A Sea Of Red

Who else have lived there?

It washed away just a month into my time at LU. I'd love to hear some stories as well.

Back in the day when football games were played at City Stadium, practice was on Treasure Island. You took your classes in the morning, rode a yellow school bus to Treasure Island ( crossing the rickety old bridge that looked it might fall any time), practiced, and rode the bus back just in time to catch dinner before SAGA closed. In the summer, it was very hot and humid.

Sly, we must have been at LU the same time--1985. That was my first year, and the island was washed away before I ever got to see it. We had to give away the last 2 games because all of our football equipment got washed downstream. That was the beginning of the "curse of Morgan Hout." Thank God, Coach Rocco finally broke that curse.

And I bet you are old enough to remember the Ground Round restaurant.

the GROUND ROUND RULES(D)!

I can practically hear the crunching sound of peanut shells beneath my feet right now.

I seriously think Morgan Hout's LU football team put the Ground Round out of business with their all you could eat wings special. I can't remember if there was a set price or if they were something like 15 cents a piece. The linemen used to go there just to see who could eat the most wings at that place.

Thankfully, we now have a place here called Logan's Roadhouse that still serves salted in the shell peanuts that way, but it will never replace the Ground Round.

I remember going to the Ground Round for all you can eat wings. They had them on Monday nights. I believe it was the fall of '88 when they stopped doing it because of a few Flame football players that made it extremely unprofitable for them. I do not know if the News & Daily Advance has archives that go back that far, but if my memory serves me correctly, there was an article in the paper that talked of the "top wing eaters" on the LU football team.

My dorm room on Treasure Island was the two story red barn, about 16 guys lived there, and we had one bathroom to share if I remember correctly.

Cider Jim wrote:the Ground Round restaurant.

Born in the 80's and I remember this! I really only remember the clown on Sundays and how he'd give me balloons

the ground round was awesome!!!!!

Lynchburg used to have a ground round?!? That's awesome. I thought that was a northern restaurant.

Where WAS the Ground Round in Lynchburg. In HS in Franklin County, that was THE place for us to go in Roanoke.

Ground Round was where the Texas Steak House is now on Candler's Mountain Road. I was a waiter at the GR for exacly a month, which was exactly how long it took for me to realize that I was a horrible waiter.

Lib is right--they leveled the old Ground Round building and put up the Texas Steakhouse and Saloon. But on that very site many chickens lost their lives--or at least their wings--to the LU football team's appetites in the 1970s-1980s.

Heard a story that the bus had to be unloaded before crossing the bridge because it wouldnt hold a bus full of people. True?

I sure hope not

Ask your dad about it, HMO. It was true.

Yes once the bus hit the bridge, the students had to get off and walk across the bridge and got back on the bus on the other side. Reason for that was the bridge was weakened by a previous flood.

4everfsu wrote:Yes once the bus hit the bridge, the students had to get off and walk across the bridge and got back on the bus on the other side. Reason for that was the bridge was weakened by a previous flood.

That's right snow, rain or sunshine-walk across the bridge.

flameshaw wrote:

4everfsu wrote:Yes once the bus hit the bridge, the students had to get off and walk across the bridge and got back on the bus on the other side. Reason for that was the bridge was weakened by a previous flood.

That's right snow, rain or sunshine-walk across the bridge.

I can just see ya'll telling this story now..."Back in my day, I had to walk several miles to school and across a rickety old bridge in the snow over a giant rushing river, barefoot, uphill both ways in two feet of snow."

Sly Fox wrote:Ask your dad about it, HMO. It was true.

Thats unreal...how LU has made it this long without a lawsuit taking all of their money is beyond me!

It's the same reason it never snows in Lynchburg. Dr. Falwell is sitting up in his office right now praying that it will never snow in Lynchburg and school will never be canceled. The man has some pull.