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All-Time Great [96818]
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It took real men
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Aug 19, 2025, 4:15 PM
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to build Johnstone Hall for us wimpy kids.
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Re: It took real men
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Aug 19, 2025, 4:20 PM
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It took wimpy kids to destroy them.
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I see what youre saying, but I dont think the students have had
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Aug 19, 2025, 4:23 PM
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anything to do with campus construction.
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Heisman Winner [83829]
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You wouldn't get the inference because
Aug 19, 2025, 10:34 PM
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you never were a student. 😭
Why won't you donate to T-net, especially never having given a dime to the university as much as you cuck.
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Paw Warrior [4700]
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Re: You wouldn't get the inference because
Aug 20, 2025, 6:05 AM
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Daaaaaaang.
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Re: It took real men
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Aug 19, 2025, 4:31 PM
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You not kidding tug. Probably the last tough generation. We were pretty tough growing up but then we got soft.
Wonder what them guys and gals would thunk if they saw someone get butthurt over a sporting event... and moreso get whiney when someone doesn't like an anonymous poast on a sporting forum. 🤣
Great post!!!
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Re: It took real men
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Aug 19, 2025, 4:35 PM
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Metal walls no AC ---
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Re: It took real men
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Aug 19, 2025, 4:38 PM
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We would lay on those with warm beer to work on our tan - never heard of any falling off.
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Aug 19, 2025, 9:09 PM
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Lift slab construction. Wikipedia actually references Johnstone and has a photo of A Annex, but facing the other direction (note those "decorative" concrete panels that covered the ledge are not in the photos). Scary thing is a building in CT (L'Ambiance Plaza) collapsed in the '80s during construction using this technique and 28 workers died. Luckily the guys on the Clemson project fared better, and those of us that lived in Johnstone also lived to tell about it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lift_slab_construction
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Paw Warrior [4700]
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Re: It took real men
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I know it had to smell terrible in there.
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Re: It took real men
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Aug 19, 2025, 4:37 PM
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No hardhats, gloves or safety belts with them guys.
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Paw Warrior [4969]
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ah, the good old days where a minor work injury
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Aug 19, 2025, 4:41 PM
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could result in sudden and instant death
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Re: ah, the good old days where a minor work injury
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Aug 19, 2025, 4:45 PM
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Yeah, a hard hat and gloves would protect one falling from there.
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Re: ah, the good old days where a minor work injury
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Aug 19, 2025, 5:05 PM
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lol maybe a safety harness???
He is referring to the advances in safety which saves peoples lives. That’s not a good thing??
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Re: ah, the good old days where a minor work injury
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Aug 19, 2025, 5:09 PM
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I have worked construction. These days politics make it impossible.
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Re: It took real men
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Aug 19, 2025, 4:46 PM
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It lasted a long time, considering it was supposed to be temporary housing.
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Aug 19, 2025, 4:52 PM
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I can still smell the stale beer and Chitlins cooking.🤮
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Re: It took real men
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Aug 19, 2025, 5:19 PM
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They don’t make them like they use to.
An honest days work for an honest day pay.
Where are the craftsmen today?
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Re: It took real men
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Aug 19, 2025, 5:45 PM
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Yep. No fat guys there.
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Re: It took real men
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Aug 19, 2025, 8:30 PM
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I can only remember one fat boy from 1st grade to 12th grade in the schools I attended and it was the same boy. He came from a well to do family while the rest of us came from poor families or hard working blue collar families, many who worked in the textile mills in green ville County.
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Re: It took real men
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Aug 19, 2025, 8:36 PM
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Did it have a Starbucks or Dutch Bros?
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Re: It took real men
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Aug 19, 2025, 9:45 PM
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If the complex had the Johnstone Hall name when I was there in the mid 1960s, none of us knew it. To us it was "The Tin Cans," sections A, B, C, D, E, & F.
Daniel Construction Company erected the complex in late 1953 and 1954. Construction was completed in less than a year, and the dorms were ready for the 1954 fall semester. The cost was about $4 million.
The complex had 1,000 rooms with a dining hall, loggia, canteen, barber shop, etc. When it was built, it was the largest college dormitory in the US.
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Aug 20, 2025, 12:57 AM
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Do you or anyone know what those rods and looks like hydraulic hose are?. Attached around the I-beams. I worked construction for several years and never saw anything like it.
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Re: It took real men
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Aug 20, 2025, 5:32 AM
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They used them to lift the floor slabs into place
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Orange Beast [6109]
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Re: It took real men
Aug 20, 2025, 1:58 PM
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Makes sense
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Re: It took real men
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Aug 20, 2025, 5:31 AM
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my understanding is they went up in a couple of weeks. they poured the slabs on the ground and used hoists to lift the floors into place. They were used in WW2 as temporary barracks/ offices, and before they were torn down, Johnstone was the last structure still standing of its's type..
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Athletic Dir [1121]
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Re: It took real men
Aug 20, 2025, 7:48 AM
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I stayed there at a Bowden football camp back in the early 2000s. Sad that its gone.
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Paw Warrior [4838]
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Tin Cans will always be with me as will be Clemson
Aug 20, 2025, 8:31 AM
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Best 4 years of my life
Once a Tiger ALWAYS a Tiger
GO TIGERS
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