In Memoriam: Ames Business/Restaurants
- Thread starter Farnsworth
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Hey, I did that. We were sitting in my parents seats because they couldn’t be at the game. Either one of them couldn’t have done worse than me. But hey, I still have the T-shirt.
Probably because it has. 21 drinking age hasn't been a friend of Welch Ave from the old days.
Underage kids still know the house party sites. I can still recite the 2-3 places we went to on any given weekend for a kegger. Campus Ave, Knapp Ave, Tail end of Welch always had places to go.
IIRC 501 Welch was always our connection to drinking as a fresh/soph. No clue who lived there.
2 year resident of 535 Welch (the last house on the corner) circa 2002-04.
At least every other weekend we had a kegger.
I liked keggers better than bars even after I turned 21.
But that's because I'm cheap.
But that's because I'm cheap.
Dunno how to search but did anyone mention Lucky's pizza yet? Weirdest place - it was half video store half take out pizza place. Not great but for $5 you got a personal cheese pizza and breadsticks. Great for late night
I did 90% of my college drinking at house parties and rest at bars. Even after I turned 21 I did more drinking at parties. Bars were just too expensive. We'd go to Buck Burgers every week and maybe watch South Park at Welch Ave, but not much bar hopping outside of that.
I was also in band and we had parties every week during football season and multiple parties outside of the season as well. I hosted way too many keggers and luckily never got busted for underage kids drinking at my house.
It helped that the few times we had police come to our house, the cop was a former band member (if I remember right) and my roommate just went out front and chatted with him while all the youngsters went out the back.
The video revolution, where you could fill up your car with gas, walk inside and rent a movie and a player if needed. If it was Casey's you could get a pizza as well.
They still had the short cues when I would go back between 06-08. Good times! I'd end up playing the same couple of regularly who always knew which way to play the table roll.
I believe it was gone by the time I started in '04, but my brother used to tell me about a crappy video store that sold ****** pizza on Hayward just south of Lincoln Way. Always sounded like the videostore from Clerks. Haha!
