Best Campustown Bars by Decade

jsb

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Silver Night at Dean’s list around 2000-2001. Sips was a new bar in 2001. That was the one the athletes went to.
 

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$.75 G&T's ($1.50 doubles) Thursday nights at Thumbs. Pound em proudly and forget about Friday.

Also, FAC for me and a couple buddies was always pitchers of PBR, popcorn and a pack of Camel's at Welch Avenue Station. Then $1.00 Chili Dogs at DQ before a regroup and rally for the rest of the night.
 
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What year was that? I didn’t know that happened.
Summer of ‘09.

 

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I've skipped a few pages, so not sure if it's been mentioned or not, but in the late '90s we would go to The Zone on Friday nights for penny pitchers. It was above the Corner Pocket. The most memorable moment from that place was the night Hoiberg and Loren Meyer showed up and bought a round for the bar. It was a fun place.
That's the place I was trying to think of yesterday.. Penny pitchers at The Zone was usually good for a memorable story.
 
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In that time frame...
Monday - Welch Ave (free pool/foosball)
Tuesday - I can't remember, hopefully I stayed home
Wednesday - Cy's Roost (buck burgers)
Thursday - Tazzles (all you can drink for cover charge)
Friday - People's after class, the pool hall downtown for penny pitchers for a few hours, Dean's List for nickel and dime drinks to close. Hunky Dory's sometimes replaced the pool hall
Saturday - drinker's choice
Sunday - sleep
Feels like I must have known you without knowing you. Sometimes we'd do $5 beer blast at Hunky Dory's on Thursdays instead of Tazzles.
 

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Capones had a nice semester run then I don’t know what happened.
I remember that. I think it benefited from having space and being a tier below Cy's/Paddy's/Mickey's as far as name recognition and popularity. Then it became packed like any other bar around Welch.
 

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When I was there in the mid 90’s, I recall the main Campustown bars were People’s, Tazzles, Cy’s Roost, Welsh Ave, and Dean’s List.

Welsh Ave on Wednesdays for burger basket specials, Welsh Ave on Thursdays for pitcher night (and/or used those coupons from the coupon books you’d get at the bookstore), and Tazzle’s on Friday nights for the unlimited $4 drinks. Only hit People’s pending on bands playing and never hit the Dean’s List.
(1996-2001 era) My Junior and (2) senior years when I was 21 I remember Monday nights at Peoples for Long Island Ice Tea nights. Summer was always so easy going. Work all day then hit a place at night, saw the same people every place. It was great.
 

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Summer of ‘09.


Wow. Never heard that (granted, couple of years after I left).

Doesn't really surprise me. That place was a dump when I lived there and that only the second year that it had been open. I still have no idea how any of those apartments met modern building codes. I remember one night we had some random guy show up on our balcony because he had climbed across one of the exposed exterior beams from another balcony at midnight.
 

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Wow. Never heard that (granted, couple of years after I left).

Doesn't really surprise me. That place was a dump when I lived there and that only the second year that it had been open. I still have no idea how any of those apartments met modern building codes. I remember one night we had some random guy show up on our balcony because he had climbed across one of the exposed exterior beams from another balcony at midnight.
I remember touring that place when we were looking for off-campus housing. One of the bedrooms literally just had a curtain for a door, and this was when they were a year or two old.
 

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Summer of ‘09.

My roomate at the time was a witness to this - it messed her up for awhile... One day I came home from work and the cops were there getting her statement.