Tiger Stadium Dorms

condemned.

Googled it...all I found was this:



Title: In a scary tunnel in old LSU dorms

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People did live in them though.

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I'm proud to say I lived in a stadium dorm room for 2 weeks. 4 to a room. Bunk Beds. Incredibly small. I was fortunate to get a transfer to Johnston Hall - Basement level. (I'm not sure if this is still a dorm)

started LSU in 1958, and only north and south were open, south was new and we did not have ac back then, guys that lived in north loved them because of the cost

my cousin and some of my friends lived there, it was pretty wild at times. they also figured out a way to gack an forth during games without leaving stadium, never had to worry about running out of bourbon in the stadium

All I remember in '73 my freshman year was looking at my choices for a dorm room. Back then as a freshman it was mandatory to stay on campus your freshman year. The cost of the Stadium Dorm rooms was much cheaper then all other dorms. I stayed in old Graham which was just under New Graham in cost. The nicest of the mens dorms was Kirby but were off limits to freshman. My sophomore year I moved to new Graham which was extremely nice. After one semester their I moved off campus. Never got to try Kirby.

A few years back I noticed old Graham was torn down. Was anything ever rebuilt their? Is what I refer to as new Graham still across from the tennis courts.

I remember this guy who stayed in new Graham we gave the nickname Hit-A-Man. Use your imagination and you can probably figure that one out.

I live in south stadiun one semester in 1969. It was a lot better than the others. Newer, brighter and 2 to a room. The beds and desk were bolted through the block walls.

Had a roommate decided he did not need his desk. He unbolted it and the desk in the next room over's desk fell to the floor.

The cost for a dorm room in south stadium was $146/semester with out meal plan.

So to get to the dorms did they just leave the stadium gates open or?? Where in the stadium exactly are the dorms?

They are the outside wall of the stadium with separate entrances.

I lived in North in the all of '67. The entrance was separate from the entrance to the stadium itself. North had five floors at that time, and I was on the 5th. No elevators, no A/C. Could stand in the hall way before and during games and see through the windows onto the ramps that led up to stadium seating.

Had to be careful what you wore out in the hall during games.

Was not a "military barracks" in '67, just the lowest rent of all the dorms. I waited too late to apply for housing and that's all I could get. But my roommate did not show up and the rooms were huge, anyway so it wasn't so bad.

Lack of A/C was not so good, but we were less accustomed to everything being airconditioned anyway...most of my high school (Central) was unairconditioned beyond the year I graduated.