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re: Huey P Long Field House
Posted on 4/17/09 at 4:28 pm to Draconian Sanctions
Posted on 4/17/09 at 4:28 pm to Draconian Sanctions
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As in you'll be there from 3 until 5, or you'll get there somewhere in between 3 and 5?
ill be there from 3-5pm. we will have a booth set up and give tours of the building.
This post was edited on 4/17/09 at 4:30 pm
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Posted on 4/17/09 at 5:13 pm to Behind The Ivy
My Mother went to LSU on a diving scholarship and raised us in the pool at the field house. As a child we use to watch Pop Ballard (who used to write poetry about LSU football) dive into the pool from the balcony - as a child that was exciting to watch.
Posted on 4/17/09 at 5:18 pm to FredSez
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FredSez
you should come stop by! LSU and the state need to hear what that pool meant to so many people. ive heard so many stories about how people learned how to swim there, or grew up going there.
it would be a nice recruiting tool as well i think
Posted on 4/17/09 at 5:40 pm to FredSez
Yeah, we used to sneak in @ night--wasn't that hard to do. After playing racquetball in "the dungeons" below the pool, we'd climb on the roof and jump in the pool. Sliced off a piece of toe doing that.
Posted on 4/17/09 at 6:36 pm to cypresstiger
Something should be done with it.
Location, location, location
Location, location, location
Posted on 4/17/09 at 6:46 pm to Draconian Sanctions
I think the question should be "How many of us every used to climb the tree outside of the building and craw under the fence to swim in the pool around midnight with their buddies?" It was one big pool! 
Posted on 4/17/09 at 6:56 pm to Behind The Ivy
Lots of times back when I was a student (think cocked hats and powdered wigs 
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).Posted on 4/17/09 at 8:52 pm to Gray Tiger
Three Dog Night on the radio, throughout the pool,blaring around, I used to jump off the high board at 5 or 6 y.o.- felt like pins and needles going in, My Dad, was talking to this huge guy in the pool, one day in the deep end, and later introduced me to him, Terry Robiskie. Male Life Guards wore root suits back then and noone thought anything of it. Remember when they covered it with that Inflated Dome thing?
Posted on 4/17/09 at 8:56 pm to Butch Baum
I remember the oversized handball courts in the HPL. It was nice when they built the "new" ones in the seventies. I still think I am young. Who plays handball these days.?
In school I thought racquet ball was just going to be a fad. I thought that everyone wanted to play the game that required both hands.
In school I thought racquet ball was just going to be a fad. I thought that everyone wanted to play the game that required both hands.
Posted on 4/17/09 at 9:59 pm to Behind The Ivy
Yea - back in the early 80's I had a swimming class there. Didnt' count to my credits but it was a great way to stay in shape. It was the winter semester, and I can still remember swimming with the vapor coming off the surface with 40 degree temps - AWESOME!
Posted on 4/17/09 at 10:03 pm to Butch Baum
Many a day and night, we were at practice the night the dome ripped and half of it was in the water, we all tried to swim up and climb on it. Biggest water bugs i've ever seen lived in that sucker, those old bulkheads, the track around the top. Good times.
Posted on 4/18/09 at 2:23 am to Young
this is good stuff guys! i hope to see some of you at the tailgate tomorrow.
Posted on 4/18/09 at 2:44 am to Behind The Ivy
Many, many miles, morning and evening, almost everyday... when I was training for triathlons in the early to mid 90's... never did like swimming inside, and it was better for me to be outside swimming anyway, with all the competitions out in the open air... that is what a tri is all about, competing against the elements as much as competing against the other athletes, and against yourself... and the Long pool was where it was at... plus it was almost right across the street from the Pentagon cafeteria, which it the next place I went after developing a post-swimming appetite...
Posted on 4/18/09 at 2:46 am to SFCATiger
... swimming in warm water in freezing temps was always a trip!!...
Posted on 4/18/09 at 3:52 am to geauxtigahs87
i guess it was prior to 2003 then
those weeds are now trees though ive heard, so maybe i was only off by a couple years.
those weeds are now trees though ive heard, so maybe i was only off by a couple years.
Posted on 4/18/09 at 7:15 am to Behind The Ivy
If you want to see some pics. taken in 1934-40
Go to www.flickr.com/photos/fonville/sets/
click on LSU. Also has pics. of football
stadium before it was closed in.
Go to www.flickr.com/photos/fonville/sets/
click on LSU. Also has pics. of football
stadium before it was closed in.
Posted on 4/18/09 at 7:38 am to Toby Nee
in 99 we snook in with some girls and went skinny dippin.jumped a few times off the balcony.good times
Posted on 4/18/09 at 7:43 am to craignettles
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In school I thought racquet ball was just going to be a fad. I thought that everyone wanted to play the game that required both hands.
Well, you were half right.
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