of coded message along the arches of the windows. Please see the attached which is the south most window of the eastern side of the building.

For lack of a better name, I'll call this a Vacuum Tube window because of the icon placed above and between the two arches.

Notice the brickwork of the arches. Depending on how a person would want to count this, I'd call it a 5, 3, 3, 6, 2 / 2, 3, 5, 4, 3, 1 pattern. All of the other icon windows have similar patterns and there is another set of arches above the eastern side that also seems to have coded brickwork.

In looking at the "code" each set of archways seems to consist of 10 "digits" from 1 to 7 inclusive. I'm not entirely certain if the icons have anything to do with the message. There does appear to be a pattern to the icons on the eastern side of the building, but it appears as if during reconstruction, the workers -may- have switched a couple as they are out of sequence AND the material the icons are made up of are noticeably darker in color than the others.

Do you have any idea what the architect may have been trying to say with this?

Oh, BTW, I've been in contact with the UCLA History Project. They had never heard of this before nor did they have any clues!

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[airdvr 210]

Do you have any idea what the architect may have been trying to say with this?

"We're running short on bricks, so just put those in the arches and we'll fill it in with concrete."?

Please don't dent the planet.

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[NickDG 23]

There's another mystery at UCLA. There's a secret bridge buried somewhere on the campus (built around the same time your building was) over one of the arroyos.

The arroyo was later filled in with dirt but the bridge wasn't removed so it's still there just buried. When I was taking classes at UCLA the story was some students had found access down to the bridge. It was hollow inside, like a lot of California bridges of the time (I think they were called box bridges) and it's supposed to be pretty cool in an urban explorer kind of way.

I've casually looked for it in my travels around campus but I've never found it . . .

NickD

[Nightingale 0]

Here's an article about the bridge. It's in Dickinson Court.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-then13-2008jul13,1,6678821.column

[CSpenceFLY 1]

The brick layers were on crack.

[RastaRicanAir 0]

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Do you have any idea what the architect may have been trying to say with this?

"Let's do this part all random! One day it'll really f*ck with some paranoid code-breaker dude's head!"

On a serious note. Have you ever considered suing the producers of the National Treasure movies for using you as a basis for Nic Cage's character?

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-"and ladies....messin with Robbie is venturing into territory you cant even imagine!-cuz Robbie is

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5, 3, 3, 6, 2 / 2, 3, 5, 4, 3, 1

Fibonacci influenced
Fibonacci
Reverse Fibonacci-esque

Shit happens. And it usually happens because of physics.

[happythoughts 0]

"Jennnny, I got yo numbah..."

[CSpenceFLY 1]

It's Elvis' phone number!!

[Squeak 17]

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You are not now, nor will you ever be, good enough to not die in this sport (Sparky)
My Life ROCKS!
How's yours doing?

[popsjumper 2]

I'd be willing to bet that you are also interested in:
-Knights Templar
-Freemasons
-DaVinci code
-Buck Rogers Decoder Rings

My reality and yours are quite different.
I think we're all Bozos on this bus.
Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239

[popsjumper 2]

Lottery tickets here I come!

I think I see Mother Mary in the reflection in one of the windows!







Nah, on closer inspection it is really Oprah.

My reality and yours are quite different.
I think we're all Bozos on this bus.
Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239

[popsjumper 2]

Have you thought of extending your series to include the entire frame(s) instead of just across the top?

My reality and yours are quite different.
I think we're all Bozos on this bus.
Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239

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Have you thought of extending your series to include the entire frame(s) instead of just across the top?

I was waiting to see if I got any people that were serious about trying to figure it out.

As for all of the other bits; Masons, ect . . . yeah . . . a bit. Probably started when I read -way- too much Sherlock Holmes stuff as a kid (there were stories about the Masons, secret codes, the Mormons . . . ). I don't believe in any grand conspiracies, but when stuff like this survives the ravages of time and I discover it, well, I think it's cool.

In 300 or so years, I think somebody like me is going to go absolutely gaga over a Scientology find in New Mexico at 35°31'27N 104°34'19W. You can also find it on aeronautical charts listed as NM53.

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[NickDG 23]

In 300 years some some archaeologist will dig up a tattered old wingsuit and proclaim humans must have once had the ability to fly . . .

NickD

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I was waiting to see if I got any people that were serious about trying to figure it out.

In Bonfire? What means this "serious?"
Fuh real 'doh. Architecture is partly art, and artists are always trying to say something. My inclination though is to think it's something more personal like his kids' birthdays, or something only other guys in his Thursday night architects' poker game would understand.
Just a POV.

OrFunV/LocoBoca Rodriguez/Sonic Grieco/Muff Brother #4411
-"and ladies....messin with Robbie is venturing into territory you cant even imagine!-cuz Robbie is

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My inclination though is to think it's something more personal like his kids' birthdays, or something only other guys in his Thursday night architects' poker game would understand.

Birthdays and initials are frequently sneaked into designs in theme park rides at Disney. Unfortunately, as rides get updated, these have a tenancy to redone and sometimes disappear altogether.

The real catch on the UCLA Kinsey Hall arches is that the numbers seem to be from 1 to 7 ONLY. That's really the part that has me stumped.

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[NickDG 23]

I always look for the secret "Mickeys" at Disneyland!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_Mickey

NickD

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I always look for the secret "Mickeys" at Disneyland!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_Mickey

NickD

Some are "real" but quite a few more are simply "imagined" by people that want to see things that aren't really there.

One of my favorites was in a blueprint of the California Adventure expansion. It's the curb cut and side walk heading north from the corner of Katella and Disney Way. The ONLY way to see it was from the air and even at that it's covered with palm trees so unless you're right on top of it, you'll probably miss it. I've included a pict of it taken from Google Earth.

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