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<blockquote data-quote="Bbuck21" data-source="post: 1800106" data-attributes="member: 748813"><p>Well, a work colleague of my wife's found an article to answer my question regarding the store at Green and Wright. I kept saying it was something like "Campus News". It was "Campus Drugstore". This reminded my of other fun things we did on this reminiscing weekend. Point of reference: we met during New Student week 1976 at PAR. We were good friends the entire stay, but never anything more until her last semester 1980. I needed 1 more semester due to 2 changes to my major (and other factors not necessary to disclose). She knew I was in engineering, but she really didn't know anything about that end of campus. So it was the first time I ever told her about those engineering, mathematics, and physics buildings that I spent most of my time in. When we were friends she just thought of me as a nice, fun, music-loving, druggie and I was fine with that. While walking she said she thinks she had a Math class once in Smith Hall. I said, "That explains an awful lot. You were probably sitting in a music class!". We laughed. Her math ineptitude is the source of so many family hysterical stories. She is a brilliant writer and manager (currently a COO), but as a sixty-something, she is so proud of herself when she correctly adds 3 numbers. We drove by Carle Park in Urbana. That was a common haunt for many PAR residents. There is a 2 story concrete structure there for some reason. I don't know what it was, but you could go inside and up the stairs to an "observation" deck. My wife said, "Did we make out in there one time?". I said, "Uhh... I think you may be thinking of someone else". She was slightly embarrassed, but we laughed so hard. After the game, knowing there was no music scene, we went to the Illini Inn (where I worked 3 years for Willie). The bartender must have been new. He didn't know what to do when I handed him my Mug Club card. OK, I might be done now!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bbuck21, post: 1800106, member: 748813"] Well, a work colleague of my wife's found an article to answer my question regarding the store at Green and Wright. I kept saying it was something like "Campus News". It was "Campus Drugstore". This reminded my of other fun things we did on this reminiscing weekend. Point of reference: we met during New Student week 1976 at PAR. We were good friends the entire stay, but never anything more until her last semester 1980. I needed 1 more semester due to 2 changes to my major (and other factors not necessary to disclose). She knew I was in engineering, but she really didn't know anything about that end of campus. So it was the first time I ever told her about those engineering, mathematics, and physics buildings that I spent most of my time in. When we were friends she just thought of me as a nice, fun, music-loving, druggie and I was fine with that. While walking she said she thinks she had a Math class once in Smith Hall. I said, "That explains an awful lot. You were probably sitting in a music class!". We laughed. Her math ineptitude is the source of so many family hysterical stories. She is a brilliant writer and manager (currently a COO), but as a sixty-something, she is so proud of herself when she correctly adds 3 numbers. We drove by Carle Park in Urbana. That was a common haunt for many PAR residents. There is a 2 story concrete structure there for some reason. I don't know what it was, but you could go inside and up the stairs to an "observation" deck. My wife said, "Did we make out in there one time?". I said, "Uhh... I think you may be thinking of someone else". She was slightly embarrassed, but we laughed so hard. After the game, knowing there was no music scene, we went to the Illini Inn (where I worked 3 years for Willie). The bartender must have been new. He didn't know what to do when I handed him my Mug Club card. OK, I might be done now! [/QUOTE]
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