Walter Gilbert, phenom of the mid-30s, is an Auburn football legend: captain of the Tigers’ first bowl team (that’s him you see shaking hands with the yankee), Auburn’s only three-time All-American (I think), and a College Football Hall of Famer (inducted in 1956). His great-grandfather, who according to The Plainsman could “pick up a 52-gallon […]
Photo of (Back In) The Day
Another photo inside Jordan-Hare Stadium during the Auburn snow of 1977
Photo: David Hermecz Related: Initials of ’70s sweethearts drawn on Jordan-Hare field for most romantic Auburn snow day ever. More Auburn Snow Stories: * Pat Dye Field violated with script ‘Ohio’ during 2009 Auburn snow storm * Most romantic Auburn snow day ever * White Christmas at Toomer’s * Auburn students ambush Bama fan […]
[UPDATED] There’s a van with an awesome Bo Jackson ‘Ballplayer’ poster graphic thing on the back cruising around Auburn
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What’s the best way to avoid getting a ticket for driving without a license plate? Divert attention by spray painting or airbrushing or whatever that photo of Bo Jackson in shoulder pads with the bat behind his head in that iconic Nike “Ballplayer” poster on the back of your van thing and making it so […]
The awesome painting of Pat Sullivan on the cover of the August 1971 issue of Birmingham Magazine
They don’t make Birmingham Magazine covers like they used to. The thing ruled so much it that “prompted so much comment” among readers before they’d even seen it, so much comment the magazine decided to offer poster prints of it for free to folks renewing their subscription. (It’s like that Alanis Morissette song where she’s […]
The best Auburn homecoming float in 1976 was getting high on mushrooms ‘agriculture’
Magic mushrooms came to Auburn in 1973. Or at least awareness about them them did; the Auburn botany and microbiology professors the Plainsman kept interviewing for shroom stories were almost positive the things being harvested out of the manure dotting the pastures of Lee County for the past year or so were not, in fact, psilocybin […]