Back in my day we didn't Netflix and Chill. It was Family Video and Chill. Many of nights.
edit: Family Video, Keg Shop Fire Sale, and Chill.
You get one restaurant that’s closed in Ames to come back…
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Back in my day we didn't Netflix and Chill. It was Family Video and Chill. Many of nights.
edit: Family Video, Keg Shop Fire Sale, and Chill.
I am in town for the game and if Thai kitchen is closed I'm going to flip. It was open when I moved away just over a year ago
Read a few pages and didn't see it. Cocost. Best $5 chinese food you could find. Huge servings too. Was in campustown kind of tucked away down an 'alley'.
I miss the old school movie theaters. It was insane when you think about how many movie theaters a town the size of Ames had in the 90s.
North Grand Mall had that two-screen theater at the entrance of the east side of the mall.
Varsity 2 in Campustown
Century III in the Aldi/TexasR Roadhouse area
North Grand 5 on the OTHER side of North Grand Mall
Drive In theater in West Ames
That was 13 screens from five locations. Although I think the drive in actually closed before NG 5 opened. There was another movie theater on Lincoln Way in Campustown besides Varsity 2. Ames Theater it was called.
There used to be one downtown, too. On the same side of Main as the drug store.
I don't know about the forerunner of Hickory Park but, when I was there, there was a great BBQ place owned by a black guy but I can't remember it's name. I think it was on Kellogg next to the railroad tracks. It was exceptionally clean, good food, etc. He moved the business to Des Moines in the last half of the 60's.
What's the status of Peterson's Pit nowadays. Man circa 2002-2004, Peterson's PIt in the summer was ******* awesome. Then they started to crack down on drinking and fun. Also cut down all the good branches on the trees to jump off.
I liked PIzza Pit. Ended up going to grad school at Wisconsin/Madison and guess what, they had Pizza Pit too! They also had pizza joint called Rocky Rococo that was unique and also very good.
Probably b4 most of your times, but there was a quaint little Italian place on SE 16th St. called Tony's Little Italy.
It was in a small bldg. about where the south entrance to Hickory Park is now. Straight out of Lady and the Tramp with red & white checkered tablecloths, low lights, candles in wine bottles that are probably against fire codes now and the biggest salt water aquarium I'd ever seen at the time.
The food was great, as well. Meatballs as big as your fist, and one piece of lasagna could feed a family.
There was also a sandwich shop where LIttle Taipei is now that had the best Philly Cheese Steaks I've ever tasted, (I've never been to Philadelphia, though).
It was in a small bldg. about where the south entrance to Hickory Park is now. Straight out of Lady and the Tramp with red & white checkered tablecloths, low lights, candles in wine bottles that are probably against fire codes now and the biggest salt water aquarium I'd ever seen at the time.
The food was great, as well. Meatballs as big as your fist, and one piece of lasagna could feed a family.
There was also a sandwich shop where LIttle Taipei is now that had the best Philly Cheese Steaks I've ever tasted, (I've never been to Philadelphia, though).
They made great pizzas. I would say O'Malley Mcgees for me, just awesome food.
Granddaddy's had an interesting special years ago in the 1970s. For $5, you got all you can drink beer. The catch was, the bottomless pitchers ended when someone went to the bathroom or left the premises. You got a bad reputation if you did either. (the drinking age then was 18).
Usually, you snuck out a side door without being seen and peed outside in the alley but the Ames cops knew this, patrolled the alleys and wrote plenty of tickets (at this bar and another that had only one small bathroom for its large weekend crowd), which appeared in the police blotter in the Iowa State Daily under "Public Urinating and Defecation", even though the offender wasn't doing the latter. That was the second most popular section of the paper (after the personals in the classified) and was always the topic at house meetings in the dorms and could be a good weapon to get back at a house member.
Usually, you snuck out a side door without being seen and peed outside in the alley but the Ames cops knew this, patrolled the alleys and wrote plenty of tickets (at this bar and another that had only one small bathroom for its large weekend crowd), which appeared in the police blotter in the Iowa State Daily under "Public Urinating and Defecation", even though the offender wasn't doing the latter. That was the second most popular section of the paper (after the personals in the classified) and was always the topic at house meetings in the dorms and could be a good weapon to get back at a house member.
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Probably went to windows more, except for some reason, loved dungeon's breakfasts better.
