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10:22a, 9/16/26

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Can any ol' Ags here tell me what these plates with two bolts were used for back in the day on the windows of the Corps dorms? I figured they maybe had awnings on them back in the days before AC? This is Dorm 12, but looks they all have them. Some early 70s guys didn't know. Thanks.

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10:50a, 9/16/26

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Not sure that was the original purpose, but they were used to hang large posters before the football games. Thank the Lord there was no internet in those days. Some of those signs would cause heart attacks today. I'll leave it your imagination, but the best or worst, depending on your prospective, were the anatomical references when we played someone with a feline mascot. I can just imagine the sign that would be up this week if we played Kentucky in the sixties.

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In reply to aggiejim70 • 11:53a, 9/16/26

aggiejim70 said:
Not sure that was the original purpose, but they were used to hang large posters before the football games. Thank the Lord there was no internet in those days. Some of those signs would cause heart attacks today. I'll leave it your imagination, but the best or worst, depending on your prospective, were the anatomical references when we played someone with a feline mascot. I can just imagine the sign that would be up this week if we played Kentucky in the sixties.

A few outfits had talented artists who made some really nice signs. The rest of us with no talent, made them the grosser, the better. I'll never forget one when we played Alabama in the Cotton Bowl at the end of '67 season. It said "Stop the Crimson Tide" but I won't describe the picture

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In reply to aggiejim70 • 7:22p, 9/16/26

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aggiejim70 said:
Not sure that was the original purpose, but they were used to hang large posters before the football games. Thank the Lord there was no internet in those days. Some of those signs would cause heart attacks today. I'll leave it your imagination, but the best or worst, depending on your prospective, were the anatomical references when we played someone with a feline mascot. I can just imagine the sign that would be up this week if we played Kentucky in the sixties.

Many a sign had to be taken down on Thursday nights before parents started showing up on campus on Fridays.

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12:04p, 9/18/26

That's where you hang a laundry bag of stuff you don't want to be seen during inspections.

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12:19p, 9/18/26

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From Gemini

In 1930s institutional brick architecture, cast-iron tie plates were standardly embedded into multi-wythe brick walls. They hook onto internal structural steel or iron tie-rods to anchor the exterior masonry to the floor joists, preventing the brick face from bowing or separating over time.

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In reply to ABATTBQ87 • 10:12p, 9/18/26

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Gemini proving its 'tarded with than answer. Don't recall floor joists 2' below the top of the window…but I guess they might have remodeled since then

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In reply to maverick2076 • 10:27a, 9/19/26

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maverick2076 said:
That's where you hang a laundry bag of stuff you don't want to be seen during inspections.

Dorm 7 spring 1967. Word goes through the dorm Bulls are having a surprise inspection. My fish old lady and i were not two most squared away cadets in the history of the Corps. Old lady has it under control and strips the mattress bag off the bed. We cram all our stuff into it and hang it out the window. I think there's still a small tree behind dorm 7. It would be a lot bigger if our stuff hadn't split it in two.

A few weeks ago, a BQ classmate and I spread my fish old lady's ashes over the old Drill Field. In the north end zone where the basses form up.

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