Anyone remember these Fort Dodge Drinking Establishments

[DeBruzzio]

Top Hat
Suds Factory
Johnnies / Buzz Depot
Crinnigans / Frontier Lounge
Anvers
Hungry Eye
Flame / Back Door
Firehouse
Dodger Tap
Blue Bomber / Mr. C’s
Laramar/Plamor/Twilight Ballroom (John Matuszak was a bouncer there)
Fort Dodge Beer Garden
Brass Monkey
Westside Tap
Gene’s Place
Rustlers Rendezvous (destroyed in 1977 Tornado)
Green Garter / Owls Nest
Dustys Corrall
Padded Cell
Community
Porkys
Chesterfield

 

[Knownothing]

I remember going to a bar in Ft. Dodge called Tremors. It was attached to a strip club. This was in about 1992. You could get in the bar being only 19 and then you cold go next door to the nudie bar. Good stuff. Last time I was in dodge there was not even a building where it was. It was along the main street. I think it's Highway 20.

 

[clone11]

No, what is wrong with you?

 

[PGreen ISU '92]

What about the Hayloft? I lived in Fort Dodge for a couple of years in the mid-90s and was single. I took home many different girls from this fine establishment that I wouldn't exactly want to take home to meet Mom & Dad.

 

[DeBruzzio]

What about the Hayloft? I lived in Fort Dodge for a couple of years in the mid-90s and was single. I took home many different girls from this fine establishment that I wouldn't exactly want to take home to meet Mom & Dad.

Would have made the list, but I could not remember the name of the place

 

[DeBruzzio]

No, what is wrong with you?

Nothing wrong with me, how about you

 

[keepngoal]

I wouldn't call TopHat a drinking establishment.

 

[DeBruzzio]

I wouldn't call TopHat a drinking establishment.

Well I drank a lot there, plus they had entertainment. In the early 70's I would describe it as a high class strip club. New ownership changed that however.

 

[jumbopackage]

Top Hat is a drinking establishment with a clothing problem.

 

[CyBelieve]

Come boys, a real Fort Dodge drinker would have put down Ethals or The Stag (one in the same place)!

 

[HOTDON]

Top Hat has always been two letters short in my experience. sTop tHat seems much more appropriate.

A few of these places still exist. Roman Inn and Amigos seem like they would be right at home on this list based on the few that I'm familiar with.

 

[DeBruzzio]

Come boys, a real Fort Dodge drinker would have put down Ethals or The Stag (one in the same place)!

How could I forget Ethels, and the Stag

 

[DeBruzzio]

Top Hat has always been two letters short in my experience. sTop tHat seems much more appropriate.

A few of these places still exist. Roman Inn and Amigos seem like they would be right at home on this list based on the few that I'm familiar with.

Amigo Jacks was formerly Genes Place

 

[Angie]

Community still has some of the best dang pizza I've ever had. Anyone remember Dirty Nelly's? Is it still open?

 

[DeBruzzio]

Community still has some of the best dang pizza I've ever had. Anyone remember Dirty Nelly's? Is it still open?

Last I knew it was the Stadium. Back when I was a teenager, it was a neighborhood grocery store where I could buy beer until the the the owners son ran for County Attorney.

 

[Angie]

Last I knew it was the Stadium. Back when I was a teenager, it was a neighborhood grocery store where I could buy beer until the the the owners son ran for County Attorney.

I may have to try that next time I go back. There was a little taco stand (not Taco Tico, which IS awesome) run out of someone's house back in the early 80's when I was a kid, too - does anyone remember that??

 

[HOTDON]

Stadium Inn just recently reopened as Lefty's.

 

[HOTDON]

I may have to try that next time I go back. There was a little taco stand (not Taco Tico, which IS awesome) run out of someone's house back in the early 80's when I was a kid, too - does anyone remember that??

That wasn't a taco stand. You just didn't understand trespassing and wandered in during dinner.

Community still has great pizza. Could do without all the animal heads on the walls. Makes you wonder what they did with the rest of the bodies.....

....just sayin.

 

[Angie]

That wasn't a taco stand. You just didn't understand trespassing and wandered in during dinner.

Community still has great pizza. Could do without all the animal heads on the walls. Makes you wonder what they did with the rest of the bodies.....

....just sayin.

:biglaugh: I hope you're not right...

My grandma took me back to Community a few years ago on a trip to see her, and I thought the same thing. It doesn't feel so much like a hole in the wall anymore - especially not with so many things staring at me.

 

[FDWxMan]

I may have to try that next time I go back. There was a little taco stand (not Taco Tico, which IS awesome) run out of someone's house back in the early 80's when I was a kid, too - does anyone remember that??

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMmmm. Taco Tico...almost worth an 80 minute drive to go get some right now...

Thanks a lot for igniting a craving. This is what negative rep was for.