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07-12-2008, 02:55 PM
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#1 | | Hall-Of-Famer
Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Altoona, Ia.
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Just a few memories--I arrived on campus in '83.
Two-fers at Do-Biz on Tuesdays. What a line! Do-Biz Do now in your grocery freezer, by the way--I ran into a rep at Hy-Vee a month or so ago.
Zevs Kosmos. 'Nuff said.
Reverand Jed and Sister Cindy. Nothin' like marrying your Sister. At least it wasn't them who got the Free Speech zone erected.
Barry and the Missouri Game. I saw it recently on Mediacom (just before we got Dish), and couldn't believe all that I hadn't remembered--even though I was there, a few rows up behind the basket.
Anyone else remember 'Iowa Sweet Corn'? The poster, that is.
I lived in Birch Hall one semester, then Ash House when I came back. The elsewhere off campus.
The Original VEISHEA "riots". Couches burning in the street, police cars overturned, people dangling from street lights over the fires.
Lots more, but I hope to start people talking.
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07-12-2008, 03:05 PM
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#2 | | All-Star
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Des Moines
Posts: 1,276
Credits: 770,716 Degree: Accounting NFL: Packers NBA: Celtics MLB: Dodgers |
Mug night at the Mississippi Queen - and taking my mug to and from on my little Honda CB 360.
Dime draws and dollar pitchers at Cy's Roost.
The M-Shop. Enough said.
Heeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrre's JOHNNY! Hilton Coliseum rocked in those days. People that weren't there cannot understand the difference. The players used to comment about the court literally vibrating from the noise.
By the way - a little flashback brought current. People's Court on Court Avenue in Des Moines has a lot of ISU nostalgia throughout - not to mention a lot of good bands. Drinks are free poured - you'll get your money's worth relative to most bars. I watched The Nada's there awhile back - all ISU kids. It was great!
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ISU fans are the greatest in the world. All they ask for is hope and the belief that we have a chance to win every time we step on the field - Johnny Majors (paraphrased)
Ya gotta have the horses, man - Johnny Orr.
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07-12-2008, 03:27 PM
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#3 | | All-Star
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Des Moines
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Credits: 770,716 Degree: Accounting NFL: Packers NBA: Celtics MLB: Dodgers |
Oh yeah - and student general admission seating at football games - the race to get the best seats. But in those days, we were allowed to bring alcohol into the stadium in wineskins.
I'd have rather tailgated, but the race up the hills to the seats was a great thing. Screw the stairs, I'm taking the straight line from a to b...
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ISU fans are the greatest in the world. All they ask for is hope and the belief that we have a chance to win every time we step on the field - Johnny Majors (paraphrased)
Ya gotta have the horses, man - Johnny Orr.
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07-12-2008, 03:35 PM
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#4 | | Rookie
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Aardvarks pizza, Granddaddys pitchers (still have mine at work), .75 gintonics at Thumbs, Dugans Deli, Veisha parade where one of my floormates broke the bigtoe off a float and ran down the street.... Brother Zed --- and I NEVER ended up burning in a lake of fire although I'm not dead yet...
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07-12-2008, 06:26 PM
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#5 | | Hall-Of-Famer
Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Altoona, Ia.
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"Mom, I was at The Library all night last night..."
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07-12-2008, 06:58 PM
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#6 | | Pro
Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Waukee
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Credits: 324,646 Year: 1991 Degree: Ag Business/Marketing NFL: Vikings |
Awesome pizza at DaVinci's, FAC's, Watching Barry Sanders and the "Boz" Brian Bosworth playing at Jack Trice, listening to the roar of the crowd as Johnny Orr came onto the basketball court, the rowdy student tailgating section in the western lot of the parking lot north of Jack Trice, sky duking (don't ask), the big time party's in our house across the street from the Ames PD.
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Question for the day: Can I still make season tickets work for FB and MBB if I move to Canada? |
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07-13-2008, 09:18 AM
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#7 | | Hall-Of-Famer
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Tork's pub, ISU Basketball, Steam-tunnelling, passing cheerleaders/pom-girls up the stands, early Saturday morning pre-game rehearsals, mud runs down pammel creek and living in the female dorms for a year and a half....
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“When we’re in pads, we’re going to use the pads.” - Gene Chizik
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07-13-2008, 09:20 AM
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#8 | | Hall-Of-Famer
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And don't forget "The Pizza House" and Norbert, the Chicago Dog and Italian Ice man...
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“When we’re in pads, we’re going to use the pads.” - Gene Chizik
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07-13-2008, 10:58 AM
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#9 | | Bench Warmer
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the cave $4 all you could drink. 79 cent quarts of old mil at what is now Kum and Go. 4 for a buck burgers at hardees. $4.29 a case for Red White and Blue at Snyder drug. 2 fers at Lost and Found. 25 cent brats from ISU. experimental round bacon for free before they perfected it for McDonalds. improv at the Mshop. Sunday night Pizza Pit. sledding down the hills on our lunch trays. God I miss the times at ISU. When did we find time to study?
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07-13-2008, 11:48 AM
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#10 | | All-Star
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I remember going to Pizza Pit. I thought it was hilarious that the women who worked there had to wear shirts that said "Free, Fast, and Hot!"
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"Politics: “Poli” a Latin word meaning “many”; and "tics" meaning “bloodsucking creatures”." ~Robin Williams
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07-13-2008, 11:51 AM
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#11 | | Bench Warmer
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Iowa City, Iowa
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Being Born.....
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07-13-2008, 12:00 PM
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#12 | | All-Star
Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: West Des Moines
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Credits: 1,651,467 Year: 2007 Degree: Political Science NFL: Vikings | Originally Posted by SpokaneCY Aardvarks pizza, Granddaddys pitchers (still have mine at work), .75 gintonics at Thumbs, Dugans Deli, Veisha parade where one of my floormates broke the bigtoe off a float and ran down the street.... Brother Zed --- and I NEVER ended up burning in a lake of fire although I'm not dead yet... 20 years later... still goin!
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RIP #27 and #2
I'll order up another shot of sin, I'm running twice as hard into the wind, I'll hitch a ride when the next one comes in, fell off the wagon again...
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07-13-2008, 12:03 PM
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#13 | | Hall-Of-Famer
Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Altoona, Ia.
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Credits: 109,028 NFL: Vikings MLB: Cardinals | Originally Posted by Al_4_State 20 years later... still goin! Yeah, but hardly the same place on Welch--doesn't Subway own that spot now?
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07-14-2008, 01:38 AM
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#14 | | Hall-Of-Famer
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Credits: 1,355,486 | Originally Posted by wolverine68 I remember going to Pizza Pit. I thought it was hilarious that the women who worked there had to wear shirts that said "Free, Fast, and Hot!" How about $4 medium one topping pizzas on Sunday night???
I survived my Freshman year on those....
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“When we’re in pads, we’re going to use the pads.” - Gene Chizik
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07-14-2008, 11:34 AM
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#15 | | Rookie
Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Urbandale
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Don't forget sanctioned keggers in the dorms until a few years after the drinking age changed. I remember many weekend mornings with beer smell everywhere. We use to rent dispensers for hand mixed hard stuff too.
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"And we kicked your ***!" - Johnny Orr to Dick Vitale on the 1992 ESPN NCAA Tournament selection show
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