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Where did you live when you were attending FSU (if you did, in fact, attend FSU)

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All of the places that were my temporary homes during my school years are no longer available, as in, all have been knocked down:

One year at Smith Hall
A year at the old ATO house, across Tennessee Street from the Business school
A year at Cash Hall, while the ATO house was being rebuilt after a fire
Back to the ATO house for my last year
 
Freshman year at Kellum Hall.

The next 3 were at house on the north side of Tally that I rented with roommates from high school-- nothing fancy, nothing crumbling.

Good times, those.
 
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College Plaza and the complex on Woodward behind the Catholic Church. Chateau something, can’t remember the name as it was in 1976
 
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Jennie Murphree freshman year
Landis start of Sophomore year, then my Sorority House. Also went summer quarter after my Junior year and shared an apartment at College Plaza with a sorority sister. Back to the house for senior year.
 
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Valencia apartments (no longer there); Worthington Park (still there but under a different name - behind the Lindy's on Laffayette St.); house in Brewster Estates off East Mahan back when that was the country.
 
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Jennie Murphree freshman year
Landis start of Sophomore year, then my Sorority House. Also went summer quarter after my Junior year and shared an apartment at College Plaza with a sorority sister. Back to the house for senior year.

Where is (is) College Plaza?I remember the name but cannot place it.
 
Smith Hall one quarter, Kellum Zoo two weeks,DeGraff Hall three quarters,
Campus Edge Caves , two and a half years
Nylic Ave one year
 
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For the first two years, I lived in a dingy apartment complex off of Airport Dr. The location was great, and I had access to FSU Softball, which was awesome. However, the surrounding "atmosphere" was less than perfect.

I finished my time in Tally at Timberlake; my Pops to this day says I was an idiot to let go of that property., I stopped reminding him that he was the one that sold the TH before I graduated.
 
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First place was an apartment at Berkshire Manor off Ocala, a dump. Then an apartment in Spanish Oaks off High Rd. I'd be surprised if either of those still existed, unless revamped and re-branded as something else.
 
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All of the places that were my temporary homes during my school years are no longer available, as in, all have been knocked down:

One year at Smith Hall
A year at the old ATO house, across Tennessee Street from the Business school
A year at Cash Hall, while the ATO house was being rebuilt after a fire
Back to the ATO house for my last year

Deviney Hall, freshman year.
Townhome on Jefferson St first semester, Brittany Estates with a high school friend that came to FSU second semester sophomore year.
Townhome at the Timbers junior and senior year.

My roommates were high school friends, one of whom was ATO.
His younger brother pledged, and was in the ATO house when there was a fire. That would have been very late 90s, or early 2000s.
 
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Deviney Hall, freshman year.
Townhome on Jefferson St first semester, Brittany Estates with a high school friend that came to FSU second semester sophomore year.
Townhome at the Timbers junior and senior year.

My roommates were high school friends, one of whom was ATO.
His younger brother pledged, and was in the ATO house when there was a fire. That would have been very late 90s, or early 2000s.
1999. My daughters pledge sister was dating their House Manager when it burned
 
Deviney Hall, freshman year.
Townhome on Jefferson St first semester, Brittany Estates with a high school friend that came to FSU second semester sophomore year.
Townhome at the Timbers junior and senior year.

My roommates were high school friends, one of whom was ATO.
His younger brother pledged, and was in the ATO house when there was a fire. That would have been very late 90s, or early 2000s.

Yeah, I knew there was another fire in that time frame. I believe the house burned three times, first in the late 60s/early 70s, then the one when I was there (1983), then the last one. I believe the house was knocked down after that one.
 
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Yeah, I knew there was another fire in that time frame. I believe the house burned three times, first in the late 60s/early 70s, then the one when I was there (1983), then the last one. I believe the house was knocked down after that one.
The first one in the early 70’s happened when my younger brother was an active. Some drunk KA’s
(But I repeat myself) set it on fire in 1983. BIG mistake. Jim Smith was an ATO slum and was the Attorney General of Florida at the time. Since most of those houses were University owned at the time he was able to go after the KA Chapter.
😉
 
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All of the places that were my temporary homes during my school years are no longer available, as in, all have been knocked down:

One year at Smith Hall
A year at the old ATO house, across Tennessee Street from the Business school
A year at Cash Hall, while the ATO house was being rebuilt after a fire
Back to the ATO house for my last year
Echo Point Lane on Lake Bradford. The front yard was lakefront, the mailbox was in the Apalachicola National Forest. It was a dream spot for outdoors guys.
Swimming, boating, camping, hunting, etc… The spot.
 
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The first one in the early 70’s happened when my younger brother was an active. Some drunk KA’s
(But I repeat myself) set it on fire in 1983. BIG mistake. Jim Smith was an ATO slum and was the Attorney General of Florida at the time. Since most of those houses were University owned at the time he was able to go after the KA Chapter.
😉

The 1983 fire was the one while I was there as an active brother. Jim's younger brother, as well as a nephew, were ATOs with me at the time.
The fire happened at the end of summer session; three KAs were partying after their last final, came over to our house late at night, and broke into the kitchen (probably just walked in the always-unlocked door). Cooked some food, then had a food fight, and when leaving threw a pack of firecrackers into the open window of the living room. They caught some curtains on fire and half the house burned down.
FSU PD did some excellent detective work, following the trail of ketchup and mustard that they were squirting at each other back across the street, into the KA house, and down the hall to the room where a couple of them were passed out.
I knew two of them, always felt bad for them. Dumb, drunken goofing off altered the course of their lives. Two were entering their senior years, all got kicked out of FSU.
 
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Freshman year was Deviney Hall, followed by Broward Hall. Moved off campus to Pebble Hill off of White Drive for my last two years. Think my half of rent was like $265. What I would do to pay that for rent now. Adulting sucks!
 
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The 1983 fire was the one while I was there as an active brother. Jim's younger brother, as well as a nephew, were ATOs with me at the time.
The fire happened at the end of summer session; three KAs were partying after their last final, came over to our house late at night, and broke into the kitchen (probably just walked in the always-unlocked door). Cooked some food, then had a food fight, and when leaving threw a pack of firecrackers into the open window of the living room. They caught some curtains on fire and half the house burned down.
FSU PD did some excellent detective work, following the trail of ketchup and mustard that they were squirting at each other back across the street, into the KA house, and down the hall to the room where a couple of them were passed out.
I knew two of them, always felt bad for them. Dumb, drunken goofing off altered the course of their lives. Two were entering their senior years, all got kicked out of FSU.
KA’s dumb? Say it ain’t so. 😂
J/K - several guys from my HS were members. One became Head of the FDLE. 😉
 
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ATO's calling KA's dumb? That's a laugh. When I was there, we didn't give a rat's patootie about ATO; we concerned ourselves with painting the SAE lion.

Southern Gentlemen forever.
 
The first one in the early 70’s happened when my younger brother was an active. Some drunk KA’s
(But I repeat myself) set it on fire in 1983. BIG mistake. Jim Smith was an ATO slum and was the Attorney General of Florida at the time. Since most of those houses were University owned at the time he was able to go after the KA Chapter.
😉
Yeah, the KA fire was 'exciting.'
 
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