Remember Pancho's Villa? (dating myself)
That was one of my favorites. I was totally bummed when they closed.
Bandido’s was a great one. My first love before Chi-Chi’s.
ABSOLUTELY. Not sure how good it really was, but it was satisfying at the time. I was trying to remember the other day, was the Den both upstairs & down at one point in the early 90’s before La Bamba I distinctly remember buying bootleg CD’s upstairs….
I don't remember. Maybe. But there was a better bootleg shop up by upstairs pub. Can't remember the name of it but it was more hippied out than the den.
ABSOLUTELY. Not sure how good it really was, but it was satisfying at the time. I was trying to remember the other day, was the Den both upstairs & down at one point in the early 90’s before La Bamba I distinctly remember buying bootleg CD’s upstairs….
I don't remember. Maybe. But there was a better bootleg shop up by upstairs pub. Can't remember the name of it but it was more hippied out than the den.
Maybe that’s what I’m thinking of - just remember getting bootlegs in an upstairs shop down there…
that's not ringing a bell. Let me ask a round. I have a buddy who will remember
although I do think there was a Roscoe's
Heck yeah! Burritos the size of your head! Great late night drunk food and they seemed to focus on college towns. I thought that was a sure fire business model. I was really surprised when I heard a few ago that they were closing down locations all over.
@hoosiers94 Roscoes was upstairs at Kirkwood and Dunn. They had a program where if you bought a record and a blank cassette tape you could return the record for a refund within 5 or 7 days, somthing like that. So it was a way to tape a lot of music for only the cost of the tapes.
I don't remember if Tracks was in that space after Roscoe's closed. There is still a place called Tracks on Kirkwood but on the North side next to Nicks now.
@hoosiers94 I think it was over in the College Mall area, but I was pretty young so my recollection may be slightly off. I think it wasn’t too far from Mama Grisanti’s, if you remember that place. Grisanti’s was around much longer and was still hanging on during my senior year at IU.
@hoosiers94 Roscoes was upstairs at Kirkwood and Dunn. They had a program where if you bought a record and a blank cassette tape you could return the record for a refund within 5 or 7 days, somthing like that. So it was a way to tape a lot of music for only the cost of the tapes.
I don't remember if Tracks was in that space after Roscoe's closed. There is still a place called Tracks on Kirkwood but on the North side next to Nicks now.
I think you're right. The one next to Nicks was called street side when it first opened. And then tracks moved into it once street side closed. Both used to be up by upstairs pub
Tracks is where it has always been, I believe. That's where I bought the Led Zep box set in 90 as my graduation gift to myself. LOL
Wooden Nickle at Crosstown was a great record store too, just off the beaten path.
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@hooky Yeah I was trying to remember the name of the record store at Crosstown... Wooden Nickel was it.
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