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Re: 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About
Posted: October 26th, 2009, 1:12 pm
by phoenix
PAmedic wrote:Ravine.
Guardshack.
City Stadium.
End of story.
I remember the bus rides to football games on Saturdays, and sledding down the ravine on SAGA trays (ROT? Try eating at SAGA!)
And from the article:
# LEGO just being square blocks of various sizes, with the odd wheel, window or door.
If you go to an actual LEGO store, you can still get bricks individually, so you can actually build WHATEVER YOU WANT! I'm trying to groom my children so that they want their LEGOs that way.
The really frightening thing is, I remember all 100 of those, and have done most of them. I remember loading programs off the tape drive to my Commodore 64, and reading a book while waiting for it to load.
Re: 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About
Posted: October 26th, 2009, 1:21 pm
by Cider Jim
TRAYS in the cafeteria.
The mountain BEFORE the monogram (and Snowflex)
DeMoss when it was ONE story.
The dorms on the hill when the bricks were TAN.
The Teacher Education, Fine Arts, & Science halls when the bricks were TAN.
The Lloyd auditorium was our only drama theatre on campus.
Intramural fields where Wal-Mart is now.
OTGH on Langhorne Road.
Re: 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About
Posted: October 26th, 2009, 1:56 pm
by Sly Fox
OK, that's it. This is now in Old Folks Home.
Love the lists.
Did anybody mention SAGA and "The Cafe"?
How about "Well Glory!"?
Re: 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About
Posted: October 26th, 2009, 1:59 pm
by PAmedic
phoenix wrote:
I remember the bus rides to football games on Saturdays, and sledding down the ravine on SAGA trays (ROT? Try eating at SAGA!)
Re: 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About
Posted: October 26th, 2009, 2:13 pm
by Cider Jim
When PAmedic drove this
Re: 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About
Posted: October 26th, 2009, 3:33 pm
by BJWilliams
Campus Pastor Rob Jackson (who often referenced Sumner Wemp in his sermons)
Re: 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About
Posted: October 27th, 2009, 3:03 am
by PAmedic
since BEEJ brought him up - Sumner Wemp
also: Vernon Brewer
Re: 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About
Posted: October 27th, 2009, 9:55 am
by Sly Fox
Vernon is still around Lynchburg and I was the one who first referenced Sumner Wemp. At least I didn't reference him going on & on about how much he loved his wife.
Re: 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About
Posted: October 27th, 2009, 12:50 pm
by Cider Jim
Granted, BJ has been around here a long time, but I think Sumner Wemp even pre-dates ole BJ.
Re: 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About
Posted: October 27th, 2009, 1:47 pm
by olldflame
Sly Fox wrote:Vernon is still around Lynchburg and I was the one who first referenced Sumner Wemp. At least I didn't reference him going on & on about how much he loved his wife.
I think since some of these whipper-snappers never actually have had the Wemp experience, they didn't realize where the "well glory!" reference came from.
Re: 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About
Posted: October 27th, 2009, 2:16 pm
by Sly Fox
He's still alive & kicking in Dallas. He still writes for my grandfather's paper. I wonder when the last was that he was on campus.
You wouldn't believe how many times I was asked if I was related to Wemp when I was in school. Dumbest question ever.
Re: 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About
Posted: October 27th, 2009, 2:22 pm
by olldflame
Sly Fox wrote:He's still alive & kicking in Dallas. He still writes for my grandfather's paper. I wonder when the last was that he was on campus.
You wouldn't believe how many times I was asked if I was related to Wemp when I was in school. Dumbest question ever.
I'm pretty sure he came for Doc's funeral, and that was his first time on campus in years.
Re: 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About
Posted: October 27th, 2009, 2:36 pm
by BJWilliams
I think I heard he was in town for that...Id love to meet him one day because it sounds like he really made quite an impact on the campus back when he was here
Re: 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About
Posted: October 27th, 2009, 2:42 pm
by LUnpretty11
Williams stadium seating capacity only being 12,000 instead of 30-60,000
Re: 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About
Posted: October 27th, 2009, 4:05 pm
by Cider Jim
Sly Fox wrote:You wouldn't believe how many times I was asked if I was related to Wemp when I was in school. Dumbest question ever.
That's really kind of funny.
Re: 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About
Posted: October 28th, 2009, 10:52 am
by TDDance234
Can't believe no one has mentioned the "free $7 dollar Purpose Driven Life" book.
Re: 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About
Posted: October 29th, 2009, 12:02 am
by Schfourteenteen
Cider Jim wrote:Granted, BJ has been around here a long time, but I think Sumner Wemp even pre-dates ole BJ.
Thats a great debate topic.
B.J. Williams?
Re: 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About
Posted: October 29th, 2009, 12:30 am
by BJWilliams
He does actually...I think Mr Wemp goes back to the 70s and 80s (and I didnt make my first appearance on the mountain as a student til 2002. I visited in March of 02 on a college pass from Hargrave Military Academy and it was the first time I had seen the campus
Re: 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About
Posted: November 2nd, 2009, 9:14 am
by Liberty4Life
100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About...
...the days when Flamefans was actually being used by college kids.
Re: 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About
Posted: November 2nd, 2009, 9:58 am
by Sly Fox
Liberty4Life wrote:100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About...
...the days when Flamefans was actually being used by college kids.
Ouch!
Re: 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About
Posted: November 2nd, 2009, 10:48 am
by PAmedic
Liberty4Life wrote:100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About...
...the days when Flamefans was actually being used by college kids.
read VMI's board once in a while. We pale in comparison.