O'Sullivan's?

[JoBo2756]

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.

[warriorchick]

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.

[tower912]

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.  

[Lighthouse 84]

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.

[Lighthouse 84]

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.

[Archies Bat]

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.  

[tower912]

Miller lite long necks for $5.99 a case at Pic n Save.    Six packs of Mickeys Big Mouths for $1.99

[warriorchick]

$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.....

[Lighthouse 84]

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.

[Sir Lawrence]

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.

[4everwarriors]

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.

[LloydMooresLegs]

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

[warriorchick]

Nothin's changed. Just ask your daughter.

Taught her everything she knows.

[tower912]

84-88....bad basketball........ changing of the drinking age......beer prices marginally higher but still insanely low...

[LloydMooresLegs]

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

[tower912]

The ultimate indignity.   And then they killed it entirely. 

[Lighthouse 84]

All true- and paying at block party started

and then came Mike Pas with the penny protest....

[LloydMooresLegs]

???

[Lighthouse 84]

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.

[warriorchick]

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.

[Lighthouse 84]

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.

[LloydMooresLegs]

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...)

[Dr. Blackheart]

Kids nowadays get put on probation for a shot glass collection in their dorm rooms.

[warriorchick]

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.

[4everwarriors]

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.