One graffiti piece reads: “This is Barrington. Get used to it!” And then, a line down: “Yoo people rite on wallz?”

Now, Barrington Hall is no longer, after the University Students’ Cooperative Association shut down the crazy co-op in 1990. Unlike Le Chateau, shut down in 2005, it was never converted into another, cleaner co-op. Nope, it’s under someone else (according to the Daily Planet) who leases out rooms, albeit much cleaner, less graffitied rooms.

Clark Morris made the above video, a testament to the co-ops’ affinity for drawing on walls. And if you were to judge a co-op based solely on murals/graffiti, you could easily comprehend how crazy Barrington really was. As the first co-op in the system, Barrington had the time to devolve into, quite literally, more than a happening joint–way more “co-opy” than Cloyne or Casa Zimbabwe could ever dream to be.

Walls of Barrington Hall, 1988 [YouTube]
Here is the final chapter of my posts [I Am Prepared to Give Up at Any Time]

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