Regional Subtleties

[Tobiasly]

Originally posted by sycamore
I'm sorry you had to live in South for 4 years. After Dearmont closed, that officially became the worst on campus.

I wanted to live in the armpit of campus because I was a Governor's Scholar, and I was trying to shake the associated nerdy stigma by living in the hell-hole. That, and private rooms were cheap there, and having my own room was what I really wanted.

Plus, being on the ground floor (due to the slope of the hill in back), it was very easy to smuggle in alcohol through someone's window. We were like a well-trained Indy pit crew. I was the only one who was 21, so I'd go buy for everyone, pull up to a window (the screen was taken out earlier), they'd jump out, pop the trunk, whisk it inside, and I'd be off in about 10.2 seconds.

Now you know there were several bars along Broadway, right by Houck Field. I'm not saying that you necessarily wanted to go to them, but they were there.

True, I almost forgot about those.

And I'm sure you spent a few nights over at the Purple Crackle.

Ahhh yes.. picked up some mighty-fine women there. Actually, I much preferred the "White House".. were you there before they got busted?

Several of my mom's friends went there after high school, and at the time (mid-70s), SEMO was the party school.

Yeah, I'd heard the rumors about making Playboy's top-ten party college list, but I never believed them!

I had some great times down there though, most of them involving alcohol.

True dat. I'm a firm believer that life is what you make of it. A lotta people were miserable there. A lotta people hated living in South. A lotta people bitched about there never being anything to do... yeah, I like to rip on Cape, but it wasn't intolerable.

But those were some great years, 'cuz I wanted 'em to be. I met a ton of great people that I still keep in touch with, I dated a ton of girls, I drank a lot and tried some pretty cool drugs. And I didn't pay a penny doing so (made money, in fact). Yeah, life was good.