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re: Top 10 late 80s LSU bars
Posted on 7/9/15 at 3:38 pm to geauxengineering
Posted on 7/9/15 at 3:38 pm to geauxengineering
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13. Cotton Club
thats it!!! i was 18..impressionable and very shy and didn't think girls liked me and this hot drunk blonde chick staggers over and starts making out with me.
I was like "oh i like college"
eta this was the second time in my life i had been out to a bar.
:poursoneoutfor18yearolddrinkingage:
This post was edited on 7/9/15 at 3:40 pm
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Posted on 7/9/15 at 3:43 pm to No8Easy2
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remember Better Than Ezra playing too
i grew up with joel rundell, went to school with him from 5th grade until 12th.
the current drummer for BTE, travis mcnabb lives 3 houses down from me here in franklin tn. nice guy.
Posted on 7/9/15 at 3:44 pm to NoHoTiger
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Cannot count the number of times we had plans, called the Caterie and found out y'all were playing and changed our plans. The phone lines were hot all over town as we called to update our plans with friends. No cell phones and we stil all managed to show up at the right place.
The cool thing about the Caterie was they didn't charge a cover to see live bands.. They paid us by the amount the bar brought in...
Funniest part about that place... I was offered more performance enhancing drugs there than any other place we use to play... Yep, it was the late 80's...
This post was edited on 7/9/15 at 3:46 pm
Posted on 7/9/15 at 3:47 pm to Hangover Haven
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Yep, it was the late 80's...
well e was legal until like 1987...
Posted on 7/9/15 at 3:48 pm to G Vice
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Doc's had a nickel beer special on Friday afternoons.
It was some no name draft beer served in small solo cups
Stroh's always seemed the go to for those type specials, from what I recall. Damn, that was some hangover inducing shite.
Posted on 7/9/15 at 3:49 pm to CAD703X
BTE spinoff band was called Meantree. Their old drummer lives out your way too.
Posted on 7/9/15 at 3:51 pm to geauxengineering
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7. Uncle Earls (was on perkins - now it's gone)
Nah it's still there
Posted on 7/9/15 at 3:52 pm to G Vice
Anyone remember the shot chair at Cilly's ... They would pour shots in your mouth, then sling it up to make you swallow it faster...
Posted on 7/9/15 at 3:52 pm to No8Easy2
For those of you that have Murphy's on your list - like in the second 5 - was it always there to your recollection, or if you were also around in the early 80's, would it have moved up?
Asking because I see earlier 80's bars in many list - just in the "wrong" order as I remember it.
Asking because I see earlier 80's bars in many list - just in the "wrong" order as I remember it.
Posted on 7/9/15 at 3:53 pm to CAD703X
It's sadly not the same today. The increase in the drinking age ruined it. Kids still get in places but they need to repeal that law. They could move the age back to 18 & it would not have any affect on alcohol related deaths.
Plus, the shuttle busses run till 3am, so the kids don't need to drink and drive.
Plus, the shuttle busses run till 3am, so the kids don't need to drink and drive.
Posted on 7/9/15 at 4:08 pm to CAD703X
Damn man.. No Bayou or Library? Not legit.
Posted on 7/9/15 at 4:15 pm to CAD703X
quote:I got to know Joel pretty well through Steve Taylor.
i grew up with joel rundell, went to school with him from 5th grade until 12th.
Posted on 7/9/15 at 4:34 pm to CAD703X
Great list and great memories. Here's my slight edits:
1. Bengal (I mad dogged with more strange to Captain Jack than I can even count!)
2. the one across the street from SI and Freds (Yeah, that was The Tiger)
3. Xanthus (when it was still alternative and not gay..aka before Neimans closed down)
4. The Caterie
5. Docs (I was good friends with the head bar tender so I drank for free)
6. Murphys - Quarter Beer on Tuesdays!
7. Chimes - I saw The Sugar Cubes and Red Hot Chili Peppers there.
8. Sports Illustrated and Freds count as one since you could float back and forrth between the two easily (and go piss in the alley since it was cleaner and less crowded than the actual bathroom.)
9. Bayou -
10. The Art Bar
11. Honorable mention goes to Fast Times in Port Allen - kids club, no alcohol, deathly scary drive across the Old Bridge as a high school junior even after my parents forbid and threatened to kill me if I went there.
Although I don't go to bars much any more, I was in town recently and went to a bar in down town BR and stepping in to the dark, cool space, that familiar smell and sound, I realized "damn, I love a good, seedy, college town bar".
1. Bengal (I mad dogged with more strange to Captain Jack than I can even count!)
2. the one across the street from SI and Freds (Yeah, that was The Tiger)
3. Xanthus (when it was still alternative and not gay..aka before Neimans closed down)
4. The Caterie
5. Docs (I was good friends with the head bar tender so I drank for free)
6. Murphys - Quarter Beer on Tuesdays!
7. Chimes - I saw The Sugar Cubes and Red Hot Chili Peppers there.
8. Sports Illustrated and Freds count as one since you could float back and forrth between the two easily (and go piss in the alley since it was cleaner and less crowded than the actual bathroom.)
9. Bayou -
10. The Art Bar
11. Honorable mention goes to Fast Times in Port Allen - kids club, no alcohol, deathly scary drive across the Old Bridge as a high school junior even after my parents forbid and threatened to kill me if I went there.
Although I don't go to bars much any more, I was in town recently and went to a bar in down town BR and stepping in to the dark, cool space, that familiar smell and sound, I realized "damn, I love a good, seedy, college town bar".
Posted on 7/9/15 at 4:38 pm to stickly
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Damn man.. No Bayou or Library? Not legit.
both are listed in my OP
Posted on 7/9/15 at 4:39 pm to AlxTgr
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through Steve Taylor.
who i also grew up with. do you keep in touch with him? his parents had a clothing store in twin city mall.
Posted on 7/9/15 at 4:48 pm to CAD703X
I went to The Bengal practically every Thursday for Drinkin' with Lincoln. They took it over in the early 90s after TA's closed. They used K&B brand liquor for those cheap drinks. Oh, the hangovers that ensued.
Anyone remember how Sports used to do drink specials based on how Shaq did? They would run a half page ad in the Reveille with this huge table. If Shaq scored 15 points, draft beer was a buck. If he scored 20, draft was 75 cents. If he got X number of rebounds, mixed drinks were a certain price. Blocked shots corresponded to shot prices.
Oh and the Thirsty Tiger is long gone. It's a dive bar called The Bald Eagle Pub. They try, but it ain't the Thirsty Tiger.
We actually went to the new bar, Mahoney's, which is where the Bayou used to be. They cleaned up the place a lot. Like the bathrooms were pristine. And people were smoking, but it wasn't like the old Bayou, where the smoke actually had mass.....
Anyone remember how Sports used to do drink specials based on how Shaq did? They would run a half page ad in the Reveille with this huge table. If Shaq scored 15 points, draft beer was a buck. If he scored 20, draft was 75 cents. If he got X number of rebounds, mixed drinks were a certain price. Blocked shots corresponded to shot prices.
Oh and the Thirsty Tiger is long gone. It's a dive bar called The Bald Eagle Pub. They try, but it ain't the Thirsty Tiger.
We actually went to the new bar, Mahoney's, which is where the Bayou used to be. They cleaned up the place a lot. Like the bathrooms were pristine. And people were smoking, but it wasn't like the old Bayou, where the smoke actually had mass.....
Posted on 7/9/15 at 4:54 pm to CAD703X
Posted on 7/9/15 at 4:59 pm to CAD703X
quote:Just through Facebook. We roomed together a few semesters. One in the house and a year in a house south of campus. We did not make great roommates. Well, we did, just not for school.
who i also grew up with. do you keep in touch with him? his parents had a clothing store in twin city mall.
Posted on 7/9/15 at 5:00 pm to timbo
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Anyone remember how Sports used to do drink specials based on how Shaq did? They would run a half page ad in the Reveille with this huge table. If Shaq scored 15 points, draft beer was a buck. If he scored 20, draft was 75 cents. If he got X number of rebounds, mixed drinks were a certain price. Blocked shots corresponded to shot prices.
i remember something similar for chris jackson and there were definitely some cheap drinks to be had after some of those games...
Posted on 7/9/15 at 5:05 pm to CAD703X
Murphy's....wow that place probably shaved off about 15 years of my life.
Side note, the owner's daughter works for an IT Consulting firm here in Houston. Met her once, she is damn cute.
Side note, the owner's daughter works for an IT Consulting firm here in Houston. Met her once, she is damn cute.
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