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re: A History of Tiger Stadium: Evolution of the Pantheon of Concrete and Steel
Posted on 7/28/14 at 6:57 am to Scabby4LSU
Posted on 7/28/14 at 6:57 am to Scabby4LSU
Great thread! I appreciate the OP putting it together. 
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Posted on 7/28/14 at 8:14 am to Sev09
Legit.
Posted on 7/28/14 at 1:03 pm to Golfer
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It was the original basketball arena until Parker was built. Could have been expanded and we would have had our own Cameron Indoor.
Cameron Indoor style would sure help the environment at Basketball games. The P-Mac has run its course.
Middleton could be leveled as for as i'm concern. The property there could be better served.
Posted on 7/28/14 at 2:28 pm to 24chevrolet48
My Dad graduated from LSU in 1950 (when I was 1 year old). As an earlier student (a few years before Mom and he married), he lived in a Dorm room therein. During some of the time he was there, he did a lot of snake hunting in Louisiana and contributed snakes to the Biology Department for part of his credit. A little later, he ran City Park pool. I was born in the old Baton Rouge General Hospital in 1949. On a visit some years later, we went into Tiger Stadium and he took us up to his old dorm room therin, but the room had long since been transformed into a closet or storage room. The dorm rooms, as he tells it, were added due to a difference in strategy between the State Legislature and Governor Huey P. Long--Long wanted to build a stadium, but the legislature wanted the dorms. So The Kingfish added the dorm rooms to Tiger Stadium. On his way through Baton Rouge a few years ago, he stopped by the student records office (or perhaps alumni affairs or a library) and asked if he could get the diploma he never received because he was unable to attend graduation. After around 6 decades, he never imagined it was there, but the person attending the desk there went back into archives and brought it to him. Dad still lives--in Gulf Shores, AL., and still proudly wears his LSU paraphenalia proudly (as do I). Geaux Tigers!!!
Posted on 7/28/14 at 2:35 pm to drdrfaulkner
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My Dad graduated from LSU in 1950 (when I was 1 year old). As an earlier student (a few years before Mom and he married), he lived in a Dorm room therein. During some of the time he was there, he did a lot of snake hunting in Louisiana and contributed snakes to the Biology Department for part of his credit. A little later, he ran City Park pool. I was born in the old Baton Rouge General Hospital in 1949. On a visit some years later, we went into Tiger Stadium and he took us up to his old dorm room therin, but the room had long since been transformed into a closet or storage room. The dorm rooms, as he tells it, were added due to a difference in strategy between the State Legislature and Governor Huey P. Long--Long wanted to build a stadium, but the legislature wanted the dorms. So The Kingfish added the dorm rooms to Tiger Stadium. On his way through Baton Rouge a few years ago, he stopped by the student records office (or perhaps alumni affairs or a library) and asked if he could get the diploma he never received because he was unable to attend graduation. After around 6 decades, he never imagined it was there, but the person attending the desk there went back into archives and brought it to him. Dad still lives--in Gulf Shores, AL., and still proudly wears his LSU paraphenalia proudly (as do I). Geaux Tigers!!!
Cool story!
Posted on 7/28/14 at 2:47 pm to GEAUXmedic
Wow! What a great story, especially him getting his diploma so many years later. My dad just passed last October and had similar stories about LSU and living in the stadium dorms. He was 90 and a WW2 vet. Truly a great generation.
Miss him every day.
Miss him every day.
Posted on 7/28/14 at 4:24 pm to drdrfaulkner
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drdrfaulkner
An actual CSB.
Posted on 7/28/14 at 8:14 pm to drdrfaulkner
Awesome story!
Posted on 7/28/14 at 9:15 pm to Sev09
great post. better than some lsu football history books.
1953 was tiger stadium's best appearance
1953 was tiger stadium's best appearance
Posted on 7/28/14 at 9:27 pm to runningTiger
I agree. Why did they put those tiny circles above the arches on the newest addition?
I drove by the stadium today and all I could do was laugh.
I drove by the stadium today and all I could do was laugh.
Posted on 7/28/14 at 9:31 pm to tracytiger
luxury seating ruins a stadium's architecture.
all seats in a stadium should be the same, allowing for those with disabilities certain exceptions.
i know it's all about the money for taf, but man, they ruined a beautiful stadium by making it larger without any attempt to preserve the architecture that made it beautiful.
all seats in a stadium should be the same, allowing for those with disabilities certain exceptions.
i know it's all about the money for taf, but man, they ruined a beautiful stadium by making it larger without any attempt to preserve the architecture that made it beautiful.
Posted on 7/29/14 at 2:52 pm to Sev09
It's pretty neat to go back and figure out which buildings are there in this one. Notice the building off by itself to the right, it is the swine palace.
(From wiki)
Here's my rough attempt at recreating the current picture to match:
Here's a map of the campus with building names:
(From wiki)
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In 1992, an historic livestock judging pavilion slated for demolition, and the first building constructed on the current campus of LSU was identified as the future home of the company.
Here's my rough attempt at recreating the current picture to match:
Here's a map of the campus with building names:
Posted on 7/29/14 at 3:13 pm to Kingpenm3
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That's a really cool comparison!
Posted on 7/29/14 at 3:42 pm to Sev09
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That's a really cool comparison!
Thanks.
Couple of other things, Fieldhouse drive makes much more sense when you realize it was the only thing on the whole road when it was named/built.
Most of the quad is already built out, just missing Middleton.
What is there covers the basics, housing on the left, Hill Library, classrooms surrounding the quad, and, what I assume, was one of the nicest livestock judging joints around.
Not in the picture, but interesting that the livestock building (swine palace) became a theater, and the original basketball stadium (coliseum), became a rodeo arena.
Posted on 10/18/14 at 12:06 am to Kingpenm3
Huey Long took care of LSU. He may have had his faults, but he never would have stripped LSU's budget to the extent that we would have had to take money from the athletic dept. to fund academic programs. LSU academics boomed under his reign but he also kept football in its proper perspective which is to say right at the top. Additionally, the GBFTL never had a better friend.
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