re: Tiger Stadium Dorms

I remember the guy at the snack bar.

I also remember when the ticket office was in the stadium and I think it was near where the snack bar was.

Had to friends who lived in North Stadium dormitories 1984-85. We called them the projects.

I'd stay with them all the time. One room, hot, community bathroom. But we had a blast and made plenty of friends.

Fun for football games too, get juiced up in the room and just walk down the stairs and the gate was a 20 yard walk away.

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One payphone in the hallway. Every time I tried to call for my friend, some foreign guy would say "ehh, no Bruce here".

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I was in ES at that time. There was only 1 phone per floor, but it wasn't a payphone, just a regular phone. But usually, the guy whose room was right by the phone wouldn't walk the 40 yards or so to go get the person the call was for. No messages either.

Last story-some of the guys on my floor at West Stadium were from PLaqumines Parish. First time I heard of Leander Perez. They said he paid tuition for every PLaqumines Parish resident to go to LSU. Also, I drank my first fifth of orange wine that the boys brought up to school. Hmmmmmm...

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Last story

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Keep going. I love all these stories!

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I drank my first fifth of orange wine that the boys brought up to school

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And your last I'm assuming.

All in all if you were not crazy about it, you could do a lot of drinking in there. Almost everybody had booze in their lockers. "Surprise" inspections did happen but there was usually a few hours warning. It was a real live and let live atmosphere.
However, if you were the person that did something stupid and caused things to tighten up, there was a price to be paid. Unofficially of course. But the message got out.

Yes I was in the Stadium from 70-72. One night I heard a huge explosion and found out someone blew up a campus police vehicle.
Another night was the night of glass where everyone through anything made of glass outside the window and covered the walk way with broken glass.
You have to understand these were turbulent times in America at that time.

1981. Lived in Hodges facing the east side dorms. We would shoot marbles at the windows with a wrist rocket. Not proud of it, but we did plenty other juvenile stuff back then as well. BTW Hodges did not have A/C either. Community bathrooms. We would bring an ice chest of beer, put a chair in the shower and sit under the water drinking for hours. Good times.

Another story:

In the Southernmost section of ES about 78-81, we had 5 guys. One guy lived next to me and I called him "Naked Bill". Sometimes he would walk around our section naked. He was a marathon runner and owned about 40 pairs of shoes.

Another guy was gay. He loved Dolly Parton music and would sing along to her songs. Very strange. You could hear him throughout the whole section.

One of the other guys was in ROTC and had to stay very fit. The gay fellow would park himself on a toilet anytime the ROTC guy would take a shower. There was a large mirror across from the toilets, so he could watch the other guy taking a shower. Somehow, he always got finished just as the shower did. The ROTC guy didn't seem to mind as long as that was all there was to it.

We also sawed the lock off of the utility door at the end of the hall. In it we found an old chalkboard that became our poker table for our weekly games. The storage area had a surprise - there was a ladder down to the storage room below. That room had another ladder to the room below and so on all the way to the 1st floor. I have no idea what would be the purpose of that, but we would sometimes drink a little and do some exploring.

When I was there, ES was an upperclass dorm an there was no fear of getting caught with anything not supposed to be there.

Cool pictures!!