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re: Oldest bar in your college town.
Posted on 4/10/19 at 2:10 pm to Evolved Simian
Posted on 4/10/19 at 2:10 pm to Evolved Simian
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Jackie's is older.
The Chukker would have been the oldest if it had managed to survive eminent domain laws. The city didn't repeal prohibition until 1951 due to a strong local temperance movement. The Chukker was opened a couple of years after.
Prohibition was a very long dry spell for a college town that for 20 years in the 1800's was the state capital, where Governor John Gayle kept his gubernatorial office in a bar.
Actually I think Nicks in the Sticks originally opened across the line in green county (which was wet) and then moved into Tuscaloosa when it became wet.
Probably about the same time. This was according to my father. I was not yet born in 1951.
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Posted on 4/10/19 at 6:43 pm to Arksulli
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Now I want to make a road trip up there just to visit that bar.
Been there, done it. Not worth it
Posted on 4/10/19 at 8:56 pm to Numberwang
JDI's except I think being in a different location with a different owner may not count.
With a name like Jefferson Davis Inn you are probably pretty old
If you count private bars, probably The Lexington Club, as it is one of the oldest men's clubs in the country and the oldest west of the Allegheny Mountains.
With The Springs, Phoenix, and Lafayette hotels all gone, maybe the Campbell House.
As far as a place where things don't change, probably CCI's in Chevy Chase as they don't need to advertise when you mix a good drink and keep the prices from the 1950's (also the last time they remodeled the place).
With a name like Jefferson Davis Inn you are probably pretty old
If you count private bars, probably The Lexington Club, as it is one of the oldest men's clubs in the country and the oldest west of the Allegheny Mountains.
With The Springs, Phoenix, and Lafayette hotels all gone, maybe the Campbell House.
As far as a place where things don't change, probably CCI's in Chevy Chase as they don't need to advertise when you mix a good drink and keep the prices from the 1950's (also the last time they remodeled the place).
Posted on 4/10/19 at 8:59 pm to ZouKeeper314
Does it have running water in the urinal?
Lot of the really old places were there before indoor plumbing
Lot of the really old places were there before indoor plumbing
Posted on 4/11/19 at 9:40 pm to Numberwang
Most of our bars are new. Like you said Mississippi didn't repeal prohibition until the 60s and it took until around the late 90s early 2000s for Starkville to even embrace itself as a college town.
I do not have any dates for you because a lot of bars are new and the ones that have been around have changed the flags a lot if you will.
One of the older ones now is Daves Darkhorse Tavern. And it is a damn good place. Ricks Cafe is somewhat of a bar and thats older now. They get a lot of music but not my fav place.
There is some better places I like Hobies a lot. And of couse there are a few District Bars I hit up like Stagger
I do not have any dates for you because a lot of bars are new and the ones that have been around have changed the flags a lot if you will.
One of the older ones now is Daves Darkhorse Tavern. And it is a damn good place. Ricks Cafe is somewhat of a bar and thats older now. They get a lot of music but not my fav place.
There is some better places I like Hobies a lot. And of couse there are a few District Bars I hit up like Stagger
Posted on 4/12/19 at 10:39 am to The Winner
Lillian's is the oldest in Gainesville. Opened in 1974.
Posted on 4/12/19 at 11:49 am to Numberwang
Athens used to have some really old ones but they've been shutting down over the last decade because the rent is too damn high.
I don't think we have any bars that are more than a couple decades old.
We have some older restaurants, barber shops, pharmacies, theaters going back a long long time, close to a century or more, but not bars. But what we lack in bar history, we make up for in quantity.
I don't think we have any bars that are more than a couple decades old.
We have some older restaurants, barber shops, pharmacies, theaters going back a long long time, close to a century or more, but not bars. But what we lack in bar history, we make up for in quantity.
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Posted on 4/17/19 at 8:45 pm to Numberwang
the pasttime
Posted on 4/18/19 at 11:42 am to NYCAuburn
Wouldn't 17 be our oldest bar? I know they are celebrating their 12th year. Q's just did their 14th year but they are getting torn down, a name change, and moving next to Sky. I feel like Bourbon was California Pizza Kitchen just a few years back. Could be wrong.
Posted on 4/18/19 at 11:49 am to deeprig9
Roger's Rec is older than Maxine's. It has been in existence since 1947 at the same spot, although it got chopped in half 6 or 7 years ago.
Fayetteville has lost some gems over the past decade to that very same issue.
The city just passed a bond issue authorizing $30 million towards re-making a large parking area and turning an axis of Dickson/downtown into a "Cultural Arts corridor". We're getting froo-froo.
For that matter, Maxine's Tap Room used to be a dive with beer and smoking. It's been a hipster craft-cocktail bar for 5-6 years now.
There are still multiple others that are 35-40 plus years old. Tables & Ale has been there since the 1970s. A few outside the downtown/Dickson area are just as old if not older.
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Athens used to have some really old ones but they've been shutting down over the last decade because the rent is too damn high.
Fayetteville has lost some gems over the past decade to that very same issue.
The city just passed a bond issue authorizing $30 million towards re-making a large parking area and turning an axis of Dickson/downtown into a "Cultural Arts corridor". We're getting froo-froo.
For that matter, Maxine's Tap Room used to be a dive with beer and smoking. It's been a hipster craft-cocktail bar for 5-6 years now.
There are still multiple others that are 35-40 plus years old. Tables & Ale has been there since the 1970s. A few outside the downtown/Dickson area are just as old if not older.
Posted on 4/18/19 at 3:05 pm to McKeezy
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Wouldn't 17 be our oldest bar?
No, and Quixotes and Sky bar are older than 17-16.
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I feel like Bourbon was California Pizza Kitchen just a few years back. Could be wrong.
It was always Bourbon St. You used to have to have so much food sales to alcohol in Auburn, so every bar had a restaurant of some sorts(either on location or around town) or you faked it(like two bar "owning" brothers in Auburn) Same owner of B st has been there since the 70s, him and land owner. But it has been Bourbon St since mid 90s at least
Sky Bar's location has the same owners as several previous iterations as well, however they dont own the building/land
Posted on 4/18/19 at 4:19 pm to Numberwang
not very old. Maybe Rick's. The old folks used to have to make their hooch in the basement of one of the engineering buildings.
Posted on 4/18/19 at 7:01 pm to Cheese Grits
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JDI's except I think being in a different location with a different owner may not count. With a name like Jefferson Davis Inn you are probably pretty old If you count private bars, probably The Lexington Club, as it is one of the oldest men's clubs in the country and the oldest west of the Allegheny Mountains. With The Springs, Phoenix, and Lafayette hotels all gone, maybe the Campbell House. As far as a place where things don't change, probably CCI's in Chevy Chase as they don't need to advertise when you mix a good drink and keep the prices from the 1950's (also the last time they remodeled the place).
The original JDI (located in the former rooming house where Jefferson Davis lived as a college student at Transylvania University) only opened in the early 1970’s, closed in 1984, and reopened for a few years in the 90’s. The later incarnation just bore the name and only lasted four years.
CCI is the oldest continuously operating bar in Lexington, since 1933
Posted on 4/19/19 at 9:10 pm to kyrik92
JDI's as a bar from the 70's sounds right but I thought it had been an Inn from the 1700's or 1800's?
I knew CCI's was old but did not realize they dated back to the 30's? Always though Chevy Chase was developed after WWII especially as a lot of that architecture has that 1950's and 1960's look.
I knew CCI's was old but did not realize they dated back to the 30's? Always though Chevy Chase was developed after WWII especially as a lot of that architecture has that 1950's and 1960's look.
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