1965 thru 1968 SW269 Tarkington with roomies George Yuochunas, Charlie Lawrence, then finally Nick Green. Fond memories of MockP when Tarkington was New Jersey. Senior year a house at the north end of Rose St with Happy Hollow Park on two sides of us. That was with Manning Dare, Mike McFarlane, and Bob McKinney. Then it was UofM for grad school and the Air Force. Back to Purdue in 1974 with my IU School of Nursing wife. Lived in a duplex on Perrine St in Lafayette close to St. Elizabeth's School of Nursing (where she taught) while I began a Ph.D. in history (history docs were driving cabs at that time so I finished with a teaching credential instead). Then away from all the cold winters to California. Retired after 30 years of teaching jr high history and her from CSU Bakersfield's School of Nursing. Agree with Longboat Boiler about being a great time to be there for football and basketball.
OT: Where'd you live at Purdue
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Fun post for a change around here. Ok, here it goes.
Fall 1983/Spring 1984 - McCutcheon Hall
Fall 1984/Spring 1985 - Purdue Calumet Campus
Fall 1985 - Cary Quad East
Spring - 1986 - Shreve Hall
Fall 1986/Spring 1987 - Shreve Hall
Fall 1987/Spring 1988 - Hawkins Graduate House
Fall 1988 - Hawkins Graduate House. Then graduation yeaaa!!
I remember the good cover bands the bar Nick's would book. I also used to frequent the dance club, McCaw's. Pretty happening place at the time.
Back then, the price of the football tickets were taken out of the tuition so students just had to show a student ID to get football tickets. Looking at the sparse seeting at Ross Ade, they need to bring that back. During my years, Purdue had good players but poor teams. I got to see Scott Campbell, Jim Evertte, Rod Woodson, Chris Dishman play. Dishman was fast but got beat a lot but he; somehow made to the NFL. They did let them in the Peach Bowl.
I also went to every basketball game. I enjoyed watching the three amigos, Troy Lewis, Everette Stephens, and Todd Mitchell. Man they could play. Purdue had some good teams back then. The Big Ten had some good teams. I saw some good Big Ten games and players.
IN between classes we used to be entertained by this travelling preacher, Brother Max who use preach on the Memorial Mall lawn. He was one of those loud and fiery preachers calling Purdue women whores.
I don't know if you youngins ever heard of the Nude Olympics. The coldest day of the year, according to the "Farmers Almanac", I never knew who, but someone would secretly organize the Nude Olympics. Inside the Cary Quad courtyard, drunken, most likely, folks would run around nude. The last man, or woman standing was the winner.
Fall 1983/Spring 1984 - McCutcheon Hall
Fall 1984/Spring 1985 - Purdue Calumet Campus
Fall 1985 - Cary Quad East
Spring - 1986 - Shreve Hall
Fall 1986/Spring 1987 - Shreve Hall
Fall 1987/Spring 1988 - Hawkins Graduate House
Fall 1988 - Hawkins Graduate House. Then graduation yeaaa!!
I remember the good cover bands the bar Nick's would book. I also used to frequent the dance club, McCaw's. Pretty happening place at the time.
Back then, the price of the football tickets were taken out of the tuition so students just had to show a student ID to get football tickets. Looking at the sparse seeting at Ross Ade, they need to bring that back. During my years, Purdue had good players but poor teams. I got to see Scott Campbell, Jim Evertte, Rod Woodson, Chris Dishman play. Dishman was fast but got beat a lot but he; somehow made to the NFL. They did let them in the Peach Bowl.
I also went to every basketball game. I enjoyed watching the three amigos, Troy Lewis, Everette Stephens, and Todd Mitchell. Man they could play. Purdue had some good teams back then. The Big Ten had some good teams. I saw some good Big Ten games and players.
IN between classes we used to be entertained by this travelling preacher, Brother Max who use preach on the Memorial Mall lawn. He was one of those loud and fiery preachers calling Purdue women whores.
I don't know if you youngins ever heard of the Nude Olympics. The coldest day of the year, according to the "Farmers Almanac", I never knew who, but someone would secretly organize the Nude Olympics. Inside the Cary Quad courtyard, drunken, most likely, folks would run around nude. The last man, or woman standing was the winner.
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I wonder if the hit man or men that rubbed out that apartment manager were the same guys that hit those three Indy businessmen on Lasalle street in December of 1971.That one is still unsolved also.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...
Fred Mertz must have managed Cary in those days.He was a wizard at slashing costs.
Wiley Hall SE412 - 95/96
Hillenbrand Hall 96/97, 97/98
Apartment 98/99
Worked at the Boiler Crossing Minimart in Meredith Hall. Ringing up Gatorade for the ladies coming home from their workouts at the Co-Rec did not suck.
Hillenbrand Hall 96/97, 97/98
Apartment 98/99
Worked at the Boiler Crossing Minimart in Meredith Hall. Ringing up Gatorade for the ladies coming home from their workouts at the Co-Rec did not suck.
Ha! I lived in Tark in '92 and '93 and also fed the Big Dog. I spent most of my hours in the co-rec and using frat boys for their booze and women.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.
Nude Olympics... Thanks for bringing back some great memories!!! The mid-late 80's were great!
It's cool how many early 90s guys (and girls) are on here. We were trained well on how to ignore football.
Surely you jest, those of you claiming to have lived in Terry Courts in the 90s. In the spring of 1966 they told all of us residents that we had to choose a new dorm. They were going to demolish Terry Courts. Hmmm, in those days the new H halls (didn't have names yet) were not fully occupied and we would get priority if we wanted to get in them. Gee, the administration would not mislead us in order to fill the new dorms, would they??
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Do you know K9? I think he bartended at Harry's in the late '90s. I'm trying to remember the bartenders there. I hardly ever went there. I was more of a TA Toms guy that would also go to the Cactus, Jakes, Kazoos/Wherelse, Boileroom/Cahills, and occasionally Stacks.
knew a couple who ran in the Olympics...one we gathered up $20 and he covered himself with vaseline to try to retain some heat. One year there were two girls that ran. Around that time "streaking" was popular as well as "hit men" that would run into some rooms and throw a cream pie at the prof...
Any chance you knew Duane Dickensheets or Doug Bedwell? They would have graduated in 76
I lived in Kneale House from 76-78. Knew Bedwell but not Dickensheets.
Dirt, Dennie Wiegle, Lane Curly Custer, Otis Reading,
I was also at Wiley that year (97-98) - SW 373. I played a lot of intramural sports, but was usually playing volleyball after class in the sand pits where the new dining hall is now. If anyone played volleyball much that year and remembers a guy with a nutmeg '84 caprice who had some car speakers that he sat on his trunk to blast music to the volleyball courts, that was me. At that time there were plaques on each door in the dorm, that had a little brass plate with the name of every person who had lived in that room. I cut a chunk of my mortarboard in the shape of the plaque and brushed it with a gold paint marker before adding the name "Mike Auxlong". It looked good enough to pass as genuine if you didn't look too closely - does anyone know whether they still have those plaques on the doors after the last remodel? I'd love to know how long that lasted before (if) it was ever discovered.
If anyone here lived in Waterfront dump-partments between '98-'01, you've probably drank the beast from kegs on our balcony on Friday or Saturday nights.
2001-2002 - Young graduate housing
2002-2003 - A townhouse on Ledyard (north of 52).
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They asked me to play some ball with them in the summer of 76 and only really knew those two. Doug Bedwell lost his wife in the fall 2007 I believe. He then never took care of himself and gained a lot of weight dying a couple of years later. Duane, I haven't seen since college. I know he was coaching for a while. Duane was the better basketball player and Doug ran hurdles I know in the state meets. Lane sounds very familiar...
I probably walked by you on my way to the co-rec many times. Never played sand volleyball but grabbed a couple of ringers one year and won one of the intramural volleyball divisions. Those co-rec champ t-shirts were a prized possession back then.
McCutcheon 68-69
Williamsburg apartments 69-70
fraternity house - 71-72
mobile home out on 52 but forget name - 72-73
First year was best for football and basketball as far as expectations. Football
ranked #1 in country until OSU beat us and of course basketball went all the way to
NCAA finals before losing to UCLA. Some good years along the way but none quite
the same.
Exact same scenario for me 91-92. To be able to walk room to room in our unit carrying a beer was very cool, as was the keg we snuck in for Grand Prix week.
Even better, BoilerBullldog (and you other Terry-types out there), one year our counselor (who was in another unit) was a returned Vietnam helicopter pilot who didn't give a rat's ass about what we did.
85/86 - Shreve 6th floor
86/87 - Shreve 6th floor
87/88 - Shreve 6th floor (parents said I had a choice between off campus and a car, friends lived across the street from Harry's...)
88/89 - Brownstone Apts 201 N Russell
Fall 89 - 262 South Chauncey - put some hard miles on a brand new apartment
86/87 - Shreve 6th floor
87/88 - Shreve 6th floor (parents said I had a choice between off campus and a car, friends lived across the street from Harry's...)
88/89 - Brownstone Apts 201 N Russell
Fall 89 - 262 South Chauncey - put some hard miles on a brand new apartment
79-80 Frosh year @ 1225 Terry Courts
That was a great year. Decent football team, great basketball team getting to our last FF in Indy, celebrating the Miracle on Ice and meeting my best friends to this day. I had too much fun and not enough studying though.
80-81 Soph year @ back at my parents house going to Purdue Cal. Grades needed serious attention due to too much Frosh yr fun.
81-82 Jr @ then Towne House Apartments (now Ananda Apts I believe) Robinson St. And N. Salisbury. Long @ss walk to campus during the winter. Worked at the Village Pantry there on Robinson (now a State Farm office). I was to open the store at 7am one Sunday morning but we had a party the night before. I just remember waking up at 10ish and yelling oh fuc& a few times as I ran there. The Sunday paper bundle was still intact outside the store. Ha.
82-83 Sr year @ Apt on Steely St. Worked at the VP across from Krannert, many overnight shifts. We had a bunch of friendly drunks on campus that year. Still graduated that year with a BSIM from Krannert.
I still think of the sad feeling I had during my walk back to my apartment after I completed my last final the Spring of 83. And now incredibly that day was going on 33 years ago. Hard to believe. Boiler Up
That was a great year. Decent football team, great basketball team getting to our last FF in Indy, celebrating the Miracle on Ice and meeting my best friends to this day. I had too much fun and not enough studying though.
80-81 Soph year @ back at my parents house going to Purdue Cal. Grades needed serious attention due to too much Frosh yr fun.
81-82 Jr @ then Towne House Apartments (now Ananda Apts I believe) Robinson St. And N. Salisbury. Long @ss walk to campus during the winter. Worked at the Village Pantry there on Robinson (now a State Farm office). I was to open the store at 7am one Sunday morning but we had a party the night before. I just remember waking up at 10ish and yelling oh fuc& a few times as I ran there. The Sunday paper bundle was still intact outside the store. Ha.
82-83 Sr year @ Apt on Steely St. Worked at the VP across from Krannert, many overnight shifts. We had a bunch of friendly drunks on campus that year. Still graduated that year with a BSIM from Krannert.
I still think of the sad feeling I had during my walk back to my apartment after I completed my last final the Spring of 83. And now incredibly that day was going on 33 years ago. Hard to believe. Boiler Up
Winner, winner chicken dinner. Electricity wasn't invented until I started in the fall of 1970.
Transferred my sophomore year. Phi Psi's were in recolinize mode and some friends invited me in directly. Dorm year was prior to Purdue.
Great thread!
80-81 - good 'ol Crestview Apartments on South River Road (no dorms were available by the time I accepted my admittance offer; a lonely existence for awhile, as an out-of-state kid knowing literally no one living off-campus, but it sure made studying easy)..idyllic freshman year for football, with Herrmann, Burrell, and Big Dave Young chewing up opposing defenses, Mike Marks knocking down the potential tying 2-point conversion pass RIGHT in front of me to cinch the Bucket game and a Liberty Bowl berth..... Delighting in Keady's first Purdue team out-hustling and out-working the thug Isaiah Thomas and eventual national champ IU at Mackey.
81-82 - Cary East 3rd floor.
82-83
GREAT group of guys; I lucked into one of the larger end units, and football Saturdays were a carnival with the AAMB parading right past us into the stadium each week, and I still often see my dorm window on TV when the camera pans Ross Ade from the north end zone.... We managed to sneak our fair share of both women and alcohol into our rooms (actually managed to hoist a pony keg up the side of the building once)... Snowball wars with the Pikes.... the Nude Olympics....hanging out at the knight Spot...., playing pingpong till dawn in the attic... Getting written up by our RA for drinking a beer in the hallway after beating the domaz in 81...working the toggle button as a timer for our Grand Prix cart...
83-84 - Young Grad House -- a reasonable compromise for a Quad buddy and I to get unfettered access to beer (case after case of cheap, delicious Meister Brau), while maintaining our commitment to grades... Fixing up said buddy with the girl he'd eventually marry... Green bottle night at Mr. Bill's .... Thursday nights at Nick's (meeting and dating a gorgeous sorority girl there)... the fishbowl table at Harry's .... The glorious fun at the legendary Stabilizer whenever Kool Ray and the Polaroidz were in town... Road tripping with our girlfriends to Chicago for Geno's East pizza... Watching Jim Rowinski muscle Purdue to Keady's first B1G title.... Stomping the Illini, then plastering their bus with hundreds of "Keady's Kids" stickers...
Amazing that I actually graduated on time.
80-81 - good 'ol Crestview Apartments on South River Road (no dorms were available by the time I accepted my admittance offer; a lonely existence for awhile, as an out-of-state kid knowing literally no one living off-campus, but it sure made studying easy)..idyllic freshman year for football, with Herrmann, Burrell, and Big Dave Young chewing up opposing defenses, Mike Marks knocking down the potential tying 2-point conversion pass RIGHT in front of me to cinch the Bucket game and a Liberty Bowl berth..... Delighting in Keady's first Purdue team out-hustling and out-working the thug Isaiah Thomas and eventual national champ IU at Mackey.
81-82 - Cary East 3rd floor.
82-83
GREAT group of guys; I lucked into one of the larger end units, and football Saturdays were a carnival with the AAMB parading right past us into the stadium each week, and I still often see my dorm window on TV when the camera pans Ross Ade from the north end zone.... We managed to sneak our fair share of both women and alcohol into our rooms (actually managed to hoist a pony keg up the side of the building once)... Snowball wars with the Pikes.... the Nude Olympics....hanging out at the knight Spot...., playing pingpong till dawn in the attic... Getting written up by our RA for drinking a beer in the hallway after beating the domaz in 81...working the toggle button as a timer for our Grand Prix cart...
83-84 - Young Grad House -- a reasonable compromise for a Quad buddy and I to get unfettered access to beer (case after case of cheap, delicious Meister Brau), while maintaining our commitment to grades... Fixing up said buddy with the girl he'd eventually marry... Green bottle night at Mr. Bill's .... Thursday nights at Nick's (meeting and dating a gorgeous sorority girl there)... the fishbowl table at Harry's .... The glorious fun at the legendary Stabilizer whenever Kool Ray and the Polaroidz were in town... Road tripping with our girlfriends to Chicago for Geno's East pizza... Watching Jim Rowinski muscle Purdue to Keady's first B1G title.... Stomping the Illini, then plastering their bus with hundreds of "Keady's Kids" stickers...
Amazing that I actually graduated on time.
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