Best Campustown Bars by Decade
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I think I feel a hangover coming on just from reading this post.
Isn't the building owned by ISU now? They're probably not gonna put a bar up there.
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1985 Beamers regular if I wasn't at Dugan's or Torks off campus
I had 8 am Friday classes that semester, more than once I was still drunk when I went to class those Friday mornings..... which actually made classes more interesting with the straight kids always giving me disapproving looks. Probably couldn't get by with that today in the world of political correctness
Also thought of another one: Lucullans downtown had fishbowl long island ice tea specials on friday. 2 of those would pretty much take you out.
Tork's Pub. I lived at Westgate Hall and it was a short walk there. A little longer walk home
Several of those bars listed were not in Campustown which the OP indicated.
List from late 70s-early 80s in Campustown included CaveInn, Lucky Q, Cy's Roost and the Alibi and what is now Welch Ave Station (might have been the Library back then).
Yep Yep. I'm there with ya man! I was in school 1996-2001. Buck Burgers at Cy's on Wednesdays , Hunkys for $5 AYCD, then Dean's List for Silver Night. Those were the days! If I recall, the crowd I ran with kept pretty calm Wednesday night at Buck Burgers. I honestly think we went for supper and "maybe" 1 or 2 beers then called it a night.
Mid 2000s my favorite was Chasers, especially on Thursdays when they had a $5 cover and “any coin any drink” for wells and draws.
Also Welch Ave Station, People’s, Estas, Paddy’s/Sip’s and sometimes Mickey’s were common spots we’d hit up.
Also Welch Ave Station, People’s, Estas, Paddy’s/Sip’s and sometimes Mickey’s were common spots we’d hit up.
Dugan's memory- Took a buddy of mine to Des Moines because he won a 1000 bucks in a scratch off game. We ended up at Dugan's slamming bass and god knows what next to some dudes who just got off X month stint on some oil rig somewhere. Memory is a little fuzzy-
I was coming here to say this.
Tazzles, all you can drink nights, binge drinking at its finest.
It really depended on your mood or what you were going for, it seemed like there were a lot more bars in the 90s.
The dance bars:
Tazzles
Dean's List
Hunky Dorys (country line dancing, usually)
People's, was considered kind of a Frat bar, "preppy bar" at least when I was at ISU.
The chill bars that everyone hung out at:
Cy's Roost
Welch Ave Station
There there were the others:
For the life of me I cant remember if Paddys and Mickeys were the same names, but there was something in those places.
Then there were some others around town, not including sports bars:
Tip Top
There were bars where Mothers and Thumbs is now, Cant remember the names back then either. Dont believe I ever went to them. Seems like one of them might have been a "alternative lifestyle" Bar at the time.
Probably forgetting a few.
1975-1980. A different world, where anyone 18 or older could drink. So I did. Main Street had two main bars, Mondo’s and That Place, across the street. One or two smaller titty bars as well. Campustown had the Cave Inn, the Library and Cy’s Roost. West of campus had a delicatessen/bar (Dugans Deli) and a small bar called Torks Pub where I was unceremoniously ushered out after throwing a right jab to some guy who was annoying me. Some road trips on the back roads to Polk City (Broken Arrow) and side trips to Cambridge to visit Chris’s Go Go.
Old guy here, 70s and 80s. The Alibi on Chamberlin, above the cave was Brass Bull and the Cue. WAS was the Library. Green Pepper pizza turned into Thumbs Up. Where Dunkin is was a Felix and Oscar’s with a bar in the basement, Whatsunder.
I remember the line for the Gyro stand, when everyone left Tazzles, And the fact that kum and go closed their bathrooms.....
Dont get caught pissing on the dumpsters behind the Pizza Pit...
