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re: For those of you who lived in the stadium dorms back in the day...
Posted on 10/3/24 at 6:12 pm to ChineseBandit58
Posted on 10/3/24 at 6:12 pm to ChineseBandit58
Thank you for your memories. My Dad was in the Tiger Stadium dorms 2 years before you. Fall 54/Spring 55.
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Posted on 10/3/24 at 6:16 pm to BRich
I spent one semester in West Stadium in 1972. It was a dump and a nightmare existence.
Posted on 10/3/24 at 6:16 pm to RtigerC
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Lived in North Stadium,2nd floor right above the entrance to football ops.
I lived 2nd floor North stadium a little left of the football offices in the spring of 85.
Best thing was walking across the street the Alex Box most night to catch a game.
Posted on 10/3/24 at 6:39 pm to ChineseBandit58
quote:We used to be a proper country.
Small desks in the room - and I forget what accommodations for personal storage there was. I didn't have much so it was adequate - didn't expect more.
Posted on 10/3/24 at 6:45 pm to jrobic4
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This post was edited on 10/3/24 at 9:29 pm
Posted on 10/3/24 at 6:57 pm to go ta hell ole miss
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archive.ph is your friend
Wow, it really is. Thanks!
Posted on 10/3/24 at 6:58 pm to BRich
Lived in the Pentagon in the late 60,s. Pretty much the same experience. No AC but back then, we grew up without AC- even at Home. Had a whole house attic fan that pulled air thru all the open and screened windows at Home. We didn’t know any better ?Kids nowadays would not survive !
This post was edited on 10/3/24 at 11:24 pm
Posted on 10/3/24 at 7:04 pm to BRich
It was hot, and it was fun.
Posted on 10/3/24 at 7:14 pm to ChineseBandit58
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I wish I could read the article but only got past the first couple of lines.
I lived in the stadium 3rd level, pretty close to where the elevator to the press box is located now - closest to the North end. Three people to a room, one double deck bed and one single bed - more like a cot. Small desks in the room - and I forget what accommodations for personal storage there was. I didn't have much so it was adequate - didn't expect more.
One community bathroom per floor between the stairways. Showers accommodate maybe half dozen people at a time. No individual privacy. One water fountain, and one coin operated telephone per section.
The phone was always busy - never even thought of trying to make a call. But I do remember once getting back to the dorm one weekend after I hitch-hiked back from Leesville. When I entered the hallway, the phone was vacant - HOORAH - thought I'd call my brother who lived in BR. Picked up the phone to dial his number and no dial tone. Puzzled I just held it for a moment and then heard someone say - 'hello?' ==== It was my BROTHER calling ME and I had picked it up before the first ring. That was the ONLY time I ever had a conversation on that phone.
Campus was pretty vacant on weekends without games, so most times I hitch-hiked home. But one time in November, it was bitter cold, and my roommate and I were alone in the room with nothing to do - so we decided to do a prank. Gathered up some newspapers, and soaked them in the water fountain to form a big ball. Opened the window and waited for a target to pass underneath. Finally a group of about 6 guys came walking under us. Tossed out the soggy paper and made a direct hit in the middle of the group.
I swear we had happened to attack a Seal Team Six unit - they immediately located us - (open window was dead giveaway) and broke into two squads headed for the two access stairways to our section. We ran out of the room toward the closed exit but heard them on our landing before we had a chance to escape. Out of desperation, I reached out and grabbed the door knob of the closest door and it OPENED - we went inside and closed/locked the door, and remained quiet.
They went up and down the hall, pounding on every door and talking about us in a most unfriendly manner. We stayed in that room for well over an hour after we heard them leave. Worst example of a "practical joke" I ever engaged in. Never again.
We had a 3rd roommate from New Orleans. Hardly ever saw him. He came in well after midnight, if at all, and never was awake when we left for class. Of course we took the two lower bunks so he had the upper. We short sheeted his bed a couple of times and he made no remark about it. We removed half the springs that held the bed to the side bars. The next morning his arse hanging down halfway to my roommate's bed. Only a few times had any conversation with him - all he talked about was getting drunk. He was not back the next semester.
Spent two semesters in the stadium, Fall 56 - Spring 57. Married that summer and lived off campus thereafter, ending up in the brand new original married students apartments just off Nicholson. Couple of the football team were married and lived just above us in the 59/60 semesters - one was Warren Rabb.
Good times - would not want to change any of it. Except I wish we hadn't done the wet paper prank.
Thank you for sharing your memories. I went to LSU in the mid-80s but lived at home and commuted in, so I missed dorm life. I remember as a little kid in the 1970s attending games and seeing people in their stadium dorm room windows. I remember thinking, "that is so cool. I want to live in the stadium one day." My older brother dissuaded me of the notion once he got to college.
Posted on 10/3/24 at 7:16 pm to oldskule
Lived in North Stadium on the 3rd floor 1974-75.I had a great time wasn’t concerned with the lack of accommodations.I just loved being a LSU.
Posted on 10/3/24 at 7:25 pm to BRich
North Stadium 501 1st semester. Hot AF, especially after climbing those stairs only to enter a room with no A/C. Radiator heaters were great in winter. Subleased my room to a friend who made hundreds of long distance calls on my phone simply by asking the operator to bill the call to a random number he pulled from the White Pages. Never got a bill!
Upgraded next semester to Pentagon C-2 also no A/C, but my room window was blocked by a huge tree and faced North so not too hot. Birds eye view of the chicks from Graham as they walked to the cafeteria. Upgraded again for last 3 semesters to:
El Cid!!
Upgraded next semester to Pentagon C-2 also no A/C, but my room window was blocked by a huge tree and faced North so not too hot. Birds eye view of the chicks from Graham as they walked to the cafeteria. Upgraded again for last 3 semesters to:
El Cid!!
Posted on 10/3/24 at 8:03 pm to SUB
My parents were students at that time. My mom is still living and a regular visitor to TD. She called into Finebaums show 2 years ago. And can she tell some great stories from back in the day.
Posted on 10/3/24 at 8:04 pm to BRich
Summary of article for those without The Advocate access:
20 of the 44 paragraphs are about the first black undergrad at LSU that lived in the dorm for 6 weeks in 1953 before leaving the school. And it talks about the racism that he experienced during those 6 weeks.
The other part of the article is that Steve Scalise lived in the dorm in the 80’s and used Mike the tiger’s roar as an alarm clock.
It also mentions that students played and cards drank cheap beer in the dorms - oh and it was hot.
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20 of the 44 paragraphs are about the first black undergrad at LSU that lived in the dorm for 6 weeks in 1953 before leaving the school. And it talks about the racism that he experienced during those 6 weeks.
The other part of the article is that Steve Scalise lived in the dorm in the 80’s and used Mike the tiger’s roar as an alarm clock.
It also mentions that students played and cards drank cheap beer in the dorms - oh and it was hot.
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At night, they’d bang on Tureaud’s walls, he remembers, and blast their radios. Some dumped roadkill at his doorstep. Others spread feces near his room.
“The kids on either side of me decided, ‘OK, our job is to make him uncomfortable. Our job is to get him out of here.’” Tureaud said. “The president sanctioned that. The professors sanctioned that.”
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In 1984, Scalise and Richards eschewed alarm clocks and chose instead to rely on Mike IV, then LSU’s live tiger mascot, for a daily wake-up call. He’d growl each morning, releasing a roar loud enough to drift through the open fourth-floor windows.
This post was edited on 10/3/24 at 9:20 pm
Posted on 10/3/24 at 8:06 pm to liquid rabbit
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I vividly remember showering in that nasty communal shower
I hated those. But we didn't seem to have those bug problems or at least I don't recall them, I think we did have screens for the windows.I was only in the dorm in the fall and moved into an apartment off-campus for the spring semester.
Posted on 10/3/24 at 8:58 pm to BRich
This is probably too long for anyone to read but I enjoyed writing it and and smiling when recalling the memories.
I didn’t live in Tiger Stadium while attending LSU but in the spirit of this post I can say that I “lived” in Tiger Stadium during my high school years on three different occasions, all during the Louisiana High School Baseball State Championship Tournaments held in the spring of 1954, 1955 and 1956, my freshman thru junior years. We were never eliminated so we stayed the maximum time possible each year which lasted about one week. We stayed each time on the third or fourth floor on the south end of the west side of the stadium in a long and narrow room with bunk beds lined up military style with a shower/ toilet facility located across a hallway. To enter the room from outside there was a exterior stairway on the south end accessing a hallway with a door to enter the bedroom. On the north end of the bedroom was a door to the previously mentioned hallway leading back to the exterior stairway (important for later in this story).
No AC of course, but most of us didn’t have AC in our homes back then so that wasn’t a problem. One really cool thing about this experience was that most of the baseball games we played were held in the original Alex Box Baseball stadium. Another was our coach rewarding us on occasion by bussing us to 3rd Street in Baton Rouge to the Piccadilly cafeteria for dinner. This was a big deal for a bunch of teen agers from the little town of Houma.
And now, a little Tiger Stadium dorm story that nobody but a bunch of high school kids experienced a long time ago.
During the 1955 tournament, one night after having advanced well into the tournament bracket we were all asleep in our room in the stadium when at about midnight or later we were rudely awakened by a loud shout from one of our teammates. “STOP THAT GUY HE’S TAKING ALL OUR STUFF”. For a room full of 14-18 year high school kids “stuff” consisted of loose change, a few bills, a wallet here and there, a few cheap watches, and baseball gloves. That thief was not going to get away with our stuff. At the time of the shout-out the thief had finished his job and was almost to the end of the occupied beds. He had come through the south door and was working to the north thus he couldn’t escape back through an awakened mob so he ran to the north end of the room, entered the hallway and backtracked south to the exit stairway. In the meantime someone had turned the lights on and one of our teammates, a football player, who was sleeping in one of the first beds, was now awake and stepped into the hallway just as the thief was approaching on the run. I don’t know how that guy was carrying all the things that he had taken but our “stuff” was scattered all over that hallway and he was spread out on his back after being hit by our football player. It turns out that the guy was tall, skinny and disheveled about 20 years old. I don’t know how coach contacted the Campus Police (no cell phones) but when they arrived he was recognized as a non-student regular trouble maker from the vicinity. They took him away thus ending this crazy story. It did give us some excitement and something to talk and joke about for a while.
I entered LSU in the fall of 1957 and graduated at the end of the fall semester of 1961. During that time I lived in Hodges Hall, one year in the Pentagon(that’s another story), two more years in Hodges, and an off- campus apartment for my last semester. Knowing several friends from home along with newer friends from college who were living in the stadium resulted in visits there that gave me an outsider’s view that today lets me realize what a unique time and place that was for those who lived in the Tiger Stadium dorms.
After graduating I returned home to begin my career in the real world.
Forever LSU.
I didn’t live in Tiger Stadium while attending LSU but in the spirit of this post I can say that I “lived” in Tiger Stadium during my high school years on three different occasions, all during the Louisiana High School Baseball State Championship Tournaments held in the spring of 1954, 1955 and 1956, my freshman thru junior years. We were never eliminated so we stayed the maximum time possible each year which lasted about one week. We stayed each time on the third or fourth floor on the south end of the west side of the stadium in a long and narrow room with bunk beds lined up military style with a shower/ toilet facility located across a hallway. To enter the room from outside there was a exterior stairway on the south end accessing a hallway with a door to enter the bedroom. On the north end of the bedroom was a door to the previously mentioned hallway leading back to the exterior stairway (important for later in this story).
No AC of course, but most of us didn’t have AC in our homes back then so that wasn’t a problem. One really cool thing about this experience was that most of the baseball games we played were held in the original Alex Box Baseball stadium. Another was our coach rewarding us on occasion by bussing us to 3rd Street in Baton Rouge to the Piccadilly cafeteria for dinner. This was a big deal for a bunch of teen agers from the little town of Houma.
And now, a little Tiger Stadium dorm story that nobody but a bunch of high school kids experienced a long time ago.
During the 1955 tournament, one night after having advanced well into the tournament bracket we were all asleep in our room in the stadium when at about midnight or later we were rudely awakened by a loud shout from one of our teammates. “STOP THAT GUY HE’S TAKING ALL OUR STUFF”. For a room full of 14-18 year high school kids “stuff” consisted of loose change, a few bills, a wallet here and there, a few cheap watches, and baseball gloves. That thief was not going to get away with our stuff. At the time of the shout-out the thief had finished his job and was almost to the end of the occupied beds. He had come through the south door and was working to the north thus he couldn’t escape back through an awakened mob so he ran to the north end of the room, entered the hallway and backtracked south to the exit stairway. In the meantime someone had turned the lights on and one of our teammates, a football player, who was sleeping in one of the first beds, was now awake and stepped into the hallway just as the thief was approaching on the run. I don’t know how that guy was carrying all the things that he had taken but our “stuff” was scattered all over that hallway and he was spread out on his back after being hit by our football player. It turns out that the guy was tall, skinny and disheveled about 20 years old. I don’t know how coach contacted the Campus Police (no cell phones) but when they arrived he was recognized as a non-student regular trouble maker from the vicinity. They took him away thus ending this crazy story. It did give us some excitement and something to talk and joke about for a while.
I entered LSU in the fall of 1957 and graduated at the end of the fall semester of 1961. During that time I lived in Hodges Hall, one year in the Pentagon(that’s another story), two more years in Hodges, and an off- campus apartment for my last semester. Knowing several friends from home along with newer friends from college who were living in the stadium resulted in visits there that gave me an outsider’s view that today lets me realize what a unique time and place that was for those who lived in the Tiger Stadium dorms.
After graduating I returned home to begin my career in the real world.
Forever LSU.
Posted on 10/3/24 at 8:59 pm to mdomingue
My dad lived there
Posted on 10/3/24 at 9:04 pm to beauxgy
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Upgraded next semester to Pentagon
Posted on 10/3/24 at 9:09 pm to tigersbh
Who remembers the game day signs and banners hung from those dorm rooms?
Posted on 10/3/24 at 9:11 pm to BRich
5th floor East Stadium here, Mid 80’s. Facilities at Angola were better than East Stadium. 3 sinks, 3 toilets (no stalls) and 3 shower heads. Could hear Mike growling multiple times a day. Best days of my life.
Posted on 10/3/24 at 9:25 pm to Mr. Curious
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Best days of my life.
Exactly! I wouldn’t want to live in stadium dorms again, but I’m glad I did it!
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