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Post by The Professor on Jan 19, 2017 16:00:17 GMT -5
i wasn't around when williams cafeteria first opened, but does anybody know if the opening of williams cafeteria was as big a deal as the opening of the new student union will be? I was a student when they tore down old cafe.... The trailers and then the opening of the new one. It was but that Student union is more in a visual area because of the new traffic patterns on the yard
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Jan 19, 2017 16:23:56 GMT -5
i wasn't around when williams cafeteria first opened, but does anybody know if the opening of williams cafeteria was as big a deal as the opening of the new student union will be? I was a student when they tore down old cafe.... The trailers and then the opening of the new one. It was but that Student union is more in a visual area because of the new traffic patterns on the yard dang, professor. i didn't know you go that far back. also, i thought murphy hall was the old cafe before they built williams? murphy was renovated when i was a student and that's where the career placement center was then located during my days. brown hall was the athletes' cafeteria when i was a student, but our menu of foods were no different than the main cafeteria. lol, they called brown hall a "training table" for the athletes, but we ate the exact same foods as the general student body except our servings may have been a little more...
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Post by The Professor on Jan 19, 2017 16:59:56 GMT -5
I was a student when they tore down old cafe.... The trailers and then the opening of the new one. It was but that Student union is more in a visual area because of the new traffic patterns on the yard dang, professor. i didn't know you go that far back. also, i thought murphy hall was the old cafe before they built williams? murphy was renovated when i was a student and that's where the career placement center was then located during my days. brown hall was the athletes' cafeteria when i was a student, but our menu of foods were no different than the main cafeteria. lol, they called brown hall a "training table" for the athletes, but we ate the exact same foods as the general student body except our servings may have been a little more... I was in the old cafe. I came in 99. Athletes ate downstairs with the teachers. They blew up the old cafe and we ate in trailers from 2 years in the murphy hall parking lot. And then they built the new cafe. It opened right when i left.
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Jan 20, 2017 12:04:43 GMT -5
dang, professor. i didn't know you go that far back. also, i thought murphy hall was the old cafe before they built williams? murphy was renovated when i was a student and that's where the career placement center was then located during my days. brown hall was the athletes' cafeteria when i was a student, but our menu of foods were no different than the main cafeteria. lol, they called brown hall a "training table" for the athletes, but we ate the exact same foods as the general student body except our servings may have been a little more... I was in the old cafe. I came in 99. Athletes ate downstairs with the teachers. They blew up the old cafe and we ate in trailers from 2 years in the murphy hall parking lot. And then they built the new cafe. It opened right when i left. i don't think they ever "blew up" williams cafeteria, it is still the same primary building it was when it first opened in '71. if you came to a&t in '99, then what you saw was a "renovation" of the original williams cafeteria. no reason to "demolish" a facility that had just been built in '71. that's why i said i didn't know you go that far back (1971 when williams cafe first opened). i was inquiring about the "first opening" of williams in '71 compared to the new student center opening. i believe they closed williams for about 2 years around '01 or '02 for major renovations, but they did not blow it up per se'. other than the renovations, its still the same primary building it was when it first opened...
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Post by The Professor on Jan 20, 2017 13:12:40 GMT -5
They tore it down. I saw it myself
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Jan 20, 2017 13:29:45 GMT -5
They tore it down. I saw it myself wow, if so then what they put in its place looks just like the original...
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Post by aggie75 on Jan 20, 2017 16:16:31 GMT -5
I think you're right Oldschool, but Williams couldn't have been built before 1974
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Post by DOOMS on Jan 20, 2017 16:20:59 GMT -5
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Post by SixtiesAggie on Jan 22, 2017 15:00:55 GMT -5
Williams Hall was renovated, not demolished. Brown Hall originally was built as the cafeteria for juniors and seniors. The canteen moved to Brown Hall and later became the Red Carpet restaurant. The old canteen was located in the basement of Old Crosby Hall which is now the parking lot next to Harrison Auditorium. The Red Carpet was replaced by the ticket office and it (Red Carpet) moved to the lower level of Williams Hall. The Red Carpet closed its doors years ago. The canteen relocated into the New Student Union which was demolished last year. Hopefully not too confusing.
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Post by marchingband1969 on Jan 22, 2017 16:58:40 GMT -5
Williams Hall was renovated, not demolished. Brown Hall originally was built as the cafeteria for juniors and seniors. The canteen moved to Brown Hall and later became the Red Carpet restaurant. The old canteen was located in the basement of Old Crosby Hall which is now the parking lot next to Harrison Auditorium. The Red Carpet was replaced by the ticket office and it (Red Carpet) moved to the lower level of Williams Hall. The Red Carpet closed its doors years ago. The canteen relocated into the New Student Union which was demolished last year. Hopefully not too confusing. Well it takes a "sixties Aggie" to layout the history of the canteen. I remember when I was in high school band we would come to A&T in the mid 1960's for band competition. We would perform in Harrison Auditorium and "try" to squeeze down the steps of Cosby Hall basement into the canteen. It was crowded and scary for a small town kid like me. As for the canteen in Brown Hall, my memories of it include daylong bid whiz games and a thick cloud of cigarette smoke that always hung over the place. The new student union will be amazing. I just hope they eventually designate a place for us old Aggies to hang out on campus.
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Post by outsidethinker on Jan 22, 2017 18:17:44 GMT -5
Hopefully the new student union helps brings us in some MBB players lol.
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Post by Aggie77 on Jan 22, 2017 22:31:24 GMT -5
That article is wrong about the opening of Williams cafeteria. I came to A&T in the Fall of 1973, Freshmen ate in Murphy Hall then, a classic old school dinning hall (LOL). Williams was under construction and didn't open until the next fall 1974. New Cafe
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Post by BOWIEAGGIE on Jan 28, 2017 14:25:03 GMT -5
It was already there and open when I arrived in 1974..
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Post by bseballaggie on Jan 31, 2017 13:50:51 GMT -5
Williams Hall was renovated, not demolished. Brown Hall originally was built as the cafeteria for juniors and seniors. The canteen moved to Brown Hall and later became the Red Carpet restaurant. The old canteen was located in the basement of Old Crosby Hall which is now the parking lot next to Harrison Auditorium. The Red Carpet was replaced by the ticket office and it (Red Carpet) moved to the lower level of Williams Hall. The Red Carpet closed its doors years ago. The canteen relocated into the New Student Union which was demolished last year. Hopefully not too confusing. Well it takes a "sixties Aggie" to layout the history of the canteen. I remember when I was in high school band we would come to A&T in the mid 1960's for band competition. We would perform in Harrison Auditorium and "try" to squeeze down the steps of Cosby Hall basement into the canteen. It was crowded and scary for a small town kid like me. As for the canteen in Brown Hall, my memories of it include daylong bid whiz games and a thick cloud of cigarette smoke that always hung over the place. The new student union will be amazing. I just hope they eventually designate a place for us old Aggies to hang out on campus. A cigar lounge would be nice.
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Post by aggiebred09 on Feb 26, 2017 13:49:40 GMT -5
All these memories and no good pictures... SMH
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