re: Tiger Stadium Dorms

My dad lived in North Stadium in his undergrad years. He said it sucked. The showers were gross.

My grandfather lived in the stadium dorms before he went off the WWII. Always thought that was the coolest thing when I was a kid.

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album of Roy Rogers yodeling songs

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That was just cold, man. LOL!

Looks pretty rough by our standards, but you have to remember it was the middle of the Depression. Those guys counted themselves fortunate to have a roof over their heads and to be going to class instead of busting their arse at a menial job or standing in a breadline.

This is, without question, my favorite thread on the Rant. Well done!

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, ROTC was compulsory for all male students for their first two years...these dorms were actually designed as cadet barracks

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My late uncle entered LSU in 1952 and lived in military barracks at the stadium.

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My dad lived in North Stadium in his undergrad years. He said it sucked. The showers were gross.

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I remember them being cleaned every morning... so not too gross, except that they were three-shower head affairs that one had to share with other guys.

The grossest part of life there to me, well... it was pretty bad.... in the early 70's LSU was a big destination school for Persians (we called them "Persians" back then instead of Iranians, for whatever reason)... and those people NEVER SHOWERED. One year a group of them had the very last room down the hallway, so they had to walk past all the other rooms to get past theirs. And THEY STUNK. It was common practice in the stadium dorms to keep your door open to the hallway, both for circulation and for socializing.... but those guys STUNK, and they left a cloud of stink in your own room when they passed. It was hard to be friendly to foreigners when they stank so bad.

I stayed in the South Stadium in 62. My roommate was from India or Bangladesh, didn't speak english, and wrapped himself up like a mummy in a sheet at 9:00 every night. Friends of mine would come over, drink beer, listen to the radio, and on occasion, hit the books. My roommate never made a sound. I began to think he was mute. I might have ridden home with you (I remember several times paying a buck for someone to drop me off on 61 at the airport in Kenner.) I'd go into a local tavern and call for a ride to come get me.
Moved to a frat house for second semester - glad to get out the sauna.

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lived in west stadium, summer '75

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Then you probably remember these images I posted last summer...

Tiger Stadium upper deck construction, August '75

My dad lived in West Stadium in 1937 or 1938 to 1940. No fans as they were too expensive. 4-5 in a room. Coming from rural Vermillion Parish, he had never seen showers before.

It was indeed set up for ROTC. Everybody was broke and those in ROTC had mess hall rights for somewhere around $20 a semester. Those who screwed up were kicked out of the mess hall and that was serious. You could take all you wanted to eat but you had to clean your plate. If you wasted food, you were kicked out for a day or 2 to teach you a lesson.

Many of them would go to the Greek theater to study during the day, it was one of the coolest spots temp wise on campus. This was before all of those trees had grown out so there was a minimum of shade. the parade ground was used for the whole ROTC corp, training and parades.