Just for a break from the football talk. Where did you go out when you were at LSU. I was there in late 80's early 90's. I had a blast but finally had to leave. Can't stay in college forever. (remember Bluto from Animal House) I used to frequent Murphy's, the Dugout, Fred's (especially Thurs. afternoons for screwdrivers). Fred's is the only place left now. What about you guys. Especially those from the 70's and 80's.
Mid 80's During the week, we would skip zoology lab and hit Cilly's for 25 cent screwdrivers. Weekends would be The Bengal on Highland, Fred's(flaming Dr. Peppers), Sports, occasionally Murphy's. There were a few others but I can't remember....oh yeah the Library.
Murphy's shut down my freshman year. Varsity was always fun on retro night. The Caterie, Sports, and Freds were some others.
The Caterie used to have live bands and was a great place to go for a change. During the summer, it seemed like Sports always had a big crowd.
Early in my college days I hung at Fred's (again, Thursday afternoons for the screwdrivers and sorority girls). Later on, they more or less had to start forwarding my mail to the Caterie. THAT was a great place. At the time, there was no cover, music every night but Sunday (my best friend played there on Tuesday nights), and good food (as long as you didn't watch them cook it). There was no better hangout in BR in those days.
I'll tell you what was great. When I first got to LSU, the legal limit was still 18 and I was at the age where you were grandfathered in as the legal age limit increased. Liquer laws on campus were much less strict. Freds at that time, my freshman year, had a 20 age limit so you still needed a fake id to get in. It made you want to go that much more.
I should have just installed a bed in the upstairs balcony at Murphys I was there so much in the early '90s. TA's was still open when I was in high school and in the first few months I was at LSU (Drinkin' with Lincoln on Fridays -- $5 all you can drink; $3 beer bust on Saturdays). Freds became the hangout after we turned 20 (that was the Freds age requirement before the law changed). The Dugout became Ernie's which, after a few other iterations, became Bogies (it was a biker-type bar at one point in the mid 90s). Those were the mainstays.
That place has been known by at least a half-dozen names since I started school at LSU in 1984...and a half-dozen is a conservative estimate. I think the building is abandoned now.
In the early 1970's the drinking age was 18. There was a beer pub in the Union and another in the basement of Hatcher Hall. Campus was heavily divided between greeks and freaks. The frat boys drank at the Highland Road bars: The Keg, The Common Ground, The Bengal, and The White Horse. The hippies drank on Chimes Street, mostly: Magoo's, The Library, Dirty Pierre's, The Bayou. The two crowds only mixed at The Pastime or at The Brass Rail on Highland. The Chimes was still a Rexall Drug store and the Varsity Theatre was a porn moviehouse that showed skin flicks.
