re: Mayflower is closing.

Is the BBQ Shack still around? Best Brunswick stew around. Can’t even count how many times are there back on the day.

Peppinos was originally located at the end of Broad Street close to where Depalmas is located. It closed around 1992 or 93. I don’t think Pepp had a place for a few years and re-opened at his current location.

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Good memories. I lived in the loft above High Hat and Flanagan’s which were on street level and Half Moon Pub and Ratskellar which were under ground below the other two. I had 4 bars with 20 feet of my loft floor.

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I remember being a freshman and didn't have my fake ID yet, and that little complex of bars didn't give a frick. If I was with someone with a fake id, or a legitimate id, they'd buy a pitcher, and I could drink from it, nobody said shite. As long as they didn't sell it to me, it was all good. Other bars were a little more strict. But I specifically remember that spot of bars because it was where I knew I could drink in public and not fear getting tossed at age 18.

Also, I recall some kind of street fest in the mid to late 90's and the loft above those bars was partying, and someone throwing beer bottles out the window on the cross street, and the cops raided the place. Was that you, or the people that moved in after you?

That was my roommate. He was in a bad way mentally at the time and strung out on drugs. It had been brewing for weeks so we helped him go to a rehab place about a month prior. They cleared him to leave 3 weeks later and he wasn’t ready. It got pretty bad that week and he was very schizophrenic and delusional.

My other roommate and I went down to Mean Mikes that night but my mentally ill roommate disappeared. I found out what he had done after a friend ran down to Mean Mikes and told me APD was all up in my loft because Dan had gone nuts.

Apparently, according to the officers I spoke with, he had been in Flanagan’s offering dozens of drinks on the house at the bar and then when it was time to pay the $800+ bill he walked out. Some people followed him out calling his BS and he ran upstairs at the keypad door and starting yelling at the crowd below. He then starting throwing all kinds of stuff onto the street below. Plates, bottles, etc.. He even threw out one of my tower speakers.

APD was in the loft when I arrived and Dan was sitting and crying on the floor in nothing but his underwear. Mumbling a bit and then demanded to speak to the President of the United States. They asked if I knew anyone to call to let them know he was messed up and being arrested and I only knew his full name and that he grew up in Savannah. Never saw him again after that night.

This was either 95 or 96 and I found him 10 years later in 2005 on FB, alive and well and with a family. Re-connected and caught up and he apologized 20 times for the speaker. He knew I loved my party speakers.

Man, it’s crazy to randomly hear from someone 28 years later that just so happened to be there when that occurred that night.

At least the Roadhouse still stands. Felt good to do graduation shots on the bar with two of my kids so far.

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Yes. I remember those as well. Seems like there was a place called Manhattan Bar down by the 40 Watt also. I think it was next to Wilson’s Soul Food.

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Still there. Still a dive. Wilson's is long gone though.

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worked at Uptown Lounge in the early 90s and some nights at the Georgia Theatre

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I remember always hearing that they didn't clean the taps at the Georgia theater and you shouldn't drink there. Can you confirm or deny this rumor?

Can taps even be cleaned? Is that standard protocol? I never worked at a bar.

I feel like most bars didn’t clean anything ever.

Achim’s was a classic that I was sad to see close, and as for bars, I feel like Classic City hadn’t had a tenant for years. Has that recently reopened as something else?

Think the singer is Chris Wilcox

The joke when you wanted to try and get a gig at the Ga Theatre was you had to “See Kyle” while making a Nazi salute..