OT: Where'd you live at Purdue

[punaj]

With no game until Monday, it's been a bit slow around here... for those that want to play along, where did you live while at Purdue (if you attended).

I was at Wiley Hall Fall 1996 - Spring 1998 (Freshman and Soph). Lots of good memories there. Played more basketball at he co-rec than I can count. One of my favorite memories was when the entire floor erupted when Chad Austin beat the Hoosiers in Bloomington on the last shot.

After that I moved into an apartment and a house for my last two years.

 

[Dryfly88]

With no game until Monday, it's been a bit slow around here... for those that want to play along, where did you live while at Purdue (if you attended).

I was at Wiley Hall Fall 1996 - Spring 1998 (Freshman and Soph). Lots of good memories there. Played more basketball at he co-rec than I can count. One of my favorite memories was when the entire floor erupted when Chad Austin beat the Hoosiers in Bloomington on the last shot.

After that I moved into an apartment and a house for my last two years.

Cary Quad - Freshman Year "85"
Apartment on Chauncey "86-88"

 

[IndySouthsider]

Terry Courts 91
McCutcheon 92
Apts 93-95

 

[TC4THREE]

95-96 Cary - just remember it being ridiculously hot for the first week or two.
96-97 Wiley - guidance counselor was killed that year on the floor directly above me
97-98 Apts - Littleton Street
98-99 Apts - Littleton Street

 

[FirstDownB]

Nice topic. Let's see who can top this list (for variety)...
late 90's/early 00's
Frosh: Cary
Soph: Owen
Junior: Williamsburg on the Wabash (summer), house apartment (fall and spring)
Senior: private home

 

[rgarlitz]

Wiley hall (fall '94)
Hilltop Apts. (spring '95-spring '96)
Study abroad (fall '96)
Apt. north of campus (spring '97) - think it was called "Beau Jardine" or something like that
Apt. in Chauncey neighborhood ('97-'98)

 

[TopSecretBoiler]

Wiley hall (fall '94)
Hilltop Apts. (spring '95-spring '96)
Study abroad (fall '96)
Apt. north of campus (spring '97) - think it was called "Beau Jardine" or something like that
Apt. in Chauncey neighborhood ('97-'98)

my friend lived in beau jardine. There was a decent bar right behind that place.

 

[cjf04]

Harrison Hall '94

227 South Salisbury '95-96

524 Dodge Street '97-98

I have noise ordinance from the last two that serve as proof...

 

[BoilerBulldog]

Terry Courts 91
McCutcheon 92
Apts 93-95

I was Terry Courts 91-92 too for my freshman year. I forgot to turn in my dorm ranking form and got my 11th choice. But I loved it.

 

[bnsummers]

95-96 Cary - just remember it being ridiculously hot for the first week or two.
96-97 Wiley - guidance counselor was killed that year on the floor directly above me
97-98 Apts - Littleton Street
98-99 Apts - Littleton Street

Fall 78: Cary Quad
Spring 79: Theta Chi
Fall 79 / Spring 80: Theta Chi
Fall 80 / Spring 81: Apartments north of town, Parkway Apartments (?: that was a hazy year)
Fall 81 / Spring 92: Attic apartment on Andrew Place (now a parking garage)

 

[SIBoiler2]

Cary 1970 and 1972.
House I owned in Lafayette 1984-1990.

 

[*4purdue*]

With no game until Monday, it's been a bit slow around here... for those that want to play along, where did you live while at Purdue (if you attended).

I was at Wiley Hall Fall 1996 - Spring 1998 (Freshman and Soph). Lots of good memories there. Played more basketball at he co-rec than I can count. One of my favorite memories was when the entire floor erupted when Chad Austin beat the Hoosiers in Bloomington on the last shot.

After that I moved into an apartment and a house for my last two years.

Punaj, I've always enjoyed your post & believe you are a Purdue fan, but your avi looks like something I would see from a Notre Dame fan.... are you?

 

[atkinsbj]

Cary Quad 95
501 Russel st. 96-98
255 N. Salisbury st. 99

 

[atkinsbj]

95-96 Cary - just remember it being ridiculously hot for the first week or two.
96-97 Wiley - guidance counselor was killed that year on the floor directly above me
97-98 Apts - Littleton Street
98-99 Apts - Littleton Street

My dad almost had a heat stroke from assembling my loft. So hot. I slept on floor for the first 3 weeks cause of the heat.

 

[TopSecretBoiler]

i lived on north street right behind what used to be petes and is now a library or something. that was bad for my liver. lived on south salisbury with the biggest scamming tow truck drivers ever...

 

[Owlbird]

My first two years in a private home-one is still standing across Northwestern from Delta Tau Delta(northeast corner of Grant and Northwestern) the other farther north on Grant is gone.My last two years on Grove st, in the five points area of Lafayette.Cary and X were the only dorms.The ratio was 4.5 to 6 men to women(In Pharmacy school it was 2/3 to 1.My normal class load was 18 credit hours with many labs and I always had Saturday classes(my junior year 8 to 12 on Saturday).I would work 30 to 50 hours a week in Drug Stores(Widmer-Schilling-Bartlett Liske-University(Arth on State st.)-Hogan and Muirs.When I began tuition was $65 per semester and by my final year $150 per semester.ROTC was mandatory and I stayed in the Cml Corps and saw Ft. Riley,Ft. McClellan and Ft. Dietrick,I was P56 and my wife P72 and we opened our own Pharmacy in 2003 two weeks before I turned 70.We are still going strong and compete with Walmart,CVS,Walgreen and JC(owned by Kroger) in North Vernon,In.

 

[punaj]

95-96 Cary - just remember it being ridiculously hot for the first week or two.
96-97 Wiley - guidance counselor was killed that year on the floor directly above me
97-98 Apts - Littleton Street
98-99 Apts - Littleton Street

I was in Wiley that year... we might have been on the same floor. Sadly I can't remember if I lived on the 2nd or 3rd floor anymore. I was in the South East wing.

 

[punaj]

Nice topic. Let's see who can top this list (for variety)...
late 90's/early 00's
Frosh: Cary
Soph: Owen
Junior: Williamsburg on the Wabash (summer), house apartment (fall and spring)
Senior: private home

I was in Williamsburg one year as well. Not a fun walk up to campus in the cold!

 

[punaj]

Punaj, I've always enjoyed your post & believe you are a Purdue fan, but your avi looks like something I would see from a Notre Dame fan.... are you?

Hell no. I might hate ND more than IU. My avatar is Link from the first Legend of Zelda Nintendo game (late 80s). Now that you say that, it does look a bit leprechaun-ish and you might have ruined my childhood memories of the game now

 

[FirstDownB]

I was in Williamsburg one year as well. Not a fun walk up to campus in the cold!

Too close for a parking pass. Too far for walking. The bus system was crap back then. There is a reason I only lived there for one summer!

 

[BoilerUpMoose]

Wiley Fall '81 & Spring '82
Beta Sig (live-in pledge) Fall '82
Co-op (in Ft. Wayne) Spring '83
IPFW Summer '83
Co-op Fall '83
Wiley Spring '84
Co-op Summer '84
Wiley Fall '84
Co-op Spring '85 & Summer '85
Wiley Fall '85 & Spring '86

Lot's of moving, but the Co-op program saved my academic life (plus I was able to live at home while working) - I was ready to give up on EE half way through that semester in the fraternity (was having TOO much fun, if you know what I mean, and was really having trouble seeing the point of the difficult classes), and HAD to move back to the dorms to be able to get enough studying done...

Moose (BSEE 1986)

 

[New Pal Boiler]

With no game until Monday, it's been a bit slow around here... for those that want to play along, where did you live while at Purdue (if you attended).

I was at Wiley Hall Fall 1996 - Spring 1998 (Freshman and Soph). Lots of good memories there. Played more basketball at he co-rec than I can count. One of my favorite memories was when the entire floor erupted when Chad Austin beat the Hoosiers in Bloomington on the last shot.

After that I moved into an apartment and a house for my last two years.

Cary

Apt on wood street near Clark station

House on 10th street in Lafayette - far enough away from campus to get parking pass

Dodge street - charged $10 for parking on football Saturdays

 

[SqueakyClean]

92/93 Tarkington (worked food service there too, fed Glenn Robinson regularly)
93/94 Shreve Hall
94-96 House on the corner of Stadium and Vine St. Place was a dump, but it was me and 5 friends living in a house, so it was only $100 a month.

With that said, I spent a good chunk of my collegiate life hanging out at the Grill in the McCutcheon Hall basement. We went there every night after fencing to buy grilled cheese sandwiches, cherry syrup cokes, and play Euchre. Group of 20 or so of us "Grillrats" could always be found there. Sadly, they demolished the Grill around '98 and turned it into a study room.

 

[Dan'l Boone]

One of the Mighty Men of Kneale House '75-'77

 

[ejs1111]

Lived in Tarkington for two years 92-94
Joined AKL-Beta Nu class and lived in house 94-96
One year internship in Kansas City 97
Married student housing 98

I worked at Harry's for 3+ years. Started as a cook, doorman, then was mainly a server/ fill-in bartender. If anyone here was a regular at Harry's during the mid/late 90s, I'm sure you would remember me. I always worked the busy nights and Saturday gameday! lol...
I was employed there during the fire. We helped with the clean up for extra money while it was closed- Herschel Cook paid us hourly... was not working the night of the fire, but was supposed to go in the following day! I still have the t-shirt showing Harry's on fire.

 

[Dakota Girl]

Nice topic. Let's see who can top this list (for variety)...
late 90's/early 00's
Frosh: Cary
Soph: Owen
Junior: Williamsburg on the Wabash (summer), house apartment (fall and spring)
Senior: private home

I'll try...
85-86 Circle Pines Coop House (way too much beer created 5th year)
86-87 Circle Pines Coop House
87-88 Townhouse on Salisbury
88-89 Apartment on Northwestern directly across from School of Technology
89-90 Back to Circle Pines

 

[Purdue Grad in Texas]

I'll try...
85-86 Circle Pines Coop House (way too much beer created 5th year)
86-87 Circle Pines Coop House
87-88 Townhouse on Salisbury
88-89 Apartment on Northwestern directly across from School of Technology
89-90 Back to Circle Pines

Thought we would maybe finally see "Earhart" or one of the "Windsor" Halls, DG.

Harrison Hall, Wiley, and Harrison Hall (encore) here.

 

[TC4THREE]

I was in Wiley that year... we might have been on the same floor. Sadly I can't remember if I lived on the 2nd or 3rd floor anymore. I was in the South East wing.

I was in the Southwest wing just across from the Co-Rec. 2nd floor.

 

[TC4THREE]

My dad almost had a heat stroke from assembling my loft. So hot. I slept on floor for the first 3 weeks cause of the heat.

I slept with the door wide open numerous times just because without the extra air flow through there with the open door there was literally no chance I'd be able to fall asleep in the upper bunk.

 

[BoilerBulldog]

I was Terry Courts 91-92 too for my freshman year. I forgot to turn in my dorm ranking form and got my 11th choice. But I loved it.

After Terry I was in the Phi Delt house two years and my senior year lived in a town house on N. Vine.

 

[SIBoiler2]

Everybody references the heat early in the year. I started when the fall still started after Labor Day. My better "heat" related memory is the way in the coldest of winter nights they'd drop the heat being pumped through the radiators and Cary would get as cold as the morgue then about 5AM they'd bring it back up and the registers would bang and clang for a half hour. Both conducive to sleep.

 

[tjreese]

Cary E first floor 72-73 right beside the Powder room and there were advantages). Cary E first floor 73-74 (was getting in an Apt. that year but buddies dropped out and turned in my residence too late and had a choice between Cary and Terry Courts and so I went back to Cary East. That said I had 1 roommate for about 1 month out both years...two twins pushed together for a king. 74-75 Riverview Apt. 2501 soldiers home road. 75-76 Village manor 2601 Soldiers home road. The fall of 75 there was a hit job where the malfia killed with 8 shots a manager of the apt complex (Village Manor)

Standing in line after a ballgame in the late 80's I was talking to a guy that owned the apts where Stephens and Lewis lived and he said nobody had ever been caught for the death of the manager. Living in a place that was 85% students...all thought it was fireworks until we read the paper. for you youngster that have always had Internet...this was something trees supplied that everyone bought daily...

 

[Longboat Boiler]

With no game until Monday, it's been a bit slow around here... for those that want to play along, where did you live while at Purdue (if you attended).

I was at Wiley Hall Fall 1996 - Spring 1998 (Freshman and Soph). Lots of good memories there. Played more basketball at he co-rec than I can count. One of my favorite memories was when the entire floor erupted when Chad Austin beat the Hoosiers in Bloomington on the last shot.

After that I moved into an apartment and a house for my last two years.

 

[Longboat Boiler]

I got there shortly after they introduced electricity to campus.

64-65, H-2, later named Tarkington
65-68, Sig Ep house

Griese, Keyes, Catavolos, Brady, Keller, Mount - good time to be in W Lafayette.

 

[punaj]

Thanks everyone for sharing your Purdue stories... I enjoyed reading them and thinking back to my time on campus.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

With no game until Monday, it's been a bit slow around here... for those that want to play along, where did you live while at Purdue (if you attended).

I was at Wiley Hall Fall 1996 - Spring 1998 (Freshman and Soph). Lots of good memories there. Played more basketball at he co-rec than I can count. One of my favorite memories was when the entire floor erupted when Chad Austin beat the Hoosiers in Bloomington on the last shot.

After that I moved into an apartment and a house for my last two years.

1991-92 - Fowler Courts
1992-93 - Shreve Hall
1993-94 - 300 N. Salisbury St.
1994-95 516 Dodge Street

 

[boilerzz]

1989-90 - Duplex at 115 E. Williams
1990-91 - King Khalid Military City, Saudi Arabia
1991-92 - Duplex at 279 S. Salisbury
1992-93 - House on the corner of Stadium and North Salisbury
1993-94 - Cool brownstone in downtown Lafayette across from the Lafayette library

 

[PaBoiler78]

1989-90 - Duplex at 115 E. Williams
1990-91 - King Khalid Military City, Saudi Arabia
1991-92 - Duplex at 279 S. Salisbury
1992-93 - House on the corner of Stadium and North Salisbury
1993-94 - Cool brownstone in downtown Lafayette across from the Lafayette library

75 and 76 Owen Hall
77 and 78 rented a ranch home N. of campus

 

[MJ-79Boiler]

Wiley Hall 1975-79 (SW/1st floor - ie closest room to the co-rec - next to the stairs ! !)

Was lucky to move in with about 30-40 guys that loved sports and got along extremely well (helped each other out academically). Almost everyone played intramural sports and stayed in the same wing all 4 years. (Had better unity than most fraternities - even set up our own group: Omega Moose ! & Yes we had a sister unit named Mini-Moose) Great bunch of guys /pranksters !

Some of the craziest stunts ? :

1.) The 6 ft burning cross on Slayter Hill - A few guys got really, really drunk one night ! (The gasoline smell in the hall was NOT a good problem to have !, when we started seeing the local cops responding)
2.) The time we rode a car across the lawns recruiting gals for a party - It worked !
3.) The time I went out to answer the phone in the hall and it had been completely disassembled, but had two pages of instructions for using it - kind of like "attach red and blue wires, while holding button and talking in object C" !
4.) 2 of our bigger guys moved a VW (BY THEMSELVES !) in between two trees by themselves , while only leaving the owner 6 inches to move forward and backward !
5.) The time a friend opened the door to a tennis ball can cannon ! Only this time it wasn't shooting a tennis ball up in the air ! - It was full of shaving cream ! ! The guy was a snowman and even left a silhouette on the wall ! ha ha
6.) The time we pinned "Stoney" into his bed. He was a little smashed, we'll say, one night. So we stripped off his clothes, poured sugar on him, pinned a sheet up to his neck and turned up the heat. By morning? A glazed doughnut ! (He eventually learned to have fun, without risking his health or his admission)
7.) The time we responded to a little frat problem a few were having, by pimping one of the fraternities and then trapping the 50-60 studs in the middle of the H as they chased the pimpers back. (Guess they forgot to look behind them where 300-400 guys were pouring out of the wings & behind them !) We "EVENTUALLY" let them leave !, but they got the message (ie Don't tread on us !)

Bottom line: I guess you can tell why we are stayed - had a hell of a lot of fun there !

 

[Purduechris13]

01-02 Harrison Hall
02-03 Harrison Hall
03-04 McCormick Place Apts
04-05 McCormick Place Apts
05 Victory Lap Semester Apt next to Chauncey Coop