re: A farewell to Kirby Smith Hall

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I remember my phone number from the dorm. Area code in BR was still 504 then.

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I was in Power in the 80's.

Weren't all dorm numbers -- 504-334-XXXX?

What I remember was that all the phone were those old-time rotary dial wall phones with permanent "short" cords. The phones in Power were right inside the door. There weren't even any jacks -- that was all you got. If you wanted any privacy from your roommate, you had to stretch the cord and sit in the hallway. I also remember hearing how "lucky" we were because the phones had been installed just 5 or so years earlier. Before that, there was one phone for each wing/floor of the 7 wings of Power.

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Hatcher had A/C in the 80s. It was the only one on that side of campus for freshman boys with A/C. I remember that because the only two choices freshmen boys had for A/C were Hatcher and Power. My roommate and I chose Power but Hatcher was our second choice when we applied for the dorms. I also had a bunch of high school friends who lived in Hatcher and we used to meet over there before football games.

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While I was baking in Hodges! (1981)

I remember it being built. My house was on the corner of Aster and Alaska.

sorry, double posted.

But while I'm at it, it's still there.

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remember that because the only two choices freshmen boys had for A/C were Hatcher and Power.

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I chose Power because of the AC but when I visited friends in other dorms I was a little envious. It wasn't that hot with fans going and their RAs were practically nonexistent.

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That place will never be torn down. It will just sit there like a pile of shite, i.e. Middleton Library

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I think you can get canceled for saying Middleton now. Pretty sure the accepted name is kind of like what the Redskins did. Call it "The LSU Library"

Summer before my 9th grade year, 1981 I stayed on the 5th floor of Kirby Smith for a week attending the Dale Brown LSU Basketball camp.

Coach Ron Abernathy was a friend of my Dad's. He dropped my arse and made me do twenty push-ups at check out because I left a band-aid wrapper under the bed. Jordy Hultberg was a grad assistant coach then and one of the coolest people I ever met. They had 5 consecutive weeks of camp and he remembered the names of at least half of the campers by the end of our session.

Forward to 1985 and fall of my freshman year. I lived in Hodges. Total fee bill with meal plan and dorm was $1500. It would've been $1750 to live in air conditioned Hatcher.

During the week between move in and first day of classes, there was a freshman toga party on the floor of the assembly center. Stone Jamm (local funk cover band) opened for Otis Day and the Nights. $10 cover and free draft beer. Looking back, it was a glorious shite show of epic proportions. At the time, it was an average Wednesday night. Youth is truly wasted on the young.

We've had people that posted in this thread that lived in Kirby Smith in the 70's and it looks like that Kirby wasn't one of those places that started off nice and just deteriorated due to age and/or lack of maintenance but rather was a shithole from the first moment it threw open its doors.

That first batch of degenerates to live there must have really set the tone.

Mcvoy was trash