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re: What are some of your favorite LSU secrets, mysteries, and lore?
Posted on 5/12/23 at 11:08 pm to TDsngumbo
Posted on 5/12/23 at 11:08 pm to TDsngumbo
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I once climbed the stairs to the top of Memorial Tower with a group of friends.
I was doing photography work for LSU media relations as a student in the mid 80s and did the same thing just before they were going to be doing some waterproofing to the tower itself. Sketchy as frick.
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Posted on 5/12/23 at 11:11 pm to Shexter
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That used to be my snack stop when walking to class. IIRC they still sold cigarettes there in the early 90's.
Yeah, and there was up a small set of stairs to go inside.
Along the same wall of the stadium, there was also a laundromat, and the KLSU DJ booth. They also had a basketball goal mounted in the ground along there. The older black dude that worked the register in the little store was blind.
Posted on 5/12/23 at 11:38 pm to TexasTiger08
I am glad I didn’t always know what was happening in other stalls in the bathrooms at Middleton library. I got to have a couple of years of taking a dump while reading the Reveille during study breaks believing the noises were just some extremely constipated individuals and the holes were just poor maintenance issues.
Ignorance was bliss until it wasn’t.
Also sliding down the Indian mounds in pouring rain was a lot of fun.
Posted on 5/13/23 at 5:21 am to dallastigers
In 1968 we used to break into the nuclear science bldg at 2 in the morning to use the Wang computer to run distillation tray to tray calculations. The big pool of water with the blue light at the bottom was mesmerizing.
The Wang computer was pretty much limited to add/subtract/multiply/divide but still much faster than paper/pencil. Hand held calculators came on the market 2-3 years later
Posted on 5/13/23 at 7:30 am to TexasTiger08
I had no idea until very late in my time there how many people used the private study cubes in the library for sex. I’d earn the rumor, but never believed it until I was in there studying for a diff eq exam and heard the unmistakable slap slap slap sound of some dude pounding away at his coed who was doing a very poor job of keeping quiet.
Posted on 5/13/23 at 7:35 am to elprez00
Who brought a gas can into the Lambda Chi house in August 87 and tried to murder me and my boys? Pretty insanely criminal, lots of injuries and a beautiful home destroyed. I’d like that answer now that the statute of limitations has expired.
Posted on 5/13/23 at 7:38 am to TexasTiger08
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Stadium Dorms - I never did sneak in, but it was fun walking the ramps in TS and sticking your phone inside a window and taking a picture with the flash.
Huey Long Fieldhouse - I did manage to get in there once. The drained pool was quite creepy. It’s nice to see the place being fixed up.
Did both of these, after I got off of my 3am RA shift. Dorms were creepy.
Old basketball court in the bottom of the building by the traffic circle, on top of the hill.
Old Mike the Tiger cage.
Alex Box Stadium.
Does the Pentagon cafeteria still serve athletes? Do the dorms finally have A/C?
Kirby-Smith still standing.
LaSalle Honors dorms being segregated between males & females (good luck today)
Posted on 5/13/23 at 9:14 am to Cycledude
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There used to be a place to eat called “the Dungeon “ that was behind the Middleton Library. It was sorta underground and had pretty good food. Don’t know if it still exists?
Is that the place that had the fricking Subway?
Posted on 5/13/23 at 10:38 am to A Menace to Sobriety
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Is that the place that had the fricking Subway?
Was during my time....that subway was so small and busy they had a system.....if you ate there you eitger knew that system or they'd reem you
Posted on 5/13/23 at 10:41 am to The Boat
Shhhh. Keep this secret kept. I would use that bathroom almost daily
Posted on 5/13/23 at 11:40 am to tigahfan747
In 1976 or so, you could go to the top floor of the life sciences building and hold a live monkey. Just show up and ask a grad student. Little monkey was all muscle. It was a baby but felt like a rock with fur. It was not widely known and some senior pre med student told me about it.
Posted on 5/13/23 at 11:50 am to scott8811
Yeah it was a crappy Subway when I was there. Wasn't sure if it was something else before that
Wasn't sure if it was something else before that
Posted on 5/13/23 at 12:05 pm to A Menace to Sobriety
I've been to the roof of CEBA. My friend was doing a research project where he needed access to satellite signals and he got access to the roof. He took me there. It was pretty cool he had the door codes and permission and we went up to the roof of CEBA. Cool view of campus.
I got to watch LSU road games on TigerVision for free. They had a feed to some rooms in Tiger Stadium for athletes and athletic department employees. My friend worked in the athletic department so I got to watch the road games for free with other athletes.
The academic center for athletes used to be in the basement and first floor of Coates Hall in the evenings. One of the first things Nick did was get a building especially for athletes.
I got to watch LSU road games on TigerVision for free. They had a feed to some rooms in Tiger Stadium for athletes and athletic department employees. My friend worked in the athletic department so I got to watch the road games for free with other athletes.
The academic center for athletes used to be in the basement and first floor of Coates Hall in the evenings. One of the first things Nick did was get a building especially for athletes.
Posted on 5/13/23 at 1:11 pm to BigBinBR
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They had a haunted house in the mid to late 90s in either Hatcher or Hodges. It was fantastic.
One year they had the actual actor that played PinHead from Hellraiser.
Anybody remember the little mini-mart on the opposite side of Pentagon from Chateau Kirby? In the 90’s I believe they still sold cigarettes. It used to get a ton of business at night from the munchies crowd.
Did the tunnel thing twice. Ended up underneath the parade grounds once. We fricked with people in front of Middleton doing whisper shite while looking at them through the grate. Really freaked one chick out bad. Came out behind one of the Halls on the far side of the quad. It was like it opened up into a little sunken patio type area. That was the easiest way out. Lots of Ramones graffiti down there if my memory serves. We always entered through a hatch between Pentagon and the Greek theater.
ETA: the first time we went down there my roommate brought a water gun full of holy water he got from the Catholic student union
This post was edited on 5/13/23 at 1:14 pm
Posted on 5/13/23 at 1:13 pm to TexasTiger08
Coates Hall bathroom and the mysterious BJ you get when you stick your wiener through the hole in the wall.
Posted on 5/13/23 at 1:39 pm to TexasTiger08
The stacks in Hill Memorial library are haunted as shite.
Same with some places up in the hidden reaches of old Howe Russell.
Same with some places up in the hidden reaches of old Howe Russell.
Posted on 5/13/23 at 6:11 pm to Swamp Angel
As late as 2001-2002 we used to climb over the gate after football games and swim in the outdoor pool at Huey Long Field House. The gate had metal bars that were pointy on the top. There was about a three foot clearance between the the top of the bars and the doorway. It wasn’t easy but very manageable. Ripped some clothes on occasion, but that was the worst of it. Swam in there for hours some nights. As long as you were quiet it didn’t seem like anyone would come around.
Posted on 5/13/23 at 6:36 pm to Motownsix
My dad's age group had panty raids
Basically Evangeline horseshoe was "box" canyon and I guess girls there panties out the window
I don't know
Basically Evangeline horseshoe was "box" canyon and I guess girls there panties out the window
I don't know
Posted on 5/13/23 at 7:05 pm to TexasTiger08
As a kid I loved eating at the tiger lair at the union. Regularly ate the burrito topped with nacho cheese or the pizzas. They were awesome to my kid palate
Posted on 5/13/23 at 7:54 pm to TexasTiger08
quote:People still lived in them in 1978 when I lived in Hatcher. I did my laundry over there a few times, but never knew anyone that lived there. I wish I had gone into a room.
Stadium Dorms - I never did sneak in, but it was fun walking the ramps in TS and sticking your phone inside a window and taking a picture with the flash.
quote:When my brother was an LSU student, he worked security down there. In the 70's security was him sitting at a desk with a lit of who could be in there. After the first couple of days he sat there studying and would confront an occasional stranger who got down there.
PMAC practice court dungeon.
My favorite PMAC story is from 1978. I sold tee shirts during concerts in what we called "The Assembly Center". I had to be there early. The day Foghat was there, one of there band members was riding the PMAC ramps on a Honda Elsinore 250. Campus security came and stopped him, but he got a good 10-12 times around before they arrived.
My brother and I had those jobs because the director of the PMAC was from my hometown. Another guy from there ran it for at least a decade later. I used to get tickets for football and basketball from him.
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