US 82 West/McFarland Blvd in Tuscaloosa: the Campus Drive exit views onto the campus of the University of Alabama and Bryce State mental Hospital |
top photo: old water tower in one of the few undeveloped fields around the edge of campus -- soon this area will be covered with retirement homes designed to increase the interaction between the University community and those of retirement age and to provide older Bama fans with homes near the stadiums and coliseum (one of the towers of DCH Regional Medical center lies off to the left in the pic) second picture: a white dome on the Bryce State Hospital campus, the water tower near the new Shelby Hall on Campus Drive and Hackberry, and one of numerous smokestacks, part of the furnace system which heats buildings at the University |