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UncleMark
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Posted by: @ams66

Remember Pancho's Villa? (dating myself)

That was one of my favorites. I was totally bummed when they closed.

 


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Posted : 01/27/2026 8:44 pm
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jj_mcClure
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Bandido’s was a great one.  My first love before Chi-Chi’s.


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Posted : 01/27/2026 11:14 pm
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Hoosiers94
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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. 

 


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Topic starter Posted : 01/28/2026 8:10 am
Hoosiers94
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@jj_mcclure 

where was that at ?


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Topic starter Posted : 01/28/2026 8:12 am
OneEyedUndertaker
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Posted by: @hoosiers94

Posted by: @oneeyedundertaker

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…

 


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Posted : 01/28/2026 8:14 am
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@hoosiers94 Roscoe's Records?


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Posted : 01/28/2026 12:44 pm
Hoosiers94
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@ams66 

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 


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Topic starter Posted : 01/28/2026 1:41 pm
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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.


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Posted : 01/28/2026 1:50 pm
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Hoosiers94
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@ams66 

Tracks Records was the name


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Topic starter Posted : 01/28/2026 3:01 pm
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@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.


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Posted : 01/28/2026 4:06 pm
jj_mcClure
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@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.


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Posted : 01/28/2026 6:31 pm
Hoosiers94
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Posted by: @ams66

@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 

 


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Topic starter Posted : 01/29/2026 9:38 am
Hoosiers94
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@jj_mcclure 

 

ok. Yes I remember Grisantis 


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Topic starter Posted : 01/29/2026 9:39 am
hooky
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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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Posted : 01/29/2026 10:52 am
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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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