re: For the Old Timers. What was it like living in Tiger Stadium?

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.

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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.

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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.