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January 30, 2007 - 08:51 PM
Submitted by: Wendy  |
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Burney, 5th floor, 1985-87. Oh, sooooo many crazy times, some of the best of my life. I met my best freinds in the world, even until this day. My roommate Caitlin, was steady hammering on the wall, trying to fix up the appearance and Beth and Sherry, from next door, came over to complain. We hung out with the Moore boys, 5th floor, famous now, at Pappy's across the street. Sherry and I always got cheap concert tickets at the Coliseum. My sister, Kelly and I lived together my sophmore year- we took turns going to class with friends Beth and Sherry. Kelly got locked out of the room and fell asleep outside our room, the night before our dad came to pick us up for the summer! He had to step over her to get in the door; we both made the worst grades of our lives and dad threatened not to pay the next year unless we shaped up. All these girls are in my wedding this summer, over 20 years later!
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January 30, 2007 - 07:22 PM
Submitted by: Lisa |
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Baker--I think 513--across from elevator. 80-82. My roommate always went home at 12noon on Friday and would return 8pm Sunday night. She was the most awesome roommate EVER. Big Bird, DSP, Don's, Andys Deli and last but big on the list---Group Therapy. Many great friends made. Never forget bottle rocket fights and throwing water on loud frats that chanted through the night. I'm sorry to see them go.
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January 30, 2007 - 01:49 PM
Submitted by: blowfish/joneses fan |
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Some of the band, and others, lived in Moore in the late 80's, but they were just a good college band then. Good guys too.
Others included Sean "Smoothie" ____ who had his first acid trip there, and another first I'm sure he'll remember (a lot of us did), Steve ___ who had a domesticated rat named "Taco" (he licked Taco on a $10 bet one day, but I won't say where-- Dave _____ & Jimmy _____ know.), and Jimmy... damn... doing you-know-who's girlfriend with the door unlocked (Tom _____ knows who).
What ever happened to Dave _____, from Pittsburgh, the loudest guy I ever met, or Danny "friggin' uh..." _____ from Jersey, or Steve _____, the 7th year senior who still lived in a mostly-freshman dorm? Seemed like half the school was from NY, NJ & PA back then.
I think "Hall Ball" was invented in Moore, but I can't say for sure.
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January 30, 2007 - 01:41 PM
Submitted by: Summer School Grad |
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I stayed in the honeycombs my last semester (summer graduate). I remember the condensation all over the place because of the humidity, a squirrel coming into my room from the porch to try to get my Krisy Kremes. I lived in Columbia Hall my Jr and Sr semesters (before summer school), so moving to the Honeycombs was a bit of a culture shock (Fr and Soph years were at USC-S). But, it was a good time. Some "experiences" on the porch would be better left out...in case my mom read this..ha ha. But, I remember my roommate from my 1st Sr semester coming from out of state to go to my graduation. She got to stay with me as I didn't have a roommate, so we partied that week and she decorated the room for graduation. Had to flee a weirdo following us from the Circle K! Hard to run with a Big Gulp! Thanks for the memories............
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January 30, 2007 - 01:33 PM
Submitted by: Free Tibet |
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No cable, Neil? We had cable on the 6th floor of Moore in '86 & '87. One guy (who I won't name) dropped a coax line out his balcony onto the roof of the lobby & spliced it into the line that fed the lobby television. He then sold splices for $10/month to everyone else on the hall. It may have been on a 13" black & white, but it was cable.
In the spring, the roof would be full of students laying out, tanning on the weekends. I dropped speaker wire from the roof to my balcony, plugged it in & carried my speakers up there to crank up the tunes while we laid out.
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January 30, 2007 - 11:49 AM
Submitted by: Deb |
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Burney - 85 - 87
Funnel champions, strip poker, cigarettes in the mini-fridge, late night saunas with cold beer in the cooler in the community bathroom, "wrap her in that sheet and take her to the band hall before she misses call time!" Crazy druggie roomie, Shelley stole my boyfriend (he deserved her back then!), Why I'll NEVER drop acid (thanks to that girl who thought her face really WAS green), nutty Wheat thins and Ramen noodles were still better than Russell House cafeteria slop,watching our "stories" between classes, that funky smell of decades of urine soaked into the porches of the honeycombs, typing my English papers in the basement at 4:30 am the day they were due, rooftop escapades, sticky stuff to hold the free beer posters on the cinderblock walls, meeting some of the best friends ever, calling the campus cops when Hootie, et. al. wouldn't SHUT UP during exams at 2:00 in the morning, taking the stairs to the 3rd floor was quicker than the Flinstones era elevator, Pappy's hot wings and cold beer WHEN you were old enough - or see your fake id cut and hanging on his wall, watching the Challenger fall from the sky, being a fortunate one who was a member of those chosen few who couldn't get a better dorm assignment and learned perseverance instead...
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January 30, 2007 - 10:01 AM
Submitted by: Bicentennial Student |
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In the time of a Gamecock only one thing is true. The towers will live on and never fall in the memories of a few. With the paint falling off the wall and the pet squirrels on the porch the reaction by all on 9/11 will be forever engraved into my memories of the towers. The girls that we got in and the kegs in the ole dufflebag routine. Sorry I just havent done my laundry in a long time! Douglas '01 Penthouse Suites Forever.
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January 30, 2007 - 09:29 AM
Submitted by: ellen |
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It was the life! I did Burney & Baker 71-76--loved it so much I had to stretch it out. I was blessed with the ultra long porch thus known as the kitchen. (every room on 3rd floor was a different room) On an extension cord we had the fridge, toaster oven, and hotplate. I think only the fridge was allowed. A small group of us also helped open the original MLJ Mauro's. From our side of the building we could see him at all hours getting ready to open and would go in and eat free pizza and his infamous calzones. To all those who scowled when I said I lived in the honeycombs I say 'your loss'--I wouldn't have lived anywhere else.
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January 30, 2007 - 09:18 AM
Submitted by: Edward |
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I found this great website selling t-shirts commemorating life in The Towers. WWW.CAFEPRESS.COM/SCTOWERS has neat designs with slogans. Veilblocks and old photos...
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January 29, 2007 - 11:52 PM
Submitted by: cs |
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I didn't spend much time in the dorm - 1973 - as my roommate's boyfriend was always there. She had 2 pet gerbils named To and Fro who would chew up my papers. I remember her name, it was Mildred R. Uzzle. Mildred, are you there????? I stayed mostly at friends' apt on Bull St. and listened to Allman Brothers until dawn, or just back home...I do remember big pot plants growing in most of the rooms. I painted Mr. Natural on the wall, did they paint over it? Spent one semester there as freshman, then moved to California.
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January 29, 2007 - 09:33 PM
Submitted by: 70\'s Student Too/1 |
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Whoosh….
What was that that was being ejected from the top floor of Snowden, the occasional urinal, the random watermelon, haw just the regular rotten forgot about gallon of the foulest garbage that was once called milk. It was a beautiful thing of art to see while strolling back to my new home, 7th Floor, Snowden. And then there was the thud heard from the hallway announcing another bad day for the boys on the bottom level. I think you had be an “Angry Army Ranger” just to live in this no-man’s land. Nothing like opening your swank terrace doors for a cool fresh breeze on a warn spring day, yea right. I expect to see through the milk stricken glass Arnold with a laser sighted weapon digging through the three feet of garbage, empty beer bottles, and used safe sex items looking for large mutants. Well it was more like students with flashlights looking for the contraband stash that blew out of the Vail blocks to the bottom floor roof.
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January 29, 2007 - 02:00 PM
Submitted by: Kevin Dunn |
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420 - Douglas
Fall 84 - Spring 86
Too many to list but here's a start.
1. 1984 Football
2. The 4th Floor Snow Storm (Courtesy of the Fire Extinguisher)
3. Andy Griffith at 11PM with a BIG GULP and a chili cheese dog from 7-11.
4. High stakes games of Hearts.
5. Trying to get Hootie to quiet down in LaBorde
6. Spring 85 - Oyster Roast
7. Christy and Melanie Stealing our beds.
8. Jason peeing in Karl's closet
9. Rooftop Driving Range
10. Bobby B. playing Duran Duran. Hated them then, Hate them now!!!
11. Pappy's Cheesburger Subs and Poor Man's Martinis (Pitcher of Beer and an Olive)
12. Dave sitting in the chair in the shower TRYING to sober up.
13. The shopping cart laundry basket BORROWED from Green's and promptly RETURNED at the end of each semester.
14. Ferrying Jr to the Health Center in such "laundry basket"
15. The 1985 Grammy Riots
16. and this is just a start...
Thanks for the best college experience possible. The Towers will be sorely missed.
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January 29, 2007 - 01:14 AM
Submitted by: 70's Student |
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Great times had by all from the boys in the room across from the elevator in Snowden. We had “really the first internet” rooms connected via API radio teletypes, sit down fine dining “spaghetti dinners” cooked from illegal hot plates that keep blowing the circuit beakers and of course cold Lambrusco from the hidden refrigerators. Harvard had nothing on us.
Eagles, Steven Miller and the two clowns down the hall named “Jack Daniels" and "Evan Williams”. First sex with the future x-wife, and life didn’t get any better than that 70’s era at Snowden. May the lost sprites that fly out of the falling towers find a new suitable home?
To my room mate who is some where in the Congo saving what’s left of the world.
To you Susan where ever you may be …..
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January 27, 2007 - 12:34 PM
Submitted by: Sabrina |
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I stayed in I think Baker (right across from the Biology building). The honeycombs were AWFUL to live in. I did live in it the next year, but moved out for the spring semester into Patterson. It was worth the walk to the Biology builsing. Favorite memory - getting dominos the night before and the pizza and box were on a desk. We had left the patio door open so that we can have some air in there (AC was never working right). A big squiril came in. My roomie was yelling rat, I was sleeping and it ran across my foot. Ugh I so do not miss those days and glad I own a house now. I was there Aug 92-Dec93
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January 26, 2007 - 09:02 PM
Submitted by: L. Roldan |
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My freshman year ('88) I was immediately instructed never to wander out from under the overhangs when walking under the honeycombs. You just never knew what might fall from the sky.
As a female visiting the men's honeycombs, I remember being warned to never EVER lean against the walls in the elevators.
We were supposed to have a "lookout" while using the hall bathrooms but 6 beers later no one hardly cared. Co-ed.
We had the best chain backrub groups in the lounge.
After Mike Fair came along and tried to sanitize the campus, they made two (one male, one female) dorms single sex visitation only (a father couldn't even visit his daughter). Everyone lovingly referred to these two special dorms as the "virgin vaults". And... when the sun set on a Friday night, the guys and girls would mosey out onto their porches and shout "I sure am lonely over here" sorts of funny things. What a hoot!
I'm sure the new dorms on campus will conjure up fond memories for folks. For me, the honeycombs weren't everything, but they are included in my college experience memories.
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January 26, 2007 - 08:15 PM
Submitted by: David Dority |
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I did my Frosh and Soph years at USC-L. My 1st semester in Columbia was the Fall of 1972. I lived in Douglas that year with my roomie from Great Falls. Tripper, are you out there? For those of you who may wonder, he was the "third," hence the name Tripper. No drug references in the name.
The next year I lived in Snowden. 7th floor across from the elevator.
My clearest memories....a bunch of guys dropping a urinal from the top floor of Moore. It seemed to take forever for it to hit.The 2nd memory was getting off the elevator 1 floor too early one walking in on a friend and his girlfriend getting to "know" each other. Take the word "know" in the biblical sense.
My last year was in Preston. I loved all my years at USC. The lost of the Towers means the gain of something memorable to future student. Go Cocks!!
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January 26, 2007 - 05:22 PM
Submitted by: Temeyka Williams |
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I never lived in them or went to school there, but I have the honor to meet one of the men personnally. His name is Marvin McCrory. He was one of about 3 people who help put up the Honeycomb. I worked for his Daughter for a while and he still has his pictures of all of his buildings he has done in columbia and all over the USA.
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January 26, 2007 - 09:32 AM
Submitted by: Dean V |
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I lived in Snowden 701 for 3 years. It was home to big beer parties, sexy women, nerf basketball, Monopoly games, food (yes I cooked in my room), Can art in the honeycombs (my fav was the thunderbird & CU SUX), bottle rocket wars with Moore, dropping a pumpkin from the roof right in front of a Columbia Police car, & streaking girls. I also experienced the snow storm of 1993. We took trays from the Russel House & rode them down the hills around campus. It was the most awesome thing, but when we lost power, I hitchedhiked home. Snowden 701, a great experience, my home aways from home, a fun place to live with great people. It will be missed.
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January 26, 2007 - 08:30 AM
Submitted by: craig |
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I lived on the 7th floor of Douglas. Dated the very pretty young lady from Laborde a LOT longer than 7 years. The best years of my life. Wish I could go back and do it all again !!!!!!!
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January 26, 2007 - 08:00 AM
Submitted by: Paula L. |
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I was a Burney girl. Hello to all my sisters-Terry, Becky, Judy, Charlotte, Chris, Debbie. We stayed on 6th floor together for three years from 1977-1980.The best party was a Halloween crawl in Douglas-something different on every floor-PJ, beer, shots-you name it. I remember one panty raid where the boys got in the dorm and meyhem ensued. Those were the best days. The biggest surprise was when my son was assigned to Snowden two years ago as a freshman. Hard to believe that the dorms had not changed. Thanks for the memories of a life time.
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January 25, 2007 - 11:31 PM
Submitted by: Phill H. |
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I stayed in Snowden's 7th floor, maybe rm 704, in '77- '78. Lots of good memories from those years. My roomate was Jerome. Jerome, if you're reading this, I hope you're doing well.
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January 25, 2007 - 11:15 PM
Submitted by: pierce hellams |
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i lived in honeycombs while starting my masters degree in the summer
of 1975. i remember the glass fogged up because of the humid conditions in the summer. seems like a long time ago, i guess it was.
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January 25, 2007 - 11:09 PM
Submitted by: AJ |
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I lived in Snowden my freshman year (85-86). It was already a dump then so I can't imagine what students were dealing with 20 years later. I have no idea which floor or room I lived in but I do remember getting ready for class in that room the morning the Challenger exploded. So, I can't say I'll miss the Towers, but "Snowden" will always be the answer to at least one of those "where were you when..." questions.
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January 25, 2007 - 10:47 PM
Submitted by: Marion |
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I lived in the Honeycombs ("H" I think) during my freshman year in 1966-67. Wow was it wild 'n crazy back then. We would sneak beer into our room during the winter and keep it wedged in the honeycomb outside on our porch to keep it cold. We stuffed one guy's room with newspaper, with the RA's complicity, one weekend while he was gone. That was so cool- to see a solid wall of newspaper when you opened the door to his room!
And then there was the panty raid on South Tower...
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January 25, 2007 - 09:48 PM
Submitted by: Marshall |
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I lived in the Honeycombs for 2 semesters, my first and last at Carolina. The original Honeycombs, called buildings J and K, faced Devine St. They were razed some time ago. I lived on the second floor of J in the fall semester of '58. The room rent was $55 for the semester. A popular stunt that guys on higher floors pulled was to partially fill a trash barrel with water and put it on the elevator to be sent to a lower floor. Our floor was flooded several times by this prank. My last semester at Carolina was the fall of '63. That semester, I stayed in one of the second pair that was built. These were the first dorms at Carolina with air conditioning and (optional) room telephones. The rent for the semester was $120 with a telephone. At that time, there was a parking lot that faced Blossom St. where the last 2 Honeycombs were later built.
The 2 original Honeycombs set the theme for the 1959 Garnet and Black annual. The covers had a honeycomb pattern, the inside covers had pictures made at night of the dorms with many rooms lighted, and honeycomb themes were used on pages throughout the annual.
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