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Ok, bringing this to the top. Johnstone Hall....

Jan 31, 2019, 3:22 PM

I saw some videos that were made almost two decades after I lived there, and five decades after my father lived there. I'll start with this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI-UOTMyosI

Deerest Drew,

Shower stalls? PLEASE. When I was there it was a square room with shower heads. We called it the gas chamber. Carpets? Ping pong tables? A 40-in TV? Cry me a river, please. Vending machines? Whatever you do, don't walk ALL THE WAY over to Harcombe for food. A laundry? We had to go to Dillard. And the kid keeps saying he can't have nice things? YOU'RE LIVING IN A NICE THING. A heavily upgraded nice thing. OH, and I'm the guy who blessed you with that story about learning our neighbor was going to be a dad while he was still in class.

Here's some other snowflake, named Alan...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zCpxpsZu4U

Again, Deerest Alan...

Trash in the hallways? Graffiti? I bet Alan never played sh##head ping-pong. At least our graffiti reminded us to please flush twice, since it's a long way to USC. Poop in the shower? Barf? Unheard of. Small rooms? Go live in a shoebox then and get back with us on a "small" room. No adequate closet space? We always had warm water, probably because we also had RADIATORS for heat in the winter. Bad wifi? Again, cry me a river. The internet was invented when I lived in Johnstone. We had to use a PHONE LINE and a DIALUP MODEM for SLOW INTERNET. Horrors. Hey buddy, your friend's text is nothing new. THE SAME THING happened in E3 in 1995. EXACT. SAME. THING. But I'll one-up you. We actually had a REAL fire, with heat, flames, and smoke. Someone lit a 55-gallon drum trashcan on fire. My roommate pulled the fire alarm legit for that one. And you're worried about security? Johnstone was WIDE OPEN 24-7/365 for the two years I lived there. We didn't have fancy access cards for the dorm.

Oh, and it was worse before I got to Clemson in 1994. I remember as a kid in the 80's walking by Johnstone on a football Saturday. I would see dozens of freshmen sitting on the ledges, listening to loud music on jam boxes, and DRINKING BEER and smoking. And the day I moved in someone was awesome enough to put some huge speakers in the window and blasted "Movin on Up", the theme song from The Jeffersons. It blasted for 4+ hours all around the union. And no one mentioned how convenient it was to have a sink in your room where you could pee and not even have to walk to the bathroom.

I go to campus now and EVERYTHING is brand new, and nice, and fancy.

I fear for our future. Really. Spoiled rotten. I loved my time in Johnstone. I still have several friends I met in Johnstone 20 years later. If I could go back to the same ####hole I lived in in 1994 today, I'd do it again. But I'm afraid I'd be disappointed if I went back and lived there today since it's been upgraded so much and is so much NICER.

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I found out when the RA was going to be out of town for the weekend. Went to the local record store (yeah that was a thing) and purchased a 45 of Moon Unit Zappa singing Valley Girl. I recorded it on a 15 minute cassette tape (both sides) and put it in my cassette player, which automatically switched sides at the end of the tape (yeah, that cost me the money I earned over a summer).

I turned the stereo up about 50% so hit play, and left for the weekend (roommate was gone too). When I returned, my neighbors said they had taken the plate off of the outlet in their room that was closest to my stereo. They said they pulled wires until the music stopped.

Had to run an extension cord for the balance of the semester to hear music. We were also sort of hesitant to lean against that wall, but that's how we did stuff back in the day.

You can't do crap like that today's dorms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb21lsCQ3EM

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Ok, bringing this to the top. Johnstone Hall....

E617 resident for the 99-00 school year...

you can't attract the best and brightest with a Johnstone***

F325 circa 1985-86

LOLUTZ.

Bingo on war.

I remember the stall doors missing.

missing? they were never there.

Yep. Had stalls with no doors or curtains first year

If you heard someone walk in you stuck you feet out

Pre-curtain you just put your head down. NO EYE CONTACT***

And took your own toilet paper with you.

Yeah, nothing like a pee soaked TP roll

No, E3 had curtains in August of 1992.

Maybe they were torn down then. Anyway, didn't have any***

True fact. Of all the friends I made in 6 years at CU,

Pardon the toxic masculinity, but it's a brotherhood

I never saw any of my hall-mates naked. I am proud of that.***

wish i could say the same.***

so you never showered the hole time you were there?

Hey dumb dumb, we have walls and curtains...most of the time

never heard of them.

Oh, the worst was the time this guy went into the shower

E3, late 70's

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i had a loft, that ish got in my eyes all the time

well, my reply can be construed as something completely

yeah, sounds like a blacklight would not do well in there***

It wouldn't, regardless of my posts meaning***

must have been asbestos. yeah, go wit dat.***

Re: My mistake guys.......I deleted after looking at the

I will say one undeniable positive about Johnstone

Johnstone 1983.

Had a guy on E3 who was a computer engineer. Back then

76-78, New A then C. Can't remember room numbers.

When did A switch to wimmens? Seems like it was all girls

don't remember, was in A just for '76.***

F5-Annex. Fall of yur 19 hunnerd & seventy eight.

I was 2yo***

Annex wuz fer city slickers

B8

best thing about hall phones.

Yep. Annex was too fancy. Doesn't really count.***

Did two stints on E3: 93-94 and 94-95. Loved it!

DID MY OLD E318 DOOR STILL SAY "O BRAVE" ON IT?***

Who is going to say their friend on the hall the year before

nobody?

F310. same year you got there.

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