Friday, October 17, 2008
Exploring the Coliseum
Today was a pretty eventful day. Let me recap I was walking down the memorial walkway. I cross Euclid Street and I walked up to the big double doors and well to my surprise, they were actually open. So, I seized the opportunity I went straight inside hoping no one would try and stop me. I walked into the lobby and there was another set of double doors, I thought to myself I wonder what’s behind these doors (it was pretty obvious that it was the court). I pulled on that door and guess what, it opened. O yeah I was two for two on the day. Wow, I was finally in. I seized another opportunity and ran around the court imagining what it would have been like to play on that court. It was actually pretty amazing and I might have got in trouble for it. It was fun though doing a little research and playing around at the same time. Anyway let me get back on subject I stood at half court and just turned slowly around and just looked at the dark brown mahogany colored seats imagining nine thousand screaming fans cheering the Wildcats on to victory. I looked up at the walls and there they were the four NCAA banners that were all won while the Cat’s home was there at Memorial. I figured it was enough time that I spent observing the squeaky clean hardwood court. I went back out through the double doors and to the left up the ramp to the top level. On the way up the walls were lined with pictures of Memorial Coliseum from the years past. It just brought so many images to my mind and then I got to the top. I walked around and saw the doors of the Joe Craft Center. So, I turned around and thought that it wouldn’t be a good idea to give it a visit through that entrance (which I don’t really think was a legitimate entrance). I then left and it was, Great Success! I got some pretty good observations finally, without getting in trouble.
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I'm glad that you got to go in, but we need some more detail; we need to really feel like we're inside. And what of the "pictures of times past" at Memorial Coliseum? Can you describe a few of them? We need SPECIFICS to make this place come alive. Did you get to go to the archives?
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