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Football Update: Historic Clemson Photos #18 - Thumbing a ride
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Football Update: Historic Clemson Photos #18 - Thumbing a ride


Feb 12, 2013, 11:44 AM

Historic Clemson Photos #18 - Thumbing a ride

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Those 60's guys must have been expecting a flood.***


Feb 12, 2013, 12:01 PM



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It seems like those signs were still up out on Hwy. 93......


Feb 12, 2013, 12:13 PM

when I started in 1973 but I'm probably wrong.

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Re: It seems like those signs were still up out on Hwy. 93......


Feb 12, 2013, 8:40 PM

The signs were there in 1970, my freshman year

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Not to mention the stylish white socks***


Feb 12, 2013, 12:43 PM [ in reply to Those 60's guys must have been expecting a flood.*** ]



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and weejuns......still love 'em!***


Feb 12, 2013, 1:03 PM



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White socks were in. What is interesting,


Feb 12, 2013, 3:36 PM [ in reply to Not to mention the stylish white socks*** ]

considering trends today, is that most people never wore jeans to school.

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as well they should .... Hartwell was backing up at the time***


Feb 12, 2013, 1:29 PM [ in reply to Those 60's guys must have been expecting a flood.*** ]



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Why not just use the internet message board to get a ride?***


Feb 12, 2013, 12:07 PM



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Re: Why not just use the internet message board to get a ride?***


Feb 12, 2013, 1:41 PM

Don't forget Al Gore was just a UT knucklehead then.
Everyone used the bulletin board across from the old Postoffice under Harcombe Commons then.

That was the "real" message board then.

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Comment from a '64 Grad


Feb 12, 2013, 1:23 PM

We received this comment from a '64 grad:

"The 1960 picture you showed of thumbing shows the signs installed by my fraternity, SKE, as part of our service to the school. When fraternities were started in the 1959\1960 school year we had to agree to perform some service to the school or community. About 1960 or 1961 we installed the signs to separate the people going to Greenville from the ones going towards Anderson. It made it easier for potential rides to see who was going their way. Great to see these old pictures."

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Re: Football Update: Historic Clemson Photos #18 - Thumbing a ride


Feb 12, 2013, 1:44 PM

I stood in that same spot and hitched rides to G'ville in '68. I had a car, but Freshmen weren't allowed to have cars on campus. I was a whole lot better looking than those guys. :)

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I had a car my freshman year in 1968 because..............


Feb 12, 2013, 2:03 PM

I just gave some senior on my hall to buy me a permit. I was a whole lot better looking than those guys too and we had bell bottoms back then not whatever they're wearing!

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Bell bottoms were in the late


Feb 12, 2013, 2:24 PM

1960s and thankfully for a very short time.

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Re: Football Update: Historic Clemson Photos #18 - Thumbing a ride


Feb 12, 2013, 3:30 PM

A little later one of those photos could have been me. I logged many miles on my thumb back then. Not brave enough, nor dumb enough, to do it today. Back then it was easy to get a ride. Different world back then!

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Used the thumb a lot in '65, '66, '67.


Feb 12, 2013, 9:09 PM

Many rides via the thumb between Clemson and Gastonia, NC. My freshman year my roommate and I even thumbed to East Carolina in Greenville, NC. 13 hours there on Friday and 12 back on Sunday. Quite a few rides each way with some real characters. Thanks for the photo.

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