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re: What are some of your favorite LSU secrets, mysteries, and lore?
Posted on 5/11/23 at 7:19 pm to TexasTiger08
Posted on 5/11/23 at 7:19 pm to TexasTiger08
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Posted on 5/11/23 at 7:21 pm to Havoc
Who remembers the little snack bar on the outside, East side of Tiger Stadium? It’s probably been since Fall of 87 since I went in there. I seem to remember a ton of football memorabilia on the walls.
Posted on 5/11/23 at 7:26 pm to idlewatcher
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Used to sneak in the “other” basketball court which was adjacent to the Indian Mounds. We used to play there for hours at midnight or later. Good times. Forgot the name of the building. I believe it’s gone now. Was across the street from Graham Hall
I think that may have been the Gym Armory building.
Oh also the old racquetball courts adjacent to the Fieldhouse pool. Scary.
Posted on 5/11/23 at 7:30 pm to SixthAndBarone
Chemistry library was always a great place to poop or sleep. Nobody was in there. Also there was an A/V closet on the second floor of CEBA with tv/vcr carts that was never locked.
Posted on 5/11/23 at 7:42 pm to TexasTiger08
Those are some good ones you brought up in the OP. My own experience in those same items in the mid to late 80s was-
Stadium dorms - Lived in room 121 of South Stadium (two doors to the left of the lobby when you walked in).
Huey Long Field House - The pool over there used to be decent and usable. At least for hanging out. It couldn't be used for competition though. Huey Long wanted LSU to have the largest pool of any university in the nation. UCLA's was three feet longer, so Huey had them tear out one end and add ten feet to it.
Tunnels- Never really had the keen desire to explore that part of campus. I'm not a fan of spiders at all.
PMAC practice courts - Played a few pick up games there when a few of us in the basketball band would get an opportunity to weasel our way in. I liked the floor of the courts there. It was the same hard rubberized floor that was played on upstairs on the main court before it was changed to wood. Your shoes would almost stick to it when you went to make a fast turn or move.
Not really belonging to any of the categories you mentioned, but certainly memorable was getting ice cream at the dairy science building.
As for lore, Dad used to regale us with tales of his days at LSU in the40s and 50s. He was Senior Cadet Colonel (ROTC Corps Commander) when Mike was kidnapped by Tulane students. He and fairly decent sized portion of the corps were just about to head to New Orleans to tear Tulane apart over it when news came out that Mike had been found.
In 88, I think it was, a few of us old South Stadium evictees were hanging out in Ernie's room on the 5th floor of North Stadium dorms when Mike IV was held hostage by a fellow with a paper bag full of notebooks that he claimed was a bomb, and a battery operated UZI squirt gun. Campus police wouldn't let us out of the dorm for our own safety, I reckon. All I know is that we missed dinner at Pentagon that night. Mike's dinner was a bit late as well. The whole time his captor was ranting on one side of Mike's yard, Mike was locked on the other side. That tiger paced back and forth along the closed bars separating him from the guy threatening to blow up the place. Never took his eyes off the guy. Just paced back and forth with a look on his face that left no doubt he'd have eaten him if he could have gotten to him.
That's all I've got.
Stadium dorms - Lived in room 121 of South Stadium (two doors to the left of the lobby when you walked in).
Huey Long Field House - The pool over there used to be decent and usable. At least for hanging out. It couldn't be used for competition though. Huey Long wanted LSU to have the largest pool of any university in the nation. UCLA's was three feet longer, so Huey had them tear out one end and add ten feet to it.
Tunnels- Never really had the keen desire to explore that part of campus. I'm not a fan of spiders at all.
PMAC practice courts - Played a few pick up games there when a few of us in the basketball band would get an opportunity to weasel our way in. I liked the floor of the courts there. It was the same hard rubberized floor that was played on upstairs on the main court before it was changed to wood. Your shoes would almost stick to it when you went to make a fast turn or move.
Not really belonging to any of the categories you mentioned, but certainly memorable was getting ice cream at the dairy science building.
As for lore, Dad used to regale us with tales of his days at LSU in the40s and 50s. He was Senior Cadet Colonel (ROTC Corps Commander) when Mike was kidnapped by Tulane students. He and fairly decent sized portion of the corps were just about to head to New Orleans to tear Tulane apart over it when news came out that Mike had been found.
In 88, I think it was, a few of us old South Stadium evictees were hanging out in Ernie's room on the 5th floor of North Stadium dorms when Mike IV was held hostage by a fellow with a paper bag full of notebooks that he claimed was a bomb, and a battery operated UZI squirt gun. Campus police wouldn't let us out of the dorm for our own safety, I reckon. All I know is that we missed dinner at Pentagon that night. Mike's dinner was a bit late as well. The whole time his captor was ranting on one side of Mike's yard, Mike was locked on the other side. That tiger paced back and forth along the closed bars separating him from the guy threatening to blow up the place. Never took his eyes off the guy. Just paced back and forth with a look on his face that left no doubt he'd have eaten him if he could have gotten to him.
That's all I've got.
This post was edited on 5/11/23 at 7:49 pm
Posted on 5/11/23 at 7:42 pm to TexasTiger08
One night, my sister and I sneaked onto the roof of the building with the telescope. That’s a little known attraction.
Posted on 5/11/23 at 7:45 pm to Swamp Angel
quote:thats the one with the pool?
Huey Long Field House - Played pick-up basketball over there a few times when the other fieldhouse was being used by Mike Archer's football team due to a light mist outside.
cool looking bldg
Posted on 5/11/23 at 7:48 pm to Swamp Angel
I randomly thought about the Carlotta St party recently. Could y’all imagine if that was still a thing? Yikes
Posted on 5/11/23 at 7:51 pm to OWLFAN86
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thats the one with the pool?
Yeah. That's the one. I had to go back and edit my post though. We played ball over at the gym armory, not the Huey Long Field House. We DID used to go swimming over there once in awhile though. maybe a couple times each spring semester when the weather got good and warmed up. Living in Stadium and then Pentagon dorms with no A/C, we kinda looked forward to be able to cool off.
This post was edited on 5/11/23 at 7:59 pm
Posted on 5/11/23 at 7:51 pm to Cycledude
Maybe where the Subway is now, at Foster? In the late 70s-early 80s it was a snack bar with sandwiches, chili Fritos & other cheap quick food. We called it “The Hole.”
Posted on 5/11/23 at 7:58 pm to eph4v29
Foster... Wonder how many people have gone over to the Museum of Natural Science there? Mike I is on display there. He looked pretty worn when I was there last.
Hill Memorial Library used to be an interesting place to explore. I was always a WWII history buff and was pleasantly surprised to come across the handwritten memoires of Gen Claire Lee Chennault - commander of the American Volunteer Group (The Flying Tigers). They'd let you look through them, but you had to wear those white, cotton gloves the whole time and you couldn't take them out of the reading room.
Hill Memorial Library used to be an interesting place to explore. I was always a WWII history buff and was pleasantly surprised to come across the handwritten memoires of Gen Claire Lee Chennault - commander of the American Volunteer Group (The Flying Tigers). They'd let you look through them, but you had to wear those white, cotton gloves the whole time and you couldn't take them out of the reading room.
Posted on 5/11/23 at 8:08 pm to Havoc
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Favorite was the old Gym Armory building circa mid 90s.
I was at LSU in 1980. Lived in West Stadium. I was trying to remember where the old squash courts were. Was that in the Gym Amory? We would sometimes play racquetball in those squash courts but the dimensions are not quite the same as a racquetball court. That place was like a dungeon.
Posted on 5/11/23 at 8:26 pm to mdomingue
quote:IIRC, right next to it but the structures were not just next to each other but seemed like one in some places.
I was trying to remember where the old squash courts were. Was that in the Gym Amory?
I recall the entrance for them was on the back side of the field house and they were like below the pool area.
Posted on 5/11/23 at 8:29 pm to Havoc
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I recall the entrance for them was on the back side of the field house and they were like below the pool area.
Yes, that's right. That must be it then.
Posted on 5/11/23 at 8:39 pm to mdomingue
Is there a secret society that runs things on campus?
Who killed football players gf in hit and run on Indian Mounds week before Miss st away game in 1982? And was that one reason we lost-team not focused
Who killed football players gf in hit and run on Indian Mounds week before Miss st away game in 1982? And was that one reason we lost-team not focused
Posted on 5/11/23 at 8:43 pm to secfballfan
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Who killed football players gf in hit and run on Indian Mounds week before Miss st away game in 1982?
I think I read that was a myth.
ETA: no it’s true.
This post was edited on 5/11/23 at 10:02 pm
Posted on 5/11/23 at 8:46 pm to TexasTiger08
Went in the tunnels several times. Usually entered in the quad. Exited one time behind the library. Went across to Hodges. One time came out south of quad in what appeared to be some kind of office or supply area. Finished the guys solitaire game. The next time we tried to go it was all locked up. Never was able to go again. Sorry!
Posted on 5/11/23 at 8:47 pm to mdomingue
Yeah,
Yellow is Gym Armory
Blue is Pool
Red is courts.
IIRC of course
Posted on 5/11/23 at 8:49 pm to mdomingue
The old gym armory also had an old weight room upstairs. A squat rack, two benches and a speed bag. The goals on the basketball court had really solid, bouncy rims.
And no, the stadium dorms were not air conditioned.
It was also known in the early 80's that there were criminals hiding in the wooded area behind the amphitheater.
I had a buddy with an apt. on Carlotta, so that was convenient.
One rumor I never explored was that there is a full-sized military airplane underground below Tiger stadium.
And no, the stadium dorms were not air conditioned.
It was also known in the early 80's that there were criminals hiding in the wooded area behind the amphitheater.
I had a buddy with an apt. on Carlotta, so that was convenient.
One rumor I never explored was that there is a full-sized military airplane underground below Tiger stadium.
Posted on 5/11/23 at 8:50 pm to 2geaux
In the early 80’s Tulane students cut open Mikes cage during thanksgiving break and Mike got out!
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