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Former Johnstone residents?


Sep 17, 2015, 8:31 AM

Anyone of you remember Johnstone? It was a real dump but i had some really cool times there. Stayed there from '95-97. Best time I had was when me and my folks hung out before a 12 pm homecoming game with nc state and walked a few feet from my room and watched the band come right down the street into the stadium. It was pretty awesome and magical. The weather was awesome and going to the game was not stressful. Got any cool or crazy Johnstone stories?

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A lot like Williams Brice


Sep 17, 2015, 8:33 AM

A real dung heap, but have had a lot of good times there. Some bad time too, but the good outnumber the bad.

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Johnstone still exists.***


Sep 17, 2015, 8:37 AM



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Re: Johnstone still exists.***


Sep 17, 2015, 8:42 AM

I thought it wa torn down

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Johnstone a and a annex survive to this day.


Sep 17, 2015, 9:09 AM

A annex is a mirror image of the shoe boxes.
A is just like the old b-f.

I was a7 my 1st semester with 2 other people.

They finally moved me mid semester to e4

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Re: Johnstone a and a annex survive to this day.


Sep 17, 2015, 9:52 AM

I remember going up once not long after graduation. Something happened with where we were staying. I think our host ditched us because he got lucky, so I slept in the car and my other two buddies slept in this old abandoned house that one of us had rented in school. I'm not sure which worried me more, the bugs living in the furniture or getting busted for B&E in the middle of the night. Any way, the next morning we went back to my old section (E) of Johnston to shower.

Johnstone was actually a significant architectural and engineering accomplishment. It was built in the WW2 era and had multiple floors of concrete and steel with a lightweight exterior. They were only supposed to be up for a couple of years, but lasted for decades longer than expected.

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Re: Johnstone still exists.***


Sep 17, 2015, 9:46 AM [ in reply to Re: Johnstone still exists.*** ]

Johnstone A is still there, everything else was torn down.

I was on E3 my freshman year and F4 soph. Man, we had fun times, made a lot of friends. Everyone should have had that experience, it just wouldn't have been the same without it.

Cool thing was F4 my sophomore year ('92) I was in the room next door to where my dad stayed on F4 when he was at Clemson in the early 60's. He had some hilarious stories of the stuff they did back then that probably would have gotten us kicked out of school, LOL.

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We would remove the wall panels and put them in the door


Sep 17, 2015, 8:37 AM

frames walling people in.

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There's something in these hills.


I wasn't a Johnstonian, but back in the mid 00s


Sep 17, 2015, 8:44 AM

There was a slip and slide put in the middle of the hall. It was pretty fun.

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1900's or 2000"s?


Sep 17, 2015, 9:38 AM

Think Johnstone was there for both.

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Re: Former Johnstone residents?


Sep 17, 2015, 8:44 AM

My most memorable moment was when I almost threw the Dean of Men into the showers on our hall.

Okay - for some odd reason, a group of us on B-9 decided to throw anyone in our showers if they did not belong on our hall. I have no idea why we wanted to do this. After several hours of doing this to a few people, apparently the Dean of Men got word of this and came to check it out. I had no idea who the Dean of Men was. When he asked "What is going on?", I responded with something like "We're throwing anyone that does not belong on the hall into the showers, and you're next". As I started to grab him, luckily a friend of mine grabbed me first and told me who he was. I retreated like a cockroach and saved myself to live to graduate CLEMSON.

Now you guys have to tolerate me. :)

btw: I could have taken him too. He should thank my friend. LOL

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Re: Former Johnstone residents?


Sep 17, 2015, 8:47 AM

Wow that is hilarious.

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Re: Former Johnstone residents?


Sep 17, 2015, 9:36 AM [ in reply to Re: Former Johnstone residents? ]

I lived on B-9 in 1990. Must have been before my time. Place was a dump when I lived there. I quickly got over it, but sharing the shower with 8-9 other guys was a shock to me in the beginning.

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D-3 1972-73


Sep 17, 2015, 8:52 AM

Looked nice to me

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I remember toilet stalls with no doors.***


Sep 17, 2015, 8:54 AM



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When I was there they didn't even have walls. Just 4-5


Sep 17, 2015, 9:50 AM

toilets all in a row.

Ahh good times.

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E3 in the mid-80's. Ah, the memories.......................***


Sep 17, 2015, 8:55 AM



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Re: E3 in the mid-80's. Ah, the memories.......................***


Sep 17, 2015, 9:00 AM

E3...Freshman year 1980...nasty green carpet...keg parties...pennying people in their rooms...good times!

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Re: E3 in the mid-80's. Ah, the memories.......................***


Sep 17, 2015, 10:33 AM

I was a freshman on E3 in 81. My best memory was beating Georgia and all the celebrating after the game. Also remember the good times climbing out the window and sitting on the ledge during the Spring. Crazy Times!

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Sep 17, 2015, 9:02 AM

Johnstone C-521 Alum here (at least for 3 years, then I moved off campus). I was unable to watch Tiger Band march by, but I did thoroughly enjoy marching in Tiger Band's Drum Line passing by! Anyway, Johnstone was a special place and I do have lots of memories that I'll never forget - though, I better not share many of them (lol)! One memory - I enjoyed laying in the sun on my ledge (later, they installed window clips to prevent it). And, a group of us went across the street to lay out in the sun near the old "Shoeboxes". While there, we realized that one of the prettiest and nicest ladies on campus was out there. She is now a major, national celebrity who remains very loyal to Clemson University. I am sure you have heard of her! Sadly, most of the ole' "Tin Cans", as Johnstone was often called, is gone!

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Sep 17, 2015, 9:05 AM

I also remember this guy running through a window. He busted himself up pretty good.

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Most of Clemson housing was dumpy


Sep 17, 2015, 9:08 AM

That is why there is such a major upgrade needed. When I was there it was required to live on campus freshman year but most bolted off campus sophmore year for the remainder. Even the upperclassman housing was pretty dumpy at the time but they finished stadium suites while I was there. The shoeboxes and Johnstone were huge dumps. I was lucky enough to be in Byrnes but that was still pretty dumpy. I don't think Clemson was alone w/ crappy on-campus housing. I remember styaing with friends at the beehives at Scar and those were dumps. I even thought Patterson and South Tower where my girlfriend at the time lived were pretty dumpy as well.

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Sep 17, 2015, 9:13 AM

Lots of memories (even if very vague, if you know what I mean--lots of beer was consumed) about my years in Johnstone C6 (84-86).

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Re: Former Johnstone residents?


Sep 17, 2015, 9:14 AM

C-5 two years then moved to D-5 (71-74) to get a phone in the room and not a hall phone. My son lived in New F 6 years ago.

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Streaking Week - Spring '74


Sep 17, 2015, 9:19 AM

Hundreds of streakers who had massed in the amphitheater ran several laps around the Calhoun Mansion. Proud undergraduate sets up his speakers and amp out on the ledge of Johnstone overlooking the band hill. He climbs out buck naked and plays several tunes as the streakers parade below. Way out Wayne joins the streakers. Cops are present but let it go as long as folks stay on campus. There is a gauntlet of clothed folk along the route and as a university cop car drives through it becomes stalled by the crowd. Here come the streakers and they run right up the trunk and down the windshield and hood of the cop car and continue on their merry way as the crowd surges in and blocks any thought of pursuit. This was the Thursday before spring break and the streaking had been building all week starting with a single or double through Harcomb or around the frat quad or through the Loggia, then more groups...the grand finale. Never really say it much more after that week.

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Re: Streaking Week - Spring '74


Sep 17, 2015, 1:48 PM

I had forgotten all about the mass streak at the end of that week.

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A6 and F-Annex


Sep 17, 2015, 9:27 AM

Lots of great memories.

Class of 1980

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My Dad, who passed far too early, told a great one.


Sep 17, 2015, 9:28 AM

He was a class of '64 grad. He told me they used to plug the drains in the bathroom, flood the hall with soapy water and play "hall hockey". Apparently the practice ended with a pretty serious injury. Moral of the story: It's only fun until somebody slides down the hall and falls out an open window.

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That story was already an urban legend when I got there in


Sep 17, 2015, 10:26 AM

'72. Worst we did was bowling in the hall, and knocked out one of the end panels. (Aside from the occasional hush hush, wink wink keg party). I was in the Cans all four years. "B" freshman year, and Old "F" the next three.

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Moved into D4 in August '68, no AC, about 90 degrees inside***


Sep 17, 2015, 9:32 AM



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Spent a year in Johnstone.


Sep 17, 2015, 9:33 AM

One semester in F3 and one in E5 in 82-83. Time flies.

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Johnstone alum '74-'78


Sep 17, 2015, 9:34 AM

Last two years, I graduated to the penthouse . . . er, A-Annex.

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The definition of awesome!


E-5 and B-8


Sep 17, 2015, 9:35 AM

1975-80

It was a dump but it was a great dump.

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E-312, '97-'98


Sep 17, 2015, 9:36 AM

loved it!

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C-4 in 65-66


Sep 17, 2015, 9:38 AM

Great times there my freshman year. Moved to 8th barracks for next two years. Interesting thing there, in today's time, was that there was only one pay phone for the entire dorm. A time when phones weren't so needed by everyone.

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C-4 72-74 in one of the three rooms that faced the quad


Sep 17, 2015, 1:31 PM

which became a construction site during that time when they started building the student union. Then a year on E-3.

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Re: C-4 72-74 in one of the three rooms that faced the quad


Sep 17, 2015, 1:52 PM

Hall Mama B2 68-69. If I remember correctly there were 5 toilets in a row. Finding someone occupying the middle one you could flush the other 4 at the same time and the middle one would erupt. You could also access the back of the showers and cut off the hot water.
Yep, one pay phone per hall. Great days

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I lived in B-8 freshman year. The one story


Sep 17, 2015, 9:38 AM

I remember is returning from a shower in a towel to find that since I left, my roommate had come back to the room and left again, locking the door when he did. Of course I did not have my key. I had to walk to the Student Union in my towel to get another key. The applause as I walked through were classic.

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Re: Former Johnstone residents?


Sep 17, 2015, 9:41 AM

Man. Y'all trying to make people cry at work or what?
Miss that place so much.
Well, at least we get to see the Tigers play tonight!

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Re: Former Johnstone residents?


Sep 17, 2015, 9:48 AM

E641 from '82-83, then a semester on E2 before moving to Lever for the remainder. The RA on E2 would have beach parties, where the shower got boarded up and filled fill of water, sand was brought into the bathroom, and kegs were floating in washtubs full of ice. Looking back, it's a wonder nobody drowned or got sick in that cauldron of human filth that was a Johnstone shower. :)

Good times.

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Re: Former Johnstone residents?


Sep 17, 2015, 9:48 AM

E-3 90-91 and F-4 91-92.

fun times.

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C and D were closed off when I was there


Sep 17, 2015, 9:53 AM

But I had some good times on E-3 my freshman year. I think about all but 10 people on that hall pledged AGR that year, and my good buddy and myself got written up multiple times for such infractions as "roofs and ledges" and "excessive consumption".

Good times, good times indeed.

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Sep 17, 2015, 10:06 AM

96 -97 E

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Sep 17, 2015, 10:07 AM

You can't be a true Clemson man if you did not live in Johnstone.

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Sep 17, 2015, 10:36 AM

It was a right of passage as a student at Clemson if you survived Johnstone.

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Sep 17, 2015, 10:16 AM

Aside from being a noisy place, my sliding closet door fell off the track and onto my big toe. I was on crutches for awhile.

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Sep 17, 2015, 10:33 AM

D6 '76-'80. Nothing compares to the view from the "balcony". Death Valley in foreground with Lake Hartwell and Mountains in background. Had to bring a cup to the shower and keep one eye open lest you get attacked with cups of cold water thrown by your floormates. My room was positioned directly over the driveway to Harcombe plaza. Used to use placards to rate the girls on the way to dinner. Great times before moving to top floor of Cope.

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Was a dump already late 80's


Sep 17, 2015, 10:41 AM

I went to a Swim Camp there around 1984 (Top Deck North was only a year or 2 old). Swim team is history now.

The covers for the florescent lights in the ceiling had these tabs you could bend to leave "graffiti" messages.

I remember it well as the first time away from home for any significant time.

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B section demolition


Sep 17, 2015, 10:59 AM

I have this photo dated October 1991. I was on B-7 and had some great times. Sure doesn't seem like there was much holding this thing up.

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I thought it was an experimental construction


Sep 17, 2015, 1:55 PM

method when they built it. It must have worked.

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A9 and F2...


Sep 17, 2015, 11:13 AM

A9 had "Cloud 9" written on the entry door from the stairwell. The hall justified the name totally.
F2 carried on the A9 traditions. Also played hall hockey on a flooded hall floor there.

Best memory? I don't remember much at all. :)

1973-1976 denizen of the "cans".

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I remember frost forming on the inside of the


Sep 17, 2015, 11:27 AM

metal exterior wall of my D hall room in winter of '66 when temp dropped to zero. Guys down the hall spent half the night pouring trashcans of water out of the bathroom window, forming a giant icicle from the ledge all the way to the ground, blocking the access to a parking area on the quadrangle side of the building. This was almost straight across the street from CU police office - guess it got too cold for them to come outside to see what was going on.

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Sep 17, 2015, 11:55 AM

My son was there in the 80's a couple of yrs for summer school along with Harvey and Horace Grant.

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Sep 17, 2015, 12:13 PM

Yep, I was in there from '96-'98. SO I'm guessing you must remember the blackout just before the FSU game and the hall party everyone threw after the campus wide march/chant?

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Sep 17, 2015, 12:38 PM

Yep I remember it like it was yesterday

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Sep 17, 2015, 12:53 PM

My Dad was one of the first to live in them when they were new and considered temporary housing but all 4 of his children lived in them while they were at Clemson. I was in F section from 85-87 my sophomore and junior year. Those were some great years and will fondly remember them as long as I live. It is sad that they are now gone (mostly) but as time goes on so do improvements.

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I guess they were always Johnstone, but were called them


Sep 17, 2015, 12:59 PM

the "Tin Cans".....very noisy and hard to study (as if were going to do that anyway). I lived in them in '64 and '65. My freshman year we were on the ground floor....I think in F....... and my roommate (a smart as heII) from Newburg, NY lost eight room keys during the year. Finally, after he decided it was ridiculous to buy anymore keys, he would jump over the "moat" (about an 8' drop if he missed) onto the ledge and come into the room through the window that we left cracked.

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Im at Clemson now


Sep 17, 2015, 1:28 PM

My buddy stays in johnstone and I'm there all the time lots of fun smells terrible though

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E and F section and that place was a hellhole


Sep 17, 2015, 2:35 PM

Was there in the early, early 90's and that place was a dump. The power blackout one Spring semester on that side of campus turned the place into a prison riot and I saw some serious, scary crap go down that night.
Not sure how you remember it fondly...The day I escaped that place for greener pastures, I fell on my knees and thanked God I had survived.

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B5. 87-88***


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Waking up in the arms of a FB player with my pants down-


Sep 17, 2015, 3:00 PM

This needs explaining:

Was very much inebriated and one of the few times decided to take a hit off someone's maryjane...nothing. Had to pee so I meandered to the restroom and while waiting at the urinal, I noticed things getting darker and darker. I thought "this ain't right" and evidently I was correct. I woke up back in the dorm room in the arms of some massive being that had found me on the bathroom floor with my pants down to my ankles. One of those danm brother don't believe I'd a told that but we family right?

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Sep 17, 2015, 4:22 PM

Dang...looks like you hit that one hitter quitter

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heh haven't touched it since***


Sep 17, 2015, 7:22 PM



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Stayed there 98-99


Sep 17, 2015, 3:49 PM

Definitely a memorable place, lot of camaraderie was forged in those walls.

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C6 Remember getting locked out of room


Sep 17, 2015, 3:53 PM

Going next door, walking out on the ledge to go through window.

Great room... looked out at the front of Fort Hill.

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D2 Johnstone '83/'84


Sep 17, 2015, 4:06 PM

Very small hall with special friends! I loved my time there and though I rarely get together with my D2 brothers, I love them all! They made my Clemson experience special! Too many stories to tell but there were so great ones!

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Sep 17, 2015, 4:13 PM

I lived in Johnstone in the Spring of 88. First week on Campus it snowed over a foot. The hall I was on chipped in and got a keg and through it in the snow. Good Times. It was a dump though but still good times. I moved to the frat hall the next semester. Go Tigers!!!

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Sep 17, 2015, 4:15 PM

Oh Yeah the best part was every morning when I woke up and looked out the window I had a Awesome view of Death Valley!

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E-6 '79-'80***


Sep 17, 2015, 4:18 PM



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E3 96-97***


Sep 17, 2015, 4:28 PM



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Re: Former Johnstone residents?


Sep 17, 2015, 7:30 PM

I remember 1978 when I was there for my tour. We were playing notre dame and joe Montana. On the front of johnstone was a sheet hanging from the third floor painted with and I quote " I like diarrhea but then again I like Dan devine"
Go tigers tonight

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