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Posted on 3/11/13 at 2:42 pm to Bama Bird
USCe and Alabama campuses are nice as is but I agree with you about their locations. USCe would be an awfully attractive school to attend if located in Charleston. Fairhope for Bama is a little trickier. While it's definitely one of my favorite communities anywhere on the Gulf Coast, I wonder if it had the infrastructure in the early decades of the 20th century to support a major university. Fairhope size and feel wise is similar to Oxford, MS accept for it being in a much prettier location on a bluff overlooking Mobile Bay.
Posted on 3/11/13 at 2:44 pm to bengalbait
Wow...look at how people dressed for football games back then.
Posted on 3/11/13 at 2:47 pm to Eric Nies Grind Time
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Wow...look at how people dressed for football games back then.
Don't be fooled by the suit coats. They're all still wearing jorts.
Posted on 3/11/13 at 2:49 pm to GeorgeReymond
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(Kappa Alpha Theta House)
Not so much its inhabitants
Posted on 3/11/13 at 2:51 pm to McRebel42
The Circle and Lyceum
The Lyceum
Ventress Hall
The Grove
James Meredith monument
Phi Mu fountain between the Chapel and Library (My favorite spot on campus)
JD Williams Library
Paris-Yates Chapel
Gertrude Castellow Ford Center (Where the presidential debates were held in '08)
The Lyceum
Ventress Hall
The Grove
James Meredith monument
Phi Mu fountain between the Chapel and Library (My favorite spot on campus)
JD Williams Library
Paris-Yates Chapel
Gertrude Castellow Ford Center (Where the presidential debates were held in '08)
This post was edited on 3/11/13 at 2:52 pm
Posted on 3/11/13 at 2:54 pm to Henry Jones Jr
I was waiting for you to do this
Posted on 3/11/13 at 2:55 pm to Govt Tide
I don't even know if Fairhope was a place in 1820. There were only two cities at that time: Mobile (by far the largest) and Tuscaloosa (the capital and more centrally located). Fairhope is just where I'd put a University if I was told to create one in the state
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Apparently there was a town called Cahaba that was the capital before Tuscaloosa
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Apparently there was a town called Cahaba that was the capital before Tuscaloosa
This post was edited on 3/11/13 at 2:59 pm
Posted on 3/11/13 at 3:03 pm to FarmersFight
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I wonder how different the A&M campus would have been if built on the banks of the Brazos rather than some 7-8 miles away.
More historical landmarks, for starters.
And in the words of Texas A&M's native son, Robert Earl, Keen, "the Brazos still runs muddy like she's run all along ...."
This post was edited on 3/11/13 at 3:04 pm
Posted on 3/11/13 at 3:03 pm to Henry Jones Jr
I was at Ole Miss for the game in '09 ( 
) have y'all finished all the construction near VHS? What was the end result/what is it going to be?
) have y'all finished all the construction near VHS? What was the end result/what is it going to be?
Posted on 3/11/13 at 3:07 pm to TFS4E
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What was the end result/what is it going to be?
Yeah they have it done. It's the Center for Manufacturing Excellence.
Posted on 3/11/13 at 3:09 pm to Henry Jones Jr
It seems like most campuses have some sort of clock tower.
Posted on 3/11/13 at 3:09 pm to Henry Jones Jr
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It's the Center for Manufacturing Excellence.
what in the...
Posted on 3/11/13 at 3:11 pm to TFS4E
Ok here's mine:
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Posted on 3/11/13 at 3:12 pm to Bama Bird
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I would've put the University of South Carolina in Charleston as opposed to Columbia, but that's just me. And I would've put Alabama in Fairhope
They wanted to promote unity between South Carolina's Lowcountry and Upstate, so they built the university in Columbia.
Columbia is essentially a compromise city so the politicians in the Upstate wouldn't get upset anymore about traveling to Charleston. It was a pain in the arse to get from the Upstate to Charleston back in the day.
Posted on 3/11/13 at 3:15 pm to GetCocky11
I swear from the center of carolina everything is no more than two hours away.
My friends was from Cheraw now lives in Garden City closer to Murrel's Inlet and I swear we drive everywhere throughout that state and it takes no time at all getting to where we want to go.
My friends was from Cheraw now lives in Garden City closer to Murrel's Inlet and I swear we drive everywhere throughout that state and it takes no time at all getting to where we want to go.
Posted on 3/11/13 at 3:17 pm to GetCocky11
I think it would have been interesting if Arkansas had been located in the Hillcrest or Heights area of Little Rock, overlooking the river there.
Posted on 3/11/13 at 3:21 pm to Henry Jones Jr
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Yeah they have it done. It's the Center for Manufacturing Excellence.
Ok, thanks. I was just picturing the campus in my head and remembered having to walk through a huge construction site to get from VHS to the grove. I don't think anyone was actually supposed to walk through, but I just followed the "locals".
What is taught here? Engineering or something?
Posted on 3/11/13 at 3:22 pm to McRebel42
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I swear from the center of carolina everything is no more than two hours away.
My friends was from Cheraw now lives in Garden City closer to Murrel's Inlet and I swear we drive everywhere throughout that state and it takes no time at all getting to where we want to go.
Oh yeah, Columbia is a great staging area for seeing everything in area. I can be on the beach in Charleston in 2 hours, or I can be in the mountains up in Asheville, NC in about 2 hours 30 minutes.
You really can't beat it. Plus, we have a big lake 20 minutes west of Columbia.
Posted on 3/11/13 at 3:23 pm to EKG
Yeah the Brazos is pretty muddy. I read somewhere that's how the Colorado got its name - the Spanish kept mistaking it for the Brazos.
Imagine a nice riverside park through or right next to the campus!
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