Doux Chene is now an apartment complex

Elija...

He traded in the Station Wagon for something a little smaller... not sure what it is, but think Mazda 323...

you used to be able to find him at Dennys, Whataburger and the library recently, but he comes and goes.

Bonfire mattered
Football mattered
Moses Hall still dominated intramural sports
Law & Puryear Hall existed but didn't matter
Everyone could drink and they did
Using a telephone to register for classes each semester - busy signals suck

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charlet cattle

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It's charolais.

There was an actual pancake house called Sambo's over in Eastgate. At least I think it was here into the 80's. My Dad and my older brothers remember going to it.

My mother talks about going to Sambo's to study... I think it was similar to what Sweet Eugene's is now.

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Using a telephone to register for classes each semester

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My first few years everyone had to go line up for classes at the Pavilion - the 800 number to sign up for classes was a miracle of modern technology over that lining up crap.

I love this thread

what about those frog statues that came to campus?

la taqueria behind northgate
deluxe burger
cow hop
e=mc 2 at eastgate
zephyrs
wild wooly wednesday ($5 all you can eat/drink)archie's $.39 hamburgers
carney's pub
6 year win streak against the whorns
of course 80's music

good times

And we still had that danged phone registration when I was in school. You woke up at 4am to start dialing, if you were lucky you had speakerphone with a redial button. Only to finally get connected with the system and then you press the wrong button and it cuts you off and says to try again later.

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Loved La Taqueria!

A street ran behind the Chicken and parking was a half paved, have mud hole across the street. Inside the Chicken was the same, except cheaper beer. Grahams Central Station was the cowboy bar to go to, until the owner blew it up and we all had to go to the Hall or the bar out on Tabor road. I turned 18 in July 1981 and was legal to drink. Drinking age raised to 19 on Sept 1st and I was illegal. Turned 19 in July 1982, and was legal again. Drinking age raised to 21 on Sept 1st and I was illegal once again. We could still get into bars, though. Roughly 25K students in early 80's. PLENTY of women. Nicest (newest) apartments were 1 block south of 2818 where Southwood Valley was being developed. We ruled the SWC in the mid 80's also.

i went through the whole "legal/not legal" thing too. luckily i knew a couple of bar owners who were simpathetic to my cause.

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The Hall of Fame was still for losers.

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before the convenience store was built down from the Chicken, there was a bar called the 12th man (yep, no trademark dispute). They had an outside window where you could buy tall boys for $1.00 and drink on the sidewalk. The party eventually spilled into the street. On Thursday nights the street in front of the Chicken was down to one lane going South. Amazing that no one ever got killed.

On Friday you could go to the Cow Hop and eat a cow pie and fries to get over your hangover.

from what i've been told, A&M in the 1980s was like the wild west

you could basically do anything you wanted

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and there was a place called fish richard's that my dad liked to go to

Anyone remember the good 'ole auto-intro recording on the phone-reg system?

Something like "You have now entered the Texas A&M University something, something system"... It was a very distinctive voice that make it seem so spectacular... at the time.

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Girls also wore these one-piece rayon jumpsuits that usually had a small floral pattern

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Yes very popular, Mexican wedding dresses, made of cotton not rayon


At least from the first part of the 80’s

Charlie’s at Northgate
Cowpie and fries
Basketball at G.R. W.
Parking was a hassle, but no garages
Mums at football games
Pavilion was used for Greased pig chases during Arkansas week
Fish, wore spurs for SMU not Tech
Sherrill bought a huge house on Brothers Blvd in SW Valley, beyond that was cow pastures.
The world changed in Feb of 82 when Post Oak Mall opened.
Q hut for parties
Ice Cream and Shakes from the creamery
Movies at the Grove
Blocker Building aka T&A Building
East Kyle was new and pretty darn cool
Racquetball and weigh lifting at Deware
Lakeview Club
Moms home-style cooking in Bryan
South side was for loosers

$2 cowpie/fries/longneck
free beer wednesday night at the arcade next to Dud's
live music was king... 4 Hams on Rye, Street Pizza, Sneaky Pete, The Lippman Jam, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Trish and Darrin, Cheap Trick at G. Rollie
Midnight Movies
The Grove
Bonfire

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"You have now entered the Texas A&M University something, something system"... It was a very distinctive voice that make it seem so spectacular... at the time.

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YOU HAVE NOW ENTERED THE TEXAS A&M STUDENT INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM.

PLEASE ENTER AN ACTION CODE NOW



C H E M 101 GRADE OF

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joe king carrasco!

There was the drive thru on Wellborn where you could pick up a 32 oz. draft beer for the road on your way home from Northgate.

I was actually asked by a cop "how much further do you have have to go to get home" when he suspected that I was over the limit. He let me go when I said about a mile.

My apartment complex threw keg parties.

We beat tu every year that I was an undergrad.

Social life/the weekend centered around football games.

The yell leaders told un-PC grode jokes at yell practice. Also at yell practice, the corps would routinely beat drunk opposing fans who ran on the field (often smashing their heads with their helmets).

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Ah yes, the action code.

i remember that beer barn place! i also remember riding on this girls 50cc honda spree scooter with her on the back to pick up a bucket of daiquiris!

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That place kicked ass. What a concept.

late 70's were even better

Sparkys
Silver Dollar Saloon
Lakeview Club
Sugar Shack ..and what was it called before that ?
free crackers at the Chicken
10 and 20 keggers at apt complexes
real football, basketball
no traffic
chopped Xmas trees down two blocks out Harvey Rd
didn't die from having sex (fify immune)

Four Hams on Rye.

Where are you now Scott and Drew????????

i love hearing about this stuff. wish there was a video of someone driving around or something so we could see what it was like. i think ill do that myself... who knows what will have changed in 20 years

Beer Barn was outstanding.

The Youngblood's chicken fried steak was huge.

Kroger on SW Parkway sold extremely cheap kegs of Meister Brau...