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Clemson Bars you wish were still around
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Clemson Bars you wish were still around


Aug 4, 2015, 4:06 PM

The Bookstore
Bollwinkles
Edgar's (when they sold beer)

Others?

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Quarters.


Aug 4, 2015, 4:07 PM

Because I'd still be running it.

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Friars. RIP


Aug 4, 2015, 4:11 PM

Yes I know it's Larry's now. There obviously hasn't been much turnover in my time.

I also replied in the wrong place because it's after 4:00 and still only Tuesday. Forgive me


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ROH


That place changes owners about 3 times a year.***


Aug 4, 2015, 4:21 PM



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I thought they just had to keep getting new business and


Aug 4, 2015, 5:02 PM

liquor licenses because of selling to underage people and that the same guy still owned it. It has to be outrageously profitable on gamedays so I don't know why anyone would sell it....

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ROH


AKA Explorer's, AKA Shadow of the Valley***


Aug 4, 2015, 5:57 PM [ in reply to Friars. RIP ]



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I'll gladly muscle somebody out


Aug 4, 2015, 4:12 PM [ in reply to Quarters. ]

of downtown and reopen a place called Quarters if you want to run the place.

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I think I'm over the college bar thing.


Aug 4, 2015, 4:22 PM

I'll leave that to Jimmy Howard.

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Re: I think I'm over the college bar thing.


Aug 4, 2015, 4:24 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Esyd1gDTWkA

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Those guys should be thankful for Florida Georgia Line or


Aug 4, 2015, 4:28 PM

they could win title of worst singing group ever.

That totally sucked.

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How you gonna hate on Charlie that way?***


Aug 4, 2015, 4:29 PM



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Well...


Aug 4, 2015, 4:31 PM

1-I couldn't understand a word he said.

2-Could have been bad sound quality.

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I'm not a doctor. I'm not a veterinarian either but


Aug 4, 2015, 4:40 PM

I know a horse's ### when I smell one. That was NOT a good recording.

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It was probably a cell phone in a place with bad sound.


Aug 4, 2015, 11:36 PM

It is entirely possible that the song was only played live that one time.

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that's certainly not the Dan Plowden band***


Aug 4, 2015, 4:32 PM [ in reply to Those guys should be thankful for Florida Georgia Line or ]



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T'aint.


Aug 4, 2015, 4:49 PM

For sure.

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Maybe I can catch Dan playing at Cortney's


Aug 6, 2015, 11:01 AM

one of these days.

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I'm trying to talk him into putting a little sumpin sumpin


Aug 6, 2015, 2:04 PM

together. I've tried to get him to come sing with us, but I think he might finally be willing to do a little side project for playing around town.

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Is your crew playing Friday night?


Aug 6, 2015, 2:06 PM

I've got to find something to do this weekend.

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It's still up in the air.


Aug 6, 2015, 2:10 PM

If not, probably gonna take the dog up to Grumpy Brothers and grab some food and beers on the pation. Supposed to a lot cooler this weekend. Like, below 90.

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Keep me posted, either way really.***


Aug 6, 2015, 2:12 PM



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Hoping we play.


Aug 6, 2015, 2:42 PM

One does not simply WISH a Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr. tribute band into existence, you know.

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I go away for a couple years and come back to find you guys


Aug 6, 2015, 12:17 PM [ in reply to Re: I think I'm over the college bar thing. ]

not even mentioning Slug and the Gameroom in a list like this.

It's like I don't even know you anymore.

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HE LIVES***


Aug 6, 2015, 12:18 PM



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ROH


Dude bro, come back. I need advice to


Aug 6, 2015, 12:26 PM [ in reply to I go away for a couple years and come back to find you guys ]

fail to take.

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Is he still alive?


Aug 4, 2015, 4:31 PM [ in reply to I think I'm over the college bar thing. ]

If he is, there is hope for all of our livers.

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I run into him about once every month or so


Aug 4, 2015, 4:41 PM

at the store or at Mac's. Hasn't changed much. He must be about 70 now - was a couple years younger than my dad (RIP)

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I see him about once a year in The Taproom.


Aug 4, 2015, 4:51 PM

Usually if I'm in there on a Saturday afternoon not during football season.

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Jimmy showed up at a wedding for a buddy in Atlanta in '96


Aug 4, 2015, 4:53 PM

wearing a - wait for it- light blue leisure suit from the mid 70's. I think he left early after trying to dance with every 16 year old girl there. Funny dude.

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Not. Shocked. At. All.


Aug 4, 2015, 4:56 PM

I always got a kick out of Jimmy.

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I'll usually go have a beer in there while my wife goes


Aug 4, 2015, 5:43 PM

shopping.

Last time I got pretty hammered drinking PBR draft watching a 20" tube TV.

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the guy is a full-blown idiot***


Aug 4, 2015, 5:53 PM [ in reply to Is he still alive? ]



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If she's a hollerer, she'll be a screamer.
If she's a screamer, she'll get you arrested.


^^^got kicked out of Sloan Street***


Aug 4, 2015, 9:50 PM



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G-G-G-G-Genoa


Aug 6, 2015, 10:59 AM [ in reply to I think I'm over the college bar thing. ]

Speshally on Sunday nights during the summer.

The Underground, used to catch some bands out there now and again

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I lived right behind the Genoa one year


Aug 6, 2015, 11:05 AM

when the pool was still open. Nice.

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I had an offer to work for Scott when he first opened up


Aug 6, 2015, 2:06 PM [ in reply to G-G-G-G-Genoa ]

as Goldenwoods Bar. But I would have been working for his wife, and that was NEVER gonna work. She had abut as much experience running a bar as my dog. Actually, maybe less. At least my dog knows how to deal with drunks.

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I actually did work for Scott, and this was post-Wife. This


Aug 6, 2015, 2:10 PM

was right after they changed names from Genoa to The Skybox. There was a hidden "love room" right behind the side bar where things went on I didn't want to even know about. One of the highlights of my career was throwing Iker Iturbe out. Ended up quitting after getting a gun pulled on me one night.

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Go on


Aug 6, 2015, 2:17 PM

Please to be reading more about Iturbe being thrown out and a gun being pulled.

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Iturbe was a Eurotrash punk back then.


Aug 6, 2015, 2:40 PM

This was one of those awesome weekends when ATF was in town, and Iturbe kept trying to buy drinks for his 18 year old GF. Usually Scott was pretty preferential to athletes, but when he heard that Iturbe had been asked 3 times to cut it out, told us to "get him the eff outta there".

Iturbe didn't want to leave quietly so a hammerlock and a half nelson later and we had him down the stairs.

The gun incident was similar, without the the athlete angle. It was one of those 18+ nights and I was tossing a kid out for drinking without a wristband, when one of his friends sucker punched me in the back of the head. I managed to hang on to the kid being thrown out while hitting the puncher with my maglite (a bouncer's best friend) until another co-worker could grab that guy. We tossed them out and were at the bottom of the steps to make sure they didn't come back. They went to their car, got a gun, and came back and pointed it at us. Scott saw what happened and came outside with his gun, which sorta ended the standoff.

The next day I decided that probably wasn't worth $10/hour.

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Solid stories. Iturbe was a big joker no? 6'6 and prolly


Aug 6, 2015, 2:43 PM

toofiddy plus right?

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He was a big guy, but he was all talk. Still took 2 of us


Aug 6, 2015, 2:44 PM

to get him out though.

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Last I heard, Scott had Parkinson's.


Aug 6, 2015, 3:08 PM [ in reply to I actually did work for Scott, and this was post-Wife. This ]

Wish I'd bought the Rock House when he offered it to me for 60k. I think it last sold for something in the 400k neighborhood, maybe 10 years ago.

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The crotch house was still for sale until recently


Aug 6, 2015, 3:14 PM

I wonder how much weed has been smoked and how many women have been violated under that roof.


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I was all set to rent it my 2nd senior year, but some hippie


Aug 6, 2015, 3:15 PM

beat me to the deposit by 15 minutes. Still hung out there a lot though. Pretty sure the ceiling height in the basement was about 5'10".

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It seems like a good idea until...


Aug 4, 2015, 4:24 PM [ in reply to I'll gladly muscle somebody out ]



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Dat ###### dead and the udder one is old.***


Aug 4, 2015, 4:27 PM



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yeah, and serving wine coolers***


Aug 4, 2015, 5:20 PM [ in reply to Quarters. ]



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Cat on a tin roof, dogs in a pile,
Nothin' left to do but smile, smile, smile!!!!


I'm going to re-open 4 Paws when I get up there


Aug 4, 2015, 4:11 PM

Probably will be out of business in 6 months because hipsters.

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Nick's.


Aug 4, 2015, 4:40 PM

I know it's still there, but no Nick, Milton, or Milton's hot daughter.

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Los Hermanos.


Aug 4, 2015, 4:44 PM

No idea where you go in Clemson to get a fat, drunken, redheaded Irishman to puke on you now. Somebody has a million dollar niche to fill.

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I too miss Hewlitt Pope.***


Aug 4, 2015, 4:52 PM



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Met him once when I was bartending in N Chs


Aug 4, 2015, 9:19 PM

at a Mexican Restaurant.

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Re: Los Hermanos.


Aug 6, 2015, 10:44 AM [ in reply to Los Hermanos. ]

I worked there for 4 years in the mid-90's. Jim and Harrison Hair were fun to work for.

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Study Hall and Red Carpet*


Aug 4, 2015, 4:48 PM

Nm

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the library.***


Aug 4, 2015, 5:12 PM



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Sigh.


Aug 4, 2015, 5:22 PM [ in reply to Study Hall and Red Carpet* ]

Yes.

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"Every man is my superior, in that I may learn something from him."


College Station


Aug 4, 2015, 5:04 PM

was a pretty cool place in the 80's.

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Penny Annie's


Aug 4, 2015, 5:20 PM

threw down in that bar. Surprised nobody died in it

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Cat on a tin roof, dogs in a pile,
Nothin' left to do but smile, smile, smile!!!!


I'm drawing a blank on that one. Where was it?***


Aug 4, 2015, 5:28 PM



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where Acropolis was


Aug 4, 2015, 5:34 PM

currently Palmetto's Smokehouse & Oyster Bar

next to TD's

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Cat on a tin roof, dogs in a pile,
Nothin' left to do but smile, smile, smile!!!!


What yrs? I started in 1988 I and swear that wasn't there...


Aug 4, 2015, 9:17 PM

then.

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It wasn't.


Aug 5, 2015, 8:26 AM

I think it closed in '86.

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Re: Clemson Bars you wish were still around


Aug 4, 2015, 5:33 PM

The Red Carpet

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Re: Clemson Bars you wish were still around


Aug 4, 2015, 5:38 PM

And The Corporation was unbeatable as a pickup bar even though I hated disco

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keith street


Aug 4, 2015, 5:34 PM

that beer club thing really made me realize there was more to life than busch light.

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Ugh..not sure which was worse there


Aug 4, 2015, 5:43 PM

The food, or the service.

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at least it had a good beer selection***


Aug 4, 2015, 6:01 PM



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Wate. Wut?


Aug 4, 2015, 5:55 PM [ in reply to keith street ]

There is beer other than Busch Light? Not for me!!!!!





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Does anyone remember what the restaurant was...


Aug 4, 2015, 9:25 PM [ in reply to keith street ]

before it moved to Keith Street. It used to be another place and it was somewhere back in the area between where Mellow Mushroom is now (old Pike shack) and Esso.

It's bugging the sheet out of me. It had maybe some kind of irishy name?

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Remembered finally...Bash Riprock's...was where...


Aug 4, 2015, 9:38 PM

the shopping center where the Clemson parking office was. University square mall or something.

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Surprised nobody's said Bad Apple


Aug 4, 2015, 5:59 PM

I also liked the bar at that tapas place that Trevor Adair owned for like 2 years before it burned down.

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Number 2 for me has to be Pitchers on the Lake, though***


Aug 4, 2015, 6:01 PM



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Re: Lester's Tiger Den


Aug 4, 2015, 6:21 PM

My first exposure to those southern delicacies: Hard boiled eggs and boiled peanuts at the bar. Talk about lighting your #### on fire......

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what about this one?


Aug 4, 2015, 10:08 PM
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this flyer was nabbed from there the night before the Stones played Death Valley in 1989.
Imagine, actual live music in downtown Clemson. What an incredible show that night.
Upper Deck was above where the recent Clemson Bookstore was (now abandoned/currently being rebuilt).

I remember Pennie Annie's. Next door was The Bookstore, later The Corporation.
Corporation 93 (the Bingo Hall behind Ingles in Central) - saw Mother's Finest there a few times.
What about Snake's (where Firehouse Subs is now)?
College Station Pub (out on 123 next to the Winn Dixie, now it's a doctors office, I think). That was actually a pretty classy joint, as Clemson bars go.

These were all 1980's decade bars, joining TTT, Bollwinkles, Sloan Street, Nick's, and of course, The Esso Club.

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I went to the Upper deck a few times.


Aug 4, 2015, 10:28 PM

It wasn't that long ago that you could still see where the arrow on the outside of the building had been painted over.

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Crazy Zacks


Aug 4, 2015, 10:33 PM

I guess it had something to do with the one in Myrtle Beach. Then it was about 4 or 5 other places, then Zack's again.

I remember Zoo nights, where it was $1 liquor drinks before 10. We'd get there about 9 and and buy $10 worth of drinks. That place used to attract all kinds of folks from Anderson, Seneca, and Easley.

A few years later I was there one night when a TV (remember big heavy TV's?) fell off a stand on some girls head and just about knocked her out.

Building is still there..been vacant for a looong time. I bet it looks nice inside.

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No Name


Aug 4, 2015, 11:36 PM

Not sure it qualifies as a bar but my freshman year we didn't have a tv so we went out and grabbed a couple of dogs and a 6 pack and watched football on away weekends in their recliners.

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Panta Rhei Heraclitus


Is Judge Kellers still there ?


Aug 5, 2015, 7:00 PM

Sorry to hear about the bookstore.

How bout Sloan Street ?

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Has it really been that long since you've been there?


Aug 6, 2015, 10:57 AM

Prayers for you, my friend.

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Well yes


Aug 6, 2015, 6:06 PM

Last time I was downtown took my dad to Nick's, changed so much I could not take it .
I think Nick passed and Milton sold .

I wanted to show my father where I spent my "quality time " !

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Re: Tiger Den


Aug 6, 2015, 11:08 AM

Best bar ever... anywhere.
Too many reasons to mention.

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Re: Clemson Bars you wish were still around


Aug 6, 2015, 1:11 PM

GENOA!!! With J-Roy hitting on the girls at the pool.... Heard he passed... May he RIP. One of the best spots ever, especially when on foot :D

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The one born in 1924 passed in 2008 but the J-Roy I know is


Aug 6, 2015, 2:02 PM

still around, very much around.

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I have met a J-Roy.


Aug 6, 2015, 2:08 PM

I bet it is the one you know. While he looked in bad shape, he wasn't born in '24 bad.

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I saw WSMFP at Edgars


Aug 6, 2015, 3:28 PM

1988 in front of like 6 people. We were flabbergasted at how good it was. Next show there were 400 people at what I think may have been The Zoo back then

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