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re: Tell me about the Old-school party days of LSU

Posted on 11/16/16 at 10:46 am to
Posted by 777Tiger
Member since Mar 2011
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Posted on 11/16/16 at 10:46 am to
pretty wild back in the late70s, usually started on Tuesday -Caterie Countdown, Wednesday -ladies night everywhere, Highland Rd. always had something going on, hell, you could get a beer in the student union at 8am, used to met a prof there before class and buy his beers for an A, TGIF specials were so unreal they were eventually outlawed, wild-assed trips to Chuck's, South Seas Island, I forget what it was called but there was something similar to that in the fall with a champagne breakfast, I worked at the Bengal and the Caterie, the whole college bar employee crowd was like a second frat/sorority, we partied our asses off while we worked, then went across the river to Sans Souci after we closed the bars down, awesome times, people don't believe some of the shite that went on back then, Tigerland was not yet the 'hood, after parties from apt. to apt. were pretty wild


ETA: forgot to mention jam-jam, that was awesome, it was like a rolling party tidal wave for the weeks leading up to it and then boom! drunk sorostitutes and GDIs stumbling around everywhere just waiting to be, well, you know
This post was edited on 11/16/16 at 11:12 am
Posted by LSU alum wannabe
Katy, TX
Member since Jan 2004
27792 posts
Posted on 11/16/16 at 10:55 am to
1993-1996 ish.

There was a bar or icehouse, it had an elephant out front or was just on the sign? It was kind of a club as well?

In addition it was within walking distance or a very short drive to a strip bar or two.

Too many years and too many beers on the nights in question.

I remember the ice house having a pretty good beer selection for the mid 90's?

Can anyone name these places? Was I hallucinating the entire thing?
Posted by TygerTyger
Houston
Member since Oct 2010
11129 posts
Posted on 11/16/16 at 11:07 am to
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Not with multiple kegs of beer and a garbage can of jungle juice.


well that sucks. WTH do they do now?


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$1 calls at Murphys


If you ever wanted a lesson in how to be a bartender and handle a throng of people all trying to get drinks at once, Murphys on a Wednesday night or any Thursday night that Drivin & Cryin played was the place to get educated. Loved their shirts that had the Grim Reaper standing in a graveyard of headstones with the names of all the other bars that hadn't made it. Ben Wynn really fricked up a legendary spot.






ALL of this. Drivin' n Cryin' at Murphy's was the shite. The men's bathroom was possible the most disgusting thing I've smelled other than my trip to Port Harcourt Nigeria. One night the place was so packed to see Drivin' n Cryin' that you couldn't move. My friend had to piss but the crowd was just too tightly packed for him to make his way to the pisser. So he just whipped it out, pissed in a beer bottle, and gingerly set in on the floor. Other than our group, I don't think anyone noticed. The band was rocking "A Toy Never Played With" and it was too fricking loud to care.
Posted by uptownsage
New Orleans
Member since Oct 2014
2156 posts
Posted on 11/16/16 at 11:12 am to
Senor Frogs in Tigerland.

After the drinking law changed to 21, sneaking into Tiger Mart to buy alcohol when the BRPD wasn't sitting right outside the store.
Posted by I am GLORIOUS
On Tanden's Pond
Member since Oct 2016
3128 posts
Posted on 11/16/16 at 11:14 am to
I remember back around 92 I was in the old Sports Illustrated (or was it Snorkels?) and I used to consider myself a pretty heavy drinker who could handle his liquor. Well in walks in LSU basketball player Geert Hamminck who was 7 foot tall and from Germany or some shite. Anyways my buddies started riling him up telling him they bet I could drink him under the table. We started doing shots of jet fuel and I went toe to toe with that big fricker. All I know is that after shot 18 I tried to stand up from the bar and the blood rushed to my head or something and the next thing I knew I was face down on the bar and couldn't even remember the chicks name I was with. From what I was told Hamminck did 21 shots and called it quits. The entire next day I was sick as a dog, in my dorm room throwing up jet fuel at 10-minute intervals for about 12 hours straight. I can still remember the smell of the lemon-scented garbage bag in the trashcan in which I was throwing my guts up. Ahh, those were the days
Posted by 777Tiger
Member since Mar 2011
92264 posts
Posted on 11/16/16 at 11:20 am to
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sneaking into Tiger Mart to buy alcohol when the BRPD wasn't sitting right outside the store.



we used to go into Kattz and Bestoff and buy Texas Pride beer($1.29/six pack,) and wear coats(no matter what the temp,) stuff beers into our pockets, to go to some popular watering hole near Corporate Blvd., can't recall the name, that had a ladies drink free on Friday afternoons, we'd order a draft, ($1 each,) then keep refilling our glasses with the Texas Pride
Posted by Zappas Stache
Utility Muffin Research Kitchen
Member since Apr 2009
43145 posts
Posted on 11/16/16 at 11:25 am to
In the 80's professors in the Landscape Architecture Department would sometimes buy a keg and put it in the Design Building lobby for a Friday afternoon happy hour.
Posted by 777Tiger
Member since Mar 2011
92264 posts
Posted on 11/16/16 at 11:29 am to
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In the 80's professors in the Landscape Architecture Department would sometimes buy a keg and put it in the Design Building lobby for a Friday afternoon happy hour.

I had some pretty wild times on the roof of the HPL field house, don't even know if that's still the LA architecture building or not

ETA: went to a Law School "final" on the levee with three friends, Professor Pascal, and a case of wine, the day before everyone else got their final exam for his class
This post was edited on 11/16/16 at 11:32 am
Posted by G Vice
Lafayette, LA
Member since Dec 2006
13166 posts
Posted on 11/16/16 at 11:36 am to
I think that watering hole on Corporate was Glen's.
Posted by 777Tiger
Member since Mar 2011
92264 posts
Posted on 11/16/16 at 11:38 am to
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I think that watering hole on Corporate was Glen's.

don't recall, it was kind of a disco joint, much fancier of a place than we would normally be in, not really a college bar per se, we just went there to see if there were any weaklings worth cutting out of the herd
Posted by Martini
Near Athens
Member since Mar 2005
49661 posts
Posted on 11/16/16 at 11:43 am to
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Ruth and Jim's. Didn't Ruth shoot Jim?


Must have because now that you mentioned it I remember it as Ruth's Country Place.

I remember Yancey White got run over one night we were all out there. Haven't thought about him in a long time. Great guy.
Posted by bott18240
Baton Rouge
Member since Jun 2009
635 posts
Posted on 11/16/16 at 11:46 am to
How has the topic of pledge pickup not come up?? I was a pledge in 99 and I remember getting shite faced at the frat house, then piling into the back of trucks. We would then head over to whatever sorority house we had a party with, run in and grab the hottest girl you could find. From there, throw them into the back of the truck loaded with beer and head to the bar that was rented out. Sometimes the drive was far and you would have people hanging out of the trucks loaded with beer and girls. Could you even imagine that happening today? People are such pussies nowadays.
Posted by 777Tiger
Member since Mar 2011
92264 posts
Posted on 11/16/16 at 12:02 pm to
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How has the topic of pledge pickup not come up?

we would usually have the TGIFs at our house with a sorority as a "mixer," and we would sometimes rent an old barn out in the middle of nowhere, off Greenwell Springs Rd. maybe?, and head out there for some wild times, not much there but a barn and a softball field
This post was edited on 11/16/16 at 12:03 pm
Posted by SouthboundTiger
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2014
1099 posts
Posted on 11/16/16 at 12:03 pm to
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How has the topic of pledge pickup not come up??


Far from the glory days, but I did this in '05. It was the fricking shite
Posted by 777Tiger
Member since Mar 2011
92264 posts
Posted on 11/16/16 at 12:06 pm to
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Far from the glory days,

I think the glory days started winding down when they rasied the drinking age, tightened up on drinking and driving laws, and began to enforce both, not all for the bad but I wouldn't trade those experiences for anything, honestly sometimes wonder how I'm still alive, we did lose eight members of my frat in four years btw
Posted by Count Chocula
Tier 5 and proud
Member since Feb 2009
63908 posts
Posted on 11/16/16 at 12:09 pm to
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The SAE's would drill golf balls on the FIJI house on a near-daily basis.
The upstairs windows of the Kappa Sig house were made for a 9 iron shot.
Posted by 777Tiger
Member since Mar 2011
92264 posts
Posted on 11/16/16 at 12:11 pm to
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The upstairs windows of the Kappa Sig house were made for a 9 iron shot.



child's play, I may or may not know of some frat stars that may or may not have burned down the crotch house
Posted by Count Chocula
Tier 5 and proud
Member since Feb 2009
63908 posts
Posted on 11/16/16 at 12:12 pm to
I seem to remember a few of the "alleged" culprits myself.
Posted by Lsupimp
Ersatz Amerika-97.6% phony & fake
Member since Nov 2003
86171 posts
Posted on 11/16/16 at 12:13 pm to
To tell you how different things were in the 1980's, consider this. In 1987, an arsonist burned down the Lambda Chi house right in the middle of Rush. So LSU allowed us to have our "phase b" rush party at Murphy's, which were just drunken beer fests where we played "burning down the house" and "roof is on fire" over and over. Come to think of it, we did have a pretty shitty class that year...
Posted by 777Tiger
Member since Mar 2011
92264 posts
Posted on 11/16/16 at 12:13 pm to
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I seem to remember a few of the "alleged" culprits myself.

uh oh, we might know each other
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