The Towers complex that was supposed to last ten years and is still being used about 50 years later.
Random Thoughts XI (Eleven Pipers Piping)
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I've had a student at ISU since 2011. Depending on where my high schoolers go, I could have a pretty long streak.
"Any coin any drink" was the deal at Cave Inn when I was there. I believe it closed soon after I arrived.Oh, lordy I had forgotten those godawful coolers. I did remember the Wednesday night 25 cent Buds on tap.
Also remember some guys in booth with me at the Cave Inn roughly sliding mugs down the table and grabbing them before they hit the wall. CWW#1, not to outdone, literally flung her mug into the wall with resulting shattered glass flying everywhere. What, you thought "crazy" was something I made up?
Just about. They punched cards to write programs then. I came to visit and punched all her cards wrong that she had me do, can't remember if a made hyphens underlines or vice versa. She was in the 1970's. My parents had students at ISU from 1968-me.
Yah, there were no coed floors at first. Wallace was a coed dorm but separate floors for guys and gals. Hell, my freshman year you could not even be in a gals room without the door open and feet on the floor. For reals, Oak Hall memory. That all got totally flipped on it's ear in period of less then two years though. Weird times. Prowling house mothers looking to evoke the "rules" yielded to beer and grass infused sleepovers.
I used to get asthma attacks from the pot smoke circulating through the ventilation.
I miss Minsky's.
I dated some guys in old RCA, and frankly, preferred the Towers. Probably what you get used to I guess. It was at least always easy to find a women's restroom in Towers.
They had them where my oldest son went to school. He had a male roommate, but also basically lived with his roommate's two girlfriends he had over four years.
I had a corner room one year and one of those end rooms two years. I really liked the end rooms with the great big window. Plus, when you have to walk a mile to class, you don't worry much about the old freshman 15.
And they have a HUGE lutefisk supper at the Lutheran church every November.
We didn't need coed rooms in Towers as it was more or less a key party every night.
OK. Maybe not exactly that.
No problem. We'd been divorced for 13 years by then. What was tough was watching my (our) boys go through that. The ex was the same age my mother was when she died. The boys never knew their grandmother, and were early twenties (like me) when they lost their father. He was three years older than me...when I turned 53 my boys were constantly checking in with me.
I can maybe help fill in with 76 - 79. What are we talking about?
Mini roll-call to see how long there have been RTT'ers at ISU.
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