re: does anyone else miss the old fairway view

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There was that side room that we used to play cards in, maybe this is the one in which he speaks.

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Exactly what i was thinking.... Give me a break, it's been years ago....

I lived in Fairway View for 2 years in the early 2000s and was in there at least 3 times a week playing pool, watching football, or grabbing some grub. I was there until 2am the night it burnt and woke up the next morning to the sirens. I still crave the shrimp salad.

I saw joanne at ivars last week. I dont know what happen to justine and tracey. I wish ouncey would hire them when he opens uncle o's. Find the old cooks and make a go of it.

About once a month, I think how much I miss Fairway View. Loved their burgers. It was a dive in every sense of the word, but the parking lot was always full of high end cars. We spent many a lunch there that turned into dinner. Great place to booze. Once I had to step over a girl that was passed out with half of her in the foyer, half in the bathroom just to get in.

Hideaway my arse. It was full of every politician and attorney and dope dealer and cop and ex cons and divorced women looking for money and single rich middle aged men looking for divorced women and Ouncy and MK and of course me.

I had a house account for probably twenty years, ate lunch there about twice a week and spent many evenings eating and drinking. Great place but when Ouncy sold it I just moved on as did most of the old timers. Certainly was sad to see it burn. I grew up in there and met many of my friends there as well.

Back then many apartment complexes had bars. There, Westminister Club off Jefferson, Tiger Lair and Chucks Lounge in Tigerland, one back off Southfork I forget the name. I'm surprised some of the newer complexes don't have them.

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Ouncey is about to reopen Uncle O's in the old Brubacher's building on Sherwood.

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What century?

I hardly ever ate there but the view of the pool during the day was top notch...I used to mostly drink & gamble there..Played golf with Saia a couple of times. Was he Fairway or Southdowns? I get confused.

Was there at about 4 o'clock one afternoon and whoever was working behind the bar told this drunk arse bizness man to leave. So the bizness man challenged him to a fight and started throwing extremely slow round-house misses at the bartender.

Funny as shite until the frustrated bizness man said he was going to his car to get his gun...That's when the bartender who hadn't swung yet went with the knockout punch to the dude. Kinda sad, but gun was the magic word.

That's because Libby Civello was the bartender.

I used to hang out at Highland Road Park on Sunday afternoons with all the heads and Edwin would ride up on his horse from his house down the street and shoot the shite with all of us and when he rode off ALWAYS he had a babe on the back of the horse. Good times.

Chucks was at the end of the road where it hangs a left. Not sure the name of the complex. Is that Bob Petit? Go past Fred's and the road makes a turn left and it was right there.

do you remember pump n station poboys in ttigerland

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What century?

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No joke. I don't know WHAT the holdup is.