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re: For the Old Timers. What was it like living in Tiger Stadium?
Posted on 11/14/22 at 5:26 pm to HaloWarriors
Posted on 11/14/22 at 5:26 pm to HaloWarriors
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barely any heat.
Heat was the only positive. Those old school furnace heaters were overpowering. You must have had a faulty heater. (North Stadium 5th floor escapee)
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Posted on 11/14/22 at 5:30 pm to Run DMC
How much of the stadium did you have access to on a normal day where there wasn’t a game?
Posted on 11/14/22 at 5:32 pm to BRich
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There were a couple of openly gay students living on our floor; the rest of the guys on the floor treated them oka
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but our RA (who also became a good friend) would always come down to our room, bang on our door and get my roommate to go, but only on those days when the Hatcher cafeteria was serving pancakes, with this simple phrase:(knock knock knock) "STEVE!!!! CAKES!!!"
I think your roommate and RA were gay too
Posted on 11/14/22 at 5:33 pm to Run DMC
My brother hated it
Posted on 11/14/22 at 5:37 pm to Havoc
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Then on the East side of the stadium was a bunch of old 70s-80s era meeting rooms, lounges etc. Cool times.
On the east side, they had a small cafe-type area and a washeteria as I recall. I think they actually had some football operations stuff on that side too but not sure.
Posted on 11/14/22 at 5:40 pm to mdomingue
In the Fall of 1985 I neglected planning for housing. I kinda thought I would find another roomate and rent an apartment. I went back home to Lafayette and spent the Summer fishing offshore, drinking at the strip almost nightly and taking a couple classes.
I think in July I came to realize I had to do something. I hadn't lived in a dorm yet and was going in my Jr year. I decided to try it. My options were Stadium West ( I think) or the Pentagon. I chose the Pentagon (A-311)
We had no AC and it was pretty much a free for all. It was a wild arse place. I loved it and made a few very good friends. My roomate (randomly selected) was a pot head. It didn't bother me but I could have done without it.
We went to the NM game with our wives this year. He is massively successful in the health care business. The whole experience at the Pentagon was one of my best at LSU.
I think in July I came to realize I had to do something. I hadn't lived in a dorm yet and was going in my Jr year. I decided to try it. My options were Stadium West ( I think) or the Pentagon. I chose the Pentagon (A-311)
We had no AC and it was pretty much a free for all. It was a wild arse place. I loved it and made a few very good friends. My roomate (randomly selected) was a pot head. It didn't bother me but I could have done without it.
We went to the NM game with our wives this year. He is massively successful in the health care business. The whole experience at the Pentagon was one of my best at LSU.
This post was edited on 11/14/22 at 5:43 pm
Posted on 11/14/22 at 5:41 pm to ramchallenge
How was the food
Posted on 11/14/22 at 5:41 pm to beauxgy
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Heat was the only positive. Those old school furnace heaters were overpowering. You must have had a faulty heater. (North Stadium 5th floor escapee)
Yeah, They were radiator-style heaters in west stadium. Supplied by the physical plant. It could bake you if you turned it up and forgot overnight.
One of the guys on our floor figured out he could turn on all the hot water taps and crank up the raditor in the bathroom (one stadium-style bathroom in each wing in west stadium) and end up with a sauna in the bathroom.
This post was edited on 11/14/22 at 5:44 pm
Posted on 11/14/22 at 5:46 pm to LSU Tigerhead
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It sucked having to go move your car every Friday night to a different lot.
For us in 1980 that only meant moving it to the south stadium parking lot. Before they made that an RV lot.
Posted on 11/14/22 at 5:50 pm to mdomingue
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think they actually had some football operations stuff on that side too
That’s kinda what I remember it looking like too but been a few years since
Posted on 11/14/22 at 5:51 pm to BRich
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RIGHT when we were moving in they added stalls to the rows of toilets and showers.
LOL! I can confirm. I lived in North Stadium the year before you. No stalls.
Posted on 11/14/22 at 5:51 pm to beauxgy
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barely any heat.
Heat was the only positive. Those old school furnace heaters were overpowering. You must have had a faulty heater. (North Stadium 5th floor escapee)
Not in my room. Cold AF. August heat was almost unbearable sans Jack Daniels.
Posted on 11/14/22 at 5:53 pm to The Boat
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How much of the stadium did you have access to on a normal day where there wasn’t a game?
None
Posted on 11/14/22 at 5:54 pm to HaloWarriors
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dropping watermelons
You almost hit me you son of a bitch.
JK but I remember seeing the evidence of one of those a few times. There was also a guy who hung a Nazi flag out of his dorm window in 1980.
Posted on 11/14/22 at 5:58 pm to tigersbh
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LOL! I can confirm. I lived in North Stadium the year before you. No stalls
Same in west stadium. Shorter halls I think so 3 toilets, I think there was a half wall between them. Basically armrest height. And a large stadium-type shower with 2 shower heads. I pretty much hated that
.Posted on 11/14/22 at 5:58 pm to BRich
Hearing Mike roar would be a cool memory
Posted on 11/14/22 at 6:02 pm to BRich
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they added stalls to the rows of toilets and showers.
I lived in Broussard Hall in both Fall ‘95 and again in ‘98-99 school year. Only hall bathrooms and there were no stalls for the shower. Just two walls with shower heads sticking out. Talk about humbling when you are 5’-11” and about 155 lbs taking a shower and in walks the 6’-6” 260 lb DE.
I still remember Booger McFarland taking the foulest smelling shite in there one night while I showering. Damn near puked. Got out of the shower and out of that bathroom very rapidly.
Posted on 11/14/22 at 6:08 pm to Run DMC
Third floor of North Stadium in 1980/1981. It was like animal house. LOL We bought block ice and put it in a pan in front of a fan because of no AC. Overall I had a blast and am glad I had the opportunity to live there. Game Days we’re on a whole other level. The entrance to the student section was right below my room.
Posted on 11/14/22 at 6:16 pm to BRich
We defeated them pretty easily.
—I don’t remember it that way at all.
Oops, said too much
—I don’t remember it that way at all.
Oops, said too much
Posted on 11/14/22 at 6:21 pm to Got Blaze
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Stadium Rat has posted his TS dorm life experience several times
Well that’s beneficial to the OP’s question
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