Kim Berry on roof of UNR Planetarium in 1963

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The UNR Planetarium was constructed in 1963 when I was in kindergarten. We lived across the street from it. Below are current photos of the front and back. The south-facing windows were designed to provide solar heating. Inside the glass are panels that rotate to display as black or white, depending on whether heat should be absorbed or reflected out. Around 1968 Ed gave some of the presentations in the night-sky theater.

This time-lapse was taken from the top of our house at 1521 Hillside Drive.

Front

Back - Lorimar Event Center to the left

This is me on the front roof during construction - a long way down. The yellow X marks our house on Hillside Drive

This is looking south from the front of the building. This empty pasture is now the Lorimar Events Center

And me on the back roof