Hegarty's to close in June

[Coleman]

This is actually old news, I've been meaning to post it on here for a couple days, so maybe there is already a thread somewhere. Just wondering what everyone's thoughts are.

I'm an '08 grad and I loved Hegarty's because it was the last of the "old" bars my uncles would talk about from their days in the '70s, so it felt like it had some tradition, even if it wasn't the Avalanche. It was also where we all went with our fakes before we were 21, so I felt a little bit of loyalty to the old hole in the wall for liquoring me up during my early MU years. I thought the back room was a great place to watch a game or play darts, even if the front area around the bar was always super crowded.

What are some of your best memories at Heg's?

[dwaderoy2004]

i'm a big fan of Heg's.  THey use to have a special called the 4-leaf clover on Mondays, which were any 4 domestic bottles for 4 bucks.  My roommates and I were always there for that one.  ALso had great fried cheese curds and could play quarters or card games in the back.

[Ari Gold]

What are some of your best memories at Heg's?

going to Caffs

[Chili]

$1 bottles of Leinie's O at any time.

[bma725]

$1 bottles on Mondays.  Started out as any bottle, then became any domestic, then any Miller product, then any Budweiser, before finally ending with any Coors product.  Once they got rid of that, it was never the same. 

[Coleman]

going to Caffs

Caff's was alright, and I'll admit I went there much more often than Heg's when I was 21.

But I got the impression that caff's and murphs were basically there to squeeze every penny out of the student population. Their deals sucked. Heg's had great deals (double your dough, $10 buckets, 20 cent wings, etc.) and it didn't feel so manufactured. And the bartenders would actually talk to you. Maybe I'm wrong in my assessment.

[Ari Gold]

Caff's was alright, and I'll admit I went there much more often than Heg's when I was 21.

But I got the impression that caff's and murphs were basically there to squeeze every penny out of the student population. Their deals sucked. Heg's had great deals (double your dough, $10 buckets, 20 cent wings, etc.) and it didn't feel so manufactured. And the bartenders would actually talk to you. Maybe I'm wrong in my assessment.

No, it's valid. I had friends that loved Hegs, but I never saw the appeal. But these people also hated "the crowds" at murphs/caffs, which I was a fan of.  I never like seeing the same 12 people at a bar. When Hegs was crowded it seemed to had a lot of a-hole older folks.

A few bartenders at Caffs were cool. But I never built the rapport with people at murphs/hegs than I have at other downtown bars. Owner of those two places is a d-bag because there is a rule is that if the bartender loses at bar dice it comes out of their tips/paycheck. He marks the bottles too.

BUT I never found the bartenders at hegs to be any better.

[IAmMarquette]

Double Your Dough. Greatest bar special ever. Luke the bartender was a good guy.

[🏀]

Double Your Dough. Greatest bar special ever. Luke the bartender was a good guy.

I miss Luke & Erik.

And Double your Dough.

And the Dublin Turkey Club.

And Freddie the Chef.

And Todd the Owner with his Blackhaus shots.

I do not miss Todd's brother, Chris the Bartender.

[🏀]

The problem with Caffrey's is they have the same problem as Notre Dame.

Take this thread for example. Ari Gold, the Caffrey's supporter had to make sure that Caffrey's was mentioned in a thread about Hegarty's. This identical to Notre Dame alumni making sure you know they went to ND.

The clientele at Caffrey's was mostly wannabe hipsters and douchebags.

[Lacrosse218]

The problem with Caffrey's is they have the same problem as Notre Dame.

Take this thread for example. Ari Gold, the Caffrey's supporter had to make sure that Caffrey's was mentioned in a thread about Hegarty's. This identical to Notre Dame alumni making sure you know they went to ND.

The clientele at Caffrey's was mostly wannabe hipsters and douchebags.

Agreed completely.  Caffrey's and Murphy's were/are full of people who think they are cool cause they finally drink. 

[NersEllenson]

Hegarty's was home to many of my best memories at MU from 1994-1997, since the Lanche and O'D's closed in 1994 and 1993 respectively.  As I recall, $1.50 pitchers most nights, jam packed on the weekends...arguably the best looking girls at MU at that time went there.  Murphy's was "new" at that time and replaced the legendary Murphy's Law Bar, (closed in 1993)which was at the corner of 16th and Wells, across the street from Angelos...and the new Murph's didn't have as much character as the old place. 

[MU1984]

Agreed completely.  Caffrey's and Murphy's were/are full of people who think they are cool cause they finally drink. 

I love Hegs, but this is an incredibly stupid statement.

[Lacrosse218]

I love Hegs, but this is an incredibly stupid statement.

Don't get me wrong, those places are alright, I went to them from time to time, but I felt like they were just full of the people who got their "I turned 21 at Murphy's" crap on their 21st and then proceeded to go there every Friday and Saturday night their Senior year. 

Personally, I liked to mix it up instead of always ending up there.

[MU1984]

Don't get me wrong, those places are alright, I went to them from time to time, but I felt like they were just full of the people who got their "I turned 21 at Murphy's" crap on their 21st and then proceeded to go there every Friday and Saturday night their Senior year. 

Personally, I liked to mix it up instead of always ending up there.

It has an element to that, but for the most part it's the place where MU students meet up with their friends after going downtown (if they go downtown).  Don't get me wrong, its not that great of a bar and if there were other options it would not do that well.  However, the average Marquette student knows they will have friends at Murph's or Caff's on a Friday/Saturday night and thats all that really matters.

[Lacrosse218]

It has an element to that, but for the most part it's the place where MU students meet up with their friends after going downtown (if they go downtown).  Don't get me wrong, its not that great of a bar and if there were other options it would not do that well.  However, the average Marquette student knows they will have friends at Murph's or Caff's on a Friday/Saturday night and thats all that really matters.

I can agree with that.  Was nice whenever you cabbed back to Murphy's or Caffrey's from Water at 1:30am and then just had to stumble the block home at closing time.

[Coleman]

I can agree with that.  Was nice whenever you cabbed back to Murphy's or Caffrey's from Water at 1:30am and then just had to stumble the block home at closing time.

Not to mention (at least when I was there), at 2 am at Murph's was where you went if you wanted to get some action that night. Every girl there was looking for someone to go home with. If your buddy left the group at 1:45 to "go to Murphs," you knew what that meant.

Still prefer Heg's out of the three. Did anyone ever go to Jim's Time Out, Harp & Sham, or Conways? I liked all of those places.

[LON]

Not to mention (at least when I was there), at 2 am at Murph's was where you went if you wanted to get some action that night. Every girl there was looking for someone to go home with. If your buddy left the group at 1:45 to "go to Murphs," you knew what that meant.

Still prefer Heg's out of the three. Did anyone ever go to Jim's Time Out, Harp & Sham, or Conways? I liked all of those places.

HAHAHAHA, so true.

[damuts222]

 The worst part about Murph's was that it was always the same f'in people doing karaoke no matter when you went. You would walk in and immediately regret your decision.

[Coleman]

Yeah, it was the same group of d-bags doing 10 songs on karaoke every night, billing themself as "boys night out" or something like that. And they sang "You've lost that loving feeling" every time.

Sorry if one of you are reading this. You're probably all decent guys on your own. But in that group at Murph's doing karaoke, you guys were d-bags.

[damuts222]

Yeah, it was the same group of d-bags doing 10 songs on karaoke every night, billing themself as "boys night out" or something like that. And they sang "You've lost that loving feeling" every time.

Sorry if one of you are reading this. You're probably all decent guys on your own. But in that group at Murph's doing karaoke, you guys were d-bags.

 Agreed.

[pillardean]

Me and my buddies going in on Thursday and the bartender immediately having a bucket of Schlitz up there for us...

1. Because we were the only people to drink Schlitz and was glad to get rid of it
2. Because we drank a sh*t ton EVERY Thursday.

[IAmMarquette]

Not to mention (at least when I was there), at 2 am at Murph's was where you went if you wanted to get some action that night. Every girl there was looking for someone to go home with. If your buddy left the group at 1:45 to "go to Murphs," you knew what that meant.

Still prefer Heg's out of the three. Did anyone ever go to Jim's Time Out, Harp & Sham, or Conways? I liked all of those places.

Made to Jim's TO a few times. Interesting crowd there. Never ventured to Conway's. Never made it to Harp & Sham, despite efforts to do so at 6am. One of the greatest failures of my college life.

[Marquette08]

Conway's suck, the owner are the biggest rip off people there are!!!  the drink are over price and the bartender suck just like the owner.

[GGGG]

I won at pool against Joe Nethen and Tony Candelino at Hegarty's in the Spring of 1988.  (Yes, they were both underage at the time.)

[MarquetteNation]

norm from cheers ate there once...the bartender left the bar untended for 15 minutes so he could go buy a disposable camera.

[ZiggysFryBoy]

loved having sandwiches and beer for lunch at Hegs.  and hanging out with the mail men that were also having sandwiches and beers for lunch at hegs.

[Ari Gold]

The problem with Caffrey's is they have the same problem as Notre Dame.

Take this thread for example. Ari Gold, the Caffrey's supporter had to make sure that Caffrey's was mentioned in a thread about Hegarty's. This identical to Notre Dame alumni making sure you know they went to ND.

The clientele at Caffrey's was mostly wannabe hipsters and douchebags.

So I'm a wannabe hipster douchebag?
Guess I should have put my comment in teal? I was mostly kidding.

[jsglow]

I'll have to stop in for old times sake.  Hegarty's wasn't in my top 3-4 when I was in school but it the last of its kind.  One of the regulars on here has the bars from the early 80s listed in his sig.  I'd say mine evolved through my 4 years on campus.  Freshman year it was Grunt's, Soph was mostly the Lanche and ODs, Junior and Senior year a combo of Ardmore and Gym.

I remember OD's opening spring of my Frosh year if I recall correctly.  Man was it clean and shiny.

[hdog1017]

Made to Jim's TO a few times. Interesting crowd there. Never ventured to Conway's. Never made it to Harp & Sham, despite efforts to do so at 6am. One of the greatest failures of my college life.

I made it to Jim's TimeOut once, but they kicked me out for being "over-served." 

I love Hegarty's.  I will miss it. 

[TallTitan34]

Brooklyn Bomber = best sandwhich on campus

[redbirdwarrior]

In 1995, right after we won the right to go to the NIT Final Four in Mike Deane's first year at Marquette, Deane and Bo Ellis came into Hegarty's as we were all celebrating.  Deane bought rounds for the whole place.  My buddy started hazing Bo about carrying a man-purse.  Fortunately Bo was very cool about it.  Deane was actually really cool, though he didn't like that I congratulated him for his second straight trip to the NIT Championship, since Marquette just went to the Sweat 16 under O'Neil the previous year.  I got really overserved on Deane's dime.  It's too bad that Hegarty's is finally closing.

[DiaperDandy]

Thursday nights 5 dollar buckets and 25cent wings were the best.  Mac, Luke, and Boom behind the bar.  Always a great time.  Never left sober.  That bar will greatly be missed.