Nostalgia

[cr8zyncalif]

The recent poll putting both Pullman & Moscow in the top 10 college towns triggered my unreliable memory. I figured we needed a "Glory Days" moment. I'll start with three:

1.) Learning to ski at North South Ski Bowl. Finding out that if you could use a rope tow without faceplanting, you pretty much could go down any sort of beginner hill. I remember deciding that use of the rope tow was equivalent to the weed out classes I had to take before getting into my major classes.

2.) Waiting in line for concert tickets at the Performing Arts Coliseum (named for Beasley in 1981, the year after I left). Taking turns for (depending upon the act) 24-72 hours with assorted girlfriends and those who wanted to be girlfriends.

3.) Camping trips (co-ed, of course) with a stop at the good restaurant in Troy for dinner.

 

[Observer11]

The recent poll putting both Pullman & Moscow in the top 10 college towns triggered my unreliable memory. I figured we needed a "Glory Days" moment. I'll start with three:

1.) Learning to ski at North South Ski Bowl. Finding out that if you could use a rope tow without faceplanting, you pretty much could go down any sort of beginner hill. I remember deciding that use of the rope tow was equivalent to the weed out classes I had to take before getting into my major classes.

2.) Waiting in line for concert tickets at the Performing Arts Coliseum (named for Beasley in 1981, the year after I left). Taking turns for (depending upon the act) 24-72 hours with assorted girlfriends and those who wanted to be girlfriends.

3.) Camping trips (co-ed, of course) with a stop at the good restaurant in Troy for dinner.

Slurp and Burp in Troy

 

[95coug]

The recent poll putting both Pullman & Moscow in the top 10 college towns triggered my unreliable memory. I figured we needed a "Glory Days" moment. I'll start with three:

1.) Learning to ski at North South Ski Bowl. Finding out that if you could use a rope tow without faceplanting, you pretty much could go down any sort of beginner hill. I remember deciding that use of the rope tow was equivalent to the weed out classes I had to take before getting into my major classes.

2.) Waiting in line for concert tickets at the Performing Arts Coliseum (named for Beasley in 1981, the year after I left). Taking turns for (depending upon the act) 24-72 hours with assorted girlfriends and those who wanted to be girlfriends.

3.) Camping trips (co-ed, of course) with a stop at the good restaurant in Troy for dinner.

Shoveling snow on the field for the ‘92 Apple Cup l, Getting paid to watch the game from field level in exchange for what was pretty easy work, is pretty high up there.

And that’s probably the one memory that’s totally unclouded by whatever beer was cheap.

 

[Stretch 74]

The recent poll putting both Pullman & Moscow in the top 10 college towns triggered my unreliable memory. I figured we needed a "Glory Days" moment. I'll start with three:

1.) Learning to ski at North South Ski Bowl. Finding out that if you could use a rope tow without faceplanting, you pretty much could go down any sort of beginner hill. I remember deciding that use of the rope tow was equivalent to the weed out classes I had to take before getting into my major classes.

2.) Waiting in line for concert tickets at the Performing Arts Coliseum (named for Beasley in 1981, the year after I left). Taking turns for (depending upon the act) 24-72 hours with assorted girlfriends and those who wanted to be girlfriends.

3.) Camping trips (co-ed, of course) with a stop at the good restaurant in Troy for dinner.

• Life in Observatory Court, Trailer #49
• BBall games in Bohler gym, waiting in snowstorm to get in for UCLA game
• Travel to Joe Albi for football games
• Gym ratting in Intramural Gym
• Intramural sports and officiating
• Lots of good foosball
• Walking the beams over Stadium Way before the overpass by Vet Med was finished
• Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Stevie Wonder, Emerson Lake Palmer concerts
• There might have been some beer along the way.......

 

[Loyal Coug1]

The Dispensary and Rathskellers. Those white knuckle DUI lottery caravans from Moscow at 1AM to get to last call in Pullman.

Dime beers on Tuesday at the Down Under with live music.

FB games where students got in for free and could bring anything in as long as it wasn't glass. I've told the story of the Arizona game (1983?) where we brought in the 5-gallon gas can of Spodie-odie, and we had to race to the liquor store at halftime to get another half-gallon of vodka.

Edit - and Nick at the Nobby Inn pouring cheap and stronger than shit drinks.

 

[Coug90]

The “riots”…I’ll lets stretch determine if there was enough violence to call them that 😁

Weird memory for me I was studying for a test in my dorm as a freshman and heard all of the sirens. No clue what was happening till I was in college hill next day and saw news vans everywhere.

 

[UberCougars]

The Dispensary and Rathskellers. Those white knuckle DUI lottery caravans from Moscow at 1AM to get to last call in Pullman.

Dime beers on Tuesday at the Down Under with live music.

FB games where students got in for free and could bring anything in as long as it wasn't glass. I've told the story of the Arizona game (1983?) where we brought in the 5-gallon gas can of Spodie-odie, and we had to race to the liquor store at halftime to get another half-gallon of vodka.

Edit - and Nick at the Nobby Inn pouring cheap and stronger than shit drinks.

- Keith Millard showing up 3 hours into dime night searching for his next victim that was hitting on his GF was always special. Ditto to the Dimers who would take all night to build a Dixie cup pyramid on the table, which of course became a target then destruction and a fight.

- Mt. St. Helens: driving back from Moscow in zero visibility thru the moonscape was as unsettling as anything I’ve seen before or since. Walked in to see my buddies huddled around my TV watching a round table of “Experts” on KWSU explaining how this ash was going to lodge in our lungs, turn to acid, we were all going to die and there was nothing we could do about it, because “masks won’t keep the ash out.”

- Getting called into Percy’s office @Rat’s asking us *not* to throw a party on a certain weekend because he was booking some expensive band and didn’t want the competition is a funny memory. Ended up with lifetime free beer out of that but only until “Marvin” the lead bartender quit. After that, Percy wouldn’t honor the deal.

- May 8th

- Dunes

- water skiing at Boyer

 

[95coug]

The “riots”…I’ll lets stretch determine if there was enough violence to call them that 😁

Weird memory for me I was studying for a test in my dorm as a freshman and heard all of the sirens. No clue what was happening till I was in college hill next day and saw news vans everywhere.

Overblown and bungled at all levels of law enforcement

 

[Coug90]

Overblown and bungled at all levels of law enforcement

I don’t recall the specifics but yeah there were certainly unnecessary escalations. It was a shit show that very easily could have been avoided by just letting kids blow off some steam.

 

[UberCougars]

I don’t recall the specifics but yeah there were certainly unnecessary escalations. It was a shit show that very easily could have been avoided by just letting kids blow off some steam.

just wanted to capture this one 👀

 

[Stretch 74]

The “riots”…I’ll lets stretch determine if there was enough violence to call them that 😁

Weird memory for me I was studying for a test in my dorm as a freshman and heard all of the sirens. No clue what was happening till I was in college hill next day and saw news vans everywhere.

I know nothing about riots in Pullman. They burned the stadium down the year before I got there, or maybe two years. We did have streaking. Why did they do it in the snow and cold weather?

 

[95coug]

I don’t recall the specifics but yeah there were certainly unnecessary escalations. It was a shit show that very easily could have been avoided by just letting kids blow off some steam.

The first mistake was that when they encountered a handful of unruly students at one party, they decided to close the bars…putting hundreds of intoxicated - and now angry - kids on the street with the ones that were already unruly. The result was entirely predictable.

The IQ of a mob equals the IQ of its dumbest member, divided by the number of people in the mob. When you’ve already seen some that are willing to throw bottles at cops…making the crowd bigger is a really bad idea.