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re: The History Of The Building The Varsity & The Chimes Are In
Posted on 3/10/20 at 9:11 pm to LSUBFA83
Posted on 3/10/20 at 9:11 pm to LSUBFA83
in the mid 70s (hazy memitirs but remeber it like this???)
canes was a barber shop
the bike shop was clothes store (greek focus)
that turned into bike shop
round the corner
the varsity showed movies you needed to be bored or drunk to watch
drug store that you entered from corner and had a very small beer cooler
the drug store became the Bearded Oak....
a young hippie like guy that sold new tech laser survey equipment and lived upstairs.
bengal bandits was a bank
canes was a barber shop
the bike shop was clothes store (greek focus)
that turned into bike shop
round the corner
the varsity showed movies you needed to be bored or drunk to watch
drug store that you entered from corner and had a very small beer cooler
the drug store became the Bearded Oak....
a young hippie like guy that sold new tech laser survey equipment and lived upstairs.
bengal bandits was a bank
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Posted on 3/10/20 at 9:23 pm to Thecoz
you could sell plasma twice a week at the big yellow building at end of chimes (now empty and for lease) the front was a paperback book store. the plasma center was owned by former medics.
after selling plasma stop at bayou for quarter (?) beers
after selling plasma stop at bayou for quarter (?) beers
Posted on 3/10/20 at 9:27 pm to Crusty
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Didn't The Chimes take up some of the space that used to be TA's? Drinkin with Lincoln was strong there.
The Chimes owners owned TA's too. The T.A. was Tim A. Hood, co-owner of the Chimes. Before TA's opened and that space was just used as storage behind the Chimes pool room and kitchen. I forget how long it was actually open, but it eventually became storage and cooler/freezer space.
Drinkin' with Lincoln was definitely popular with rugby players and lots of others, while better beer and live music drew crowds at The Chimes. It was all pretty good fun.
Posted on 3/10/20 at 9:28 pm to theantiquetiger
It was in the mid seventies used to take our drunken pledges there.
Posted on 3/10/20 at 9:34 pm to ksayetiger
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I finished around the world around 2000. damn I spent some money there
I earned my Around the World shirt in about 1986 or 87. I still have it, and my name is somewhere on the first (or second) plaque.
I worked there at the time, and I think the rule was you could only count the beers you paid for when filling your card.
Posted on 3/10/20 at 9:51 pm to MountainTiger
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As a broke arse college student, you can't beat 25 cent longnecks on Wed. & Fri.
Remember Magoo's?
Posted on 3/10/20 at 10:00 pm to Tchefuncte Tiger
Does anybody remember when Paradise Records was in one of the store fronts around where the bike shop and whatever Barcadia is now? That was around the early 80s.
I saw the first rock show at the Varsity which was the Meat Puppets. They still had the movie seats in tact and they had a lemonade stand-looking bar selling nothing but beer tapped out of kegs.
I saw the first rock show at the Varsity which was the Meat Puppets. They still had the movie seats in tact and they had a lemonade stand-looking bar selling nothing but beer tapped out of kegs.
Posted on 3/10/20 at 10:12 pm to captainahab
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Bono's pizza
Bono’s! Damn! That’s. blast from the past! Damn good pizza!
Posted on 3/10/20 at 10:15 pm to Tchefuncte Tiger
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Remember Magoo's?
Absolutely. Especially on St. Paddy's Day.
Posted on 3/10/20 at 10:19 pm to Eyebesmacinhose
Bono's was a prime destination for underage drinkers like I was back then. Cheap pitchers, no ID check. 
Posted on 3/10/20 at 10:23 pm to Thecoz
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bengal bandits was a bank
American Bank was on the corner. Had one of the first ATM’s I can remember
Posted on 3/10/20 at 10:24 pm to OweO
I started going to the games in 1966. Back then that area was called Tiger Town and the Varsity was the Varsity theater (I guess in a way it still is) and the Chimes was the Rexall pharmacy.
Posted on 3/10/20 at 10:26 pm to MountainTiger
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The Varsity was a movie theater.
It was almost a hybrid dinner theater/cinema because there were tables in there.
I saw "The Last Temptation of Christ" at the Varsity.
Posted on 3/11/20 at 7:12 am to ksayetiger
My plasma money was always spent at the Bayou. Second donation in a week got you $10 and you could get wasted on pitchers for $1. That whole corner at Chimes and Highland was a happening place.
Posted on 3/11/20 at 7:36 am to RockAndRollDetective
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Paradise Records
Leisure Landing was the bomb as far as record stores are concerned, then you had New Generation.
Posted on 3/11/20 at 7:37 am to MountainTiger
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Absolutely. Especially on St. Paddy's Day.
Posted on 3/11/20 at 7:39 am to OweO
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I didn't know that. I knew of the movie theater that was across the street.. And I remember it closing.. Maybe late 90s, but I didn't know the Varsity was once a movie theater.
As I recall, during the late 80's, it showed artsy type movies. I was dating this hot bohemian type girl and I remember she dragged me there to watch A Room With a View. It was the only time I went there.
I did go to the theater to the left and behind Murphy's quite a few times. As I recall, it was pretty cheap ($2 or so?) as they mostly showed movies that had been out for a while. But, in the days before streaming and being a broke college student, it was a pretty good deal.
This post was edited on 3/11/20 at 7:48 am
Posted on 3/11/20 at 8:12 am to Shexter
quote:A base base Pontiac Grand Prix, probably ‘73 or ‘74 model.
Those doors are about 30 feet long, invariably the hinges would fail and you’d see folks using the passenger door and scooting across the front seat.
Posted on 3/11/20 at 8:49 am to soccerfüt
We called the Varsity the Vagina back in 75. Saw Deep Throat and The Devil and Ms. Jones I think it was called. The Brass Rail and the bar across the street, not Highland whatever side street it was. 25 cent bourbon shots on Friday. Was it the White Horse?
Posted on 3/11/20 at 9:30 am to OweO
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Not sure about that but I did see Andy Warhol's Frankenstein there, which was X-rated. Then again I saw Last Tango in Paris (also X-rated) at the theater in the Student Union.
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They showed x-rated movies in the student section?
Could you imagine if they did that today?
Last Tango was shown my freshman year (spring semester 86) in the Union Colonnade.
I remember, not because I went to go see it, but because a girl in my morning class the next year was talking about having gone because her (female) French teacher made going an extra-credit assignment. It was only after the movie started did the teacher realize it was X-rated.
One of those humorous situation conversations that you never forget.
This post was edited on 3/11/20 at 9:38 am
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