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Johnstone Hall is now gone...
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Took a pic last Saturday of the demolition at the Johnstone/Union/Harcombe site.
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E524 in 79/80 and 80/81.
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Sep 12, 2024, 1:06 PM
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Lots of memories, but I can't say that I'll miss them.
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Solid Orange [1357]
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Re: Johnstone Hall is now gone...
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Sep 12, 2024, 1:12 PM
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The last time I walked behind Tillman to check on my old freshman room from '73 it was still being used a couple of years ago. I was there when they were building the student center underneath. I hated that jackhammer going off at 8:00 in the morning.
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Solid Orange [1303]
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Re: Johnstone Hall is now gone...
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Sep 12, 2024, 5:50 PM
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Which room ?
I was A703
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Orange Blooded [2180]
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My nephew attended the Tommy Bowden FB camp years ago
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Sep 12, 2024, 1:46 PM
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and they stayed in Johnstone. I'd never really been in any of the dorm rooms as I always lived off campus while attending Clemson. As I was walking up the stairs to the top floor where they were assigned their rooms I had the distinct feeling that this building may have been great back in the 70's but it was really bad in the 2000's. The 14 year olds were all excited about staying in the dorms on campus. As he was unpacking the door to the room started to slowly close. As it did, on the back of it someone had drawn a huge cartoon peni$. As I opened the door back up and proped it open with the trash can I thought to myself, welcome to college.
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Re: My nephew attended the Tommy Bowden FB camp years ago
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I lived in it in the 70's. It was a dump then. We had no AC my first year. I had a poster painted with Dayglo paints and they kept flaking off. One night I squashed a cockroach. It oozed dayglo green. So they were eating the paint
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Standout [209]
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Re: My nephew attended the Tommy Bowden FB camp years ago
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Sep 12, 2024, 6:03 PM
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If lt was nice in the 70's there must have been some big improvements because I was in D2 for 2 years and in B7 for 2 more years in the 60's with no a/c and the tin cans felt like he_ll even though I enjoyed my time at Clemson.
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Game Day Hero [4170]
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Re: Johnstone Hall is now gone...
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Sep 12, 2024, 2:00 PM
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WOW NO MORE TIN CANS
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Standout [206]
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Thank God. That place was like an episode of OZ
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Sep 12, 2024, 2:05 PM
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Stayed in them 30+ years ago and it was sheer hell. Seriously, it's the closet to prison/hell I ever want to get. Senior year I made it into Calhoun Courts and wept at how great it was compared to the living hell of "The Stone."
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Hall of Famer [9066]
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Re: Johnstone Hall is now gone...
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Sep 12, 2024, 2:06 PM
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hope they name the green space johnstone, schilletter, edgars park
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Solid Orange [1303]
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Re: Johnstone Hall is now gone...
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Sep 12, 2024, 5:51 PM
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Got to call it
The Loggia
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Asst Coach [808]
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Re: Johnstone Hall is now gone...
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Sep 12, 2024, 2:06 PM
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But I will always have the memories (or nightmares depending on who you ask) of my freshman year on D6.
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Standout [206]
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Re: Johnstone Hall is now gone...
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Sep 12, 2024, 2:09 PM
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D was a really rough section but I think E was worse. I purposely avoiding cutting through E because it really was like going into the Hannibel Lectur prison wing
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Clemson Icon [24692]
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Lived on E3 for two years. It was GREAT!!!***
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Redshirt [93]
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Re: Lived on E3 for two years. It was GREAT!!!***
Sep 13, 2024, 12:52 AM
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I lived in E405 in 69.
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Re: I think he lived next door***
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Sep 12, 2024, 9:00 PM
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E333 in '67-'68. No a/c, no tv, no electrical appliances. Just like home. No big deal. Beat the hell out of 'Nam though.
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MVP [529]
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Re: Johnstone Hall is now gone...
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Sep 12, 2024, 4:45 PM
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Lived in E-505 my freshman year '69. 85/90% of us were "#### Yankees" from North of the M-D line. It was a "suitcase college" back then and the campus was a ghost town on weekends, so we had to make our own "entertainment on weekends. As the statutes of limitations is in effect, let me relate some of "events"...
1-Late weekend nights after a few brews, we would get hungry an build bond fires in the hall storage room and grill hotdogs,
B-How about taking the room closet doors, putting them sideways in the "common" shower room, sealing the drains and "viola"...in dorm pool...
2-Here's a good one...55 gal drum filled with water and leaning up against the residence monitor's door as his "morning "wake up"...
5- Even better...late night, lighter fluid down the entire E-5 hall ways (it was an "L" shaped hall) and extra under the RA door. Then light the fluid...awesome...with 2 & 5, we went through a lot of RAs,
3-Take the fire hose and flood the long hallway (facing Norris Hall Frat house) and go bare ### paying homage to Simon and Garfunkel and just "slip sliding away" (note: avoiding the steel floor expansion joint was a trick you had to master)...
We were called to Dean Cox's office several times that Fall, but as they couldn't pin any of the "juvenile actions" as he described them on any one student, for the Spring semester of '70, E-5 hall (those that didn't flunk out of the Fall semester) was put on probation. BTW, it wasn't "SECRET" as we all were required to sign in/out for classes, study, meals and going home!
..got a ton more, oh, oh...just one more...
Mostly on football weekend...5 guys sitting in the individual crapper stalls....wait for some unsuspecting visitor to sit in the 6th stall. Signal from one of the 5 stall guys who all flush at the same time. Shi**er lines can't handle a 5 flush and guess where the water/shi* backs up to...yep, Shi**er #6!
Ah...the memories...Senator Bluto Blutarsky would be proud!
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Wonder if the stench of pi.ss, stale beer and vomit
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Sep 12, 2024, 2:08 PM
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are still coming up from that former Johnstone Hall dirt....
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Standout [206]
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Re: Wonder if the stench of pi.ss, stale beer and vomit
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Sep 12, 2024, 2:10 PM
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and feral cat and rat corpses
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Game Day Hero [4170]
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Sep 12, 2024, 2:09 PM
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Lots of memories and life lessons
but I was blessed to have gone to and graduated from Clemson
one of the best decisions of my life
GO TIGERS
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Well, G'ville's Charlie Daniel of Daniel Construction Co built
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Sep 12, 2024, 2:17 PM
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the infamous Tin Cans in 1 Summer using a marvelous award-winning cantilever system where concrete floors were laid and jacked up one at at time, supported and sheaved by a thin wall & roll-out windows.
They served Clemson well & with great economy but a horror tale for many cadets.
Let's blame Charlie! LOL~
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Re: Well, G'ville's Charlie Daniel of Daniel Construction Co built
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Sep 12, 2024, 3:09 PM
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My Dad was there in 1956-1957 and talked about the type of construction - it was new fangled technology and he told me they were supposed to be temporary buildings, not meant for decades of use. When I was there 1983-1987, they were showing their age!
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Commissioner [1299]
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Some of these posters need some salve on their mangina...but none of you wanted a tent or foxhole in VietNam...if you could not live and be content in the cans you were probably spoiled rotten! Great experience and the foot was good in the cafeteria!
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Re: Johnstone Hall is now gone...
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I stayed on D4 my first two years in 84-86. I seem to be in the minority, it was a dump, but I thought it provided the absolute perfect college experience and environment for Freshman and Sophomores.
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Ultimate Clemson Legend [99910]
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I was also on D4 in 1984-86 and agree that it was an awesome college experience***
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Clemson Sports Icon [58028]
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Re: I was also on D4 in 1984-86 and agree that it was an awesome college experience***
Sep 12, 2024, 6:48 PM
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I was on D4 in 80-81 & 81-82. My room was right over the underpass. A bull dozer hit it going through the underpass and I was sure I was gonna be smashed.
There was also a car in that same underpass filled with hay burned up on homecoming one of those years.
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Clemson Sports Icon [58028]
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Re: I was also on D4 in 1984-86 and agree that it was an awesome college experience***
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I was on D4 in 80-81 & 81-82. My room was right over the underpass. A bull dozer hit it going through the underpass and I was sure I was gonna be smashed.
There was also a car in that same underpass filled with hay burned up on homecoming one of those years.
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Rival Killer [2659]
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Legend [6785]
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Re: Johnstone Hall is now gone...
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Sep 12, 2024, 2:24 PM
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On my hall we had a good group of guys, and I enjoyed my time there (mid-70'2). Last two years were in Lever Hall (6D-5) with an even greater group of guys. Back then if you weren't studying, you would leave your door open and you met just about everyone on your floor. Tons of fun at CU.
Our son's dorm at Marshall had fire doors that auto shut, and a private bathroom. So he and his roommate never met anyone on his hall.
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Game Changer [1685]
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Sep 12, 2024, 2:57 PM
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I lived in Johnstone in 2016 and most of the doors were left open still. It was a great way to make friends.
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Re: Johnstone Hall is now gone...
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Sep 12, 2024, 3:11 PM
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We kept our door open and were at the intersection corner, so we had lots of social activity and a wet bar, and two mini-fridges of beer and bologna. Room C-820, three years.
Now, if only the bathroom stalls had doors and the showers had dividers, then it would have been like a nice prison. You talk about feeling exposed to the world.
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Solid Orange [1308]
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C-519 from 72-74
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Two fantastic years followed by 2 on 9th floor Lever. Couldn’t have asked for a better college experience.
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Trainer [43]
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Sep 12, 2024, 2:52 PM
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E226 back in 1968.
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Dynasty Maker [3324]
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Sep 12, 2024, 3:04 PM
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I lived in section A and the A annex from 82-84. It was a dump with a sink in the room and gun racks with curtains for closets 😆 but it was a great location with a lot of memories. I definitely prefer that side of campus. Moved to Riverbank commons for the next 3 years. I loved it there and loved having my car parked right outside. I much preferred living off campus.Riverbanks was a zoo.
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Clemson Sports Icon [58028]
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Re: Johnstone Hall is now gone...
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Sep 12, 2024, 6:51 PM
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Those were girl's dorms then. Spent a few nights in A annex.
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Game Day Hero [4282]
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Re: Johnstone Hall is now gone...
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Sep 12, 2024, 3:11 PM
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Sadly gone! 4 great years there. C-5
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Standout [240]
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Sep 12, 2024, 3:46 PM
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E604 fall 1977 freshman year
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MVP [519]
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Sep 12, 2024, 4:10 PM
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D3 for 3.5 years (1975-78). College View apartments behind the Esso Club my last semester. Johnstone was not the Taj Mahal but it was a great place to live for a college student. As others have mentioned, made some great friends in that dorm!
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Paw Warrior [4739]
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Spent a lot of time in that area...
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Sep 12, 2024, 4:12 PM
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Remember Edgar's and those huge cups of Beer.
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Orange Elite [5154]
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Sep 12, 2024, 4:19 PM
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RIP. I was in Johnstone F - Fall '95. Good times. The last stand of the community shower in dorms.
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Dynasty Maker [3574]
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F4 F88-S89, one year was enough. I moved to Cope where folks were more civilized***
Sep 12, 2024, 10:15 PM
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MVP [520]
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Sep 12, 2024, 4:22 PM
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1969, C7 first semester, B7 second semester. Alot of memories. Not the greatest accommodations. I loved it. Almost flunked out.
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110%er [3717]
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Sep 13, 2024, 7:16 AM
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2969-1970 on D-3. Must have run into you at the Red Carpet as I almost flunked out too! Graduated in Dec '73, 5 loosing seasons and 3 Head Coaches in football. It makes you appreciate Dabo emensly! 2 Head Coaches in Basketball and 4 loosing seasons, but did see the first game with Tree, Skip and Stan!!
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Dynasty Maker [3119]
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C-732 for three years
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Sep 12, 2024, 4:26 PM
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Great memories. That was a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.
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Athletic Dir [1102]
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Thats E2 where I lived 68-69***
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Athletic Dir [1102]
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Thats E2 where I lived 68-69***
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Orange Blooded [2253]
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A painful sight indeed. The 2+ years I worked at the URC (bowling alley) up until the very end were some of the best times of my college experience. Created a lot of memories that’ll last a lifetime. Loved it when the old timers would come in and reminisce about the days of Edgar’s and all the crazy stuff they did lol. Oh well, Jimbo is hungry and he must feed.
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sniff, sniff. They were crap, but they were OUR crap.***
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Re: Johnstone Hall is now gone...
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Very sad. D504 in my senior year 1974-75. Hi, Brian. It’s me
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Wow. The end of an era for sure.***
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Clemson Conqueror [11849]
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Temporary housing lasting 70 years ain't too bad. Just think how long permanent dorms will last!
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Different people-different perspectives
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I lived in E for 2 years and A for 2 from 70 -74. OK, I’m from a small town and this was my first time away from home, but I never thought the Cans were awful. Not great, but about what I expected.
50 years later I can’t imagine living there, or in any other dorm room!
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‘72. C-8. I left home a civilized young man. Tin cans erased that
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Re: Johnstone Hall is now gone...
Sep 12, 2024, 10:28 PM
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RIP F.
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Re: Johnstone E5 98-99 for life ..***
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Dynasty Maker [3106]
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Re: Johnstone Hall is now gone...
Sep 13, 2024, 12:44 AM
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I won't miss the smell of chitlins in Johnstone D🤣
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