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TNET: "Little ole Clemson" has one of everything and still recruits at high level
Dec 27, 2019, 7:01 AM
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Those of us who grew up here
Dec 27, 2019, 7:17 AM
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we understand it well. In those days the "one of everything" was more like "one of a few unique things". You had the old Holtzendorf Y, and Judge Kellers, and then you had the Y barn and the Lake (for our youth outdoor sports), to name a few, but they were unique items. Fike was a "rec" center that us HS kids just finagled our way into so we could swim or ball or lift the cheap weights. Western Sizzlin and the Clemson House would've been the go-to Sunday meal. And can't forget the old downtown theatre where we saw the movies, and then they added the Astro III but I never knew of any predecessor Astro II. So I guess the town sort of liked to be bigger than it was.
But the interesting thing is the ratio of town to school - always stayed the same. I think the town was about maybe 8000 with a university capped at like 12,500. Now you have the town at 14000 and the school at 24000 - about the same ratio.
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Re: Those of us who grew up here
Dec 27, 2019, 9:00 AM
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I think they wrote it Astro III but when you said it, you said Astro Triple because it had three screens. The first movie I saw there was ET, the last was Mean Girls with my wife I married 15 years later! Memories of little ole Clemson...
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Re: Those of us who grew up here
Dec 27, 2019, 11:02 AM
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The Astro III was so named because it was opened after the Astro theaters in Greenville. The original 700-seat Astro Theatre opened in Greenville, SC on December 22, 1967 with a 70mm reissue of “Gone With the Wind”. Built by visionary entrepreneur Heyward Morgan, the Astro Theatre featured space-age decor with vaulted ceilings embedded with twinkling stars and a lunar relief. The restrooms were labeled "Astronauts" for men and "Astronaughties" for women.
Despite objections that no location could sustain more than one screen, Morgan added the Astro II in approximately 1969; the combined auditoriums seated over 1,000 patrons, and were later joined by a sister theater, the Astro III in Clemson, South Carolina.
Astro I premiered many 70mm releases and, during the early-1970’s, was the only theater in Upstate South Carolina where could be seen such releases as “Deliverance”, “The Godfather”, “The Exorcist” and “Jaws”; boxoffice sellouts were common weekend occurences. The world premier of Burt Lancaster’s “The Midnight Man”, filmed in Clemson SC, was held at the Astro Theatre in 1974.
The jewel in the South Carolina crown of Martin Theatres of Georgia for some two decades, the Astro Twin closed its doors in the late-1980’s, overtaken by the modern tide of multiplexes.
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Re: Those of us who grew up here
Dec 27, 2019, 11:29 AM
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Learn something new everyday! Thanks for the history lesson!
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Re: Those of us who grew up here
Dec 27, 2019, 12:17 PM
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Bonnie and Clyde was the 1st 4 me
Braveheart the last........not that anyone cares.
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Re: Those of us who grew up here
Dec 27, 2019, 11:21 AM
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The 2 movies i remember watching at the downtown theater as a student were Easy Rider and Johnny Got His Gun,(one of the most disturbing movies ever made)...
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Re: Those of us who grew up here
Dec 27, 2019, 11:39 AM
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Has the quality of life changed any since the whopping population explosion, like in crime, or heavy drug use with the teenagers or young adults, or is there any gang related activity since the growth of Clemson the city?
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Re: TNET: "Little ole Clemson" has one of everything and still recruits at high level
Dec 27, 2019, 7:47 AM
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Our reach and our brand truly have become amazing. To think back when our reach was SC, NC, GA with an occasional outsider....... course that was years ago! Now we got what we need, and a jet to go see em and tell them all about it! Go Tigers!!!
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Re: TNET: "Little ole Clemson" has one of everything and still recruits at high level
Dec 27, 2019, 11:21 AM
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I remember we had a recruiter up north who used to run a pipeline from NJ and PA. Big old linemen from the steel mills and coal mine areas. Think Don Chuey from Nutley.
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How do I get that Dabo/Santa picture as a jpeg file or the
Dec 27, 2019, 8:01 AM
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like?
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Re: How do I get that Dabo/Santa picture as a jpeg file or the
Dec 27, 2019, 9:38 AM
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It's not very good quality I'm afraid. Go Tigers! Beat the BuckNuts!
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Thanks!***
Dec 27, 2019, 2:38 PM
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Re: TNET: "Little ole Clemson" has one of everything and still recruits at high level
Dec 27, 2019, 8:19 AM
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I wasn't born in SC, moved to Charleston as a 7th grader from northern VA and I remember being challenged in school "Are you for Clemson or S Carolina?".
I knew nothing of either, so I asked about them and got the usual information, mascots, colors, locations "Clemson is in Clemson, and S Carolina is in Columbia (aka the armpit of the state)" so already I'm starting to move in the direction of Clemson.
"WTH is a gamecock anyways?" "It's a fighting rooster"
"A chicken? No, I can't pull for a chicken, Tigers it is"
The next year, I watched the '78 Gator Bowl and the rest is history for me. I turned down USC, UVA, UNC and the USNA to go to Clemson and enjoyed all 5 years of my time there. The '82 season starting as champs, the end of the downtown theater (Monty Python and the Holy Grail at night with, I think, the owner playing the drums in front of the screen before it started. I was on the field the first time we tore down a goalpost, I roamed the sidelines as a photographer for the Tiger, I occasionally went to class and lab, but mostly to TTT when I wasn't working at the College Station Pub.
I got everything I could squeeze out of "little ol Clemson" I nearly died in the amphitheater at "little ol Clemson" But I graduated, have gone back and will continue to go back to "little ol Clemson" probably until I die.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
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Re: TNET: "Little ole Clemson" has one of everything and still recruits at high level
Dec 27, 2019, 9:03 AM
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Crawdad,
Was that the night of the Rocky Horror/pipe fire works? I was on campus. My roommate ears rang for a day or two.
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Re: TNET: "Little ole Clemson" has one of everything and still recruits at high level
Dec 29, 2019, 12:48 PM
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Yes
I spent a few weeks at Greenville Memorial before coming back to campus.
Good times, good times
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Re: TNET: "Little ole Clemson" has one of everything and still recruits at high level
Dec 27, 2019, 9:07 AM
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I always tell people who have never been to Clemson....
Dec 27, 2019, 9:08 AM
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"Clemson doesn't even have a high school. It's in the next town over."
That gets their attention.
And Dabo, Clemson does NOT have a regular Wal-Mart, just that new little grocery store. Remember City Council wouldn't let them build in Clemson, so they had to go over to Central.
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Re: I always tell people who have never been to Clemson....
Dec 27, 2019, 12:16 PM
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I guess as long as the people that are getting voted to city counsel has been raised in and around the Clemson area all their lives, Clemson can remain Little ole Clemson without the need of ruining what Clemson is today by keeping out big businesses.
When the time comes that outsiders are allowed to move into the Clemson area and get voted to serve on the city counsel, that will be the end of the small city of Clemson that is known today bc the outsiders that don't care about Clemson as the small humble little town, they will become the deciding votes with the need to bring big business into Clemson with the greed of money over the peaceful small community that Clemson has always been since it's conception of being built around Clemson University, and it will happen, it's just a matter of a short time now...
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Re: I always tell people who have never been to Clemson....
Dec 27, 2019, 12:50 PM
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I remember a bunch of us trekking to the Astro in Greenville to see the 70mm Gone With the Wind, must've been '67 or 68 There were mind altering substances consumed along the way, of course. A group of older ladies dressed in period attire filed in and sat in front of us reprobates. All was well until Scarlett entered the room and Rhett said, "Scarlett, you look good enough to eat." We degenerates like to fell out of our seats laughing. The matrons turned and gave us looks that would have killed sober men with consciences, but only stimulated more hooting from us. The matrons moved. We stayed put and passed the popcorn. Surprisingly, we were not ejected.
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Re: I always tell people who have never been to Clemson....
Dec 27, 2019, 4:07 PM
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remember the Easley fair?that was a rite of passage.
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Re: TNET: "Little ole Clemson" has one of everything and still recruits at high level
Dec 27, 2019, 10:08 PM
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Why Canada. No one likes Canada. It even Canadians.
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