Does anyone have pictures of the west side of Riddick before it was demolished? I was just curious to see what it looked like, and this is all I can find.

9/19/2011 2:53:50 AM

shit when did that happen

9/19/2011 3:31:29 AM

like 2006

9/19/2011 4:16:31 AM

I remember the semester before it was torn down the college of design had studio in there (leazer was being remodeled at the same time).

Near the end of the semester we started smashing shit through the walls/spray painting everywhere since we knew it was going to be destroyed anyways.

good times.

9/19/2011 7:00:19 AM

ah, I remember those. great place for a workout.

ugly as shit though

9/19/2011 9:08:29 AM

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"I was just curious to see what it looked like, and this is all I can find."

Well, that's what they looked like.

9/19/2011 9:29:32 AM

Pretty much. Miss 'em.

9/19/2011 9:30:33 AM

Here's some info on the history of the football stadiums in general for anyone who's interested.

http://www.ncsu.edu/homecoming/2009/02/

9/19/2011 9:53:29 AM

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"ah, I remember those. great place for a workout. "

Yep. I very much had a love/hate relationship with it. I swear the steps got bigger through out the PT session

9/19/2011 10:18:33 AM

I have some photos of these stands before and during the demolition. I will, however, have to find where the heck they are buried on my hard drive...

(Oh, BTW, that picture you have is after they already demolished the southernmost third of the stands. Imagine them extending much farther toward the railroad tracks--that concrete box at the topm just to the left of the smokestack in that picture, was the announcers' booth and used to be in the middle.)

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9/19/2011 1:04:39 PM

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9/19/2011 1:09:48 PM

good night, sweet prince

9/19/2011 1:12:26 PM

I remember making out with my boyfriend in those stands one night

9/19/2011 1:14:08 PM

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"like 2006"

they were already gone when i got there in 2005.

9/19/2011 1:35:54 PM

yeah by late 06 they were gone and they had closed off part of the parking lot for construction of sas hall

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9/19/2011 1:58:15 PM

^^ really? Damn, I didn't even know they were gone. When I first got to State that was the weirdest/coolest thing about campus.


Making me miss Raleigh a bit... "in the bright moon light its really quite a sight, as the witches, go flying, along, GO STATE!"

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9/19/2011 1:59:15 PM

http://www.brentroad.com/photo_folder.aspx?user=1618&folder=Bye+Riddick&filter=

i have some of the demolition

9/19/2011 3:00:37 PM

I have been obsessed with that link marko posted

some really great photos on the ncsu archive page

9/19/2011 3:04:09 PM

Thanks guys, awesome pictures. I was just wondering what the underside of it looked like (read they had dorms and whatnot at one point, was wondering how that worked), and the backside.

I'm a sucker for shit like this. http://goodnightraleigh.com is a good site for this kinda thing, love going there

9/19/2011 3:05:41 PM

The dorm rooms under there were long gone by the time I got to NCSU, and I started in '98. I think that was in the 70's or maybe 80's--doubt you're going to find anyone here who remembers those. Though some of us are old.

I remember the underside containing offices and storage space for Facilities Operations, temp studios for College of Design, and evidently some old decomissioned ITD/OIT/Computing Center equipment (never saw it but heard of it).

Also, the Morris Building was connected to it. It was demolished at the same time the stands were.


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9/19/2011 3:31:30 PM

is the fieldhouse still there?

9/19/2011 3:34:36 PM

it's all that's left

i ain't gonna lie tho... that whole area between sas hall and the rennovated park shops looks really nice now

9/19/2011 3:38:10 PM

pretty sure they were torn down in the fall of '05

9/19/2011 3:47:17 PM

^^True. They did a *fantastic* job on the Park Shops renovation too. That building was old, decrepit, and looked like ass inside pre-renovation, and now it's just beautiful.

9/19/2011 3:52:09 PM

^yeah parks shops is very trendy looking.

9/19/2011 4:28:19 PM

After living in Syme for a year on the Riddick Stadium side, I gotta say it would have been cool as hell to live there when they still played in Riddick. My dad told me all the stories he heard about students watching games from their windows and stuff (dad was there '72-'76, lucky bastard)

9/19/2011 4:29:18 PM

you realize carter stadium opened in 1966, right?

9/19/2011 7:24:21 PM

^ re-read his post and comprehend better.

9/19/2011 7:50:29 PM

i found this one

this is what it looked like

9/19/2011 7:51:22 PM

9/19/2011 8:30:27 PM

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"i ain't gonna lie tho... that whole area between sas hall and the rennovated park shops looks really nice now"

So true. I also went into Withers today and couldn't believe how much it's changed. It doesn't look like a total dive and seems to have a/c now

9/19/2011 9:10:45 PM

Yeah they did a good job with Withers too. I was glad to see they kept the dark wood paneled entryway and the original staircase with its scroll handrail, but really modernized the rest of the building (and made it all look like it fits together).

9/20/2011 9:30:11 AM

the 4th floor of withers doesn't whistle anymore

9/20/2011 9:36:13 AM

^Ha, wow. Bringing back memories. I remember CH101L up there waaaaaaaaay back in my very first semester.

I'll have to take a quick tour through main campus here shortly to see what all has changed in the last 5 years.

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9/20/2011 11:07:56 AM

CH101 lab in Withers ten years ago was fucking scary

9/20/2011 12:09:14 PM

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"i ain't gonna lie tho... that whole area between sas hall and the rennovated park shops looks really nice now "

Anyone have any pics of what the riddick area looks like now? I haven't been back since it was demolished

9/20/2011 12:42:51 PM

this pic was taken looking east on Stinson, park shops on the left, SAS hall straight ahead

9/20/2011 12:53:09 PM

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"I'll have to take a quick tour through main campus here shortly to see what all has changed in the last 5 years."

If it's been five years since you've been on campus, I think you'll be very surprised. They've done a lot of work to make the campus nicer and more "user friendly". My first time back on campus after graduating was about two years ago and I remember being like, "They have an ice cream parlor in the library now! ", "The area in front of the Atrium doesn't look ghetto anymore! ", "wtf Riddick is completely gone and replaced with a snazzy new building! "

I can only imagine I'll be once they're done with Talley and I have to go over there for recruiting fairs

9/20/2011 12:58:21 PM

wow. That is pretty snazzy.

All these spoiled youngsters getting to go to college in nice, new buildings with air conditioning

9/20/2011 1:10:00 PM

^^Maybe I'll do my next bout of cycling around campus this weekend. Is parking a problem on Saturdays? When I first started school parking was nearly 100% wide open on the weekends. As the years went on I saw restrictions on more and more lots - I wouldn't be surprised to learn that permits are still enforced on the weekends now.

If so I'll just cycle in from a distance.

Edit:
http://www2.acs.ncsu.edu/trans/parking/enforcement/index.html

Guess weekends are still open then.

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9/20/2011 1:15:25 PM

^^^ It's been 7 years for me. I can't even imagine what campus looks like now. I REALLY need to take a tour to see all the changes. I probably won't recognize it.


^^ Right! They got it made now. I also had CH101 lab in Withers with no A/C....absolute HELL. But I must admit, I lived in Tucker right after they got A/C.

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"CH101 lab in Withers ten years ago was fucking scary"

I actually agree with you, for once.




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9/20/2011 1:20:06 PM

i used to work for facilities design & construction in those offices under the bleachers

9/20/2011 1:26:36 PM

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""wtf Riddick is completely gone and replaced with a snazzy new building!"

Riddick Stadium/Lot. Don't want people thinking Riddick Labs is gone. Though it did get renovated and added on to. And the old annex is gone.

9/21/2011 4:53:32 PM