This recalls the Wizard of Oz's palace -- "Ring the bell and enter.  Please don't venture past the curtains."  From Fort Wayne Bible College's 1978 yearbook.

"No vehicles other than library deliveries."  From Lawrence University's 1967 yearbook.

From Eastern Oregon College's 1952 yearbook.

"Do you love it.  Do you hate it.  There it is the way you made it."  From Illinois Wesleyan University's 1969 yearbook.

"This is my room.  Let me rejoice & be glad in it."  From Manchester College's 1971 yearbook.

"Just say no ... say it like you mean it."  From East Tennessee State University's 1987 yearbook.

"See with what simplicity this nymph begins her golden days!  In the green grass she loves to lie" (Andrew Marvell).  From Wheaton College's 1967 yearbook.  

We're halfway there!  From Henderson-Brown College's 1927 yearbook.

"How your body can make you rich!"  From Tufts University's 1969 yearbook.

From Baylor University's 1915 yearbook.

"Abandon hope all ye who enter here.  This year began as years always do — we came crawling back to the sweltering cornfields, to our 'other existence.'"  From Saint Joseph's College's 1974 yearbook.

We are all snowflakes.  From the University of Denver's 1969 yearbook.

From The Cowardly Lion of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1923.

"Happiness comes from thoughts, not things."  From the University of Houston's 1971 yearbook.

"Only trees remember open spaces, growing places."  From Montana State University's 1973 yearbook.

From Asbury College's 1936 yearbook.

From the University of Mary Washington's 1926 yearbook.

From St. Nicholas, 1885.

From The Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1904.

These Airbnb signs from the 1940s are superior to what we see today.  From The Art Class in Action by Joicey M. Horne, 1941.