The student laundry at the University of Wyoming in the 1940s was for co-ed usage.
A prelude to today’s online dating services! Imagine how many matches were made as men and women casually met over the washing machine at the University of Wyoming.
The first permanent post-war improvements to the campus came in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and the greatest building boom occurred in the mid-1960s. The 1960s building included new housing units for students, with apartments for married students and men’s and women’s dormitories. The new buildings added to the campus since the end of World War II reflect a growing divergence from the architectural design tradition established by Wilbur Hitchcock and Raymond Hood in the mid-1920s, although up until the 1970s west campus buildings continued to respect the traditional architecture in their scale and use of compatible materials.