80's Bar Scene

Does it mean anything that I can’t remember?

Good one!
Ya, you get a pass.

Seriously, I know I hit Eddie Websters a few times. (That was likely before your time) There was a place or 2 down on West 7th we hit once in a while. Gallagher’s up in West Saint Paul. That was a LONG time ago.

I was a Hudson guy back then
Sandbar
Dibbos
Dicks
Badger room

Big Orange (north Hudson, now Village Inn)
Sams (before it, or someone burning it down)

Hudson closed at 1:00. We all then raced to Burchardt to pack in like sardines for the last hour of drinking at Willow river Inn… better know as Josie’s.

Them there were the Good Ole days

Dutchboy wrote:

Seriously, I know I hit Eddie Websters a few times. (That was likely before your time) There was a place or 2 down on West 7th we hit once in a while. Gallagher’s up in West Saint Paul. That was a LONG time ago.

Met my wife at Eddie Websters peanut bar. She had a apartment directly across from the old Met stadium. After a few weeks I moved in with her. On nice evenings we’d walk over to the Met and watch the Twins and drink a few Grain Belts. Good times!

Took my Prom Date to Eddie’s.

Country House In Medicine Lake. Drank and worked there as a doorman for years

Iron Horse
Gators

Nice topic: I need to switch the location to sw Wisconsin. My locals : Honey Bucket; Whiskey Corners, Richy Rich, Silver Dollar.
Milwaukee favorites I didnt necessarily hang at but they were THE spots :
Wine and Rose’s: ultimate pick up joint
T.A. Verns

I’ll throw in a few east side favorites:
Wolskis
Thurman’s 42

bigpike wrote:

Nice topic: I need to switch the location to sw Wisconsin. My locals : Honey Bucket; Whiskey Corners, Richy Rich, Silver Dollar.
Milwaukee favorites I didnt necessarily hang at but they were THE spots :
Wine and Rose’s: ultimate pick up joint
T.A. Verns

I’ll throw in a few east side favorites:
Wolskis
Thurman’s 42

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Grew up in the Rochester area before the 80’s
Outrigger
Depot House
Roxy
Happy Warrior
The Pub
Green Door

Wolski’s in Milwaukee made their presence known,those bumper stickers were everywhere.Also the Safe House,still can’t remember the password…..

gramps1969 wrote:

Grew up in the Rochester area before the 80’s
Outrigger
Depot House
Roxy
Happy Warrior
The Pub
Green Door

We Goose hunted down there quite a bit in the early 80’s there was a bar on Broadway up by the DQ.
Northland?
We would go there to get our shooting eye dialed in.

Dutchboy wrote:

Seriously, I know I hit Eddie Websters a few times. (That was likely before your time) There was a place or 2 down on West 7th we hit once in a while. Gallagher’s up in West Saint Paul. That was a LONG time ago.

Gallagher’s is still going strong. Well before shut down anyway.

Mr. Jims in Foley (under age high school drinking!)

Red Carpet
The Press
Trapper & Trader
The Persian Club (free taco bar!)

eyefishwalleye wrote:

Mr. Jims in Foley (under age high school drinking!)

Red Carpet
The Press
Trapper & Trader
The Persian Club (free taco bar!)

hit trader and trapper myself back then. was never a press or carpet crowd guy.

out in the outskirts of stearns county, the river roost in Richmond
side bar cold spring
Richmond coloseum
oharas in st cloud

bigpike wrote:

Nice topic: I need to switch the location to sw Wisconsin. My locals : Honey Bucket; Whiskey Corners, Richy Rich, Silver Dollar.
Milwaukee favorites I didnt necessarily hang at but they were THE spots :
Wine and Rose’s: ultimate pick up joint
T.A. Verns

I’ll throw in a few east side favorites:
Wolskis
Thurman’s 42

Did you ever make it to Saz’s after a Brewer home opener?

Not sure if you ever made it down to Madison but back in the late 70’s through the 80’s (when I was still in my prime) I lived there.

As I’m sure you know, Madison had quite the reputation as a party town.

Back then…

The Shuffle Inn
The Stone Hearth
Bud’s East and West
Schooner’s
Wally Gator’s

…there were many more

Northstar. It’s still open ! It’s the working mans bar

Mike West wrote:

I was a Hudson guy back then
Sandbar
Dibbos
Dicks
Badger room

Big Orange (north Hudson, now Village Inn)
Sams (before it, or someone burning it down)

Hudson closed at 1:00. We all then raced to Burchardt to pack in like sardines for the last hour of drinking at Willow river Inn… better know as Josie’s.

Them there were the Good Ole days

Ahh Josie’s I do remember a few of the times I was there.

Eelpoutguy wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>gramps1969 wrote:</div>
Grew up in the Rochester area before the 80’s
Outrigger
Depot House
Roxy
Happy Warrior
The Pub
Green Door

We Goose hunted down there quite a bit in the early 80’s there was a bar on Broadway up by the DQ.
Northland?
We would go there to get our shooting eye dialed in.

EP is it the Northstar ? That’s still open today ! It’s the working man’s bar.

Eelpoutguy wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>gramps1969 wrote:</div>
Grew up in the Rochester area before the 80’s
Outrigger
Depot House
Roxy
Happy Warrior
The Pub
Green Door

We Goose hunted down there quite a bit in the early 80’s there was a bar on Broadway up by the DQ.
Northland?
We would go there to get our shooting eye dialed in.

Northstar bar, right by Struve Paints on Broadway…

milemark_714 wrote:

Wolski’s in Milwaukee made their presence known,those bumper stickers were everywhere.Also the Safe House,still can’t remember the password…..

password still is “show me the way to the safehouse ”

If my dad were still alive he’d be 84. He told me when him and my mom moved to Milwaukee back in the 50’s both coming from central Wisconsin post depression farms for factory jobs he went to Wolskis.! The old man closed Wolskis no doubt!!

gramps1969 wrote:

Grew up in the Rochester area before the 80’s
Outrigger
Depot House
Roxy
Happy Warrior
The Pub
Green Door

Late 70’s to mid 80’s we’d rotate between the Outrigger, Dooleys and if we wanted to actually see women would even go to La Bistro (although we never had the guts to dance). Out of boredom we’d sometimes go to The Whaler where I had my first underage Sneaky Pete. Played softball for the Pub a couple years, spilled more than a few there over time

Mike wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>eelpoutguy wrote:</div>

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>gramps1969 wrote:</div>
Grew up in the Rochester area before the 80’s
Outrigger
Depot House
Roxy
Happy Warrior
The Pub
Green Door

We Goose hunted down there quite a bit in the early 80’s there was a bar on Broadway up by the DQ.
Northland?
We would go there to get our shooting eye dialed in.

EP is it the Northstar ? That’s still open today ! It’s the working man’s bar.

Oh yes, the good old guiding light. Spent a ton of time in there as well as the Roxy.

The Wappy Horrior got a visit now and then too. The Outrigger was always the chick pick up spot so of course plenty of time there. Then there was the Top of the Rock in the old Holiday Inn on Broadway. We’d slip up there in our work clothes just to raise the ire of the elite or supposed elite. Lets not forget the Holliwood on Broadway and the Parrish Brothers who seemed to be stuck there playing all the time.

Lots of 3.2 pool bars back then too, too many to name but the Top Hat, 63 Club, Point After, Queen City were always busy places.

Fun times back then. Today I’ll have an occasional beer or small toss of bourbon or even a small glass of my wine with Ma, but generally I don’t drink much. Nothing like I used to.

Ha, yes the North Star.

Eelpoutguy wrote:

Ha, yes the North Star.

In the 80s my uncle worked construction in Rochester and they’d always go there after work. He bought a shotgun from the trunk of a car there and still hunts deer with it to this day ! An old browning not sure on the model. But paid like 40 bucks for it

Went to college in Ripon, WI, Milwaukee was a quick jaunt and had friends at Marquette to stay with. Visited Safe House and John Hawks Pub among many bars.

Spent many nights at Doc Holliday’s in Shakopee in the late 70’s listening to Daisy Dillman Band, Montana Starr and saw Canned Heat.

Spent time in the 80s at Bullwinkles, Blondies and Archie’s Bunker.

FryDog2 who did you play ball with, used to bartend there for a couple years

Andy did you ever do any time at Church Key,Kollege Klub,or Headliners?We used to drive up there on football weekends.We would start out at the Copper Grid,Regent Street Retreat,or the Big Ten Pub before games then work our way downtown.The Stone Hearth was a good one also.

gramps1969 wrote:

FryDog2 who did you play ball with, used to bartend there for a couple years

A bunch of us from John Marshall Class of 1980 that went on and played baseball at the community college. We played on a couple summer softball teams (RM Standard, Kemp’s) and I may have been a fill-in for the Pub team but I still had my official Pub windbreaker up until about 10 years ago..

chuck100 wrote:

Andy did you ever do any time at Church Key,Kollege Klub,or Headliners?We used to drive up there on football weekends.We would start out at the Copper Grid,Regent Street Retreat,or the Big Ten Pub before games then work our way downtown.The Stone Hearth was a good one also.

YES, I forgot about some of those but Headliners I remember now too.

I’ve watched more college football at Camp Randall than all other places combined. We’d usually always “pregame” at the Jingles right across from the stadium.

“Postgame” we made our way back down Regent Street, both Big 10 Pub and the Retreat were mandatory stops. You’d hardly know whether the Badgers won or lost because the crowd always partied just as hard either way.

Boy, those were some fun times.