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JD The Jazz Doctor · Grand Poobah

Your old hang out!

Mocrzy · Patient Zero

I'm tryiing to think back as to where the hangouts were, but I think I was too Busy w/ after school activities to "Hang out"...College though...that's another story, Nick's English Hut in Bloomington IN. 'Sink the Biz', Indy Sports on TV, Buckets, and Italian Stroms w/ Miller Lite...Doesn't get better than that at IU.

Somechick · Chairwoman Of The Board

It depended who I was with. If it were my work friends, we'd all hang out at work at the movie theatre in Menomonee Falls. Even If it were my high school friends, we normally hung out at the pizza hut in Hartford.

Now..that theatre is gone and I haven't been to a Pizza Hut in some 8 or 9 years.

Those places never cared if we sat around, which was really cool.

JD The Jazz Doctor · Grand Poobah

Ah yes- college!

The UW Milwaukee had this little dark place downstairs in the student union called the Gasthaus that served pitchers of beer and sandwhiches. They were real lax on carding students. In fact I actually failed an afternoon Mythology class cuz all my friends were hanging down there at the jukebox with beer. That was more fun!

I went back to visit the university last year for a lecture and went down to The Gasthaus for old times sake. TOTALLY REDONE! ITS BRIGHT, BIG SCREEN TVS, MANY MORE BEERS TO CHOOSE FROM. Didn't even recognize the place!

A couple of blocks from the house I grew up in there was a bar called Tomters that some friends and I would go to. It used to be a biker bar, then it turned into a low-key dance club. We had a friend who was a bartender so that worked out all too well. THen it became a hip-hop club and there was a shooting. ANd now its a day care center. weird.

Somechick · Chairwoman Of The Board

Ahh the Gasthaus!! I would hit there before my psych. class senior year. I don't remember much of that psych class thanks to the Gasthaus.

Zim · Chairwoman Of The Board

The 80s hangout for us was Skate Haven... although that was probably more middle school than high school. I didn't have a high school hang out, really. Now college.... it was a rural college so most of the time it was whichever hallway was the loudest. That or finding out which off campus house was having a party, and lastly the little rinky dink bar known as The Green Door just up the road which often would be lax on the ID checking. 'Course I don't know if the bar even exists anymore, I know the college has gone much more academic since I was there!

Mocrzy · Patient Zero

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Originally posted by: JD The Jazz Doctor
The UW Milwaukee had this little dark place downstairs in the student union called the Gasthaus that served pitchers of beer and sandwhiches. They were real lax on carding students. In fact I actually failed an afternoon Mythology class cuz all my friends were hanging down there at the jukebox with beer. That was more fun! I went back to visit the university last year for a lecture and went down to The Gasthaus for old times sake. TOTALLY REDONE! ITS BRIGHT, BIG SCREEN TVS, MANY MORE BEERS TO CHOOSE FROM. Didn't even recognize the place!

Same typue of thing happened at IU. Our Memorial Union had this place in it called the Commons. It had that traditional college meeting place type feel, with the heavy dark wood all around, & filled with IU & Big Ten Memorabilia. If you ever watch the movie "Breaking Away"(it's all about the Indiana University Little 500 Bike Race), The scene where 'stoney' Dennis Quaid gets into a fight with a college kid, It was filmed in the Commons.

Anyway, Went home one summer & when I came back, it was gone...replaced by the tile & sterile white wall of a Burger King Express....Ugh...looked horrible, & so much tradition lost...

Date: Thu Jan 6 15:10 2005

I loved Gasthaus as well. Don't laugh but we loved the Ground Round, Park Avenue and Sally's.

Somechick · Chairwoman Of The Board

There is nothing wrong with the Ground Round, other than they aren't in Milwaukee anymore.

Sigh..

JD The Jazz Doctor · Grand Poobah

Yea I remember liking Park Avenue too! :)

StevieB · Chairman Of The Board

My favorite high school place to hang out was the fire hall and Stromboli Land. Do you know what strombolis are? Out here in Idaho they call them something like Calzones. In fact, that sounds good right about now at 9:30pm. Hmmmmm !!!!

ScottinTx · Veteran Member

My old hangout was 36th street in NewPort Beach California. After a long surf session. my buddies and I would hang out on the beach and talk with the beach babes and try to find out where the parties were that night. OH THOSE WERE THE DAYS !!!! Surfin' , Drinkin' , and Talkin' to the ladies. Now it's WORK , KIDS , AND MORE WORK. All in Dallas none the less.

Jeremy Riggs · 2011 Super Bowl Champions!

Sounds like you were living a REAL LIFE O.C.!!! Cool! If the women are anything like the ones on the show you must have kept pretty busy :)

ScottinTx · Veteran Member

No doubt, I did keep pretty busy. The women were hot. Infact I married one. I don't watch much TV, so I can't compare them to the show. But I would bet there is a pretty close similarity.

JD The Jazz Doctor · Grand Poobah

Another old topic to bring back out to the front to get fresh postings on!

Jeremy Riggs · 2011 Super Bowl Champions!

Awwwww, this old post was last answered by ScottinTX. I wonder how ol' Scotty is doing these days.

JD The Jazz Doctor · Grand Poobah

p.s. for some of you "kids" the hang out doesn't have to be from the 80's- this topic was created back when Freeze Frame was plugging itself as primarily an 80's station- we've come A LONG WAY from that in the last 6+ months!!

Trish · The Procrastinating Red-Head

We used to hang out at Lakeside Village in North Little Rock. They had a fountain in the center and it was set up so that it could be a small ampitheatre. It was great for rolling down because everyone would start at one end, lay down and roll down the hill and meet at the bottom in a big clump. Surprisingly, there was no alcohol involved! We had a blast "rollin' lakeside". There was also a playground nearby and we would play on it at around 11 p.m. when none of the kids were around. Nothing beats a good swing at 11 p.m. on a Saturday night!

WFTR · Prophet of the Posts

It depended on which crowd I was hanging with. With my actor freinds, it was a restaurant called Culpepper's (gone). Loose on carding and didn't mind if we hung around a while, we we're the only ones using the dance floor!

With my buds it was a pool hall called Little English (not sure if it's still there). Great place, just don't buy a car stereo from the owner.

With my geeky freinds it was one guys basement for D&D or Gasthaus Zur Krone on 2nd & National in Milwaukee when we cruised up for Gen Con in the summer. I also bent my reality in Heggarty's at Marquette a few times. Piano Man!

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

My friends and I used to hang out after school at the school, armed with a video camera and the editing room. That was dangerous.

And then at night, I would go to an all ages live music cafe. The crowd wasn't usually my type, but there was good coffee and live music and a really nice owner. A lot of the guys would hit on me and it annoyed the hell out of me, but I kept going anyway (I guess I liked the attention). And then one day, this pretty cute guy came over and started talking to me, and he didn't hit on me once and we had a decent conversation. The next time I came in, he came over and we had another good, intelligent conversation. So, the next time I went in, I went over to him and started conversation. Fast forward about 7 or 8 years, and now I'm married to him!

star · The Goddess Of Gab

Dude Wefmeister -

You used to hang at MU bars!! Ofcourse that was way before my time, but cool!!

My hangouts??
In college we used to frequent a place called Nick's nicabob for it's awesome karaoke. You Milwaukeans should check it out. But usually I went where the karaokee was until we got our own machine. Then I just sang at home all the time - I loved that karaokee machine.