# @illinois_alumni on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DZK4M4rjpEr
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/66324675-illinois-alumni-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/55458ed66f.jpg
- **Posted:** 2026-06-04T16:03:03.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Illinois Alumni (@Illinois_Alumni) — https://gondola.cc/Illinois_Alumni

## Caption

Green Street's waterfront era. 🛶

This 📸 from 1979 captures a familiar scene from an era when flooding from Boneyard Creek regularly transformed Green Street into an impromptu waterway.

🛶 Canoes
🎣 Catfish
🚤 Water-skiing behind pickup trucks

Yes, really.

Learn how decades of flooding shaped campus life in the full Memory Lane story. Link in bio.

 #IllinoisAlumni #CampusHistory #TBT

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tbt, campushistory, illinoisalumni

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