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There used be a very large Aleppo pine tree in a grassy area between the northeast side of the Computer Center and Speedway Boulevard. Then around 1990 work began on a major Speedway widening project which would expand the roadway from four lanes to six lanes and create the three UofA pedestrian underpasses. The 95 year old, 65 foot tall tree was in the way and had to go. To save it, the UofA dug it up and relocated it to a large circular planter just west of the Warren Avenue underpass over by where Eric’s Ice Cream was (now 1702) where it happily lives today.

Contributors Do you have a story you’d like to share? Submit it as an issue on this site’s git repository: https://bitbucket.org/ua-ecs/folklore.arizona.edu/issues The idea for this site came about at 1702 during the retirement party for Regina Watkins in the spring of 2017. Todd Merritt was commenting that within the next 5 years the first generation of IT staff at the University of Arizona will almost all be gone. And so, the idea for a site to collect the folklore of computing at the University of Arizona.