May 28th Clemson Historic Picture Of The Day

Kluttz Steak House In Clemson 

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Today photos are from a long ago restaurant in downtown Clemson called the Kluttz Steak House. The above picture was taken in the 1950’s and shows the inside of the steak house with a big crowd. 

Below is a photo of the owners, known by the cadets as "Mom" & "Pop" Kluttz, inside the restaurant. Mrs. Kluttz also worked in the restaurant in the YMCA on campus. 

The Kluttz Steak House was “the best in steaks and short orders” according to advertisements distributed in the 1950’s. 

The restaurant left downtown Clemson some time around 1956. I believe the Kluttz family moved the restaurant into downtown Easley until the mid 1960’s. 

Below is a current picture of downtown Clemson where the Kluttz Steak House was located during the 1950’s. 

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May 27th Clemson Historic Picture Of The Day

Old Memorial Bridge, Then and Now 

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Today’s photos are of the old "Memorial Bridge" that was a familiar landmark for years around the Clemson area until lake Hartwell was built. You can see Tillman Hall in the below right of the picture. 

The lake was created in 1963 when the Hartwell Dam was built on the Savannah River Basin seven miles below the point at which the Tugaloo and Seneca Rivers join to form the Savannah. 

The Memorial Bridge, before the flooding of the lake, was the method of transportation over the river. Here you can see the inscription on the bridge. 

This picture and graphic shows the location of the bridge along the old road (Highway 123). 

Back in 2008 when the lake hit record levels of drought, the Memorial Bridge once again saw the light of day. Here is a picture of the remains of the bridge during that drought. 

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May 26th Clemson Historic Picture Of The Day

Clemson Club Hotel

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Today’s photo is of the Clemson Club Hotel, which occupied the hill where the Clemson House now sits.

The above photo was taken from Bowman Field and shows Cadets marching along what is now Highway 93. The photo was taken in the 1940’s, I believe right after the start of WWII.

Before Clemson University became coeducational in 1955, Clemson College was an all-male military school for nearly 62 years. During the time that Clemson was an all-male college, the college hosted formal dances. Women from nearby colleges and towns would serve as "chaperones" to the men at cadet dances.

Before the Clemson House was built in 1950, The Clemson Club Hotel stood in its place. For overnight stays there were no hotel facilities, and many women would stay in the Clemson Club Hotel.

The Clemson Club Hotel was a large boarding house that provided rooms and apartments for faculty and their families. When there was room, the building made room for some of the women staying in Clemson overnight.

The above photo is from a slightly different angle and shows the Clemson Club Hotel in a little more detail.

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May 25th Clemson Historic Picture Of The Day

First Friday Parade: Brent and Ara

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Today’s photo is from September 20th, 1985 and shows the First Friday Parade with Brent Musberger and Ara Parsegian riding along as the Grand Marshalls.

The First Friday Parade in 1985 would be before the 2nd game of the season, as Clemson defeated Virginia Tech in Blacksburg on a David Treadwell last second field goal to open the season.

Clemson was hosting Georgia the day after this picture was taken and the game was televised by CBS Sports. Clemson would fall 20-13 to the Bulldogs en route to a 6-6 season in 1985.

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May 24th Clemson Historic Picture Of The Day

1973 Sign, NC State, and Bennie Cunningham

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Today’s photos are from the week of October 27th, 1973 as Clemson prepared to take on NC State in Death Valley.

The above photo shows some nifty banner making and hanging skills by hung on one of the high rise dorms on campus. As you can see, the banner took up three floors and I am not sure how the students were able to get it hung there based on the picture!

The lead up to the game was to be in vain as the Tigers fell 29-6 to the Wolfpack. The Tigers would finish the season 5-6 behind Peanut Sanders and Smiley Sanders. The star of the 1973 season was a young man that would go on to have a fabulous career in the NFL.

Bennie Cunningham led the Tigers in 1973 and would go on to play for the Pittsburgh Steelers during their dominant run in the 1970’s.

Bennie stopped by the Tiger Pregame Show in November of 2011 for a segment prior to the South Carolina game that evening. Bennie lives in Seneca to this day and attends a couple of Clemson games each year. Below is a picture of Bennie on the show with me in 2011.

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May 23rd Clemson Historic Picture Of The Day

Orange Shoes Vs. NC State In 1960’s

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Today’s photo is from a big day in Clemson football history. Most Clemson fans know about the history and lore of the orange pants, which started in 1980. But the first mystical change in football attire came 13 years earlier when Clemson put on orange shoes vs. NC State. Here’s the story, as best as I can remember it.

In the 1960’s, every team wore black shoes when playing football. NC State's Bill Morrow found out that a member of the Kansas City Chiefs was wearing white shoes so he figured he would too. Morrow had a huge year in 1966 wearing the white shoes, including an intercepted pass for a touchdown that marked the first TD in the new Carter Finley Stadium.

So, in 1967, one NC State player wanted to follow Morrow’s lead and make a fashion statement by wearing white shoes. Linebacker Chuck Amato (yes, that Chuck Amato) wore white shoes during the 1967 season and began spreading the look to the rest of the Wolfpack defense.

The magic of the white shoes worked for the Wolfpack as they started the 1967 season 8-0 and it appeared NC State was going to the Sugar Bowl on New Years Day. There was only two teams standing in the way of NC State, one was Penn State and the other was Clemson. The Wolfpack had to at least win one of the last two to go the Sugar Bowl. Penn State did their part by handing NC State a loss.

On November 18, 1967 the 10th rank Wolfpack came to Death Valley to play the 4-4 Clemson Tigers with the Sugar Bowl on the line for NC State. Clemson, motivated to knock the Wolfpack out of the Sugar Bowl, painted their shoes orange prior to the game with the Wolfpack. Students were encouraged to come onto the field to create a tunnel for the Tigers to come down the hill, causing electricity to run through the fired up crowd as they saw the Tigers in the orange shoes.

It was a very windy day in Death Valley and the Wolfpack used that wind to kick two long field goals early to take a 6-0 lead. But Clemson, led by Buddy Gore, stormed back for two touchdowns to defeat Amato and the Wolfpack 14-6 and knock them out of the Sugar Bowl.

In fact, Gore caught the only pass of his career at Clemson late in the game to gain a first down and seal the win. Gore is #44 in the picture.

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May 22nd Clemson Historic Picture Of The Day

Clemson Laundry Building

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Today’s photos are of the old Laundry Building at Clemson. It was typical for the Freshmen Rats to haul laundry for the upper classmen, as seen in the picture above.

Here is an outside view of the Laundry Building.

The below picture shows the Cadets dropping off their bags of laundry on the outside of the building through an opening in the door.

Here is a picture of the inside of the laundry with the ladies sorting and tagging the bags so that they could be returned to the proper owner. As you can see, the laundry would literally pile up on laundry day at Clemson!

The final picture shows the end of the process, with the workers folding the clothes in preparation for returning them to the Cadets.

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May 21st Clemson Historic Picture Of The Day

Clemson College Café’

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Today’s photos are of a very familiar location to Clemson students and fans, but it may look a bit different in these photos than it does now.

Before there was TD's and even before Dan’s Sandwich Show, this prime location on College Avenue was the location of the College Café and Sandwich Shop.

The photo above is an interior photo taken in the early 1940’s of the establishment.

Here's an even older photo of that same location taken in the 1920’s used on a postcard for Clemson, SC

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May 20th Clemson Historic Picture Of The Day

Cadet Life In 1950’s And A “Sugar Report”

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Today’s photos span the 1950’s and show what life was like for a Clemson Cadet in the 1950’s at Clemson.

The above photo shows a cadet standing outside the old post office (now Mell Hall) reading a “sugar report”, which was a letter from a girl. The building in the background of the picture would one day be Dan’s Sandwich Shop and is now TD’s.

The next photo is from inside the old barracks and it shows the Cadets passing the time during the evening. The Cadets thumbing through some newspapers and magazines.

The photo below shows another view inside the old barracks, only this time the Cadets that occupied this room have added a little flair to their room (notice the window curtains!).

The next photo shows the cadets inside the old barracks sitting around a table with one cadet playing the harmonica.

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May 19th Clemson Historic Picture Of The Day

“Pool Him!”

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Today's photo is of a tradition that many a young Clemson student had the “honor” of taking part in.

"Pool him!" That is a term that meant someone's going into the water.

Many a Clemson Cadet has been tossed into the old reflection pond throughout the years.

There have also been some dips into the fountain at the front of the Clemson House.

How about in one of the large sinks in the old barracks? Yes, indeed.

The pool in the old YMCA was also an easy target.

More recently, the Cooper Library reflection pond served as nice dumping point as well.

The only thing that is different through the years is the location!

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May 18th Clemson Historic Picture Of The Day

Sikes Hall Fire

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Today's photos are of the Agricultural Building (now Sikes Hall) and were taken in the 1920’s.

This old Agricultural Building, like so many other buildings on campus, suffered a tremendous amount of fire damage on April 1, 1925. This, ironically, was just after a campus visit of the newly appointed President, Enoch Walter Sikes.

As if Mr. Sikes didn't have his hands full with rebuilding the agricultural building in the early days of his Clemson Presidency, the follow year Mechanical Hall was totally destroyed by fire.

Enoch Sikes indeed had a tough start as the President of the college, but today the old Agricultural Building holds his name in history, Sikes Hall.

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May 17th Clemson Historic Picture Of The Day

Temporary Barracks At Clemson In 1940’s

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Today’s photos are from 1948 and show two different views of buildings that no longer exist at Clemson University.

The above picture is an aerial photo of Clemson and you can clearly see the white barracks sitting in a V where Lot 1 is now located. These were temporary barracks, constructed by the military during WWII. They were torn down just prior to the completion of Johnstone Hall in 1954.

The below photo is a close up view of the temporary barracks and was taken with your back to Death Valley, on the southwest corner of what is now Lot 1.

Barracks life made for a long day. Reveille was at dawn, and breakfast was as early as 6 a.m. In fact, in Clemson's early years, class was often finished in the morning hours, so that drill could be held in the afternoons. Lunch and dinner were served, and curfew was in effect so that the night started early and all cadets were accounted for.

There was always an incessant wave of cadets at any given time on detail, and Clemson cadet parades from this period were spectacular in both their professionalism and their school spirit.

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May 16th Clemson Historic Picture Of The Day

Tiger Band In 1940’s

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Today’s photos are of Tiger Band in an era long gone in the history of Clemson College.

The above picture was taken sometime in the mid 1940’s and shows the band coming into Memorial Stadium in the Northwest corner. You can also see Clemson Cadets marching in with the band onto the field.

As you can see, the North lower deck does not extend as far as it does today. Additional sideline seating on the North and South lower decks were added in 1958. You can also notice that there are no visible trees on the Northwest bank.

By the time the new West Endzone was built several years ago, two massive trees were growing on that same Northwest bank.

Also notice that the original West Endzone has not been built yet (it was completed in 1960). You can also see the prefabs where Littlejohn Coliseum now sits and where we broadcast the Tiger Pregame Show and Tiger Tailgate Show each Saturday.

The next picture is from around the same era and was taken in Anderson, SC. I assume that Tiger Band was invited to a parade, something that was very common during this era.

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May 15th Clemson Historic Picture Of The Day

Olin Hall History

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Today’s photo was taken in the late 1950’s and shows Olin Hall. Completed in 1953, Olin Hall was named for F.W. Olin by the John M. Olin Foundation, which made a $2 million gift to Clemson to construct the building.

In the photo, you can locate some of the infamous prefabs to the right of Olin Hall in the distance.

So…who is F.W. Olin? From the ASEE Prism Magazine Online:

There's a good chance that you've seen his legacy. His name is splashed across dozens of engineering buildings on campuses around the nation, a high-profile foundation, and soon an innovative new engineering college. But who is the man behind the legend?

Francis W. Olin's life was an example of hard work and ingenuity paying off. Born in Vermont in 1860, he received little formal education during his early years, instead studying on his own. He was determined to study engineering and his persistence finally earned him entrance into Cornell University.

While at Cornell, Olin paid the bills by teaching school, repairing farm machinery, and playing major league baseball for teams in Washington, D.C., and Detroit during the summers. An outfielder, Olin played 49 games over two seasons and could hold his own at the plate, batting .316 with one home run.

After graduating, Olin went to work designing textile-mill machinery. His big break came when he took over a powder mill construction contract. This was Olin's introduction to the munitions business, where he managed to reduce the number of explosions occurring in plants.

Later, he founded the Equitable Powder Manufacturing Company in 1892, and the Western Cartridge Company in 1902.

He also established the F.W. Olin Foundation in 1938, which has financed the construction of 72 engineering buildings. Up to his death in 1951, Olin had donated $21 million to the foundation. He lived modestly, dedicating much of his wealth and talents to the service of others.

Through the many schools which have received Olin Foundation grants, his devotion to engineering and science continues to live on.

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May 11th Clemson Historic Picture Of The Day

Clemson’s Head Cheerleader

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Today’s photos are of Randy Jackson, Clemson’s head cheerleader in 1972. The above photo shows Randy in action, doing everything he can to pump up this Tiger crowd that was “suffering” from the last few seasons of the Hootie Ingram era at Clemson.

Randy is the father of someone you may know of on Tigernet, ShoelessCU. If you don’t know ShoelessCU, you have certainly seen some of the videos of Clemson football that he has created and posted via the web and Youtube.

Joe’s dad was Randy Jackson, and he posted a nice tribute on Tigernet several years ago about his father that included a bunch of great stories about being the head cheerleader at Clemson. Here you can read the thread and see some accompanying pictures.

http://www.tigernet.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=118836&tstart=0

The next picture is of Randy Jackson in the old Tiger suit, nicknamed the Rat Pack. It was dubbed the Rat Pack because of how hot it was to wear the suit.

And here is one final picture of Randy saluting the student section during the Clemson/South Carolina game in 1972 (see chicken Randy has in his hand). I assume this was his last game as the head cheerleader and Tiger.

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May 10th Clemson Historic Picture Of The Day

Mystery Church In Downtown Clemson

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Today’s photos are part mystery and part history. When looking at old photos, you learn to look for recognizable landmarks in the photos for both a reference of a location and a reference of time.

Alan Cutts (the man responsible for uploading most of these pictures to me), was at a loss in identifying the history of this church as it is not a part of Clemson’s history that we mostly know. One publication lists it as an Episcopal Church and that the photo was taken in the 1920’s.

The only thing for sure I can say about the photo is that it was a huge building located in what is now downtown Clemson.

The photo below gives you a better idea as to its location. This photo was taken during the 1927 football season and you can see the church across Highway 93 from Riggs Field.

What happened to this building is a bit of a mystery to me, but I have heard that it burned down in the 1930’s. However, I cannot find a historical record of that suspicion.

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May 9th Clemson Historic Picture Of The Day

Football Reunions, 58 Years Apart

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Today’s photos are of two separate football reunions, both honoring teams that meant so much to Clemson.

The above photo is from the 1953 football season where we see the 1923 football team reunion. On this particular day, the 1923 celebrated their 30th anniversary by hamming it up a bit for the cameras.

This 1923 team was coached under William H. "Navy Bill" Saunders and went 5-2-1 on the season.

A more recent reunion was held on September 23, 2006 and was for the 1981 National Championship team. On this day, the 1981 team was honored for their 25th anniversary during the football game in Death Valley.

But before the game, the team took a moment to pose for a group picture in Jervey Gym.

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May 8th Clemson Historic Picture Of The Day

Clemson Bookstore From 60’s and 70’s 

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Today’s photos are of the old Clemson Bookstore from the 1960’s and 1970’s.

Today, the Clemson Bookstore is in the Hendrix Center. But that has not always been the bookstore’s location. Today’s photos are from when the bookstore was under Harcombe Dining Hall.

Purchasing books for class has always been an interesting process. Textbooks seem to always cost much more than they were worth, and students many times had no use for the textbooks after they finished the course.

Of course, students also took advantage of the "buy back" option at the end of the course to get money back for textbooks that were returned in good condition. The bookstore would then resell the textbook to another student the following semester.

For the students, a wad of cash at the end of the semester was always a welcome excuse to have a good time!

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