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RE: Beat Cal!! - CowboyIndian - 11-15-2023

A propos of these stories, but not about the Axe, Big Game or the rivalry.

In winter quarter of 1967 a friend of mine (who was one of the first free-climbers I ever heard of) went up the elevator to the top of Hoover Tower with a suitcase (can't see that happening now) and hid out until the tower was closed for the night. In the suitcase he had ropes, climbing gear and a white parachute. I believe he free-climbed to the top of the tower and attached the parachute to the pinnacle (or whatever it's called), climbed back to the viewing level, rappelled to the ground and escaped back to Wilbur.

The next morning there it was, flowing with the morning breeze..."Hoover's Last Ejaculation". My friend was named Ernie Milburn and he is memorialized in this Daily piece from the summer of '68, a pretty weird slice of history all on its own: Death in Chaos

The Daily had pictures but I was unable to raise them via Google. RIP, Ernie.

RE: Beat Cal!! - 82lsju - 11-16-2023

(11-15-2023, 10:53 PM)CowboyIndian Wrote: A propos of these stories, but not about the Axe, Big Game or the rivalry.

In winter quarter of 1967 a friend of mine (who was one of the first free-climbers I ever heard of) went up the elevator to the top of Hoover Tower with a suitcase (can't see that happening now) and hid out until the tower was closed for the night. In the suitcase he had ropes, climbing gear and a white parachute. I believe he free-climbed to the top of the tower and attached the parachute to the pinnacle (or whatever it's called), climbed back to the viewing level, rappelled to the ground and escaped back to Wilbur.

The next morning there it was, flowing with the morning breeze..."Hoover's Last Ejaculation". My friend was named Ernie Milburn and he is memorialized in this Daily piece from the summer of '68, a pretty weird slice of history all on its own: Death in Chaos

The Daily had pictures but I was unable to raise them via Google. RIP, Ernie.

sorry for your loss.

do you have an approximate timeframe for when the photos would have been in the Daily?

RE: Beat Cal!! - CowboyIndian - 11-16-2023

(11-16-2023, 01:19 PM)82lsju Wrote:
(11-15-2023, 10:53 PM)CowboyIndian Wrote: A propos of these stories, but not about the Axe, Big Game or the rivalry.

In winter quarter of 1967 a friend of mine (who was one of the first free-climbers I ever heard of) went up the elevator to the top of Hoover Tower with a suitcase (can't see that happening now) and hid out until the tower was closed for the night. In the suitcase he had ropes, climbing gear and a white parachute. I believe he free-climbed to the top of the tower and attached the parachute to the pinnacle (or whatever it's called), climbed back to the viewing level, rappelled to the ground and escaped back to Wilbur.

The next morning there it was, flowing with the morning breeze..."Hoover's Last Ejaculation". My friend was named Ernie Milburn and he is memorialized in this Daily piece from the summer of '68, a pretty weird slice of history all on its own: Death in Chaos

The Daily had pictures but I was unable to raise them via Google. RIP, Ernie.

sorry for your loss.

do you have an approximate timeframe for when the photos would have been in the Daily?

It was way back when so "winter quarter" is the best I can do and I'm not real sure about that. :)

RE: Beat Cal!! - 82lsju - 11-16-2023

(11-16-2023, 02:09 PM)CowboyIndian Wrote:
(11-16-2023, 01:19 PM)82lsju Wrote:
(11-15-2023, 10:53 PM)CowboyIndian Wrote: A propos of these stories, but not about the Axe, Big Game or the rivalry.

In winter quarter of 1967 a friend of mine (who was one of the first free-climbers I ever heard of) went up the elevator to the top of Hoover Tower with a suitcase (can't see that happening now) and hid out until the tower was closed for the night. In the suitcase he had ropes, climbing gear and a white parachute. I believe he free-climbed to the top of the tower and attached the parachute to the pinnacle (or whatever it's called), climbed back to the viewing level, rappelled to the ground and escaped back to Wilbur.

The next morning there it was, flowing with the morning breeze..."Hoover's Last Ejaculation". My friend was named Ernie Milburn and he is memorialized in this Daily piece from the summer of '68, a pretty weird slice of history all on its own: Death in Chaos

The Daily had pictures but I was unable to raise them via Google. RIP, Ernie.

sorry for your loss.

do you have an approximate timeframe for when the photos would have been in the Daily?

It was way back when so "winter quarter" is the best I can do and I'm not real sure about that. :)

got a year or two it might be from?

RE: Beat Cal!! - CowboyIndian - 11-16-2023

(11-16-2023, 04:57 PM)82lsju Wrote:
(11-16-2023, 02:09 PM)CowboyIndian Wrote:
(11-16-2023, 01:19 PM)82lsju Wrote:
(11-15-2023, 10:53 PM)CowboyIndian Wrote: A propos of these stories, but not about the Axe, Big Game or the rivalry.

In winter quarter of 1967 a friend of mine (who was one of the first free-climbers I ever heard of) went up the elevator to the top of Hoover Tower with a suitcase (can't see that happening now) and hid out until the tower was closed for the night. In the suitcase he had ropes, climbing gear and a white parachute. I believe he free-climbed to the top of the tower and attached the parachute to the pinnacle (or whatever it's called), climbed back to the viewing level, rappelled to the ground and escaped back to Wilbur.

The next morning there it was, flowing with the morning breeze..."Hoover's Last Ejaculation". My friend was named Ernie Milburn and he is memorialized in this Daily piece from the summer of '68, a pretty weird slice of history all on its own: Death in Chaos

The Daily had pictures but I was unable to raise them via Google. RIP, Ernie.

sorry for your loss.

do you have an approximate timeframe for when the photos would have been in the Daily?

It was way back when so "winter quarter" is the best I can do and I'm not real sure about that. :)

got a year or two it might be from?

As mentioned, winter quarter '67. Hope that's right. :)

RE: Beat Cal!! - Vandelay - 11-16-2023

I just saw the email that said the game is sold out. What do we think the ratio of Cal fans to Stanford fans will be? 60/40?

RE: Beat Cal!! - 82lsju - 11-16-2023

(11-16-2023, 06:23 PM)Vandelay Wrote: I just saw the email that said the game is sold out. What do we think the ratio of Cal fans to Stanford fans will be? 60/40?

or the split between empty seat/Stanford/Cal...

(11-16-2023, 06:05 PM)CowboyIndian Wrote: As mentioned, winter quarter '67. Hope that's right. :)

my sources got nothing....

RE: Beat Cal!! - CowboyIndian - 11-16-2023

(11-16-2023, 06:47 PM)82lsju Wrote: my sources got nothing....

Thanks, anyway. :)

RE: Beat Cal!! - 82lsju - 11-16-2023

(11-16-2023, 07:31 PM)CowboyIndian Wrote:
(11-16-2023, 06:47 PM)82lsju Wrote: my sources got nothing....

Thanks, anyway. :)

I did look through the '67 Quad thinking it might be there but no, interesting to see how yearbooks changed by my year....

RE: Beat Cal!! - Spiny_Norman - 11-16-2023

It wouldn't be Big Game Week without a re-viewing of Hal Mikelson's classic recounting of the story of the Stanford Axe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMo0OgX46qk