For Very Old Timers

[cane1963]

Did you live in on-campus housing when you attended UM? If so, were any of you McKInley RATS?

 

[Empirical Cane]

Did you live in on-campus housing when you attended UM? If so, were any of you McKInley RATS?

Negative.

 

[GojiraCane]

You mean like the Married Couple's area? No, but I got a picture of it in 1992 as it was being torn down near Hecht.

 

[TheOriginalCane]

Did you live in on-campus housing when you attended UM? If so, were any of you McKInley RATS?

I lived in Eaton, then later on, Mahoney-Pearson. Was McKinley one of the apartment buildings? When I was at UM (80s-90s) the apartment buildings were numbered, but I think they also had old name-names too.

 

[TheOriginalCane]

You mean like the Married Couple's area? No, but I got a picture of it in 1992 as it was being torn down near Hecht.

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****, you took that with your iPhone in 1992?

Kidding. Nice picture. That was when they were building the new (then) Wellness Center.

 

[GojiraCane]

As for dorms, a few shots of Hecht.

No furnishings...

 

[GojiraCane]

This was Eric Adams, who tragically died in the fall of 1990 crossing US1.

A couple of the pranks that took place - a bed against the elevator, and someone's bed and frame being physically relocated next to Hecht.

Lake Osceola in the early 90s, before the iguanas.

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Nov 16, 1991 - Immediately after Wide Right 1.

 

[cane1963]

Back then if you entered through the main gate McKinley was on the right hand side as you headed towards the student union (is it still called that?) My first year at UM I was in the 960 dorms, high risers, next to the intramural fields. I would imagine most of those buildings have been destroyed to put up new residences.

Back in the 60s the men's dorms divided their floors into "houses" for intramural purposes. Most houses were named after presidents or other notable people. McKinley was once a female dorm. When it switched to men's the floors became houses and the residents got to name them. Since I was in the first group after it became a men's dorm our floor took the name McKinley "Assassins". Needless to say, the University rejected that name and we decided to call ourselves the "RATS".

Thought you youngins might enjoy some ancient UM history from an ancient UM student!

 

[hotshot]

I lived in campus housing from 1963-65, then moved off-campus. Think my 3 story, garden apartment-style building (now razed of course) was at the corner of ****inson and Ponce. At the eastern edge of the campus. Three scholarship basketball players lived right above me on the top (3rd) floor. The suites in all these three story buildings (and there were a LOT of them all over campus) had 2 br and 1 bath. Three students per suite (so someone had a private bedroom). Had a kitchen and a spacious living room.

There were a few high-rise residence halls -- Eaton & Mahoney. That was it, iirc.

Quick walk from my apartment across Dixie Hwy to Breeding's Drugs (good breakfasts), my bank and Burger King. Ben Gaines' Holiday Inn was at the southern edge of that strip mall across Dixie. The Student Union and pool was constructed in 1964-65 while I was on campus.

I was proof that admissions standards back then at "Sun Tan U" were pretty **** low. They needed all the students (and their parents' money) they could get back then to finance a building program. Think the annual tuition/room & board was in the $3000 range, give or take a few hundred.

 

[CANEMC]

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This was Eric Adams, who tragically died in the fall of 1990 crossing US1.

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A couple of the pranks that took place - a bed against the elevator, and someone's bed and frame being physically relocated next to Hecht.

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Lake Osceola in the early 90s, before the iguanas.

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Nov 16, 1991 - Immediately after Wide Right 1.

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Clean 5.0...
And how many were in that Escort? Lol

 

[TheOriginalCane]

As for dorms, a few shots of Hecht.

No furnishings...

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Good times. Man, I was so glad I never was put in the Towers, once I had a chance to compare them to (renovated) Eaton and (eventually renovated) Mahoney-Pearson. Those desks and drawers were screwed into the wall, as I recall.

We pranked a guy in Eaton by moving EVERYTHING of his into the lounge. We set up the lounge just like his room, it was nuts.

 

[TheOriginalCane]

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That apartment building in the back-right side of the picture is where Marlin Barnes lived (I lived there during my final undergrad year, which might have been when that picture was taken).

 

[Canedude08]

Freshman Year: 7th Floor Pearson(Yes, I was on the floor when the song dropped, remember hearing it from my suitemate)
Soph Year(Fall Semester): 1st Floor Mahoney(I have no idea how I ended up on the 1st floor, but it was annoying as ****)

After the fall semester, I moved off campus.

 

[Canedude08]

As for dorms, a few shots of Hecht.

No furnishings...

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The furniture didn't change. I was on campus in 2004 and that same furniture was there, the only difference was that they got slightly better desk chairs.

 

[GojiraCane]

The furniture didn't change. I was on campus in 2004 and that same furniture was there, the only difference was that they got slightly better desk chairs.

I had wondered about that. That furniture was quite old but very sturdy.

 

[Canedude08]

I had wondered about that. That furniture was quite old but very sturdy.

What's funny as **** is when I moved off campus, there were some dorm furniture in my new crib. Apparently, the guys that lived there before us straight up stole a table and chairs from the lounge...

 

[TheOriginalCane]

I had wondered about that. That furniture was quite old but very sturdy.

Hurricane Andrew could have hit UM head-on, and the only part of campus left undamaged would have been Hecht-Stanford and the furniture inside of Hecht-Stanford.

 

[OriginalCanesCanesCanes]

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This was Eric Adams, who tragically died in the fall of 1990 crossing US1.

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A couple of the pranks that took place - a bed against the elevator, and someone's bed and frame being physically relocated next to Hecht.

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Lake Osceola in the early 90s, before the iguanas.

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Nov 16, 1991 - Immediately after Wide Right 1.

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I love this

 

[Canedude08]

I love this

Same here, this is a thread I hope blows up. Love seeing the old time stuff.

 

[OriginalCanesCanesCanes]

Same here, this is a thread I hope blows up. Love seeing the old time stuff.

I know, especially since a lot of this stuff, I had no idea. I love the stories.