university towers to be razed. the end of an era.

[futureman 22467]

https://www.bizjournals.com/austin/news/2019/08/22/university-towers-to-be-demolished-to-make-way-for.html

my god, the shit that went down behind those walls...

Edited August 23, 2019 by futureman

[Telegraph_it 3357]

A lot of evidence is about to be demolished as well. 

[futureman 22467]

need to go knock out some ceiling tiles this fall after we beat LSU. 

[Uncle Boobs 1248]

Shiiiiit. I still have over 30 meals left on my towers meal card from 1997.

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[RoundRobin 828]

Castilian FTW. 

[TwiceHorn 31486]

I spent a shitload of time within a few hundred yards of Tri Towers and don't believe I ever set foot in it.  Other than Tricky Mickeys.

[Deej 76797]

Place was a shithole in the late 80's, when it was Tri-Towers, but had some interesting times there. 

[Stunns38 3465]

Weren’t there a few suicides by jumping from those towers?

[DDD Dad 14339]

Two of my kids stayed there their freshman years. It was a complete shit hole.

 

[Deej 76797]

9 minutes ago, Stunns38 said:

Weren’t there a few suicides by jumping from those towers?

Yep.

[futureman 22467]

30 minutes ago, RoundRobin said:

Castilian FTW. 

[RoundRobin 828]

[NorthLoop 14208]

34 minutes ago, Stunns38 said:

Weren’t there a few suicides by jumping from those towers?

I worked across the street for several years. There were more drunk pledge balcony fall deaths than suicides that I remember. 

[futureman 22467]

33 minutes ago, DDD Dad said:

Two of my kids stayed there their freshman years. It was a complete shit hole.

at least it was cheap, though. 

[DDD Dad 14339]

at least it was cheap, though. 

They survived it.

And no it wasn’t cheap. For what it was it was super expensive.

[futureman 22467]

[MissingInAction 25085]

Pretty sure I shit in a bathtub there.

[Neonmoon 38129]

I smoked a lot of weed there. 

[Gambrinus 51]

Spent way too many nights at the Renegade there

[Hornius Emeritus 12463]

If you scrounge through the rubble you should find a bag of weed that my friend Eric lost there in 1987.

[Dropout 355]

1 hour ago, RoundRobin said:

Castilian FTW. 

The Castle. I didn’t make it out alive.

Edited August 23, 2019 by Dropout

[ImissWallyPryor 9046]

Worst date I had in college lived in Tri Towers. Long story that is best saved for the CJK5H thread. 

[Johnny Chimpo 478]

Hahaha I lived in university towers my freshman year what a fuck show that was. So many ceiling tiles got knocked out they must have bought those things in bulk. 

[hornimal 80]

I lost count of the times we were threatened with eviction.  the best was when gucci_suit launched a bottle of boone's from our balcony across w. 24th street and into the parking lot of croix and it didn't break.  then for good measure he threw another straight down that exploded at the feet of one of the security guards.  I've never seen cops so mad since the two apd officers that showed up to toss our place for evidence of boone's, fortunately two had been our limit from our trip to grande food mart earlier and we got to live another day.

Edited August 23, 2019 by hornimal

[Armybrat 40850]

Never heard of the place, and don’t believe I’ve ever seen it.

But then again, I had not driven through West Campus since 1967... until last month. Did not know where I was. What happened to the Ghetto?

[immamac 42854]

I don't even know how much piss there was in those elevators

[Murfdogg21 4412]

Worst value: University Towers or Castilian?

[High Plains Drifter 11050]

10 hours ago, Deej said:

Place was a shithole in the late 80's, when it was Tri-Towers, but had some interesting times there. 

It was a shithole in the early 80s as well.

 

It wasn't my shithole but I did have some friends who lived there and boned some young coeds who lived there.

 

 

[Liquor and Poker 3659]

18 minutes ago, Murfdogg21 said:

Worst value: University Towers or Castilian?

In the late 80s/early 90s it wasn’t close.  The Castilian my first semester had the highest concentration of talent outside Hardin House.  Of course they all moved into the houses the next semester....

[Moby Ric 2058]

9 hours ago, MissingInAction said:

Pretty sure I shit in a bathtub there.

Haven't we all done that somewhere at some point.  Bathtub, sink, the corner of an elevator.  

[phdhorn 6224]

West campus < 2000:



West Campus > 2000:



You gotta pledge your next 5 kids to human trafficking just to afford it.  There are almost no "dumps" like TriTowers and shitty little apartments left.  Trust me and my thin wallet currently on this.

[Deej 76797]

It seems lot of non-students are moving into West Campus. I know two people in their 40's renting condos because it's close enough to downtown. That can't be helping the prices. 

[Guest Lobo]

I remember going there with a girl I was dating, she was at UT, I was visiting from Florida.  Her parents were very well-off, so I assumed she lived in some badass off-campus apartment.  We went back there at night, for all I knew this was just some high-rise near UT, not filled with students.  I remember the light fixtures, the carpeting, the hallways, everything reminded me of 70's mid-rise, working class apartments in Southwest Chicago.  So, not good.  The smell of stale cigarette smoke from a bygone era, the sad drapery, the shitgrade appliances, everything about the place was very "One Day at a Time" shitshow.  I was expecting Schneider to come down the hall any minute to give us unsolicited advice.  Anyway, wake up the next morning...place looked even more dated in the sunlight.  Some to realize it's filled with students, it's just blocks from campus, and apparently it was quite expensive at the time and somewhat prestigious to live there (this was when there were only a handful of high-rises in West Campus, mid-90's).  Anyway, glad to see it go.  It's an eye-sore. 

[Bevo 13577]

11 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

I spent a shitload of time within a few hundred yards of Tri Towers and don't believe I ever set foot in it.  Other than Tricky Mickeys.

I've had success at Tricky Mickeys. We must have been there around the same time because those Tri Towers bars seemed to change names every 2 years.

[TwiceHorn 31486]

1984-88.  Last time I went to Tricky Mickeys was probably 1985 on something resembling a hogging expedition.  Don't recall what became of it or what might have replaced it.

Even back then, it was sort of an odd mix between a dorm and an off-campus apartment, but had the prestige of neither.

Edited August 23, 2019 by TwiceHorn

[NeverMarryAStripper 21907]

12 hours ago, RoundRobin said:

Castilian FTW. 

I lived there my freshman year and had some great times.  My roommate and I used to go up on the roof and toke up.  I'm kind of surprised neither one of us took a dive off of it.

[BrazilHorn 6609]

Had a friend showing off his "unloaded" handgun miss shooting me by like three inches when it went off and blew out the back of one of the dressers at the Castilian.

[gsoda3 3262]

haven't been inside a room at towers recently.  last time i was in a room at the castilian was 3 years ago.  that place is so nasty.

[Bevo 13577]

15 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

1984-88.  Last time I went to Tricky Mickeys was probably 1985 on something resembling a hogging expedition.  Don't recall what became of it or what might have replaced it.

Even back then, it was sort of an odd mix between a dorm and an off-campus apartment, but had the prestige of neither.

Yeah, 85 sounds about right. I don't think I ever went upstairs, though. I had different friend groups - high school friends, law school friends, fraternity friends, freshmen dorm friends, and classmate friends and each group kind of had their own hangouts. The classmate friends liked Nasty's, the law school friends liked live music venues, the fraternity friends liked Abels and a few high school friends liked Tricky Mickeys, Bananas and some of the more low key places near campus.

[HornsOverIthaca 2333]

How many dudes to a bathroom was it?

[HouTex 1867]

It will always be TriTowers to me. It wasn't horrible in the early 80's. My college girlfriend lived there one semester or maybe it was a summer. Some middle-eastern women lived in a nearby unit and I can still smell the spices they used for cooking. It seemed like all they did was cook. The smell never went away.

[ButtFumble 5180]

3 hours ago, Murfdogg21 said:

Worst value: University Towers or Castilian?

no love for The Woo?

[Dropout 355]

1 hour ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

I lived there my freshman year and had some great times.  My roommate and I used to go up on the roof and toke up.  I'm kind of surprised neither one of us took a dive off of it.

The parking garage would suffice.

[SwanderedTalent 5761]

I wonder how long the Castilian will be there. It seems like you could potentially do a lot more with that space (footprint). 

[Liquor and Poker 3659]

Is the basic concept of the off-campus dorm a dead man walking in Austin?

[texanbychoice 354]

Two of my kids stayed there their freshman years. It was a complete shit hole.
 

I liked her room.

[SubliminalHorn 6798]

2 hours ago, HornsOverIthaca said:

How many dudes to a bathroom was it?

I’ve been able to fit 3-4 some nights

[Uncle Boobs 1248]

I’ve been able to fit 3-4 some nights

2 in the ass 2 in the mouth?

[GHOSTUSER 361]

Was the nickname for Towers the Hebrew Hilton or am I thinking of another one. Did only grad school at UT so wasn't hip with the undergrad lingo

[DDD Dad 14339]

I liked her room.

Watch it.