Quenching your thirst for photographs from The Temple News archives, here we are, an undated photograph that was left unorganized in a pile in the back of our morgue. We do know it was a Tuesday afternoon, though.

Photograph by Pete Bannan for The Temple News. Anyone know when he graduated or what he’s doing now?

His cutline reads that we’re looking at Rick Massott in the foreground and Rich Plata farther away on the scaffolding, both cracking some failing portions of Gladfelter Hall, one half of Temple’s noted academic skyscraper – its sister being Anderson Hall.

Massott and Plata were both of the Northeast and employees of P & R Masonry and Restoration, which still exists in Folcroft in Delaware County.

Note the Architecture and Engineering Building (the brick wall behind them) that still stands and looks just as it does then. Behind that is a parking lot, that now, of course, is grounds for the rapidly completing grounds of the Tyler School of Art, which is moving from Elkins Park. Still, it doesn’t help date the photograph much, considering that that was parking lot as recent as my first year at Temple, in 2004.

Any other notes?