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Wow. Getting old. I only know Real Chili.
Wales on Wells. Cousins. Marquette Gyros. Angelos. Suburpia. Ham N' Egger.
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Quote from: keefe on July 18, 2013, 11:52:01 AM
Wow. Getting old. I only know Real Chili.
Wales on Wells. Cousins. Marquette Gyros. Angelos. Suburpia. Ham N' Egger.
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Angelo's closed down a couple years ago. Soblemans is now in that spot.
Quote from: marquette20 on July 18, 2013, 12:03:17 PM
Angelo's closed down a couple years ago. Soblemans is now in that spot.
They mentioned MU is the landlord so I am guessing Marquette bought up all that property?
Yeah...a long time ago. I think that was done under DiUlio.
Graduated in 08' and from your list I know cousins, real chili, marquette gyros and angelos. Wales on Wells, suburpia and ham n'egger must be newer. Made the mistake of eating half of a marquette gyro and leaving it in my room overnight on multiple drunk occassions. Not a pleasant smell in the morning.
Quote from: marquette20 on July 18, 2013, 12:03:17 PM
Angelo's closed down a couple years ago. Soblemans is now in that spot.
What a surprise! It was always packed (with underaged students). I think they may have been nailed for serving to minors a few too many times to keep business going.
I found it very difficult to stay in shape during my time at Marquette. So many great places to eat - all terribly unhealthy. Jogged almost every day and still gained weight.
Marquette Gyro's
Dogg Haus - Two Chi dogs and a basket of chili cheese fries was one of my favorite drunk meals
Sobleman's - Simply legendary. Though I was pretty much out of commission for the rest of the day/night after a meal here. It was down in the industrial wasteland when I was a student.
Real Chili
Sal's - my other drunken go-to, especially on the way back from the Rave or visiting my fancy friends in the 2040 lofts. Those garlic knots haunt my dreams.
Broken Yolk
Angelo's - I heard it burned down or something? I remember the deep dish pizza being pretty amazing, but that may have been the inebriation. That place didn't give one fork about serving minors.
Qdoba - I remember a constant barrage of free promotions.
Those freaking "cheesy fries" things sold at every dorm store that stank up the whole hall. The epitome of immediate gratification via grease and fat.
Of course, Dominos was always a presence.
Blue Deli and Dal's
Quote from: ResidentBrown on July 18, 2013, 12:07:19 PM
What a surprise! It was always packed (with underaged students). I think they may have been nailed for serving to minors a few too many times to keep business going.
How could I forget...Sy's Deli! Oy!
Try visiting campus once in awhile for chrissakes. It's pretty cool.
But they do need to bring back Wales on Wells. That place was the bomb.
Before there was Marquette Gyros, you could get a pretty good gyros at the Circle.
Quote from: warriorchick on July 18, 2013, 12:29:29 PM
Try visiting campus once in awhile for chrissakes. It's pretty cool.
But they do need to bring back Wales on Wells. That place was the bomb.
I'm guessing your drive from Barrington is a little easier than mine has been from Kandahar??
Seriously, Milwaukee has just been off the radar for many years. My wife had more reason to go back to the Midwest and visited MU often. I do need to get back, though. I look at scenes of the campus today and am amazed that it now looks like just that, a campus.
Quote from: keefe on July 18, 2013, 12:46:24 PM
I do need to get back, though.
You don't want to go back for a bball game?
Quote from: keefe on July 18, 2013, 12:46:24 PM
I'm guessing your drive from Barrington is a little easier than mine has been from Kandahar??
Aaah, just borrow a warthog and make sure there's lots of refueling tankers along the way. You can put the hog down somewhere near the union... should work.
Honestly, there isn't a restaurant in the group I'd eat in today. If I am going to block my arteries, it isn't going to be over a grease filled bowl of beans, a submarine that had enough oil in it to allow the U.S.S. Nautulis to sail or some greasy gyro, hot dog, pizza or other snack food so bad not even my cocker spaniel would eat it.
Let the record reflect that Angelos was the worst pizza known to mankind. The pitchers were relatively cheap and the decor was classic dark alley. You ate there because Sagarriha was particularly bad in a given night (probably because they were serving that infamous Saga special, el Rauncho), it was -20 outside and the nearest restaurant worth eating in was in Waukesha County.
Since Mom and Dad lived in Tennessee, going home for a home cooked meal was expensive and time consuming.
I don't care if it's not there anymore... Ziggy's deserved a review.
Best food places no longer there - early 90's edition.
Rick's on Wells,
Wales on Wells,
Taco place in the 2000's (address) of Kilbourn. A guy made tacos in the family kitchen amid sleepy kids and other normal household life going on. Assuming licensing wasn't really factored into running the business.
Quote from: damuts222 on July 18, 2013, 12:07:12 PM
Made the mistake of eating half of a marquette gyro and leaving it in my room overnight on multiple drunk occassions. Not a pleasant smell in the morning.
Even if you ate essentially all of it, getting the container and bag out of your living quarters is necessary. Everything must be gone.
We'd get gyros and have a couple of stray onions, some of the ZFB sauce, maybe a little strip of lamb leftover... my roommate would gather up all the trash and literally open the door to the apartment and throw it out into the hallway. Wasn't going to bother walking all the way outside to the dumpster and refused to discard gyro remnants in the apartment. We were really awful neighbors that year.
T-Bone - you're talking about Jose's? That was great. Walk into dude's house and have a meal.
Ziggy's drunk window was beautiful.
I always liked Taco City. And A Taste of Philly... and Pizza Joe's.
I liked Pizza Joe's. Good wings by the bucket. There was a place near wales that had pizza by the slice. 2 slices and a beer for $3. Spent a lot of late nights there.
Quote from: Jay Bee on July 18, 2013, 01:14:56 PM
T-Bone - you're talking about Jose's? That was great. Walk into dude's house and have a meal.
I always liked Taco City. And A Taste of Philly... and Pizza Joe's.
Jose's is the name.
And forgot Pizza Joe's. Great wings.
04 grad here. I rememfber eating at louis d's a lot as a freshman. Also I would occasionally travel near the uwm campus to get Oakland Gyros.
Quote from: warriorchick on July 18, 2013, 12:29:29 PM
Try visiting campus once in awhile for chrissakes. It's pretty cool.
But they do need to bring back Wales on Wells. That place was the bomb.
The old one or the expanded shop?
Quote from: ChicosBailBonds on July 18, 2013, 05:47:34 PM
The old one or the expanded shop?
I don't care as long as I can get my chiliburger and Oreo shake. Between that and the drinking, it's a miracle I didn't leave campus weighing 200 pounds.
Quote from: T-Bone on July 18, 2013, 01:10:52 PM
Best food places no longer there - early 90's edition.
Rick's on Wells,
Wales on Wells,
Taco place in the 2000's (address) of Kilbourn. A guy made tacos in the family kitchen amid sleepy kids and other normal household life going on. Assuming licensing wasn't really factored into running the business.
Early 90's addition missing Guiliano's (sp) ? Disappointing!
Quote from: warriorchick on July 18, 2013, 05:51:02 PM
I don't care as long as I can get my chiliburger and Oreo shake. Between that and the drinking, it's a miracle I didn't leave campus weighing 200 pounds.
I thought you tipped it at 250#??
I seem to remember eating quite a bit at the long gone Rocky Rococo's on Wells.
Quote from: keefe on July 18, 2013, 06:29:11 PM
I thought you tipped it at 250#??
I guess I didn't fit you guys' Marquette Girl stereotype.
Quote from: dgies9156 on July 18, 2013, 12:57:02 PM
Aaah, just borrow a warthog and make sure there's lots of refueling tankers along the way. You can put the hog down somewhere near the union... should work.
Honestly, there isn't a restaurant in the group I'd eat in today. If I am going to block my arteries, it isn't going to be over a grease filled bowl of beans, a submarine that had enough oil in it to allow the U.S.S. Nautulis to sail or some greasy gyro, hot dog, pizza or other snack food so bad not even my cocker spaniel would eat it.
Let the record reflect that Angelos was the worst pizza known to mankind. The pitchers were relatively cheap and the decor was classic dark alley. You ate there because Sagarriha was particularly bad in a given night (probably because they were serving that infamous Saga special, el Rauncho), it was -20 outside and the nearest restaurant worth eating in was in Waukesha County.
Since Mom and Dad lived in Tennessee, going home for a home cooked meal was expensive and time consuming.
The Newtonian Physics of unpressurized cockpits is that stuff in your gut expands greatly as you pass through atmospheres of decreasing pressure and certain foods can accelerate and exacerbate that effect... I am surprised that the UN has not addressed this aspect of chemical and biological warfare.
Quote from: warriorchick on July 18, 2013, 06:53:16 PM
I guess I didn't fit you guys' Marquette Girl stereotype.
I married a Marquette Girl!!
Quote from: warriorchick on July 18, 2013, 05:51:02 PM
I don't care as long as I can get my chiliburger and Oreo shake. Between that and the drinking, it's a miracle I didn't leave campus weighing 200 pounds.
So did you do the freshman 15 or the freshman 40? ;)
Quote from: warriorchick on July 18, 2013, 06:53:16 PM
I guess I didn't fit you guys' Marquette Girl stereotype.
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Milt's - 13th and Wisconsin. Dreadful. Anybody else remember it?
What about Charco? Did anyone ever actually buy food there? There were never any customers in it. I assumed they were laundering money.
Quote from: MarquetteDano on July 18, 2013, 05:58:16 PM
Early 90's addition missing Guiliano's (sp) ? Disappointing!
Yes. Somehow after a night of drinking I gravitated to that place for a slice like a bug gravitates to a lightbulb.
Is Pizza Shuttle still around?
Pizza Sh*ttle!
BTW, Chris DID pay for his food...right?
"Real Chili's been around since 1931...and we've grown...now we have TWO restaurants."
LOL
Quote from: warriorchick on July 18, 2013, 12:29:29 PM
Try visiting campus once in awhile for chrissakes. It's pretty cool.
But they do need to bring back Wales on Wells. That place was the bomb.
The guy who ran Wales on Wells lived across the street from me. Left for Texas about 4 years ago, the bank foreclosed on their home.
Quote from: ATL MU Warrior on July 18, 2013, 07:54:54 PM
Is Pizza Shuttle still around?
Not only still around, they now deliver until 3am 5 nights a week, 4am on Friday and Saturday!
We used to get a special delivered to the dorms at least once a week.. I think it was 3 small one-topping pizzas for 9 bucks.
Best late night spot early/mid 80's (other than Real Chili, of course): Amigos. Preferred poison: Chimichanga and a plate of nachos with a pitcher. Worst visual: Farley placing his manhood on a plate of someone else's nachos and, when the upset patron got up and left, finishing the nachos that she was nice enough to leave behind.
Quote from: 77ncaachamps on July 18, 2013, 08:54:05 PM
Pizza Sh*ttle!
BTW, Chris DID pay for his food...right?
"Real Chili's been around since 1931...and we've grown...now we have TWO restaurants."
LOL
What's funny is that in the early 80's Real Chili expanded around Milwaukee with stores beyond the MU/downtown area. I think they had 8 stores at one point. Sustainable growth problem, perhaps?
Quote from: warriorchick on July 18, 2013, 07:39:35 PM
What about Charco? Did anyone ever actually buy food there? There were never any customers in it. I assumed they were laundering money.
There was a bridal shop at 8th and Wisconsin where the stuff was so terrible we wondered the same thing. My wife would walk by it and uniformly yell, "yick."
Quote from: dgies9156 on July 18, 2013, 11:19:55 PM
There was a bridal shop at 8th and Wisconsin where the stuff was so terrible we wondered the same thing. My wife would walk by it and uniformly yell, "tick"
This needs French subtitles at the bottom of the screen!
Jack straws at the Black Spider - ate there almost every night one summer in MKE and got stretch marks on my thighs.
Hoy Ping - on Wells near the 'Lanche - the lady used to feed me toward the end of the month when I was out of money.
Both long gone.
And you're right - they're trying to make it look like a campus. It looks nice, actually, but I kind of miss the old city look.
Quote from: keefe on July 18, 2013, 12:46:24 PM
I'm guessing your drive from Barrington is a little easier than mine has been from Kandahar??
Seriously, Milwaukee has just been off the radar for many years. My wife had more reason to go back to the Midwest and visited MU often. I do need to get back, though. I look at scenes of the campus today and am amazed that it now looks like just that, a campus.
I can't imagine what it would look like to you. I graduated in '04 just as some of the 'beautification' was starting, and the Denist school had just been finished.
Driving through there now is absolutely different. The ugly white light globes on the light posts are gone; you can't run across Wisconsin Ave anymore, and there aren't anymore plastic MU obelisks. Plus the old 1212 building is gone, there are two new parking ramps, and the AL was finished I think in '02. No Hegs, 'blos (angelos), harp and shammy, glock... even the building that the 'lanche used to be in was dozed in '00. So much changed while I was there, and since that I can not fathom how much has changed since you were last in Milwaukee.
Quote from: Hards_Alumni on July 19, 2013, 07:54:14 AM
I can't imagine what it would look like to you. I graduated in '04 just as some of the 'beautification' was starting, and the Denist school had just been finished.
Driving through there now is absolutely different. The ugly white light globes on the light posts are gone; you can't run across Wisconsin Ave anymore, and there aren't anymore plastic MU obelisks. Plus the old 1212 building is gone, there are two new parking ramps, and the AL was finished I think in '02. No Hegs, 'blos (angelos), harp and shammy, glock... even the building that the 'lanche used to be in was dozed in '00. So much changed while I was there, and since that I can not fathom how much has changed since you were last in Milwaukee.
Harp and sham is still there, I believe.
Quote from: MarquetteDano on July 18, 2013, 05:58:16 PM
Early 90's addition missing Guiliano's (sp) ? Disappointing!
Yeah, missed that one. The only place where you can get a slice and a beer served by at 12 year old.
All in all, their pizza wasn't bad. But no Pizza Man.
BTW, I was up in Milwaukee a couple weeks ago for Summerfest and saw that O'Hara Hall is being razed too.
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on July 18, 2013, 08:55:42 PM
The guy who ran Wales on Wells lived across the street from me. Left for Texas about 4 years ago, the bank foreclosed on their home.
Double cheddarburger...fried mushrooms...strawberry shake. (I wish I could still eat like that...)
What was the place that was owned by Ziggys Brother? It was on Wells and 15th closed in 2001, anyone remember
Just remembered, it was called Louise D's
Quote from: LloydMooresLegs on July 18, 2013, 09:45:30 PM
Best late night spot early/mid 80's (other than Real Chili, of course): Amigos. Preferred poison: Chimichanga and a plate of nachos with a pitcher. Worst visual: Farley placing his manhood on a plate of someone else's nachos and, when the upset patron got up and left, finishing the nachos that she was nice enough to leave behind.
Amigos Chimichanga was so good I would even eat sober. I also witnessed him ask to taste a couple's nachos and they refused so he took their pitcher of beer went into the bathroom and took a crap in the pitcher and brought it back to their table slammed it down and said thanks for nothing. The look in their eyes was priceless.
Quote from: KenoshaWarrior on July 19, 2013, 11:38:54 AM
Just remembered, it was called Louise D's
It wasn't his brother. I believe it was his business partner.
But someone correct me if I'm wrong.
Loved that dance floor. ::)
Quote from: Hards_Alumni on July 19, 2013, 07:54:14 AM
I can't imagine what it would look like to you. I graduated in '04 just as some of the 'beautification' was starting, and the Denist school had just been finished.
Driving through there now is absolutely different. The ugly white light globes on the light posts are gone; you can't run across Wisconsin Ave anymore, and there aren't anymore plastic MU obelisks. Plus the old 1212 building is gone, there are two new parking ramps, and the AL was finished I think in '02. No Hegs, 'blos (angelos), harp and shammy, glock... even the building that the 'lanche used to be in was dozed in '00. So much changed while I was there, and since that I can not fathom how much has changed since you were last in Milwaukee.
It sounds completely different and likely better if in a gentrified way. My last visit to Milwaukee was in '99/00. The Wells-Kilbourn-State grid between 13th and 16th was still the tawdry, forlorn lady who was always one rent check behind in life and who had never found love but was certainly no stranger to the companionship of men. To think that she has finally been evicted from her rooms by the hour existence wounds the heart more than I care to acknowledge.
Quote from: keefe on July 19, 2013, 12:06:38 PM
It sounds completely different and likely better if in a gentrified way. My last visit to Milwaukee was in '99/00. The Wells-Kilbourn-State grid between 13th and 16th was still the tawdry, forlorn lady who was always one rent check behind in life and who had never found love but was certainly no stranger to the companionship of men.
I don't know. I lived in a comparatively affluent suburb of Nashville most of my teen-aged years. There was something magical about grungy Milwaukee. It was life. We lived in an awful dorm (McCormick and then Tower), faced life in a way we had never seen it before and yet got an education, learned to live in a City and learned to be thoughtful of the folks who were not as well off as we. It was cold, the food was bad and yet we had memories that are lasting a lifetime.
What's missing from Marquette today is the grunge and the life lessons that come from having the real world all around us. Maybe the academics who live in their ivory towers would be a little more relevant if they had the Milwaukee of the 1970s around them. More importantly, I believe Marquette is not about green lawns and beautiful campuses, it's about getting prepared for life!
Quote from: Terror Skink on July 19, 2013, 10:31:49 AM
BTW, I was up in Milwaukee a couple weeks ago for Summerfest and saw that O'Hara Hall is being razed too.
Not O'Hara itself, I don't think; just the crappy "modern" law library they tacked onto the back.
Quote from: warriorchick on July 19, 2013, 12:33:07 PM
Not O'Hara itself, I don't think; just the crappy "modern" law library they tacked onto the back.
Isn't O'Hara the little building they used to house the top administrative offices prior to the opening of Zilber Hall? I'm pretty sure that is what I saw getting knocked down.
Quote from: keefe on July 19, 2013, 12:06:38 PM
It sounds completely different and likely better if in a gentrified way. My last visit to Milwaukee was in '99/00. The Wells-Kilbourn-State grid between 13th and 16th was still the tawdry, forlorn lady who was always one rent check behind in life and who had never found love but was certainly no stranger to the companionship of men. To think that she has finally been evicted from her rooms by the hour existence wounds the heart more than I care to acknowledge.
I don't think it's really all that much different honestly. A couple new buildings, but the neighborhood around campus is pretty much what it has been since I was there in the 80s.
Milwaukee was really pleasant though. Even though I didn't spend a day of my childhood there, I really do call it one of my hometowns.
Quote from: Terror Skink on July 19, 2013, 12:38:48 PM
Isn't O'Hara the little building they used to house the top administrative offices prior to the opening of Zilber Hall? I'm pretty sure that is what I saw getting knocked down.
Yes. I wish they would have moved the building, or used the stones somewhere. It was a pretty neat looking ol' shanty.
Quote from: dgies9156 on July 19, 2013, 12:25:33 PM
I don't know. I lived in a comparatively affluent suburb of Nashville most of my teen-aged years. There was something magical about grungy Milwaukee. It was life. We lived in an awful dorm (McCormick and then Tower), faced life in a way we had never seen it before and yet got an education, learned to live in a City and learned to be thoughtful of the folks who were not as well off as we. It was cold, the food was bad and yet we had memories that are lasting a lifetime.
What's missing from Marquette today is the grunge and the life lessons that come from having the real world all around us. Maybe the academics who live in their ivory towers would be a little more relevant if they had the Milwaukee of the 1970s around them. More importantly, I believe Marquette is not about green lawns and beautiful campuses, it's about getting prepared for life!
No doubt. During my time at Marquette I was exposed to a world I would not have otherwise ever encountered. It was certainly Al McGuire's proverbial "the other part of my Jesuit education at Marquette." The key is how it shaped our weltanschauung and what we did with that perspective.
Quote from: Terror Skink on July 19, 2013, 12:41:29 PM
I don't think it's really all that much different honestly. A couple new buildings, but the neighborhood around campus is pretty much what it has been since I was there in the 80s.
Milwaukee was really pleasant though. Even though I didn't spend a day of my childhood there, I really do call it one of my hometowns.
I totally disagree. The campus looks incredibly different than it did even 10 years ago when I was in school. Either way, its fun to take a virtual tour using Google's street view. The pictures, obviously, aren't perfectly up to date, but you can get an idea of what it looks like.
On a side note, I wish they'd get rid of Holthusen Hall and the Varsity Theater.
Quote from: dgies9156 on July 19, 2013, 12:25:33 PM
...faced life in a way we had never seen it before and yet got an education, learned to live in a City and learned to be thoughtful of the folks who were not as well off as we...
I think this is one of the most unappreciated aspects of MU.
Obviously it's hard to sell a parent on "Your kids will learn how to drink with 3rd shift guys at the local tavern!"... but seriously, there is something to be said for snot-nosed college kids (myself included) learning to get along with the masses who are busting their ass just to get by.
Quote from: Hards_Alumni on July 19, 2013, 12:54:08 PM
I totally disagree. The campus looks incredibly different than it did even 10 years ago when I was in school. Either way, its fun to take a virtual tour using Google's street view. The pictures, obviously, aren't perfectly up to date, but you can get an idea of what it looks like.
I stated this poorly...I meant the neighborhood around Marquette...not the campus itself.
Quote from: Terror Skink on July 19, 2013, 01:19:18 PM
I stated this poorly...I meant the neighborhood around Marquette...not the campus itself.
Oh, well then I agree, mostly. Some of the junkier places have been torn down for new apartments, but by and large very little has changed.
Quote from: 77ncaachamps on July 19, 2013, 11:50:13 AM
It wasn't his brother. I believe it was his business partner.
But someone correct me if I'm wrong.
Loved that dance floor. ::)
Wasn't the dance floor for Ziggymania (that what the b!tches call it when I walk into the room, BTW) or something like that? Some kinda dance club/grease food place?
Louie D's had some killer cheese fries.
Let's not forget all of the amazing Mexican food around National, south of the Menominee River Valley. As part of one of my spanish classes (did anyone else ever discover the little cave beneath the bushes next to lalumiere hall - best spot to toke up on campus), I had to go do work in the barrio at some place that taught illegals how to take the citizenship exam once a week. On my way home, I'd always eat at a different taco/burrito joint and always be supremely satisfied.
Quote from: ResidentBrown on July 19, 2013, 03:04:33 PM
Let's not forget all of the amazing Mexican food around National, south of the Menominee River Valley. As part of one of my spanish classes (did anyone else ever discover the little cave beneath the bushes next to lalumiere hall - best spot to toke up on campus), I had to go do work in the barrio at some place that taught illegals how to take the citizenship exam once a week. On my way home, I'd always eat at a different taco/burrito joint and always be supremely satisfied.
I went to a place out that way called Sabina's. The decor resembled a prison cafeteria, but the food was awesome and they had strolling mariachis. I wish it was still there.
Quote from: warriorchick on July 18, 2013, 06:53:16 PM
I guess I didn't fit you guys' Marquette Girl stereotype.
Were you a TMSUB, though?
Quote from: ResidentBrown on July 19, 2013, 03:04:33 PM
(did anyone else ever discover the little cave beneath the bushes
I think we all spent a lot of time trying to find that little cave beneath the bush during those years at Marquette...
Quote from: keefe on July 18, 2013, 07:00:08 PM
I married a Marquette Girl!!
I married a Marquette woman!!!!!!!
Marquette women are tough, independent, tend to begrudgingly take "no" for an answer and hold their ground against all odds! They tend to be nice on the outside but don't cross them!
Whatever happened to Pieces of Eight (food wasn't special but the lake view was nice) and the Public Natatorium (I think that was what it was called)? Also, wish I could take my kids to the Blue Canary.
Quote from: Spaniel with a Short Tail on July 19, 2013, 07:06:41 PM
Whatever happened to Pieces of Eight (food wasn't special but the lake view was nice) and the Public Natatorium (I think that was what it was called)? Also, wish I could take my kids to the Blue Canary.
Wow. I ate at all 3. The food sucked at all 3 too. The Natatorium had dolphins while the Canary was an all you can eat hole in the wall. Not surprised none of them survived.
The best fish fry in Milwaukee was Cliffords. I had an NCO in my squadron from Hales Corners. His parents brought two fish fry dinners with them when they visited. I was afraid to eat it actually but did out of courtesy and did not get sick.
O'Hara Hall has been gone for a couple of years, demolished after the senior administration moved to Zilber; its site is now paved for parking. The embankment along the road into the new Law School has a panel of bricks from O'Hara, with a plaque explaining some of the building's history. This summer has seen the demolition of the unlovely and unlamented Legal Research Center, from which the metal has been carted off; the concrete bits have been pulverized this week into two tall gravel hills. Workmen are cleaning the ivy off the front of Sensenbrenner, which will house the humanities departments now in Coughlin.
I know they were fake, but the rippled pork patties posing as barbecued ribs, from the hole-in-the-wall edition of Wales, were terrific.
Please don't mention Sabina's in the bride's hearing. In her heart, it was the paragon of Mexican restaurants. The fire that gutted its Fifth Street building brought her to tears that the peppery stuff never did. She misses it still, but grants that Lala's in Cudahy is a worthy successor.
Can't forget Super China on Wells, that we called Adequate China. The food was OK and easy on what passed for a budget, but not super. When the place changed hands to become China Garden, the letters E, N, and A from the Super China sign got reused, so the new sign always had several faded characters: CHINA GARDEN. Sweeney's Books has taken the space, which is to eventually be replaced by an apartment block with first-floor stores.
Where the Natatorium stood a few doors north of South Fourth and Lapham, just east of the freeway, there's now a basketball court in a small park.
OK, if we're going to talk restaurants (since we have talked about everything else in here), I'll plug Suburpia. The subs were terrible but the grease filled you up.
And, anyone who can cop Joe Cocker's "You are so Beautiful" and turn it into a commercial for submarine sandwiches has my vote
"You are so beautiful... to me!
Can't you see, you're everything I hoped for, you"re everything I need
You are so beautiful... submarine!!!!!!!!!
Suburpia, submarine sandwich
Suburpia Submarine Sandwich...
Quote from: dgies9156 on July 19, 2013, 11:05:03 PM
OK, if we're going to talk restaurants (since we have talked about everything else in here), I'll plug Suburpia. The subs were terrible but the grease filled you up.
And, anyone who can cop Joe Cocker's "You are so Beautiful" and turn it into a commercial for submarine sandwiches has my vote
"You are so beautiful... to me!
Can't you see, you're everything I hoped for, you"re everything I need
You are so beautiful... submarine!!!!!!!!!
Suburpia, submarine sandwich
Suburpia Submarine Sandwich...
Suburpia was terrible but I can still hear that jingle, 30 years later. You're right about the oil on their sandwiches. Problem was that it wasn't EVO but corn oil. Cousins was far better as far as subs go.
I remember seeing Joe Cocker at the Arena. Guy was a maniac. One of the most energetic stage presences ever.
Suburpia is still around.
One is located on BlueMound and HWY 100
the other is near the Airport on Howell and Layton
I think the subs are pretty good
Quote from: keefe on July 20, 2013, 04:04:10 AM
Suburpia was terrible but I can still hear that jingle, 30 years later. You're right about the oil on their sandwiches. Problem was that it wasn't EVO but corn oil. Cousins was far better as far as subs go.
I remember seeing Joe Cocker at the Arena. Guy was a maniac. One of the most energetic stage presences ever.
Suburpia had a special with a sub and a beer no drinking at Cousins. Suburpia > Cousins ;D
Went into Suburpia next to the Ardmore (where I would spend an incredible percentage of my money over the next four years) and asked for a ham grinder. The girl looked at me uncomprehendingly as if I were from Neptune.
Had you simply just axed the chick for a grinder, I bet you woulda been taken care of.
Quote from: mileskishnish72 on July 21, 2013, 04:40:58 PM
Went into Suburpia next to the Ardmore (where I would spend an incredible percentage of my money over the next four years) and asked for a ham grinder. The girl looked at me uncomprehendingly as if I were from Neptune.
Did you get a tonic while you were at it?
When I was there from '96-'98, Murphy's was newly remodeled and had a grill worked by two very butch lesbians. Overpriced since you could get the same thing from Marquette Gyros for much less. The grill was torn out after only a year or two.
Quote from: Jim Sawdust on July 19, 2013, 08:40:37 PM
O'Hara Hall has been gone for a couple of years, demolished after the senior administration moved to Zilber; its site is now paved for parking. The embankment along the road into the new Law School has a panel of bricks from O'Hara, with a plaque explaining some of the building's history. This summer has seen the demolition of the unlovely and unlamented Legal Research Center, from which the metal has been carted off; the concrete bits have been pulverized this week into two tall gravel hills. Workmen are cleaning the ivy off the front of Sensenbrenner, which will house the humanities departments now in Coughlin.
+1
Redevelopment of the 'Historic Campus' (Sensenbrenner, Johnston, and Marquette Hall) is a significant university initiative. Some work began on Johnston 2-3 years ago, originally as a stand-alone project. Now, the university has a concerted effort underway with all three buildings. I believe all are on the National Historic Registry. Expect that 'gateway view' to campus to be featured prominently in the future. Separately, there's ongoing refurbishment work going on at Gesu. I have not heard anything about plans for the north side of Wisconsin although the 707 Building remains a somewhat historic structure potentially worthy of refurbishment rather than replacement.
Graduated in 92 and I loved me some Hoy Ping. Tragedy when that place closed.
What was the other pizza delivery place, started with an L (Luchi's??), it was far superior to Pizza Shuttle for a similar price.
Enjoyed taking the long walk down to Elsa's and getting the pork chop sandwich.
My other favorite was not in the Marquette area and really obscure. Anyone ever eat at El Condor, like on Downer in the basement of a laundromat?
Quote from: dgies9156 on July 19, 2013, 12:25:33 PM
I don't know. I lived in a comparatively affluent suburb of Nashville most of my teen-aged years. There was something magical about grungy Milwaukee. It was life. We lived in an awful dorm (McCormick and then Tower), faced life in a way we had never seen it before and yet got an education, learned to live in a City and learned to be thoughtful of the folks who were not as well off as we. It was cold, the food was bad and yet we had memories that are lasting a lifetime.
What's missing from Marquette today is the grunge and the life lessons that come from having the real world all around us. Maybe the academics who live in their ivory towers would be a little more relevant if they had the Milwaukee of the 1970s around them. More importantly, I believe Marquette is not about green lawns and beautiful campuses, it's about getting prepared for life!
You guys are all dreaming if you think Marquette's campus (and near campus) environment has somehow morphed into Harvard Square. Sure it's immeasurably better than back in the day. But to think it is somehow 'not urban' just because Lenny's Tap is gone is just not accurate.
I for one am pleased that my home for this weekend (Ambassador Hotel) is no longer an unsafe, borderline residential hotel worthy of Jake and Elwood Blues, or worse.
Quote from: jsglow on July 26, 2013, 01:00:07 PM
You guys are all dreaming if you think Marquette's campus (and near campus) environment has somehow morphed into Harvard Square. Sure it's immeasurably better than back in the day. But to think it is somehow 'not urban' just because Lenny's Tap is gone is just not accurate.
I for one am pleased that my home for this weekend (Ambassador Hotel) is no longer an unsafe, borderline residential hotel worthy of Jake and Elwood Blues, or worse.
I agree with your notion that the urbanness is still around Marquette. But we have a Jesuit leader as CEO more apparently concerned with amenities than with the education and Jesuit experience. That's how he came off in one of his first trips to Chicago after becoming President.
The reality is that a university that charges $48,000 a year all-in somehow isn't the same place I went to in the 1970s. Hope your reunion goes well this weekend and say hi to Warriorchick.
Quote from: dgies9156 on July 26, 2013, 01:09:03 PM
The reality is that a university that charges $48,000 a year all-in somehow isn't the same place I went to in the 1970s.
What thriving university is?
Quote from: dgies9156 on July 19, 2013, 05:28:29 PM
I married a Marquette woman!!!!!!!
Marquette women are tough, independent, tend to begrudgingly take "no" for an answer and hold their ground against all odds! They tend to be nice on the outside but don't cross them!
+1
Quote from: Jim Sawdust on July 19, 2013, 08:40:37 PM
O'Hara Hall has been gone for a couple of years, demolished after the senior administration moved to Zilber; its site is now paved for parking. The embankment along the road into the new Law School has a panel of bricks from O'Hara, with a plaque explaining some of the building's history. This summer has seen the demolition of the unlovely and unlamented Legal Research Center, from which the metal has been carted off; the concrete bits have been pulverized this week into two tall gravel hills. Workmen are cleaning the ivy off the front of Sensenbrenner, which will house the humanities departments now in Coughlin.
So what are they doing with Coughlin?
That building, more than any other, gives me the most "academic memories" from my time at MU. Never had a class there obviously, but had some good times shooting the crap and talking academics and life with the TAs and professors in history, theology, and philosophy depts. It has the musty smell and feel of academia.
Quote from: ResidentBrown on July 19, 2013, 03:04:33 PM
Let's not forget all of the amazing Mexican food around National, south of the Menominee River Valley. As part of one of my spanish classes (did anyone else ever discover the little cave beneath the bushes next to lalumiere hall - best spot to toke up on campus), I had to go do work in the barrio at some place that taught illegals how to take the citizenship exam once a week. On my way home, I'd always eat at a different taco/burrito joint and always be supremely satisfied.
You are absolutely right. Not over there, but on the east side was another gem, "Jalisco's". Awesome burritos and margaritas (no carding) at 2am...
Quote from: robertoc on July 26, 2013, 03:43:38 PM
You are absolutely right. Not over there, but on the east side was another gem, "Jalisco's". Awesome burritos and margaritas (no carding) at 2am...
In that same area with Jalisco's there were also Grecian Delight and Chico Burrito (not sure if that was the name or not but close to that). Both were pretty damn good after a night of boozing. Not as good as Oakland Gyros though...that was our go-to place when living in that area...of course we lived about 2 blocks from there.
Quote from: robertoc on July 26, 2013, 03:43:38 PM
You are absolutely right. Not over there, but on the east side was another gem, "Jalisco's". Awesome burritos and margaritas (no carding) at 2am...
Personal opinion, the better Jalisco's was across the Cesar Chavez bridge. Barred windows, old Hardee's booths to sit on... The food was amazing.
Quote from: KenoshaWarrior on July 20, 2013, 07:32:47 PM
Suburpia is still around.
One is located on BlueMound and HWY 100
the other is near the Airport on Howell and Layton
I think the subs are pretty good
I STILL like Suburpia. There is also one on Prospect and North... Kitty corner from where the ORIGINAL Suburpia started..
Still haven't found a replacement for Wale's fries, or chiliburger (from the small crowded Wales, not the ice cream parlor).
Quote from: Bleuteaux on July 26, 2013, 01:51:50 PM
+1
Hmmm....Didn't Wade's ex attend MU, and would she fit that mold?
Nacho Mammas!!
Lucci's Pizza (Large pizza w 3 toppings, garlic puffs, RC 1/2 liter--$7.99)
Amigo's Nacho's
Grebe's Ham Sandwich with german potato salad
Brats at County Stadium
Real Chili is too obvious and always the best
Is there another link? Because it's saying that the video is private.
Quote from: Fullodds on July 29, 2013, 12:02:02 PM
Lucci's Pizza (Large pizza w 3 toppings, garlic puffs, RC 1/2 liter--$7.99)
Amigo's Nacho's
Grebe's Ham Sandwich with german potato salad
Brats at County Stadium
Real Chili is too obvious and always the best
must be the same era--I lived off that Lucci's Marquette Special for a couple of yuears in the mid-80's; only quibble would be with selcting the Amigo's Nachos over the Chimi's, though I was a fan of both.
Anything from Amigo's worked for me.
Quote from: Fullodds on July 29, 2013, 12:02:02 PM
Lucci's Pizza (Large pizza w 3 toppings, garlic puffs, RC 1/2 liter--$7.99)
Grebe's Ham Sandwich with german potato salad
The difference between what Grebe's called a hard roll and a soft roll was about... two days!
Quote from: Goose on July 29, 2013, 06:23:01 PM
Anything from Amigo's worked for me.
Went there with some frequency but I'll be darned if I can remember exactly where it was on Wells. Anyone recall?
NVM
jsglow
Directly across from The Gym Bar
Quote from: connie on July 28, 2013, 12:05:10 PM
Still haven't found a replacement for Wale's fries, or chiliburger (from the small crowded Wales, not the ice cream parlor).
+1
And, sadly, no one does the finely shredded iceberg lettuce on the chicken sandwich anymore...
Quote from: Goose on July 30, 2013, 09:45:43 AM
jsglow
Directly across from The Gym Bar
Okay, parking lot these days in CT-West.
It's funny. I spend a great deal of time on campus these days and have clear recollection of the major buildings that used to be there but I'll be darned if I can mentally go door by door down Wells Street. Things like which way to turn out of the 'Lanche to get to Wales on Wells.
Also, think back to the huge amount of surface parking/green space that used to exist within the 11th-16th, Wells to Wisconsin corridor. I suspect that those a bit older than me can speak to neighborhood housing that used to exist within that perimeter. Certainly that's true for the academic campus as well even longer ago.
jsglow
I agree. I also spend a fair amount of time at MU these days and struggle at times to remember the way it looked in the early 80's. No doubt an entirely different campus today.