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Post by whoanellie on Jan 30, 2011 16:03:07 GMT -5
I pulled this article off T-N site www.thetimesnews.com/sports/elon-40642-upgrades-embraces.html and it got me thinking about what was "new" or under construction in our days at Elon. Granted the school is light yrs better than it once was. Like where the track/ f/b practice fields were located is now the Fine Arts Center. I remember my recruiting trip the just opened the Library, now the school of communications...hard to imagine right.
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Post by elonfirefighter on Jan 30, 2011 16:49:52 GMT -5
lets see my freshman year we had JC, north dorm was getting ready to be torn down and we had luscious playing fields where the business offices now sit
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Post by whoanellie on Jan 30, 2011 17:35:38 GMT -5
this is going to be so lame but the Parking lots that use to begoing right up next to Alamance yes where the fountains are plus you had that parking lot by the gym on the far side of the gym PL was where North Dorm sat. North moved around a lot!!! probably arrived w/ the WWII vets.
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Post by elon77 on Jan 30, 2011 19:54:25 GMT -5
You all just don't know, you should have seen it in the 70's. But, we thought it was the greatest place on earth, and I still think it is something special.
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Post by camroc on Jan 30, 2011 21:30:35 GMT -5
Yeah, I lived in Carolina for the whole 4 years. ('72-'76) Golf class with Coach Yow in the Alumni parking lot. The Halloween golf ball fight with Smith which left thirty-some windows broken. The fire on the third floor of Carolina during my senior year. So many memories.
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Post by whoanellie on Jan 30, 2011 22:05:23 GMT -5
When one enters the campus it is hard to imagine an Esso station right on the corner in front of the Gym. Mr Wilburn would cash a check knowing it not be good until Tuesday. The campus has so been landscaped that it hard to pinpoint just where old stuff use to be. Don't get me wrong but new millinium phoenix pholks just could not mentally picture the old baseball stadium or some of the old Victorian Frat Houses that rimmed the walls of the campus. There are reasons some things are torn down.
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Post by elonfirefighter on Jan 30, 2011 23:00:16 GMT -5
I didn't live it, but I heard stories from the guys on the Fire department about the frats back then. Nude guys standing on brick walls and the final frat parties where some of the houses were disassemble limb from limb.
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Post by elon87aekdb on Jan 30, 2011 23:41:23 GMT -5
OK my span was 82 to 87, the fountain was just completed, the track was where the Fine Arts buildinng stands, across the street, behind The Pantry and the Hardees was some new modular dorms the original The Oaks, there used to be a road next to Carolina and Hook, Handcock and Barney. The Lighthouse used to be next to the tracks and off course the Football games were played in Burlington at the City Stadium. Now about the Fraternity Houses, there once was a Fraternity called TKE, they lost there house the school gave it to the fire department to practice on. The orignal Kappa Sigma house was across the tracks and across the road from the Post Office. We lost that house for the new Town Hall, which has still not been built. We then moved in to a house next to the church parking lot, we shared the block with 2 other Fraternities and the Church. In May of 1987, 2 days before that years graduation, they took a bulldozer to them. We hated to see them go but it was a smart thing to do, they were falling apart for years and the school was doing just enough to keep them from calapsing. There was some removal of historical items from the houses.
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Post by whoanellie on Jan 31, 2011 6:40:26 GMT -5
You all just don't know, you should have seen it in the 70's. But, we thought it was the greatest place on earth, and I still think it is something special. North Dorm?
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Post by elon77 on Jan 31, 2011 8:36:39 GMT -5
Yeah, I lived in Carolina for the whole 4 years. ('72-'76) Golf class with Coach Yow in the Alumni parking lot. The Halloween golf ball fight with Smith which left thirty-some windows broken. The fire on the third floor of Carolina during my senior year. So many memories. I lived in Smith so I remember. Coach Yow actually rode out to the driving range in my car several times in my golf class. There was a coffee house in front of Smith and they would show outdoor movies on good weather nights. I believe I saw the Graduate there one night. We never complained about going to Williams stadium on Saturdays, it was just what we did. No place to tailgate, so we did it in the stands, nobody bothered us either. Now that I think about it that place was a dump, but it was the best we had. Used to go to away games at these garden spots, Catawba, Lenoir Rhyne, Mars Hill, Guilford, and best of all Newberry SC. Pretty good football, John Muir, Gary Darnell, JOE WEST, Giggi Leary, Ellis Brothers, Brent Sexton, Diffy Ross and so on . The school was small enough that you knew and partied with most of the players. Saw Lloyd Free and M.L. Carr light Elon up several time when they were at Guilford. Saw Free( World B Free) put 30+ on them one night at Elon and I don't think he broke a sweat. Place was packed too because at the time we hated Guilford's butt. The baseball team used to play some of their games in Burlington Stadium where the minor league team played. At the time if I remember that was pretty much a dump, but we would go and support a pretty good baseball team. When Garrison's on main street opened up and sold beer that to me was one of the greatest dates in history, and had killer pizza too. But my favorite place on campus was the spot where the old TKE house stood, behind Hook, Brannock, and Barney. To this day when I visit my favorite Elon student I stop and sit on that sacred ground and reminisce. My kids look at me like I'm crazy and say DADDDDDDDDDDD, someone is going to see you. Who cares!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by elonfirefighter on Jan 31, 2011 9:25:00 GMT -5
Burlington stadium was a dump, they played there 4 or 5 times my freshman year in 2003. Since it was before burlington started playing the field was crap and the stands were outdated, but it still was pretty cool to be on a minor league field
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Post by whoanellie on Jan 31, 2011 16:18:16 GMT -5
the Elon Home really housed orphans, Down by the RailRoad tracks, Bill's Blue Room was like the first Beer Joint in town.
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Post by elon77 on Feb 1, 2011 8:43:44 GMT -5
I'm not sure Nellie that Bill's Blue Room was the first, but it was one of the first. I believe there was a place right on main street somewhere near present day Acorn which was call Garrison's. It was owned by a local man named Doug Thomas and he might have played football at Elon in the 60's. Our frat used to buy keg's from him and have "beer blast" outside the town limits. I know there had to be several ABC laws broken when the frat's had them, but he had a few booth's and a counter selling food and beer. You could be right, But I believe Garrison's was a few months before Bill's, and they had killer pizza too.
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Post by whoanellie on Feb 1, 2011 9:31:43 GMT -5
I'm not sure Nellie that Bill's Blue Room was the first, but it was one of the first. I believe there was a place right on main street somewhere near present day Acorn which was call Garrison's. It was owned by a local man named Doug Thomas and he might have played football at Elon in the 60's. Our frat used to buy keg's from him and have "beer blast" outside the town limits. I know there had to be several ABC laws broken when the frat's had them, but he had a few booth's and a counter selling food and beer. You could be right, But I believe Garrison's was a few months before Bill's, and they had killer pizza too. I know I'm the Ancient Mariner or close to it on this board and thank God for change. The educational experience one receives at the Numen Lumen is second to none. Some of us old heads think Rhodes is new, it's 10 years old! My thought is that an incoming student recruit captures in their minds eye on a completely different landscape 15,30 or 40+ years ago. Elon is still the people and relationships that have lasted a lifetime.
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Post by elon77 on Feb 1, 2011 10:14:41 GMT -5
I have a student graduating in May. She has had a very good 4 years and has seen several new places around the world and in the US because of Elon. Her degree will be second to none and she is going to have an outstanding job upon graduation. But what is sad is she hasn't had near the fun my wife and I had when we were there and I'm not sure she will have the close friendships that we still have after 30+ years. Times are different and things do change, but I will always love the place.
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