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Let me go look through a few pictures, my hubby used the hot tub after his last performance in the marching band in '95. Not sure if there are pics or not.
ETA--no pics of the actual hot tub, I would have to get the VCR player working and take a pic from a video slide show. But the hot tub(s) were in the tents I'm thinking. This was from '95, south end zone.
There was also a super badass yellow Cyclone Corvette...
...and an even more badass Cyclone helmet car.
Probably not the same one, but in his book "Goose", Tony Siragusa tells about his recruiting visit to Ames and mentions a Corvette that Frank D'Alonzo insinuated could be his if he came to ISU...
I miss the helmet car. It was a golf cart, right? That thing has been gone for a long time.
I think the hot tubs were outside the tents on the left side of that picture.
c'mon ISU alums! I need your help with some photographic evidence. I was just a kid during the Walden era watching some horrific football and dreaming of hanging out in the hot tub. My friends to this day still do not believe me. I have brought this up to many new fans who are clueless. A pic of the SEZ hot tub would be CF gold and a tribute to the new addition. Good to see my old thread opened up again!!
I remember seeing brief glimpses of the jacuzzi on tv during the Iowa/ISU games in the early to mid 80's. Find the right game and watch during the extra points.
Good Luck.
McCarney quote before KU game in 2002:
...On stadium facilities improving throughout his tenure:
"No question it is. I get here the first year and they got the hot tub in here the year before. Then they got a parking lot and there are tents. Then there are some high school bleachers out there. Whatever's been in here has been pathetic, just from the end of the end zone. It finally looks like a classy Big 12, big-time stadium, thanks to our fans and the planning of Bruce Van De Velde."
1995 was tents and picnic tables:
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The bleachers (or, more accurately, scaffolding) re-appeared in 1996:
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