Southwestern Medical College opened in the fall of 1943, under the auspices of the Southwestern Medical Foundation. The College was housed in prefabricated plywood buildings (often called "the shacks") on Oak Lawn Avenue behind Parkland Hospital, which served as the College's teaching hospital. (This view of the College was taken from a window of Parkland.) The medical school campus soon expanded to other buildings in the neighborhood, but "the shacks" remained the main campus until 1955, when the Cary Building was built on Harry Hines Blvd. In this photo, the old Turtle Creek Pump Station (now an art center) with the tall chimney is visible in the background. Oak Lawn Avenue is beyond the left edge of the buildings shown.