OT Auburn bars thoughts

I graduated many years ago but was very fond of the Supper Club. Used to be a place called Touchdowns that had good drink specials and appetizers.

Supper Club will forever be the goat. I still carry my membership card with me and it will never leave my wallet.

I will say Sky Bar, for all its shite, really did a great job with the upstairs bar. It has been great drinking at on game days.

Avondale is decent enough for cocktails.

Southeastern was okay as well.

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Or is Auburn doomed to simply be a mish mash of ages predominately college age?

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I mean, what are you expecting? It’s not a city besides the college. There aren’t enough people to support much that isn’t geared at college students.

2002 highlands was legit

We were always at someone’s apartment or condo. There was never a lack of parties since there weren’t many entertainment options.

No one has mentioned Botchers yet circa 2001 and their wet tshirt contests.

I probably logged the most time at Benji's in the 1992-93 timeframe. It was in the Best Western lobby and would get packed. It helped we knew the bartender and our tab would be ridiculously cheap at the end of the night.

Also spent plenty of time at Supper Club (still have my card), Botchers, Locker Room, Harry's. The downtown scene wasn't big then.

Did anybody else hang out at Benjis in the 1st floor of the hotel across from Winn Dixie @ S. College & E. University in the 90s? I remember they had $2.50 LITs or draughts!

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slacker130

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Sorry just saw your post! I wasn't 21 until '95, so it was 95-96 we hung out there. That's where I went for my 21st. Lost my ID that night too and apparently I dropped it ans some dickhead started a tab on it.

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Used to be a place called Touchdowns that had good drink specials and appetizers.

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I was just talking to my buddy about Touchdowns yesterday. We used to go donate blood on a Friday and get fricked-up at Touchdowns after for like $5!

As someone who probably spent 4 nights a week in Bodega for 2 years, I think it had a pretty decent dynamic with SB at first. Sky was the young bar and Bodega was the upperclassman bar. Even with Skybar the youngins were still excited to graduate to Bodega.

Very curious as to how Auburn's fairly meager bar scene meets the need of 25k+ student body. In my day Auburn was heavy on house parties and whatnot still, but to me it seems the bar offerings were better then than now.

I get the sense students are more willing to spend money - do older students do the bar at some of the better/newer restaurants? That wasn't really a thing when I was in school.