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re: Starkville is a good college town!

Posted on 9/15/23 at 7:02 pm to
Posted by Sandperson
B-Ham, AL
Member since May 2005
4101 posts
Posted on 9/15/23 at 7:02 pm to
Yes, that is all Skip. He also said said that Starkville is an Indian word for trailer park.
This post was edited on 9/15/23 at 7:03 pm
Posted by BeachDude022
Premium Elite Platinum TD Member
Member since Dec 2006
34845 posts
Posted on 9/15/23 at 7:09 pm to
Baw, I’ve had some nights in Starkville I don’t remember. I just know it was fun and there were college girl titties involved. Enjoy!
Posted by Honkus
Member since Aug 2005
51280 posts
Posted on 9/15/23 at 7:30 pm to
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Why is Starkville referred to as StarkVegas ?


Irony, baw. Its like nicknaming a big fat guy tiny
Posted by PlaySomeHonk
Montegut La and Liberty MS
Member since Jan 2023
333 posts
Posted on 9/15/23 at 8:05 pm to
They’ve come a long way since me and my baws rolled into the Starkville Hilton on Friday before game in 1984 at about 11:45 pm, went straight to hotel bar and bartender said last call. Somebody asked her for reference on a good bar and she said we awll close at midnight. To make things worse the stores stopped selling at midnight too. It was quite an education for some young S La baws.
Posted by EvrybodysAllAmerican
Member since Apr 2013
11175 posts
Posted on 9/15/23 at 8:12 pm to
Good college town and miss state fans are the least obnoxious of all sec fans.



Edit: I reserve the right to change my mind if we lose.
This post was edited on 9/15/23 at 8:14 pm
Posted by Bowlinm
Ms Gulf Coast
Member since Apr 2012
102 posts
Posted on 9/15/23 at 8:15 pm to
Yea we live on the MS Coast and I have/had 2 kids in Starkville and now one in Oxford.
We enjoy the kids being up here and enjoy the visits.
Still not the experience obviously that Tiger Stadium/Alex Box is for sure!!
I’m in Starkville now and will be wearing my P&G!!
Geaux Tigahs!
Posted by misey94
Hernando, MS
Member since Jan 2007
23327 posts
Posted on 9/15/23 at 8:36 pm to
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Sitting outside at Bin 612 drinking and eating. Across the street i see three bars withporches/balconies. More down the street. Geaux Tigers, come on down!


That place was about as exciting as Cleveland, MS and Delta St when I was at LSU in the 90s. It was terrible. Today is a different story. Starkville has come a LONG way, especially in the last 10 years or so.
Posted by Garnertigah
Member since Jan 2014
128 posts
Posted on 9/15/23 at 8:51 pm to
Some of the earliest casinos outside of Las Vegas were opened in Mississippi in reasonable proximity to Starkville. The only reason to go to a game in Starkville was to hit the casinos on the trip.
Posted by Spankum
Miss-sippi
Member since Jan 2007
56070 posts
Posted on 9/15/23 at 9:08 pm to
Starkville is one of my favorite away games every couple of years. I regret that we will not be playing there regularly in the future. Their fan base is one of the nicest and unpretentious in the SEC. If you don’t act like an arse, they will treat you like family.
Posted by tilthatday
New Orleans
Member since Mar 2009
871 posts
Posted on 9/15/23 at 9:13 pm to
May not be a popular opinion, but Baton Rouge is not much of a college town. It is a city that happens to have a college located somewhere in its footprint.
Starkville, Oxford, Athens, and a number of other places are true college towns. If you have experienced those places, you’ll know what I mean.
Posted by Draconian Sanctions
Markey's bar
Member since Oct 2008
84879 posts
Posted on 9/15/23 at 9:16 pm to
Baton Rouge has never been a college town and that some of these boomers are lamenting as to why it can’t be more like Starkville is both hilarious and stupid. Par for the course on this cesspool I guess.
This post was edited on 9/15/23 at 9:17 pm
Posted by im4LSU
Hattiesburg, MS
Member since Aug 2004
32016 posts
Posted on 9/15/23 at 9:39 pm to
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Sitting outside at Bin 612 drinking and eating. Across the street i see three bars withporches/balconies. More down the street


Having graduated from state in 2009, I can tell you that I’ve had my fill at The Bin and the other two you referenced. They were called Rock Bottom and Up Your Alley when I was there. The apartment above the one on the left (I can’t remember which one it was) was owned by the Allmans. They own the outfitter, SF Almans in Gulfport. Being from the coast, and knowing them and having fraternity connections with the son, I can tell you there were plenty of shenanigans that took place on that block from 2007 to 2009

There is another house down the road that goes right in front of The Bin about a block down on the left that I’m pretty sure the entire spring of 2009 had a monster keg party literally every night. Only made it a couple times but that’s probably for the best. It was ridiculous.

Good times…. I think
Posted by shutterspeed
MS Gulf Coast
Member since May 2007
63422 posts
Posted on 9/15/23 at 10:02 pm to
Starkville is a nice, clean college town. Polite, clean-cut kids for the most part. I couldn't get over all the co-eds jogging alone at night. That shite could never happen in BR.

My wife works with a bunch of doctors. She said after their kids flunk out of LSU, they enroll them in MSU so they can get cleaned up.
Posted by Mstate
Birmingham
Member since Nov 2009
9694 posts
Posted on 9/15/23 at 10:05 pm to
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They own the outfitter, SF Almans in Gulfport. Being from the coast, and knowing them and having fraternity connections with the son, I can tell you there were plenty of shenanigans that took place on that block from 2007 to 2009


That’s my dads best friend. Every year for Christmas we always had a few SF Allman gifts. Actually just saw Ferrel yesterday

I graduated from state in 2016 and those bars were drifters, klaas room and gringos across the street. The house you reference was one of my fraternity brothers and always had a kegger going on.

Starkville has really improved in the last 15 years. So many new bars/restaurants
Posted by GeauxTigers1410
Member since Sep 2020
1346 posts
Posted on 9/15/23 at 10:05 pm to
Always some interesting ladies at Rick’s Cafe.
Posted by Jim Rockford
Member since May 2011
98229 posts
Posted on 9/15/23 at 10:11 pm to
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These are the best college towns. The colleges like LSU who are just part of a larger shitty city really miss out on the vibe





They had to go and move LSU from Pineville. Imagine Tiger Stadium nestled in the gently rolling hills.
Posted by Celery
Nuevo York
Member since Nov 2010
11093 posts
Posted on 9/15/23 at 10:22 pm to
Haven’t been since the 90’s, but it was my favorite away place to visit for baseball.
Posted by BRich
Old Metairie
Member since Aug 2017
2228 posts
Posted on 9/15/23 at 10:44 pm to
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 I know years ago the bars would stop selling at like midnight or closed then…was kind of lame back then anyway


You think that's bad; when I was a kid we lived in Starkville 1969-71, it was in a DRY COUNTY. My uncle, who played for State back in the early 60s, said he and his teammates used to frequent a bar just across the county line called The Crossroads.
Posted by im4LSU
Hattiesburg, MS
Member since Aug 2004
32016 posts
Posted on 9/16/23 at 5:22 am to
Funny story, right after I made my post last night, I saw several pictures on FB from some of my buddies participating in shenanigans outside The Bin
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