The Everlasting Craptastical Mystery Thread

[warthog-driver]

The heart and soul of a people, Stone Cold. The collective hopes, dreams, fears, joys, and angst of a tribe.

[real chili 83]

Looks like the building was torn down and bought by the hospital.  They had a good pool table and the original Space Invaders.  Also a killer stereo.  You could count on Van Halen and Pink Floyd The Wall cranked to 119 decibels.  Played lots of pool there with Radar from Cleveland.  Never have run into him, or Gator from Boca Raton since graduation.

[warthog-driver]

Looks like the building was torn down and bought by the hospital.  They had a good pool table and the original Space Invaders.  Also a killer stereo.  You could count on Van Halen and Pink Floyd The Wall cranked to 119 decibels.  Played lots of pool there with Radar from Cleveland.  Never have run into him, or Gator from Boca Raton since graduation.

I'll admit. We would hit Good Time Charlie's on nickel beer or dime burger night before heading on to our preferred watering holes - Lanche/Lenny's/Camel Club/Hegarty's. Of course, by the time Charlie's opened up I think the Camel Club had that murder so it was essentially off our list.

[Dawson Rental]

Wonder what happened to the memorabilia that was on the walls? There were great photos of the old Warriors in the 60's Racing Stripes and Bumblebees. Shame if they didn't find a proper home

I believe for a while the framed pictures went to the Ardmore.  6 or 8 years ago, they we're sold to anyone in the bar who wanted one.  I know the guy who got the McGuire picture.  It's in Jersey now.

[warthog-driver]

I believe for a while the framed pictures went to the Ardmore.  6 or 8 years ago, they we're sold to anyone in the bar who wanted one.  I know the guy who got the McGuire picture.  It's in Jersey now.

I had one of those mugs at the Ardmore. Forgot to collect it when I left town. Wonder if it's now in Jersey.

[rocky_warrior]

I was a bartender at The Gym from 94-96ish. Is there a bar still there now?

Yes, in both it's former locations but...

The Gym is long gone!

...is true as well.

The answer to any of the questions like this is no, unless the question includes Murphy's or Caffery's.

But the trick answer, is that the "Gym" had operated at both of those locations (but they never had 2 locations).  Details on the wiki...

http://wiki.muscoop.com/doku.php/bars/the_gym_bar

[wyzgy]

Jim Hegarty's was on Wells and about 12th, I think. Good, solid dive bar but not quite up to the standards of Lenny's or the Lanche for me. Hegarty's (or was it Haggarty's?) Glocca Mora was on Clybourn and 17th (where the old Black Spider was). Just west on Clybourn was Who's Inn, a dive mostly frequented by locals. Think that becme a diner.

just tripped over this thread-good ole jerry hegarty wants to see you sign and the indelible "felz houston ate his hands" engraved in the mens room wall above the pisser.  i worked for old man hegarty before he passed aqnd then managed the apartment blg for 4 years-tripped over 2 dead people/tennants looking for them.  they were older and made that place their home for many years amongst the students,  lloyd walton lived their for a year or two after his playing days trying to catch on to some coaching-like dave chappell-he didn't do drugs at all, just smoked a little weed shall we say-he was a great guy, always scheming.  i lived on the 2nd floor of the newly remodeled part of the bldg above jerry boyles ofc when one december or january night tom copa ran over this girls legs while skitching down wells and damn near killed her; just put her in a nursing home at the are of 20.  boy. they pushed that one under the carpet......quickly.  see this an mu hoops thread-i worked it in  needless to say, tom copas carreer went down the toilet.  there was a lot of talk of him going to the nfl.  i had ushers coming ove to have beers during the sermons at gesu. buy a pack of halls and go back and finish er off...8:00 am mass.  i havre many stories of the old man and then his son and the clientel

[real chili 83]

Am I hallucinating, or didn't Copa spend about 5 minutes in the NBA?

[tower912]

Copa spent about 5 minutes in the NBA with San Antonio.   

[pbiflyer]

Am I hallucinating, or didn't Copa spend about 5 minutes in the NBA?

Yep.
His career stats:
From    To    G    MP    FG    FGA    3P    3PA    FT    FTA    ORB    TRB    AST    STL    BLK    TOV    PF    PTS    FG%    3P%    FT%    MP    PTS    TRB    AST
1992    1992    33    132    22    40    0    0    4    13    14    36    3    2    6    8    29    48    .550       .308    4.0    1.5    1.1    0.1

[wyzgy]

Am I hallucinating, or didn't Copa spend about 5 minutes in the NBA?

oh yeah, he was a big body-very average, but had an nba body

[BrewCity83]

From the js story on the closing of Hegarty's came this poll:

Which now-gone Marquette-area bar do you miss most?
The Avalanche (35%)
The Gym (19%)
Jim Hegarty's (22%)
Grunts (4%)
The Ardmore (13%)
The Mug Rack (6%)
Total Responses: 2801

The Circle Inn was a popular hangout for my high school (Brookfield Central) in the late '70's.  By the time I got to MU in '79, I rarely went in there since there were still so many high schoolers in there.

Anyone remember the Greentree Pub?  They had $2.00 all-the-$hitty-beer-you-could-drink nights on Thursdays.  A good way to start a night out...

[LloydMooresLegs]

From the js story on the closing of Hegarty's came this poll:

Which now-gone Marquette-area bar do you miss most?
The Avalanche (35%)
The Gym (19%)
Jim Hegarty's (22%)
Grunts (4%)
The Ardmore (13%)
The Mug Rack (6%)
Total Responses: 2801

The Circle Inn was a popular hangout for my high school (Brookfield Central) in the late '70's.  By the time I got to MU in '79, I rarely went in there since there were still so many high schoolers in there.

Anyone remember the Greentree Pub?  They had $2.00 all-the-$hitty-beer-you-could-drink nights on Thursdays.  A good way to start a night out...

The Greentree was a good way to start and end the night. 

And remember that place (I think owned by Charlie and /or his son (Bernie?) of Good Time Charlie's) on State called O'Paget's?  Pretty popular in the mid-80s, and a good place to watch a Blackhawks game (and, in fact, where Mrs. LloydMoore'sLegs and I had our first "Marquette Date").

[LloydMooresLegs]

The image of Lloyd Moore's legs is disturbing

And Mrs. LloydMoore'sLegs agrees with you, WHD.

[wyzgy]

the circle inn was where we would end our evenings on our way back to home(mccormick) just to check for one last call of local talent and a flaming shot of 151.  no visits to st. marys burn center except for the hole in my stomach

[GGGG]

Anyone remember the Greentree Pub?  They had $2.00 all-the-$hitty-beer-you-could-drink nights on Thursdays.  A good way to start a night out...

Thursdays?  In the late 80s they were charging  that on Fridays and Saturdays.  Complete underage hangout.

They closed it my junior year, but they moved it (name and everything) across the viaduct.  They opened at this wonderful location in early February, and half the student body walked across the viaduct in freezing temps.  The police raided the place and closed it down the night it opened and there was a steady stream of very cold students coming back to campus around midnight.

Luckily I was already of age at the time and was likely at either the Ardmore or the Lanche when this all went down.

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

Thursdays?  In the late 80s they were charging  that on Fridays and Saturdays.  Complete underage hangout.

They closed it my junior year, but they moved it (name and everything) across the viaduct.  They opened at this wonderful location in early February, and half the student body walked across the viaduct in freezing temps.  The police raided the place and closed it down the night it opened and there was a steady stream of very cold students coming back to campus around midnight.

Luckily I was already of age at the time and was likely at either the Ardmore or the Lanche when this all went down.

I remember when the viaduct move happened!  It was a sad day when the original location closed.  I always started the night at teh all you can drink at The Greentree. 

The Lanche was always my favorite.  After my final Sr. year final exam, which finished mid-morning, I spent the entire day and night at the Lanche.  I left once to get some lunch from Wales on Wells.

[Newsdreams]

The Greentree was a good way to start and end the night. 

And remember that place (I think owned by Charlie and /or his son (Bernie?) of Good Time Charlie's) on State called O'Paget's?  Pretty popular in the mid-80s, and a good place to watch a Blackhawks game (and, in fact, where Mrs. LloydMoore'sLegs and I had our first "Marquette Date").

First post - Lived above O'pagets  '82 & '83 and it was Charlie's oldest  son who owned the bar with his father.

[GGGG]

I remember when the viaduct move happened!  It was a sad day when the original location closed.  I always started the night at teh all you can drink at The Greentree. 

The Lanche was always my favorite.  After my final Sr. year final exam, which finished mid-morning, I spent the entire day and night at the Lanche.  I left once to get some lunch from Wales on Wells.

I used to go down to eat at Wales on Wells even after I graduated and was just a poor young graduate living in Milwaukee.  One day I pulled up, parked on Wells, walked up to the front door, and noticed it was closed...for good.

A little piece of me died that day.

[Warriors10]

15 years boys.

[warriorchick]

First post - Lived above O'pagets  '82 & '83 and it was Charlie's oldest  son who owned the bar with his father.

Welcome, newsdrms!  I recognize your handle from College Confidential.

[Newsdreams]

Welcome, newsdrms!  I recognize your handle from College Confidential.

Hi! Yeah been there...helping kids after the three of mine made it into three different colleges!

[tower912]

O'P's should have been more popular than it was.   Only bar on campus with a real dance floor and also had multiple pool tables.   Only time I ever got hustled on a pool table, and I saw it coming but couldn't talk my drunker-than-me roommate into turning down the bet.   I was shooting some real good stick and a total stranger walked up and wanted to play us for  $10 a game.   My roommate thought it was too good to be true and then I never saw the table.    I made his stupid, drunk ass by me a chimi on the long walk home as an apology. 

[thebigjake]

First time I walked into OP's was the "last weekend before it closes" celebration. Place was packed and tons of fun, but it had been off the bar radar for so long our generation knew nothing about it before that night.  This was '89, I think.

The place made so much cash that night it kept dragging out the closing for weeks. There were like three or four "final" nights at OP's. Once those died down it closed for real. We kept wondering why the place wasn't more popular. I'm still not sure. Maybe the campus had started to shrink so much by then it was considered too far away. It was amazing how quickly the campus shrunk in those 3-4 years.

[real chili 83]

First time I walked into OP's was the "last weekend before it closes" celebration. Place was packed and tons of fun, but it had been off the bar radar for so long our generation knew nothing about it before that night.  This was '89, I think.

The place made so much cash that night it kept dragging out the closing for weeks. There were like three or four "final" nights at OP's. Once those died down it closed for real. We kept wondering why the place wasn't more popular. I'm still not sure. Maybe the campus had started to shrink so much by then it was considered too far away. It was amazing how quickly the campus shrunk in those 3-4 years.

OP's was definitely stumbling distance from Schroeder and Cobeen.  Good Time Charley's was even closer....13th and State.

This might be a strange sounding recollection....was at Good Time Charley's when the news broke that Reagan was shot.  Skipped a class and was having lunch with a gal from Cleveland...and a few brews.