Auburn vs LSU 1996

I was. Seats were on the opposite side of the barn that some LSU dude burned. At first I thought the stadium was going up in flames but just another building in close proximity.

I was there in the opposite side of Jordan Hare.

Some moron dumped hot bbq coals against the side of the building.

Was there. I was in 9th grade. We lost unfortunately

We walked by the Barn on our way to the game and were running late. I remember seeing the grill up against the building because it was next to a truck like mine. Our seats were in the West stands and as soon as we got in them, we saw the smoke, then the flames.

The Barn was a WWII Army Air Corp surplus hanger. It was built of heart pine. I don't think he dump coals, but rather there were paint cans stacked up and the fumes ignited and then it just went up in a hurry.

After the war, a lot of these Army surplus hangers and quonset huts and other surplus buildings were sent to colleges around the country and used for various uses.

Auburn played basketball in that building before Beard-Eaves was built in 1969. There were two others on campus. We lived in a quonset hut on LSU's campus when my dad was in school.

I saw Pistol Pete play in there.

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They’d never let a game go on like that nowadays

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Probably would have been worse had they tried to evacuate the stadium with the east exits closed off. The stadium was in no danger and the wind was blowing in the right direction to blow the smoke away from the stadium.

We walked past the ruin after the game. It was a sad sight. I had a lot of memories in that old place, from basketball games watched and played in, to concerts, to boxing matches.