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re: For the Old Timers. What was it like living in Tiger Stadium?
Posted on 11/14/22 at 11:48 pm to Run DMC
Posted on 11/14/22 at 11:48 pm to Run DMC
I knew some guys who lived in North Stadium. The amenities were Early Penitentiary but the rooms were huge and the management gave zero fricks what you did as long as there wasn't an obvious felony being committed.
Posted on 11/15/22 at 1:46 am to montana
South was the last to go about 25-30ish years ago.
Posted on 11/15/22 at 3:22 am to Basura Blanco
quote:Me and some Tiger Band friends used to go kick Field Goals for hours at Bernie Moore at Night. We'd start at the 10 and work our way back every 5 yards.........
pickup football on the turf at Bernie Moore.
Posted on 11/15/22 at 6:18 am to Run DMC
My mom said, "You really what to stay here?"
We referred to it as the "Slums"! But would not stay anywhere else....most of the time. Gameday made it all worth it!
We referred to it as the "Slums"! But would not stay anywhere else....most of the time. Gameday made it all worth it!
Posted on 11/15/22 at 6:57 am to Eat Your Crow
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Eat Your Crow
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Man these threads are awesome.
I have spent over an hour reading all these comments. My thoughts exactly.
Posted on 11/15/22 at 7:40 am to Run DMC
This has been a GREAT thread. If I was a writer I'd try to put together a book of old dorm/campus stories. My dad was in Graham in the 70's and some of his stories are fantastic. My stories from Kirby Smith in the late 90's just don't seem to compare.
Posted on 11/15/22 at 8:22 am to LSUalum2000
My most vivid impression of West Stadium was the bugs. Without air conditioning, the windows had to be open to allow ventilation, which also let in all the bugs. I can recall every shower was also a bug fiesta. They were all over the place.
During that time, I worked at WLSU, which was on the upper floor of the Union. There was a late night DJ (my shift was 2 to 4 a.m.) who enjoyed a little doobie every now and then—we were doobie brothers LOL. We had some great times up there. I could play anything I wanted, since there was no set format for that hour of the day. Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, you name it.
I tried to spend as little time as possible in the dorm room, since it was far from luxury accommodations. And of course I attended every home game, so there was no problem with trying to study during the game. That was out of the question.
During that time, I worked at WLSU, which was on the upper floor of the Union. There was a late night DJ (my shift was 2 to 4 a.m.) who enjoyed a little doobie every now and then—we were doobie brothers LOL. We had some great times up there. I could play anything I wanted, since there was no set format for that hour of the day. Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, you name it.
I tried to spend as little time as possible in the dorm room, since it was far from luxury accommodations. And of course I attended every home game, so there was no problem with trying to study during the game. That was out of the question.
Posted on 11/15/22 at 8:46 am to montana
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What year were the stadium dorms shut down?
I'd like to know the same. I went to LSU in the mid 90's and no one was living there by then. Someone earlier in the thread said they were there in 84-85.
Posted on 11/15/22 at 8:51 am to Run DMC
It was hot, humid, and smelled like a dump!
But it was a blast.
But it was a blast.
Posted on 11/15/22 at 8:58 am to Run DMC
I lived in South Stadium my junior year. It was a decent dormitory. Double rooms, windows looking across toward the ROTC building. It was all upperclass men and some grad students. Generally quiet and civilized (if the roommate was gone, it wasn't that hard to sneak a date into the dorm), unlike North Stadium, which was full of freshmen, 4 to a room, and a total zoo.
Posted on 11/15/22 at 9:20 am to mdomingue
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Same. I was there in the fall of 1980. 5th floor. No elevator. No AC. Concrete sweated on humid days. Not exactly luxury living.
I will tell you that living on the 5th floor of West Stadium was a testament to procrastinating on your housing application.
Ha, I thought Hodges was the penalty for late application. Was there in 81, no AC. We used to bomb the people walking between Hodges and Hatcher to the stadium with rotten fruit and moldy bologna when they made too much noise.
Posted on 11/15/22 at 9:22 am to LSUalum2000
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My stories from Kirby Smith in the late 90's just don't seem to compare.
When I was in the Pentagon we shared a cafeteria with Kirby Smith. It was pretty easy to determine who stayed in what dorms. The Kirby Smith boyz seemed to be living softer than we were and honestly appeared to be taking college more seriously.
Posted on 11/15/22 at 9:29 am to liquid rabbit
Hatcher was my assigned cafeteria. I tried to dine there as little as possible. I have a friend who swears to this day he cut his lip on a sandwich because the bread was so stale.
Posted on 11/15/22 at 10:15 am to Run DMC
I lived in the first house on the right on Alaska Street through the '50s to early '60s. Charlie Mac lived two doors down. He was a sweet and patient guy who always had time for kids and whose wife would feed you cookies and lemonade. My house was next to the campus gates at what is now the Maravich Center. In those days it was the tennis courts and archery range. I spent nearly every day on those tennis courts. Further along was Mike the Tiger's (II) cage, and I would go visit him and his two wives often; you could smell them from my house, and my guess is they could smell me, too, because I swear I could have walked right into their cage with no problem. My dad wouldn't let me listen to the games on the radio, but I didn't need to--I could lie in bed and hear them on the PA system. Whenever the Tigers scored, the whole house shook. As a professor at LSU, my dad had the rights to free tickets--he gave them to his grad students. Sometimes they would take pity on me and take me to games. My dad hated the Tigers. No athlete, he came from a college with no football team, and when he was pressured by the administration to pass a failing football player, he turned this into a personal crusade. Unfortunately for him, he lost. Every Saturday night our street and our lawn filled up with parked cars. All the neighbor kids would charge for spaces and would be out with their flashlights--I was forbidden to. Instead, my dad put up a fence. I can still remember the first Saturday night in August when the Cajuns in their cars rolled in--right over the fence. Good thing my dad (still alive at 95) was still a young man; otherwise he'd have stroked out...
Posted on 11/15/22 at 10:18 am to Run DMC
I stayed in East Stadium (5th floor) in 1985. My mom cried the day she left me there. No stalls in the shower or for toilets. Huge rooms with no roommates. I never once saw a resident assistant (RA). Ate at Hatcher Cafeteria. Im pretty sure the asbestos exposure led to my cancer diagnosis. Could definitely hear Mike the Tiger. Worst sound ever was the garbage trucks emptying dumpsters early every morning. Steam heaters also clattered the whole night. That place made a man out of me and I've never complained about lousy hotels or living conditions. Moved up to Pentagon the next year.
Posted on 11/15/22 at 10:22 am to Mr. Curious
Now I'm wondering how many of you guys I know from North Stadium - 5th floor 1980
Posted on 11/15/22 at 11:34 am to HaloWarriors
Stayed in north stadium freshman year 1970. We all loved it.Played booray a lot
and always had bourbon and coke.It was spartan-esque. The camaraderie in our section was great. Would not trade that year for anything.Gamedays would have music blaring from windows. Would watch crowd. Hung effigies off opponents
from window .Ole Miss week was great.Students from ole Miss drove by with rebel flag blowing horn and we would go down and throw water balloons at them.Always had panty raids. Definitely my best year at LSU.
PS Only drawback was that you had to watch out for the creepers in the hall baths.
and always had bourbon and coke.It was spartan-esque. The camaraderie in our section was great. Would not trade that year for anything.Gamedays would have music blaring from windows. Would watch crowd. Hung effigies off opponents
from window .Ole Miss week was great.Students from ole Miss drove by with rebel flag blowing horn and we would go down and throw water balloons at them.Always had panty raids. Definitely my best year at LSU.
PS Only drawback was that you had to watch out for the creepers in the hall baths.
Posted on 11/15/22 at 11:49 am to Run DMC
awesome;especially when the drunks below shouted"How do you like this ..place"
or the guys upstairs woudls set off a cherrybomb in the toilet to cause a waterfll all the way down.
LOL
or the guys upstairs woudls set off a cherrybomb in the toilet to cause a waterfll all the way down.
LOL
Posted on 11/15/22 at 11:56 am to HotBoudin
Spring of '74 in West Stadium one late Friday night we had a slip n slide contest. Dumped some laundry detergent on the floor and watered it down with the fire hoses. You could speed slide well over 100 feet.
My first introduction to the Dean of Men.
My first introduction to the Dean of Men.
Posted on 11/15/22 at 12:15 pm to LSUalum2000
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This has been a GREAT thread. If I was a writer I'd try to put together a book of old dorm/campus stories. My dad was in Graham in the 70's and some of his stories are fantastic. My stories from Kirby Smith in the late 90's just don't seem to compare.
Some of the shite we did in Hodges my freshman year in '82 would be considered terrorism today. I was on the 5th floor, south wing. One Sunday night, a dude came back to the dorm after the winter break with one of those HUGE fireworks. 21 gun salute or something like that. It was intended to shoot way up into the air at about 1,000 feet. 21 times. Anyway, the bathroom on that wing was facing into the courtyard. At the bottom of the windows they had those big crank windows. Anyway, dudes jams the 21 gun salute pointing right at the the middle of the courtyard and lights it. It was like white light and huge sound. 21 times. The rest of us were watching from the end of the hall. Perfect view of the kiddy cop station by the PMAC. After about the 3rd BOOM, the cops were diving under their desks shitting themselves. (All four sides of the tiny station was glass so you could see in there from any angle.) Alarms going off in every inch of the dorm. Hell, the fire alarms were going off in the stadium dorms. When it was over, there was about a 3 foot crater in the middle of the courtyard.
This post was edited on 11/15/22 at 12:21 pm
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