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MUScoop => The Superbar => Topic started by: Galway Eagle on February 12, 2013, 06:28:45 PM
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I can't make the game this weekend and normally I would go to the Schoolyard but I can't this time. O'Sullivan's is closer to my parents house and I was wondering if anybody has gone there for game day. Is it worth going to to watch the games? I've only ever been there for my bday awhile back.
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Best bar on all of Madison Street - without a doubt. Usually a few MU fans there for games.
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I can't make the game this weekend and normally I would go to the Schoolyard but I can't this time. O'Sullivan's is closer to my parents house and I was wondering if anybody has gone there for game day. Is it worth going to to watch the games? I've only ever been there for my bday awhile back.
O'Sullivan's on North? If so, I recommend O'Donahue's on Watertown Plank. I watch many road games there. The owner's parents owned a bar on campus (O'Donahue's now, Murph's).
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O'D's on campus was not in the Murph's location. O'D's was on 13th and Wells and has since been torn down. The O'd's in Elm Grove is a good place to watch games, much better than O'Sullivan's IMO.
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O'D's on campus was not in the Murph's location. O'D's was on 13th and Wells and has since been torn down. The O'd's in Elm Grove is a good place to watch games, much better than O'Sullivan's IMO.
Really? Why do you think so, Goose? I am a big O'D's supporter, was there Saturday night, but the TV's at O'Sullivan's are way better than the set up at Jaimie's for game watching.
I also assume the OP is talking Chicago, not suburban Milwaukee.
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I think so. Forest Park.
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O'D's on campus was not in the Murph's location. O'D's was on 13th and Wells and has since been torn down. The O'd's in Elm Grove is a good place to watch games, much better than O'Sullivan's IMO.
Actually, OD's was on 15th and Wells. 120 steps from the Lighthouse.
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Actually, OD's was on 15th and Wells. 120 steps from the Lighthouse.
On the way there. On the way home, when you were doing the serpentine, it was 162 steps.
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15th and Wells?!?!?!
My God, what years was it there???
#1, I can't remember it, and #2, I can't believe I could have missed it!
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O'Sullivan's in Forest Park is by far my favorite bar on the block.
Will definitely be some MU fans in there...I believe they even have an MU banner flying high behind the bar...
They had $2 Corona's on Friday nights when I lived over there...it was quite a treat.
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On the way there. On the way home, when you were doing the serpentine, it was 162 steps.
Legs, It was more than 162. We'd stop at the Lanche on the way home. I'm not sure when OD's was bought by MU and torn down to build the Evans Scholars House. Maybe someone who was there after I was can chime in. When I left in 84,OD's and a ton of other bars were still going strong.
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O'D's on campus was not in the Murph's location. O'D's was on 13th and Wells and has since been torn down. The O'd's in Elm Grove is a good place to watch games, much better than O'Sullivan's IMO.
Quite right, nice catch. Murph's was The Gym in my day.
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Thanks, I was actually talking about the one in Forest Park. Personally I always preferred Healy's but O'Sullivan's is always fun. Glad there'll be some people there, I wasn't expecting the crowd that the Schoolyard or Four Shadows has but a few fans is better than my parents couch.
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I live a couple blocks from O'Sullivans. It's a nice place to watch a game.
The GF lives basically on top of The Hidden Shamrock (Diversey and Halsted). Been to The Schoolyard several times, and was surprised at the turnout that Shamrock gets for the games. It's a nice secondary location if you don't want to go so far north as Schoolyard.
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Legs, It was more than 162. We'd stop at the Lanche on the way home. I'm not sure when OD's was bought by MU and torn down to build the Evans Scholars House. Maybe someone who was there after I was can chime in. When I left in 84,OD's and a ton of other bars were still going strong.
Yep ('86)--Wells (and, to include the new and old Ardmore, just south of Wells!), Kilbourne and State, from 12th to 18th street, probably had 12 to 15 bars and other places that served food but were quasi bars
The Ardmore
The Gym
O'Paget's
Good Time Charlie's
OD's
'Lanche
Angelo's (ish)
Grunt's
Amigo's (great pitcher deals wot go with your midnight chimi's)
Friends (something like that--18th and State--more of a neighborhood bar, but since we lived next door my junior year, we'd go)
Murphy's Law
Greentree
State House
Hegarty's
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Why am I not surprised this thread is turning into all the Alumni from the 70s-90s talking about the old MU bars. Now I am just waiting for someone to say that all current students suck and don't know how drink or party.
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Yep ('86)--Wells (and, to include the new and old Ardmore, just south of Wells!), Kilbourne and State, from 12th to 18th street, probably had 12 to 15 bars and other places that served food but were quasi bars
The Ardmore
The Gym
O'Paget's
Good Time Charlie's
OD's
'Lanche
Angelo's (ish)
Grunt's
Amigo's (great pitcher deals wot go with your midnight chimi's)
Friends (something like that--18th and State--more of a neighborhood bar, but since we lived next door my junior year, we'd go)
Murphy's Law
Greentree
State House
Hegarty's
No Harp & Shamrock back then?
Sad thing is when I was there (class of '08) all that was left of that list was Hegarty's and Angelo's. And now those are both gone.
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Why am I not surprised this thread is turning into all the Alumni from the 70s-90s talking about the old MU bars. Now I am just waiting for someone to say that all current students suck and don't know how drink or party.
Mostly guilty as charged (in teal)! I'm on this site for 2 very related reasons: love of MU basketball and nostalgia.
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Also, anyone ever go to Jim's Time Out? That was always a stop on the way to the Bradley Center. $3.75 mini "pitchers" (more like 2 and a half beers) of Point Special.
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Why am I not surprised this thread is turning into all the Alumni from the 70s-90s talking about the old MU bars. Now I am just waiting for someone to say that all current students suck and don't know how drink or party.
You'll get there someday whippersnapper.
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Also, anyone ever go to Jim's Time Out? That was always a stop on the way to the Bradley Center. $3.75 mini "pitchers" (more like 2 and a half beers) of Point Special.
Stopped in there before the Seton Hall game. It's still your basic Milwaukee joint - gotta love it.
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What was the name of the bar/bartender school around 7th and Wisconsin in the mid 80's? Cheap drinks. And how many here did 'death marches', where you had to have one drink in all of them until you.....ummmm......reviewed dinner? Or was that just my friends?
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What was the name of the bar/bartender school around 7th and Wisconsin in the mid 80's? Cheap drinks. And how many here did 'death marches', where you had to have one drink in all of them until you.....ummmm......reviewed dinner? Or was that just my friends?
Hegarty's? With the moving booth seats? Where they served green beer until Easter? (because they could buy it cheap after St. Patrick's Day)
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Lloyd
I am with you on both counts. Some days I like the stories better than the basketball.
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Legs, It was more than 162. We'd stop at the Lanche on the way home. I'm not sure when OD's was bought by MU and torn down to build the Evans Scholars House. Maybe someone who was there after I was can chime in. When I left in 84,OD's and a ton of other bars were still going strong.
This is not accurate. O'D's and the Evans Scholar house existed simultaneously
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Trangle is at the location of OD's
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Trangle is at the location of OD's
Then I stand corrected.
Yes, the Harp was there, but not necessarily a campus haunt. And I'm right there with you Legs, as for the hoops and nostalgia/stories. Youth is wasted on the wrong people...
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Another one slightly off campus that was good for change of pace was Hegarty's Glocca Morra on 17th and Clyborn.
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Also, anyone ever go to Jim's Time Out? That was always a stop on the way to the Bradley Center. $3.75 mini "pitchers" (more like 2 and a half beers) of Point Special.
We used to go there sometimes as underclassmen. Good deals and a pool table I believe?
It was right at the edge of the MU Limo's drop off range, so you had a free ride there and back.
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Another one slightly off campus that was good for change of pace was Hegarty's Glocca Morra on 17th and Clyborn.
Yep. That closed in '05 I believe.
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Miss Katie's Diner still serves beer, if that counts for anything.
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Yep. That closed in '05 I believe.
Hegerty's I think only closed a few years ago... probably more like 2010. They used to have Double Your Dough days that were great.
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JTO's (Jim's time out) was awesome when i was a sophomore. A lot of local flavor in there.
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When you older guys were in school did you ever go downtown to the bars...were there bars to go to? When I was there our routine would be to go downtown or the eastside to start the night then head back to campus around 1 for bar close. We would really only stick around campus during the week days or if there were house parties going on. Seems like you guys hung around campus a lot more.
Edit: I was there '06-10
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Our crowd would go downtown or up to the UWM are bars about once a month, but there were so many house parties and bars within close walking distance, it was rarely worth the time to stray far from campus.
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When you older guys were in school did you ever go downtown to the bars...were there bars to go to? When I was there our routine would be to go downtown or the eastside to start the night then head back to campus around 1 for bar close. We would really only stick around campus during the week days or if there were house parties going on. Seems like you guys hung around campus a lot more.
Some did, but most did not head to the East Side, downtown, or Warehouse Dist (don't even know if that's the right desgination), but some of those bars included:
National Liquor Bar (on National--crazy local place--bar/package combo --great for boilermakers!)
Old World/or Third World something--near AB Factory--on Third street? Lots of imports.
The Harp
John Hawkes
Park Avenue and Pappagallo (night clubs down town--one of them had a Saturday Night Fever dance floor-good lord)
Top of the Pfister (Friday night beat the clock .25 cent drinks to start, going up a quarter every 15 minutes - or maybe they atarted at a buck and went up a quarter every 15 minutes) and Elsa's if you ever had a non-"Marquette date" date
The Gaslight - East Side-- for Hurricanes
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Also, anyone ever go to Jim's Time Out? That was always a stop on the way to the Bradley Center. $3.75 mini "pitchers" (more like 2 and a half beers) of Point Special.
There was a bar right by the Milwaukee Public Library that was called "The Ding Dong Bar". It looked like it belonged in Bay View - one of those taverns that looks a house with a bar in the living room. I had two buddies that I worked with downtown and we would stop there on the way back from campus simply because we liked the name.
It's still there, but it's called something else now.
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Some did, but most did not head to the East Side, downtown, or Warehouse Dist (don't even know if that's the right desgination), but some of those bars included:
National Liquor Bar (on National--crazy local place--bar/package combo --great for boilermakers!)
Old World/or Third World something--near AB Factory--on Third street? Lots of imports.
The Harp
John Hawkes
Park Avenue and Pappagallo (night clubs down town--one of them had a Saturday Night Fever dance floor-good lord)
Top of the Pfister (Friday night beat the clock .25 cent drinks to start, going up a quarter every 15 minutes - or maybe they atarted at a buck and went up a quarter every 15 minutes) and Elsa's if you ever had a non-"Marquette date" date
The Gaslight - East Side-- for Hurricane
The bar at the top of the Pfister was La Playa. And for a brief period of time Park Ave had male exotic dancers one night a week. An entire floor of us Cobeen girls went once as a group activity.
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I had forgotten about national liquor bar. I went there as a teen. In some ways, it was a larger version of the Lanche.
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Good call--my memory is wide open and brightly lit-no shame in enjoying your post-work drink
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The bar at the top of the Pfister was La Playa. And for a brief period of time Park Ave had male exotic dancers one night a week. An entire floor of us Cobeen girls went once as a group activity.
Mrs. Legs also lived in the Beanery and made a trip or two to La Playa (I think a couple of years before your time).
Also, one of my roomates was an inadvertent and, frankly, grotesque, male exotic dancer (I think at Park Ave) the night that he decided to try an acrobatic move and split his pants sans his tighty whities. And no, youngsters, going commando was not something that most of did back in the day.
OK, (past) time for the Superbar!
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The National Liquor Bar was like drinking in an A & P.
What was the name of the bar on Wisconsin Ave., near 5th or 6th Street, that sold hard boiled eggs for a quarter? They weren't called hard boiled eggs though.....anyone? anyone?
Boneless chicken for $.25.
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O'Paget's had both a dance floor and a poolroom with multiple tables. IIRC, it was the only campus bar with an actual dance floor.
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Was either Art's or Rickie's mentioned? A couple of fine establishments there.....
Or the Eagle's Club?
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Was either Art's or Rickie's mentioned? A couple of fine establishments there.....
Or the Eagle's Club?
Not by me b/c of the areas I was covering (though Arts is downtown I'm not sure that it was around when I was at MU).
Eagles Club/ VFW very nice, esp when hangin out w: the West crowd.
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Hegarty's? With the moving booth seats? Where they served green beer until Easter? (because they could buy it cheap after St. Patrick's Day)
Finally, someone names on of the great Marquette Bars. Jim Hegarty's was a classic gin joint where many a brain cell was laid to rest over the generations. I read Hegarty's closed in 2010 and it sounds as if they went out in style.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/92405674.html
The best Marquette bars were:
Lenny's
The Lanche
Jim Hegarty's
The Ardmore (only because my wife lived in the apartments above)
The Camel Club at 15th & State should be on that list but after the second shooting we chose to find liquid refreshment elsewhere.
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Keefe
My vote goes to The Gym Bar.
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Keefe
My vote goes to The Gym Bar.
The Gym was solid, no doubt. I would kill to get some of those photos of Warriors they had up on the walls. I always liked to think that one graduated from the Gym and the Ardmore to Lenny's and Hegarty's. The Lanche was more raucous but nobody ran a gin joint like Arch. Plus, the Lanche had pool tables.
I drank at the Ardmore more than I would have otherwise but my eventual wife didn't like Lenny's or the Lanche. The things we do...
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Actually, OD's was on 15th and Wells. 120 steps from the Lighthouse.
I think I lived at the Lighthouse (we obviously didn't call it that but there was a rough scrawling in the cement right in front of the front stoop). Was is 1915 W. Kilbourn? Three story house with the nice backyard and loft (loft was mostly filled with beer cans and old kegs)?
Never put that together in your alias.
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Also, anyone ever go to Jim's Time Out? That was always a stop on the way to the Bradley Center. $3.75 mini "pitchers" (more like 2 and a half beers) of Point Special.
Class of 09, yes, I went to Jim's Timeout once as a freshman, but the locals looked at us funny like we weren't welcome so we didn't go back... Remember those little mini-pitchers though. Awkward size.
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This is fun.
For a while sophomore year my Friday afternoon routine was to take a cab at 3:30 to Joey Buona's pizza (think Farve used to own it) on Water St., get free pizza and $2 or $3 beers, then walk over to the Old German Beer hall at 6 pm to get free beers until they run out of the first keg, then head to Water St at 7 or so, well hammered by that point, catch specials at Scooters and Dukes or go to the Corner, at Juneau and Water and drink on special until 10 pm. At that point, I would have walked home, 20 blocks, completely drunk...
College.
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This is fun.
For a while sophomore year my Friday afternoon routine was to take a cab at 3:30 to Joey Buona's pizza (think Farve used to own it) on Water St., get free pizza and $2 or $3 beers, then walk over to the Old German Beer hall at 6 pm to get free beers until they run out of the first keg, then head to Water St at 7 or so, well hammered by that point, catch specials at Scooters and Dukes or go to the Corner, at Juneau and Water and drink on special until 10 pm. At that point, I would have walked home, 20 blocks, completely drunk...
College.
In MY day, you could get full-on alcohol poisoning for well under $20 and never leave the campus area. Beers were 50 cents at all of the Marquette Bars. When they were raised to 60 cents, we thought all the bar owners were screwing us.
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College. Where the weekend started on Tuesday with either $.25 taps or $2 pitchers. Wednesday was import night at the Ardmore. Thursday was a repeat of Tuesday. Friday and Saturday were givens. Finish up at Hegarty's on Sunday with a 32 oz beers for a buck. Somehow, I managed to hold down a 15 hour a week job, play ball 3-4 times a week and carry a 3.2 most semesters. Except when I was dating a high maintenance girl. Oy. High maintenance relationships hurt my GPA more than anything else.
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I think I lived at the Lighthouse (we obviously didn't call it that but there was a rough scrawling in the cement right in front of the front stoop). Was is 1915 W. Kilbourn? Three story house with the nice backyard and loft (loft was mostly fillied with beer cans and old kegs)?
Never put that together in your alias.
the address of the Lighthouse was at 725 Or 825 N 15th. It was a few doors down from wells street on the west side of 15th. The bay window on the second floor made it look like a lighthouse.
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In MY day, you could get full-on alcohol poisoning for well under $20 and never leave the campus area. Beers were 50 cents at all of the Marquette Bars. When they were raised to 60 cents, we thought all the bar owners were screwing us.
$20? MU was the land of the $2 buzz. We needed 7 guys with $2 each to get a 1/4 barrel. That was a good start for the night.
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For a while in the early 80's, happy hour Friday at the Gym was 10 cent beer (then went to a quarter). A couple bucks could put you out, but you risked missing the late night rush if you had too many at Happy Hour.
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Miller lite long necks for $5.99 a case at Pic n Save. Six packs of Mickeys Big Mouths for $1.99
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$20? MU was the land of the $2 buzz. We needed 7 guys with $2 each to get a 1/4 barrel. That was a good start for the night.
Well, if you're going to play that way......
If you were a girl, you never had to pay for beer at all if you flirted well enough.....
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Well, if you're going to play that way......
If you were a girl, you never had to pay for beer at all if you flirted well enough.....
tru dat Chick. And Tower, a case of returnable Old Milwaukee was $3.96 at Pick n Save. When we got the keg fridge our last year we got a 1/2 of Bud from The Bud rep for $20.
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tru dat Chick. And Tower, a case of returnable Old Milwaukee was $3.96 at Pick n Save. When we got the keg fridge our last year we got a 1/2 of Bud from The Bud rep for $20.
Eesh. You may have over paid for both.
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Well, if you're going to play that way......
If you were a girl, you never had to pay for beer at all if you flirted well enough.....
Nothin's changed. Just ask your daughter.
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Some other great MU beer facts:
Almost never had to pay at a house party.
block party - free beer + insanity
At Marquette Liquors (worked there for Richie and Pauly junior and senior year), Rhinelander and Lieney's (boy, that brand had reversed its image) and a few others: case of returnable bottles $3.99 - not on special, all the time (special was $2.99)
And those bud and Busch suitcases for $5.99 and $6.99
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Nothin's changed. Just ask your daughter.
Taught her everything she knows.
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84-88....bad basketball........ changing of the drinking age......beer prices marginally higher but still insanely low...
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84-88....bad basketball........ changing of the drinking age......beer prices marginally higher but still insanely low...
All true- and paying at block party started
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The ultimate indignity. And then they killed it entirely.
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All true- and paying at block party started
and then came Mike Pas with the penny protest....
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???
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He went out and got hundreds of dollars of pennies and set up a station wagon outside the Olin building to change dollar bills for pennies so people would pay or beer at the block party with pennies. Penny Protest.
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He went out and got hundreds of dollars of pennies and set up a station wagon outside the Olin building to change dollar bills for pennies so people would pay or beer at the block party with pennies. Penny Protest.
We do not discuss that day. I was the one that had to count all those pennies.
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We do not discuss that day. I was the one that had to count all those pennies.
thats right. We had this conversation in another thread. Fun stuff.
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That's awesome. Not the penny idea, nor that Warriorchick had to count the pennies, but the ties that bind. (4ever, that's not where I'm going with this...)
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Kids nowadays get put on probation for a shot glass collection in their dorm rooms.
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thats right. We had this conversation in another thread. Fun stuff.
I understand he has a plumbing supply business now. I have a fantasy where I order a crapload of stuff from him, and after I get the bill, I walk into his office and dump tens of thousands of loose pennies on his desk. I work in a business that handles a lot of coins; I could totally get this done.
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I understand he has a plumbing supply business now. I have a fantasy where I order a crapload of stuff from him, and after I get the bill, I walk into his office and dump tens of thousands of loose pennies on his desk. I work in a business that handles a lot of coins; I could totally get this done.
I guess we have a different definition of fantasy.
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I guess we have a different definition of fantasy.
This is what I feared.
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Keefe
I agree with you both on how Arch ran the Lanche and I happened to be big fan of The Ardmore as well. Lenny's was special place. We really were lucky to have the joints we had. My kid is there now and I know he is finding his fun but we did not need to look very far to find fun in the day. Having a campus bar open at 6am was a real bonus.
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Also, anyone ever go to Jim's Time Out? That was always a stop on the way to the Bradley Center. $3.75 mini "pitchers" (more like 2 and a half beers) of Point Special.
I still go there before or after most home games!
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The East End on 14th and State. During the national championship season, point guard Jim Boylin was a frequent bartender. He didn't always accept full payment for drinks. Watched a replay of the championship game in the East End while Boylin was tending bar - in the game, he was at the line and announced free drinks if the free throws were good. They were.
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Hegerty's I think only closed a few years ago... probably more like 2010. They used to have Double Your Dough days that were great.
I was referring to the Gloc. I am well aware of the recent tragedy of Heg's closing
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Finally, someone names on of the great Marquette Bars. Jim Hegarty's was a classic gin joint where many a brain cell was laid to rest over the generations. I read Hegarty's closed in 2010 and it sounds as if they went out in style.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/92405674.html
The best Marquette bars were:
Lenny's
The Lanche
Jim Hegarty's
The Ardmore (only because my wife lived in the apartments above)
The Camel Club at 15th & State should be on that list but after the second shooting we chose to find liquid refreshment elsewhere.
I became a regular at Lenny's my junior year, as I lived (932 N 18th, side entrance) a short crawl from the place. Lenny Bernstein had the face of an ex boxer (which he was) and I always remember him with a cigar in his mouth. For two years I spent every Thursday afternoon "in class" at a table in Lenny's, pouring over the Gold Sheet and other tout and stat services he subscribed to, and listening as the master expounded on the patience and discipline required to beat the "man". I had two great teachers my 4 years at MU and he was one of them.
I was also more than a little familiar with the Lanche (which my brother later owned and my brother in law managed from maybe 1975-78), Hegarty's and the Gym. Didn't much care for the Ardmore, kind of "white bread". Favorite date bar was the Black Spider on Clybourn (between 17th and 18th).
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Finally, someone names on of the great Marquette Bars. Jim Hegarty's was a classic gin joint where many a brain cell was laid to rest over the generations. I read Hegarty's closed in 2010 and it sounds as if they went out in style.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/92405674.html
The best Marquette bars were:
Lenny's
The Lanche
Jim Hegarty's
The Ardmore (only because my wife lived in the apartments above)
The Camel Club at 15th & State should be on that list but after the second shooting we chose to find liquid refreshment elsewhere.
PTM makes the TMJ4 video on the JSOnline site.
http://bcove.me/w8c7w07d
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In MY day, you could get full-on alcohol poisoning for well under $20 and never leave the campus area. Beers were 50 cents at all of the Marquette Bars. When they were raised to 60 cents, we thought all the bar owners were screwing us.
C'mon, WC, Marquette coeds perfected the art of never ever touching their wallets during a long night's slog through the PBR! I ended up marrying one but made her get a damn job so she could buy her beer for a change....
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College. Where the weekend started on Tuesday with either $.25 taps or $2 pitchers. Wednesday was import night at the Ardmore. Thursday was a repeat of Tuesday. Friday and Saturday were givens. Finish up at Hegarty's on Sunday with a 32 oz beers for a buck. Somehow, I managed to hold down a 15 hour a week job, play ball 3-4 times a week and carry a 3.2 most semesters. Except when I was dating a high maintenance girl. Oy. High maintenance relationships hurt my GPA more than anything else.
Where did you drink on Mondays?
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Where did you drink on Mondays?
State house had dime taps I think. Or it was Good Times. What a beautiful thing.
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Keefe
I agree with you both on how Arch ran the Lanche and I happened to be big fan of The Ardmore as well. Lenny's was special place. We really were lucky to have the joints we had. My kid is there now and I know he is finding his fun but we did not need to look very far to find fun in the day. Having a campus bar open at 6am was a real bonus.
Roger campus bars. I read through this and it seems the kids all head over to the east side or downtown - places we never thought of going. The beers were absurdly cheap though in fact we were drinking cat piss RWB, Dog Style or Old Mil (Beers you wouldn't dare drink today.) I spent many a night pouring that swill down my gullet at Lenny's, The Camel, or the Lanche rather than getting into the Diffy Q's but like Al said - a well rounded education involves time spent in dive bars. One of life's great side shows was the after hours crowd at Real Chili. The things said and done there after 0200 should have been recorded for the ages. There was a gyro place on Wells, too. The owner was a Lebanese dude who gave you enough shaved meat to feed Hezbollah for a year. He closed up and moved to the east side because he said he was tired of cleaning up vomit in his bathroom.
I did a fair amount of drinking at the Ardmore as my wife lived in those apts. She actually got me one of those Ardmore mugs to encourage me to drink there rather than Lenny's or The Camel, places she considered way too down market. The Ardmore had this secret back door that led to up to the apts. I recall wrapping up night a long night at the bar then sneaking upstairs at 0215. I woke her up but she was barring the door, telling me in a disgusted tone that I was drunk. I proudly acknowledged that fact and she then slammed the door in my face. Her roommates gave me nasty looks for weeks afterwards.
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The East End on 14th and State. During the national championship season, point guard Jim Boylin was a frequent bartender. He didn't always accept full payment for drinks. Watched a replay of the championship game in the East End while Boylin was tending bar - in the game, he was at the line and announced free drinks if the free throws were good. They were.
Holy Sh1t! The East End! Man I had forgotten about that place. My wife and her friends used to drink there. That was a good bar but it was certainly no Lenny's.