USC is closing Cafe 84, a dining facility between Fluor Tower and Webb Tower. It originally opened for the 1984 Olympics and since 2013 was a residential dining facility. Students in those dorms will now eat at the new USC Village project. Cafe 84 will become a Starbucks.
Probably took me 20 years to pay off some of my meals from this place.
They tore down Touton for that Lucas film school but left a plinth to commemorate it being there then some 5 years ago they pulled that out too. – heck they moved the ‘901 Club’ from 901 W. Jefferson to Figueroa Street / stuff happens
Lived in Touton for 2 years and went looking for the plaque last year, and yep, it was gone.
We used to ‘listen’ for that wooden parking barrier attached to that entrance in the parking lot just west of Touton to ‘snap’ when someone didn’t want to pay to park…..errrrrr snap! The perps would grab the loose end and walk it back.
There was just east of McClintock that crummy open empty field with that squat bu}} ugly palm tree. It was real weird at night when the fog would roll in
I believe it probably opened in 1985. Definitely not for the Olympics. I lived in Fluor Tower for the 84/85 school year. It opened towards the end of the year.
Maybe it didn’t open for students until later, but it hosted Olympians in the summer of 1984.