Tunnel as pet dog

I can't remember when I first walked through this tunnel but it was
when it was new. It was about 1963 and I was about eleven years old,
walking this way most mornings, delivering the Daily News to some
buildings at its end.

The tunnel runs between several university buildings and it was a great
addition to the new, modern campus in the early 1960s. Only the two
big, padded-with-insulation steam pipes ran through it back then.
Nowadays dozens of cables and glass fibres snake through the tunnels.

Yesterday I walked through here to get part of the way to the
university graduation ceremonies. As ugly as the tunnel is, I've
always had an affection for it. Like some people's ugly pet dogs, I
suppose.