80's Bar Scene

  • Eelpoutguy
    Farmington, Outing
    Posts: 10426
    #1928539

    Bored as hell –
    Where’d all you old codgers hang out in the 80’s.

    I was a S. Mpls guy so –
    Poodle Club
    Pearson’s
    Mr. Nibs
    I made it to Stand Up Franks a few times

    On a night out –
    Norma Jeans
    Uncle Sam’s
    Peabody’s

    All are now gone bawling

    Dutchboy
    Central Mn.
    Posts: 16650
    #1928542

    Does it mean anything that I can’t remember?

    Eelpoutguy
    Farmington, Outing
    Posts: 10426
    #1928544

    Good one!
    Ya, you get a pass. toast

    Dutchboy
    Central Mn.
    Posts: 16650
    #1928547

    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. frown

    Mike West
    Posts: 146
    #1928549

    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

    Ice Cap
    Posts: 2161
    #1928550

    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. frown

    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!

    Eelpoutguy
    Farmington, Outing
    Posts: 10426
    #1928561

    Took my Prom Date to Eddie’s.

    BoatsHateMe
    Between Pool 2 and Pool 4
    Posts: 782
    #1928562

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

    Iron Horse
    Gators

    bigpike
    Posts: 6259
    #1928567

    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

    Polak
    Posts: 78
    #1928579

    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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    gramps1969
    Posts: 23
    #1928583

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

    milemark_714
    Posts: 1285
    #1928593

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

    Eelpoutguy
    Farmington, Outing
    Posts: 10426
    #1928595

    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.

    Ripjiggen
    Posts: 11586
    #1928597

    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. frown

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

    eyefishwalleye
    Central MN
    Posts: 182
    #1928599

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

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

    glenn57
    cold spring mn
    Posts: 11812
    #1928613

    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

    Walleyestudent Andy Cox
    Garrison MN-Mille Lacs
    Posts: 4484
    #1928614

    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? toast

    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

    Mike
    Eyota MN
    Posts: 98
    #1928637

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

    buck-slayer
    Posts: 1499
    #1928639

    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.

    Mike
    Eyota MN
    Posts: 98
    #1928642

    <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.

    FryDog62
    Posts: 3696
    #1928645

    <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…

    bigpike
    Posts: 6259
    #1928646

    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!!

    FryDog62
    Posts: 3696
    #1928648

    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 ;)

    Tom Sawvell
    Inactive
    Posts: 9559
    #1928649

    <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.

    Eelpoutguy
    Farmington, Outing
    Posts: 10426
    #1928650

    Ha, yes the North Star.

    Mike
    Eyota MN
    Posts: 98
    #1928651

    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

    Brad Dimond
    Posts: 1460
    #1928653

    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.

    gramps1969
    Posts: 23
    #1928654

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

    chuck100
    Platteville,Wi.
    Posts: 2627
    #1928658

    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.

    FryDog62
    Posts: 3696
    #1928662

    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..

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