You get one restaurant that’s closed in Ames to come back…
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There are only about 4-5 big houses on the course last I knew. I worked on one of them 12-13 (or more) years ago.
I don’t know if it has been mentioned yet, but I really liked the lunch specials at Tradewinds downtown. Unhealthy food in unhealthy quantities, and always a random movie on during lunch hour with no discretion toward nudity or language. Good times.
The Grubstake on Lincoln Way. Mexican food and BBQ. Everything was made from scratch. The Macho Tacos and chicken chimichangas were excellent. They also carried something like 80 different beers.
I noticed yesterday that Fazolli's is history. Too bad, they had a nice niche and good bread sticks.
I remember Tony's very well. They also had great pizzas; when you ordered take-out, their large was so large that it was double-stacked in a large pizza box.
Separate from the great food, I think I remember a cement frog near their front door that had occasional mis-adventures.
Soft spot for Tony's The owner was Tony Gaetano. I went to school his son Jeff and he had an older sister Pam. No nostalgia trip the pizza and the meatballs were out of this world.
I don't know the name of the first bar in Campus Town but it would have happened about 1968 +/- a year (between my graduation in 66 and my brother's enrollment in 70).
When I entered in 62, liquor-by-the-drink had just been passed and you still had to buy bottles at the state liquor store (the closest being a store in Nevada). There were no bars within a mile of campus due to Mary Greeley's stipulation in her donation to build the hospital that bears her name. After I graduated, someone noted that she had been dead for many years and probably wouldn't mind, or couldn't do anything about it, if there were bars in Campus Town.
Their tator tot casserole was awesome. $4.25 for a huge plate full and a drink.
all the time, around '00 and '01 I knew 2 sisters that were shot girls and they hooked me up for my shot girl halloween costume that year.
Likely the Pizza Den on Welch, close to the barbershop. The second was the Cave Inn across the street.
I remember getting similar at People's when it was a drug store. Could drop off a roll of film to develop, too, as a bonus.
That would have been pretty high class beer for me while going to ISU. I remember, towards the end of each month, we were down to scrounging around in our pockets and dresser drawers for loose change. We’d go over to the Quik Trip on Chamberlain and get the generic 6 packs ( the white label with the word “beer” printed in black ink). I think they were like 89 cents a 6-pack or something. We would just call it “beer-beer”
My father in law would drink the “light beer” version my wife’s grandmother would call it that Genn- Err-Rick beer. Never brave enough. He eventually went to Strohs
