The Landing is GONE! UPDATE WITH PICS

[Woodduckdawg]

Remember Flos more, but did go to the Landing as well

[Gumbo]

The Landing was "Old School" back in the day...
Way before Flo's...Didn't Flo & Eddie's used to be the Sigma Nu house???
When I was there, I worked with Pickle!!!
He liked to stay out late and drink lot's a beer!
He was trip...never had anybody ever give you any B.S. when he went out with us though....

[timberjack]

Pickle's been all over, he did a stint at the County Line Club in Pheba for awhile too...............I'm surprised hes still alive. That's bringin' back lots of memories. For those of you that never went, the landing was one of those rough little dive bars that probably popped alotta little drinkin' cherries. I say "rough", as rough as a college town beer joint can be, probably not too rough by today's standards but there were plenty of fights out there. I've rolled around in that gravel before...............

[Bullreds & Greenheads]

Gumbo,

You are correct, sir. Flo & Eddie's did indeed used to be the Sigma Nu house.

I know that sometime around 1984 some architecture students lived in that house (knew a girl that lived there). Couldn't even see it from the road back then due to its dark color and high bushes out near University Drive.

I was in the fraternity when we got it in July of 1986. Have fond memories of working on that lot and house getting ready for rush. The entire backyard was a jungle. Remember finding a lot of Tri-Delta stuff in the basement and wondering if it had once been their sorority house back in the day.

I lived in the house the 86-87 school year. After our first party, we rocked that house so hard we had to reinforce the supports under the floor with railroad ties, if I remember correctly. I remember at that time the house did not have central air and heat (We put it in over the summer of 87, I think). We had window air conditioning units, ceiling fans, and high ceilings, so it was cool enough during the hot months, but it was FLIPPING COLD during the wintertime.

It was an odd feeling to go to Flo & Eddie's and know that it used to be my fraternity house. Seeing people eat where our bathroom used to be, and seeing toilets where my bed used to be. Utterly strange. We used to have our chapter meetings and parties in the main room where the bar was. Used to have couches in front of those windows where the bar was located. Going to Flo & Eddie's was a strange mix of happy nostalgia and an empty longing for what would never be again. Many of my brothers would never go to Flo & Eddies for that reason, I guess.

I was very sad when Flo & Eddie's burned down, but for different reasons than most of you. I always figured I would one day take my kids and show them the fraternity house their daddy lived in. But it was just not meant to be.

[Anatidae]

Y'all need to brush-up on your spellin'........according to my old (1977) intramural basketball jersey......it's spelled 'Len-Lou's......

Yeah, I remember Echol's and I remember there was another joint across from Len-Lou's (Kirby's) but I can't remember what they called it.

[crow]

Anat, I loved playing intramurals at State, too. I was mostly football, though. My team from Sessums Hall, the J-Straps, beat the Red Elephant two years running while I played. I didn't play my last year after I moved to an appartment and the team went to crap!

Glory days! Glad you found a way to stay around the great institution. What do you do there?

Bobby Crowson

(class of '74...should have been '73, but I crammed 4 years of education into 5!)

[Anatidae]

"Crow'....I'm a superintendent/project manager (adult day-care) for a construction company. I do the projects we get at MS State. Sigma Chi house, KD chapter room, Industrial Ed Building, Dorman Hall, Vet School renovations, Herzer Hall. 'Been tied-up on campus for about 6 years, now.......I love my job!

I didn't play any intramural football.....just basketball. Len Lou's had a heckuva basketball team and I was fortunate enough to be asked to join them. They usually sent me in when we were 30 points ahead.

[gadwall2]

timberjack,
sounds like you have been to the old "County Line Club" before. It just so happened to burn down about a week before the Landing did. The CLC at Pheba was also called "Sticks" for you younger guys.

[Mud]

"I remember gettin into it with some fraternity boys after they jumped my "punk rocker" cousin (he deserved it after I think about it). A friend of mine from Nashville took on five or six of them sumbitches...they won then bought us beers all night long.
Hell the pictures look better than I 'member it in '83-4.

[Duckmanhar]

A moment of silence was observed for a loss a several viginities :lol:

[crowder critter]

is pickle the big joker that bounced at ricks or is he called something else

[Bully]

Crowder Critter,
You are probably talking about pickle. He is 6'5"ish and probably hits 325 pounds. Blonde hair.

[crowder critter]

thats probably him, one big ass fellow