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Question about what's around the stadium
Feb 22, 2017, 11:32 AM
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Any old timers here? Old stadium aerial shot.... what's all the little squares near the stadium where lot 5 is? Are those tents from the cadets?
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Re: Question about what's around the stadium
Feb 22, 2017, 11:35 AM
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green houses
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Re: Question about what's around the stadium
Feb 22, 2017, 11:38 AM
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Thanks Cid
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Re: Question about what's around the stadium
Feb 22, 2017, 11:40 AM
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I have no idea i made that up.
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Re: Question about what's around the stadium
Feb 22, 2017, 11:50 AM
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Haha ok well hopefully someone else will know for sure
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Re: Question about what's around the stadium
Feb 22, 2017, 11:52 AM
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Not an old timer. but I think they were married student housing.
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Re: Question about what's around the stadium
Feb 22, 2017, 12:16 PM
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Those were hastily built pre-fab homes for all the married veterans returning from WWII
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In the 60's there were small prefab married student homes..
Feb 22, 2017, 11:52 AM
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......somewhere in that area
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Re: In the 60's there were small prefab married student homes..
Feb 22, 2017, 2:12 PM
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They are small tin prefab houses that married students lived in... it was also the start of tailgating because all of them attended games and had backyard cookouts! My parents and aunts and uncles lived in them .
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Re: Question about what's around the stadium
Feb 22, 2017, 11:53 AM
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Chicken houses. They studied chickens, which is the reason we own them in football.
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Looks like the original tin cans married student housing
Feb 22, 2017, 11:55 AM
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They used to have these tiny metal 1-2 bedroom buildings around the stadium for married students. They were heated by individual oil burning stoves and would get so cold in winter there would be ice on the windows.
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Re: Looks like the original tin cans married student housing
Feb 22, 2017, 12:11 PM
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They had a few left on campus in the late 70's before they were sold off or torn down. I lived in one in 1980. They were run down, but better than living in a dorm.
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Re: Question about what's around the stadium
Feb 22, 2017, 12:03 PM
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We knew those as "prefabs" and yes they were for married couples. Had a cousin and her husband living in one at one time. The description about the winter was probably correct. I remember people putting lawn sprinklers on the roof to cool the structures down in the summer. Walls were pretty thin.
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Re: Question about what's around the stadium
Feb 22, 2017, 2:06 PM
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Gosh I'd forgotten about the water sprinkler for cooling. We were too poor to buy a sprinkler, hubby just laid the water hose on top. I think water was free with the $30 rent.
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Married housing
Feb 22, 2017, 12:43 PM
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They were brought in after WWII for married housing. They were removed for Littlejohn Coliseum.
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Re: Question about what's around the stadium
Feb 22, 2017, 12:44 PM
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Married student housing. Small houses ("tiny houses"?)built for all the married students immediately after WWII, I believe.
They were there in 1962-6 and removed about the time of the original Littlejohn construction.
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Flooding Seneca river to make Lake Hartwell
Feb 22, 2017, 1:29 PM
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sure was a major landscape improvement for Clemson University. Wonder if the coots will try to copy us by flooding the Congaree? They do so want to copy Clemson.
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Re: Question about what's around the stadium
Feb 22, 2017, 2:01 PM
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I lived in one of these ww2 pre-fabs as a newlywed. It was on Jersey Ave behind the library. (Which was under construction) We were across from the P&A building rent was $30 per month. One day I went to the p&a to buy an ice cream cone and they offered me a part time job. I got paid $1.25 per hour which was minimum wage and took home free ice cream sundaes every evening.
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Chickens in chicken houses waiting for the slaughter.
Feb 22, 2017, 2:06 PM
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And they didn't have far to go.
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Re: Question about what's around the stadium
Feb 22, 2017, 2:30 PM
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They were small houses (pads) for the homeless beatniks of the time. They were rent free as most beatniks were on welfare. They were affectionately known as stay free mini pads.
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