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Posted on 9/25/18 at 10:56 am to notbilly
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When did the last of the LSU dorms get A/C?
I know my brother was in Highland Hall in 1998/1999 and it did not have an A/C. The rooms were massive, the windows were huge, they had large suite bathrooms in a much better layout than Kirby, and the ceilings were pretty high.
Eventually they added window A/C units to Highland, Evangeline, and Garig - which IMO made them the best dorms on campus based on location, room size, and layout.
More recently, they have started retrofitting those older ones with A/C ducts above a new suspended ceiling in the hallway when they renovate. They did something similar in Johnston Hall and Pleasant Hall before turning them into office space.
The dorms built since 1960 always included central A/C and elevators (Herget, Miller, McVoy, Kirby Smith, etc.). They were also build and designed on a tight budget and feature shitty layouts and hideous designs. They can't really be salvaged by renovation either.
This post was edited on 9/25/18 at 11:03 am
Posted on 9/25/18 at 10:58 am to TigersOfGeauxld
I'll believe it when I see it. This was supposed to happen like a decade ago.
Posted on 9/25/18 at 11:05 am to doublecutter
quote:
It would be politically incorrect to stick with the name Kirby Smith
Cool name, shitty building.
A lot of campuses across the country threw together "CMU palace" mid rise dorms just like that in the 1960s-1970s. Many are trying to get rid of them now.
It's the same design used in public housing and prisons in eastern Europe and in some larger metro areas in the US. While most mid rise projects built like that in the US have been since been torn down, a lot of the very poor still live in hideous Kirby Smith - like buildings all over places like Toronto, Paris, and London. The slightly less shitty ones have balconies, but they are all ugly as hell, and most are poorly located and surrounded by parking lots and slums.
Every residential hall LSU has built after 1985 or before 1960 ended up being better than Kirby Smith.
This post was edited on 9/25/18 at 11:11 am
Posted on 9/25/18 at 11:06 am to TigersOfGeauxld
7th floor 05-06.
Sleep well sweet prince.
Sleep well sweet prince.
Posted on 9/25/18 at 11:19 am to G Vice
quote:
Fall 1987 - Spring 1988.
my era as well
…. although I lived off campus, lots of bong hits were consumed in KS Posted on 9/25/18 at 11:21 am to BRich
quote:
From the posts here and from what I've heard, thank God I only had to spend a week in Kirby Smith during Boys State in summer 1981 (is Boys State still a thing?)
K.S. for Boys State in 96. They had us in Hodges (No AC) for Spring Testing 97.
Posted on 9/25/18 at 11:36 am to TigersOfGeauxld
quote:
One of my brothers roomed there way back before it underwent renovation in 2011
About 15 years after it was slated for its initial demolition.
Posted on 9/25/18 at 11:37 am to LSULaw2009
'83-'84 here. Had to get up at 6am most mornings for runs so didn't partake in much debauchery. I did have a suite-mate that was bulimic which at the time I had no idea males could be.
Posted on 9/25/18 at 11:40 am to TigersOfGeauxld
Kirby Smith...TYFYS
601B
601B
Posted on 9/25/18 at 12:05 pm to dj30
quote:Same. 4th floor.
Kirby Smith! 04-05.
quote:Holy shite I was next door to you. 412A
wizziko
This post was edited on 9/25/18 at 12:11 pm
Posted on 9/25/18 at 12:11 pm to Stexas
I remember “kicking” the 4th floor button
Posted on 9/25/18 at 12:11 pm to TigersOfGeauxld
Dinosaur here. 410A, Spring of '69. Back then, there was no piss in the elevators. In fact, the whole place was sterile. In more ways than one. No one partied there, all the good parties were at Graham and Pentagon. Especially Pentagon. FTW. Tried my first bong there. Ok, I'll stop here...
Posted on 9/25/18 at 12:14 pm to TigersOfGeauxld
Good Times even if it was a shite hole, 97-98 - 701A
Posted on 9/25/18 at 12:20 pm to tigersnipen
91-92. I am sure I killed some brain cells during that time. I'll be there to watch that bitch implode.
Posted on 9/25/18 at 12:56 pm to member12
quote:
I know my brother was in Highland Hall in 1998/1999 and it did not have an A/C. The rooms were massive, the windows were huge, they had large suite bathrooms in a much better layout than Kirby, and the ceilings were pretty high.
Yep. I remember going into Highland or Evangeline to study and I remember my classmate telling me he chose that dorm b/c it was better even though it had no A/C. They had a fan in the window while it was hot as hell outside, and I just remember thinking "frick that".
Posted on 9/25/18 at 12:58 pm to TigersOfGeauxld
Seriously, what a shithole though.
My buddy lived in there in 2004 on the 10th floor I think. The elevator was always busted and people were always pulling the fire alarm. One time someone took a shite in the stairwell and then pulled the fire alarm.
My buddy lived in there in 2004 on the 10th floor I think. The elevator was always busted and people were always pulling the fire alarm. One time someone took a shite in the stairwell and then pulled the fire alarm.
Posted on 9/25/18 at 12:59 pm to StormTiger
quote:
remember during my two years there (96-97, 97-98), a sheep was kidnapped and rode in the elevator for an hour or so...
I came across a live chicken in a cardboard box one night in those same elevators
Posted on 9/25/18 at 1:25 pm to TigersOfGeauxld
14th floor 1992.
I regularly walked the stairs to avoid the piss and vomit soaked elevators.
I regularly walked the stairs to avoid the piss and vomit soaked elevators.
Posted on 9/25/18 at 1:34 pm to Ace Midnight
I don’t remember that but you certainly could have. We had windows open a lots
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