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re: the union...when did they get rid of the bowling alley?
Posted on 10/23/22 at 9:56 pm to udtiger
Posted on 10/23/22 at 9:56 pm to udtiger
Tulane had a bowling alley @ student union but they also had a Magnificent Stadium ! My Grandma lived a block away and when LSU came to Town
THAT PLACE ROCKED ! LSU fans loved coming to NOLA for that game ! I use to get 5-10 bucks a car (parked them on Grandma’s lawn) They would give me more if I wouldn’t block them in but ?? they were like legos hooked together ! I’m just thinking That Was big money back in late 60s early 70s
THAT PLACE ROCKED ! LSU fans loved coming to NOLA for that game ! I use to get 5-10 bucks a car (parked them on Grandma’s lawn) They would give me more if I wouldn’t block them in but ?? they were like legos hooked together ! I’m just thinking That Was big money back in late 60s early 70s
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Posted on 10/23/22 at 9:56 pm to QB
quote:you win
I entered LSU in 1064
Posted on 10/23/22 at 10:01 pm to midcitycid
2010. I worked construction on the renovation while going to school at LSU. I still get my hair cut by the guy that ran the Barber Shop in the bowling alley. There was also a real pool hall and arcade down there.
This post was edited on 10/23/22 at 10:03 pm
Posted on 10/23/22 at 10:02 pm to Tall Tiger
I entered LSU in 1064 and I think that may have been the first year it was open. It was very nice imo. I ate a lot of meals there and made a lot of Sunday night phone calls from the pay telephone room. Just my opinion though.
Posted on 10/23/22 at 10:02 pm to clamdip
1964
Posted on 10/23/22 at 10:07 pm to Tall Tiger
I was a small-town kid freshman in 1975. I thought it was great. I spent a lot of time in the listening rooms where they had all kinds of music. There were little concerts (Billy Joel). It really was a great place, but we didn't have any concept of great as it relates to today. My son goes rock climbing! But it was a big world for us.
This post was edited on 10/23/22 at 10:09 pm
Posted on 10/23/22 at 10:09 pm to chaso
I grew up near Tulane. I remember they had the Ratskeller in their union which was like a bar / poolhall kind of thing. My friends and I would play arcade games in there as youths. Loyola had the Wolfden, a similar venue.
Tulane Stadium never should have been torn down. They should have demolished the rusted out uppers and rehabbed the lower bowl. So much history there. LSU and Billy Cannon won the 1958 national championship there. Cowboys, Chiefs, and Steelers all won their first super bowls there. Truly a lost treasure of football.
Tulane Stadium never should have been torn down. They should have demolished the rusted out uppers and rehabbed the lower bowl. So much history there. LSU and Billy Cannon won the 1958 national championship there. Cowboys, Chiefs, and Steelers all won their first super bowls there. Truly a lost treasure of football.
Posted on 10/23/22 at 10:13 pm to midcitycid
There was a bowling alley and a Swenson’s ice cream place. None of that is there now. I have no idea where anything else is anymore. I’m dirt old.
Posted on 10/23/22 at 10:15 pm to misey94
And the Union opened up for business around mid 1960's and the Bowling Alley was there, adjacent to an area that had pool tables, billiards and ping pong.
Posted on 10/23/22 at 10:17 pm to midcitycid
Highland was great, one day in 2009 they had ribeye steaks, you got a ticket to get one.
Posted on 10/23/22 at 10:30 pm to midcitycid
It's had to have been a good while. Was a student from 08-13 and it was long gone by then
Parents told me all about it though
Parents told me all about it though
Posted on 10/23/22 at 10:30 pm to midcitycid
I watched the news in the arcade the day the towers went down.
Posted on 10/23/22 at 11:28 pm to DenverTigerMan
quote:Lucky you getting out before the initial decline and the post-Katrina declination.
I haven't lived in Baton Rouge since 1986
Because of my rabid L.S.U. background, me and my cute Irish Squeeze actually tried BR on for size and endured for six years. (2014-2020)
Unfortunately, both the City and the LSUAD could not provide enough of what we wanted long term. LSU mirrored the decline of the City with their very own set of fan alienating policies and rules. (Ticket price increases, tailgating-parking restrictions, combined City of Baton Rouge-East Baton Rouge Parish-State of Louisiana horrific traffic management after every L.S.U. home game and of course the simultaneous in-game neutering of TGBFTL, while allowing the rapid decline of the entire Tiger Band program)
We got the hell out in 2020 for sandy beaches and warm weather year round.
BTW, I don't really miss anything at all except for the Louisiana Food ((No place over here knows what real Leidenheimer French Bread is) and being close to L.S.U. for basketball in the PMAC and the 1-2 "Big Night Games a Season" where the Tiger Stadium atmosphere comes just a little bit close to what it used to be.
Oh yeah, I miss the Bowling Alley in the Union too........
Posted on 10/23/22 at 11:35 pm to Tall Tiger
Tall Tiger what about the 67 Saints until the Superdome , You are right they ruined that campus ! Money & power assholes , Grandma was on corner of Palmer and Delord , Great times !
Posted on 10/23/22 at 11:48 pm to midcitycid
quote:
Highland closed in 2010
that's a shame
Damn, getting out of bed for the breakfasts at Highland were a big reason I graduated.
Old Graham gone, Highland gone, EK Smith gone, Union turned into a food court... Not much left to visit.
Posted on 10/24/22 at 1:32 am to midcitycid
1972 I had bowling as a PE elective.
Posted on 10/24/22 at 3:46 am to Hester Carries
I think they moved it when Barnes and Noble took over the bookstore. Yep guys, it used to be the LSU bookstore in the union 
Posted on 10/24/22 at 3:55 am to nvasil1
quote:
The thin crust pizzas at the bowling alley in the early 2000s were legit.
Anyone remember the brand name? Scandellas or something?
Posted on 10/24/22 at 3:57 am to Volvagia
As for the OP…..I can find anything to confirm it but I want to say it was somewhere like 07/08 that they closed the alley.
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