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Woodstock, Coach’s ‘Front Porch,’ Hair, & Franklin Street
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donbosco
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“As a freshman showing up in Everett Dorm on North Campus in August of 1976 the sophomores and juniors gathered us first years and marched us directly to ‘Kirkpatrick’s Bar’ on Rosemary Street. It became my #1 drinking spot. I got to know Tim and his two bartenders, both named Mike. Mike Rogers was the full name of one and Bledsoe the other (I remembered).
‘Kirk’s’ sold beer for 55 cents a can and had good pinball as well as Galaga, one of the new “digital” games. Tim Kirkpatrick kept a good jukebox. The crowd at ‘Kirk’s’ did spill out the door and into the space in the front of the bar. There was a goodly amount of parking and in the back there was a brushy area centering on a tree where people went to smoke out. It was called the Magic Tree.
Next door to ‘Kirk’s’ was The Shack. A guy everyone called ‘Wheaties’ (because he was small and bespectacled and looked like he needed to “eat his Wheaties”) owned and worked the placed. There was a jukebox at The Shack too but it was stocked with the type of music that fraternity boys and sorority girls listened to…essentially East Coast Rhythm and Blues performed by African American bands. The ‘Fratty-baggers’ and the ‘sorority Sues’ danced a style called The Shag to that kind of music.
In The Shack there was a Bowling Game in which the players tossed a puck down the lane - there were several games one could set up and one was called 33-33. “
There’s probably a lot more there that needs explaining.
“As a freshman showing up in Everett Dorm on North Campus in August of 1976 the sophomores and juniors gathered us first years and marched us directly to ‘Kirkpatrick’s Bar’ on Rosemary Street. It became my #1 drinking spot. I got to know Tim and his two bartenders, both named Mike. Mike Rogers was the full name of one and Bledsoe the other (I remembered).
‘Kirk’s’ sold beer for 55 cents a can and had good pinball as well as Galaga, one of the new “digital” games. Tim Kirkpatrick kept a good jukebox. The crowd at ‘Kirk’s’ did spill out the door and into the space in the front of the bar. There was a goodly amount of parking and in the back there was a brushy area centering on a tree where people went to smoke out. It was called the Magic Tree.
Next door to ‘Kirk’s’ was The Shack. A guy everyone called ‘Wheaties’ (because he was small and bespectacled and looked like he needed to “eat his Wheaties”) owned and worked the placed. There was a jukebox at The Shack too but it was stocked with the type of music that fraternity boys and sorority girls listened to…essentially East Coast Rhythm and Blues performed by African American bands. The ‘Fratty-baggers’ and the ‘sorority Sues’ danced a style called The Shag to that kind of music.
In The Shack there was a Bowling Game in which the players tossed a puck down the lane - there were several games one could set up and one was called 33-33. “
There’s probably a lot more there that needs explaining.
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