I was afraid to google it. Wasnāt sure what the hell would come up.
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Smart man. I man a mistake of Googling something @DFresh11 told me toā¦ i cant unsee somethings
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Old Fartsā¦ Iām finally home. I watched Barry Parkhill play. That should be the qualifier
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There might have been a tunnel exit into Mo Better Hill (aka Brown College) as well.
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I hated them all, was like a fish out of water
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Thatās a thing of beauty.
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One of my favorite first year memories living in Echols. We had the Key Room in the basement so there was a small parking lot for employees and people stopping by with key issues.
I lived on the first floor but the guys in the basement were grouped with us.
One of the guys in the basement had a room whose window looked out on the small lot. He also had a brother at UVA who was a 4th year.
We were hanging down there one afternoon after classes during the first week when the guyās brother shows up and backed his Jeep up to the window.
We popped off the screen and he passed in a bonanza from the ABC Store at Barracks.
During the afternoons, the sun would shine just right on the window of that room so that you couldnāt see inside. And it was rare that a RA ventured into the basement.
We had many an after class drink in that room with the window open enjoying the fresh air with chairs arranged around it like you were sitting on someoneās porch.
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Hahahha. Thats awesome
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Dude! I was today years old when I first heard about these tunnels.
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When i lived in Brown College we used to dork around in those tunnels to destressā¦ you could get to them through the basement halls under Brown.
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Iām so old, there was no Brown College when I was in school. If I recall, we used an entrance near the amphitheatre.
Hereās a great story about the tunnels: What Lies BeneathāVIRGINIA Magazine (uvamagazine.org)
Fun fact, according to the story: The first documented tunneling was in the 1950s. Male students used the tunnels as a way to sneak into the nursing dorms.
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And I never heard of tunnels nor Brown College. Also I consider Rio Rd area to be a far off suberb of the University
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Disclaimer: Iām only old fart adjacent, so what do I know.
Those tunnels were amazing. Once got into Scott Stadium tunneling with buddies. Talk about a holy crap moment.
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I didnt understand the part about the coal and heat and shit. Did the tunnels heat the University from below? Hahahah
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I think it was steam heat, right? Am I remembering that right?
A few buildings in NYC still get steam heat from ConEd, I think. Isnāt that the reason you still see those weird orange things with steam pouring out of them? Heck if I knowā¦. Iām no engineer.
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Yea. Believe so. I just dont understand the purpose
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So my house here in Germanyā¦ when we bought itā¦ we had to pay a tax to the local municipality to attach our heating ducts to the exhaust tunnels of the local factories. This would allow us to use the steam heat instead of having to pay for gas or electric heat. With the recycled exhaust heat from the factories, heat is essentially freeā¦ it also heats the water to a scalding level to our boiler. We never run out of hot water even if my wife and daughter spend hours in the shower (they do all the time).
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Shit sounds mad dirty to me ha but efficient
Incredible cause I never knew this stuff
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I was super worried it would stinkā¦ but it surprisingly is pretty efficient and does not.
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Made me remember in Brasil houses have huge water tanks on the roof where water is sent up from your personal well. Where I lived the sun is so hot you didnt even need hot water heater to shower ha
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