re: What are some of your favorite LSU secrets, mysteries, and lore?

quote:

---

No lie, i just remembered my Olympic weight bar is from the Gym Armory Before the Rec center opened we worked out at the gym armory, some Balboa-esque weight room in the bottom area.

---

Yep. I took a weight lifting class in there in 1991. All those old weight plates and bars were rusty as hell. It was archaic compared to Foxy's

I took a swimming class and we swam in that old pool. I already knew how to swim of course, but needed an activity class that I could excel at. Every Thursday we had to swim 60 laps in that pool (I think it was a mile). What I didn't like was the instructor who seemed to have little regard for the students who took the class and didn't know how to swim at all. He didn't really help them. They stayed in the shallow end of the pool clawing at the water, and the instructor paid them little to no attention. That bothered me.

What about that shack that was on the northwest exterior of the stadium. It was along the sidewalk at the bottom of the hill. I don’t even remember what it was, maybe food?

quote:

---

the Reggie phones in the Union were direct phone lines that let you schedule for classes, and they let you in faster than if you called from home

---

There was a phone in the library on the first floor near the elevators that was like this. Always had a long line.

Introduction to Adderral 1001

There was a rare book room in attic of Allen hall when the Architecture school was in that building. We used to sneak up there (it was the only part of the building where air conditioner worked and reade the books. It also had thesis of a lot of old professors on file there.

quote:

---

Who killed football players gf in hit and run on Indian Mounds week before Miss st away game in 1982?

---

I remember that. It was just some drunk dumbass student doing drunk dumbass student things.

S stadium dorms.... they turned it into office space. That was my office/lab in late 80s.
It was pretty miserable even w ac, and drafty in winter.
Gym amoury ... played ball hockey there into early 90s. Was on the broad st bullies

You’re posting a lot for someone that is so slammed at work to the point of causing mental health issues.

quote:

---

I remember the incident with Mike and that guy in 88 . LSU police had to rely on Jose Vargas to talk him down. Actually it was Jose who said to the cops that it was just a toy.

---

Ernie had a good pair of binoculars in his room while we were waiting for everything to calm down so we could leave to go eat. You could see the seams of the plastic along the top of the gun that made us think it was a toy as well. We kept trying to get a look at the muzzle to be sure, but he never faced that way toward us. But yeah, it turned out to be a toy UZI squirt gun that used two C-size batteries.

tGhosts in the stadium dorms