re: "A RIVER OF BOOZE... Inside one college town’s uneasy embrace of drinking"...

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I am proud to have been one of the founding fathers of this greatness


Y'all did a great job Peter, but those of us that came in after you perfected it. It's obvious by our record during the 90's. Lot's of downtown all-americans on those squads.

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I was in grad school then in the 90s and I think that was the true hedey before it got all douched up. People just rented empty spaces, built a bar, sold 2 or 3 types of beer, Jager, and Vodka. The bars all smelled like smoke, stale beer, piss, and vomit. No one had cell phones to track where each other was... O' Malleys was still open for the rednecks from Hull so they stayed away. You would hear the Pixies, Janes Addiction, and Smashing Pumkins along with local and regional music regular bars played on personal stereos...slapping the face of ASCAP and BMI... you didn't hear much gangster rap unless it wwas ironic and the hispters stayed over by Prince Ave and out of harm's way...
Thre are still a few good spots, but wayyy to many bars that were ripped from the soul of Buckhead... the Cheesy Buckhead, not the old cool one...

So, you either got that or hipster joints now. I hate both.
The worst we had to deal with was the Dead Head crowd and for all their shortcomiings, the gals from that subculture were incredibly easy to trick into vile acts... plus, they always had weed...

What were we talking about again?