In Memoriam: Ames Business/Restaurants
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Friends used to stand out in front of their in High School and ask people to buy them beer if Pamel court grocery turned them down. One night.... "sorry son I'm the superintendent of schools and that would not look to good"
Used to burn half my face off eating their crock pizza thing. Only time I charred myself worse was great plains sauce and
Anyone remember when there was an indoor go-kart place near there? I think it was a Save-u-more before that.
Did that a Thumbs Up, they had pretty decent free food. (Well it seemed pretty good a long time ago.)
It may have been because I was pretty small then and didn’t really drink beer out of a real glass made out of glass that often, but the beer glasses at Thumbs Up seemed huge. That was definitely a one beer happy hour for me.
Strange Search was just amazing. I'm so surprised they even dared do it with all of the Napster stuff that was going on at the same time, but I hoarded music.
Winamp, Winamp, WINAMP! It really whips the Llama's ass.
Another big RIP goes out to Peterson Pit. They cut down the trees you could jump from and banned alcohol and all the fun was gone. Used to be a must be place in Ames during the summer.
I remember when all these lawsuits first started coming down I got a letter from some movie studio about downloading some terrible movie illegally from Kazaa. They were suing for like 100k, and they sent it to my home address as I downloaded it over break. My parents about crapped themselves, I said lol and threw it away.
Just recently I mentioned swimming at the Roland gravel pit years ago. Someone looked at me and asked "you swim in gravel pits?"
As long as you don't go skinny dipping at an AHS reunion and lose your wedding ring right?(name withheld pending confirmation of still married)
My big miss is the Truck Stop on 30. If I were I cop, I'd have set up camp right at that exit at about 2:00 am. Could've handled out hundreds of OWI's, I'm sure 
There was some guy on Kazaa that had incredible copies of movies. He must have had some real insider stuff, he had his own logo that he would append to the front of movies. He had one of the Star Wars (I think Phantom Menace) available on Kazaa 3 days before it hit the theater.
