For eric and other old-timers who remember things like The Grove movies!

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kjaneway
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I felt sorry for you on the '93ers list, since I related to your Grove comment.

Parking garages?
Bwahahahahahaha

Skaggs. Nuff said.

Jersey street, before it belonged to Pres. Bush.

Camping out at G.Rollie for basketball tickets.

G. Rollie being the Holler House on the Brazos

DeWare

Standing in line for HOURS in G.Rollie to get your schedule, only to find that by the time YOU got to the front of the line, that class was closed.



[This message has been edited by janag81 (edited 7/28/2002 6:15p).]
Southlake
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Ah, there was nothing like the Grove Movies during summer school!
TxAg
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Or Movies at Guion Hall, baseball at Kyle Field Baseball Park and lunch at the Aggieland Inn.
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quote:
Movies at Guion Hall, baseball at Kyle Field Baseball Park

Whoa...ok..you win!

I only knew Olsen (it was pretty new, however).

Did I mention Lakeview, Sports Club?

Construction around Zachry, Kyle..well, it was endless.
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My hubby remembers when the Pavillion was actually a pavillion, where his older sister showed horses... right in the middle of campus.

I saw the Rocky Horror Picture Show for the first time at the Grove and the rest of the stuff mentioned by Jan...

3rd Generation Ag
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Lakeview club,
Nickle beer at Sparky's aka Ralph's

Walking to meet the team plane at old Easterwood--especially after a "surprise" victory over LSU.

Band still marching all around campus for Midnight Yell--and everyone marching in behind the band through Bop's Central Tunnell.

Famous artists in G Rollie Concerts before Yell.

West Campus was Animal Barns and the Vet School.

The traffic CIRCLE.

Norton's

Fish Football team.

And yes, leaving Jollie Rollie deaf from the noise level after many a basketball game.

Mom Class of '03,'05 and '09
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Construction of the original blue water tower!
Minor parking problems before the days of vulturing. Cars illegally parked at the Slut Hut and no one towing them off!

NO PTTS!


eric76
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You wouldn't believe all the movies I saw at the Grove for the first time. Just off of the top of my head here are a few:
  • We've Never Been Licked
  • MASH
  • The Pink Panther movies
  • Patton
  • The Flim Flam Man
  • Lawrence of Arabia
  • many of the westerns from the late 60s and early 70s
  • Chinatown
eric76
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Mom class of '03: A friend of mine wrote a check at the Slut Hut once and wrote "The Slut Hut" on the check. They got kind of mad.

Anyone remember The Alamo?
kjaneway
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Eric, was that the big red barn looking building in downtown Bryan?

Slut hut...sounds familiar, but I'm not placing it. Where/what was it?

Oh... I forgot the bar, Grins.

Who ELSE saw Lyle Lovett there, before he was famous? I did.
Southlake
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Slut Hut = Green Onion. At the end of Northgate; I think it's a DD's now.

Anyone remember:

Dennis Ivy and the Waymen? "There's a lot of sweetwater down in Sweetwater, Texas..."

Cell Block 5

Youngblood's

"White socks, Rednecks and Blue Ribbon Beer" on the jukebox in Sparkey's. (Marry a gymnast )

Outfit runs that ended with a keg of Lone Star Draft (LSD)


Ahh, halcyon days....
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The dreaded "Happy Hour" at the Remote Computing Center in the Cushing Library. First year BANA students got no budget for computer time, so you had to run your jobs during the free time laughingly named "Happy Hour". Standing in line for an hour to run your punchcards only to get the printout listing with the errors, and running to a keypunch to get the change made before the Happy Hour ran out.
3rd Generation Ag
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Plus, I remember the long lines of guys only standing in line for what I assumed was porn at the movies???

eric76
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The Alamo was the old rooming house just down from the Chicken. I don't remember when they tore it down, but it used to be common to see the residents of the Alamo sitting out on the front steps all the time. I never did go in there.

After the tore it down, they built a bar there. I think it was called "The Turtle" or something like that.

DD = Deluxe Diner. It was that old hamburger place on Univesity just before going under the underpass.

By the way, I saw Mr. Youngblood on tv once. It turned out that he was pretty well known as a radio controlled helicopter hobbyist.

I hate to say it, but I've never seen Lyle Lovett at a concert. Every time I ever saw him was at the old Front Porch house on Church Street.
eric76
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Happy Hour was great.

I had a program that took about 2,200 cards (a very packed box of cards) that I used to run during happy hour.

I would try to be first in line for happy hour so that I could run it first. That usually took a little bit because with 2,200 cards, there was a fairly good chance that at least one card would jam and everyone in line would have to wait while I went over to a keypunch machine and made a replacement card.

Since it usually took a little while to read all the cards, the printer would usually finish with everything and be idle by the time it finished. The program would run in a couple of seconds. The printer would print every print job that was less than something like 1,500 lines before printing anything longer than that. Since the printer was usually idle when my print job would be queued for printing, it would go ahead and print it. The output was about 75 pages and would make everyone wait a little while more while it printed.

If I wasn't first in line, it would often take two or three hours before the printer had printed all the short listings and would print mine. By being first in line, I could check the results and run it again.
eric76
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3GA: They showed The Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Campus Theater on Friday and Saturday nights for a while.

But there would have been women in line, too. Sometimes it was hard to tell which were which.

[This message has been edited by eric76 (edited 7/29/2002 12:29a).]
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No, eric, I know what place she's talking about..I think.

There was a side, sleazy doorway next to Dudley's, that was an "Adult Movie Theatre" (not that I would know, )

Usually it was a mob scene outside for Rocky Horror, and yeah, it was hard to tell the boys from the girls back then!

Never heard of PTTS until recently. I knew them as Kampus Kops who helped bust the snotty little Freshman whose brand new Cutlass smashed into my POS 1971 Galaxy 500, because SHE was in the upperclassman's parking lot. The kops were nice to me, and nasty to her.
heh..
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That Infamous hamburger joint known as the S. H. was REALLY named the Handy Burger (Now, Deluxe Diner, I think) but I was the only one that called it by its real name.

Anybody remeber those benches at the Grove that you sat on....on those starry summer nights that you should have been studying but the Grove was free, usually there would be a couple of people down at one end of the bench (the supports were a little more than 1 foot in from the end), and then another person would come and sit all the way at the other end. Invariably, the first set would get up to leave which left the guy on the VERY end to get dumped on the ground in a see-saw action. It usually happened at least once a night. Hilarious if you weren't the Dumpee.
eric76
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Next to Dudley's? I don't remember that one.

There was the Adult Library Club above Loupot's. The doorway was on University right next to the one sandwich shop. In the late 70s, it was The Farmers Market.

During the summer of 1973 (or 1974), the Adult Library Club was busted by the FBI. To get in, you had to become a member and the FBI apparently wanted the membership lists.

The only other theater that showed adult films that I know of was the Campus Theater. Their films were not as explicit as the Adult Library Club. And sometimes they showed other movies.
eric76
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Do you remember the Sunday night about 1979 or so that the KK literally overran the library? Someone reported seeing someone walking through the library carrying a rifle.

It turned out that one of the workers at the RCC had just got back in town and didn't want to leave his deer rifle in his car. So he took it to the RCC with him.
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I remember when ther ewas the flying tomato
la taqueria, skaggs, the lot behind the chicken was all mud, fat burger, cow hop, movies at the Grove (Rocky Horror, Animal House, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly), when the bell tower was being built and the first time it chimed, Jersey was Jersey and not George Bush,McDonalds did not deliver, the old theatre across from campus was still abandoned, no chilis, sticky chins ice cream, G Rollie, there was no zone or rec center, no george bush library, no first class intramural fields, when blocker was still the business admin building, when the first parking garage was being built on campus, when the creamery used to sell ice cream on campus.
TxAg
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Or the Presidents home near Sbisa and the Fish Pond. I can't be that old...somebody please say ...yes I remember it!
kjaneway
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eric, I remember that WELL!

I, of course, wasn't IN the library at the time, but even though the kops didn't have the PTTS rep, yet, it was humorous to speculate what that must've entailed.

Uh, TxAg, I thought the President's home was by the jogging track, near the quad? I might be wrong, but that was SOMEONE"S home? (near Mt. Aggie). I do feel your pain, though.

Mcdonald's delivers? Geez...
Land Shark
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Old Prez home burned in the early 60's ('65?).
Prez home now is by the jogging trail, Former Students.
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President's Home near Sbisa?
Way back -- Then it burned to the ground and all the items they could remove from it before it completely fell in were stored in the All Faiths Chapel -- just before a BIG Wedding. Of course the bride's white gown was completely soot stained along the bottom hem; but most of the furnishings were out before the wedding started, although the carpet was ruined. My father-in-law helped fight that fire -- Fireman's Training School was called in because College Station volunteers were overwhelmed.

What about Ralphs? -- The original pizza delivery in College Station. Started at Northgate, expanded to Eastgate, closed.

What about Victor's in the little hole in the wall -- with his little violin to play when you had a sob story? Great artisian and some of the better senior boots - in a great number of ways better than Holick's. Victor even bought my marriage license for me; went to the Bureau in Bryan with us when we purchased it way back when. Guess my sob story made more of an impression on him than I thought.

Dad told stories of hopping the passanger trains in College Station as a fish and passing out individual sheets of toilet paper to each of the passengers before arriving in Bryan if they wanted a night on the town; otherwise back to College Station on the next train.

How about the pig-stick at TWU?
Did you know the Tessies called it the goon-grab there?
Guess none of us were politically correct all the time back then.
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I believe 3rdGenAg was referring to "Aggie Frolics".

The Campus would show regular movies during the week, but on Friday or Saturday nights at midnight would show a fairly awful porn flick.

The audience of drunk Ags was usually more entertaining than the movie.
3rd Generation Ag
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Yep, in 71 there were not many of us women--and the line for that show would sometimes be a block or more long.
Big12Ag
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The receding ice shelf and fish struggling on their fins in the primordial ooze? Anyone?
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Construction around Zachry, Kyle..well, it was endless.


That much hasn't changed.



I saw Rocky Horror Picture Show at The Grove for the first time in '97.
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Bing an Aggie in the old days...
Stampede Dance every Thursday night at Lakeview- couldn't stir 'em with a stick. Dennis Ivey and the Waymen were great.

The Aggie Frolics and Rocky Horror at the Campus Theater.

We've Never Been Licked at the Grove.

The porn theater was upstairs between the Chicken and Loupots.

Quart nights at the Thirsty Turtle.

Black lights over the dance hall in Sparky's and watching the freshman girls show up there and get under the lights with a white blouse and no bra on...

The Dixie Chicken when it was a "single wide" bar with two perpetually moving lines- one going to the bar and the other going to the bathrooms.

Camping out at G. Rollie for football tickets.

Chicken fried steaks at Youngblood's.

Pulling all nighters at Sambo's.

I sure do miss college life....
terlingua
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Ah, the Grove. Lots of good times there.

If I knew then, what I know now. I'd either be in jail or a multimillionare - and I still can't decide which way I'd go.
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As a lady, I had a different experience. I always wondered if all the guys who bragged about visits to LaGrange really went there--or if it was just the thing to say you had gone to the Chicken Ranch.
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Wasn't the Chicken Ranch stuff mostly legendary by the '70's? I always thought it was the Ags from the '40's and '50's who went there, but that's probably perception.

terl, you saw "Debbie Does Dallas" at the Campus, I'm bettin'.
garydavis90
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Wow, these memories bring a tear to my eye. Especially since I grew up in Bryan.

Youngbloods had the best fried shrimp and CFS around.

Sambos was always a good breakfast place.

As far as places to eat goes, how about "Fish Richards"? or the "Country Inn"??
Ag76
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I believe Marvin Zindler got the Ranch closed down sometime in the mid 70s.
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