@hooky Yeah I was trying to remember the name of the record store at Crosstown... Wooden Nickel was it.
Crosstown was a great spot. Pizza Express, Penguin, Dagwoods, Wooden Nickel, Barber shop, a drug store, and a bunch of other stuff I'm forgetting.
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Wasn't Dagwoods over by Garcia's pizza?
Does Ozarka records sound familiar? This shop was more of a hippie /Dead shop than the other stores.
Wasn't Dagwoods over by Garcia's pizza?
There was also a location in Crosstown.
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Does Ozarka records sound familiar? This shop was more of a hippie /Dead shop than the other stores.
I think that was the White Rabbit when I was there. It was next to Spaceport, which was on the corner of Indiana and Kirkwood.
Discount Den is another possibility or maybe Dharma.
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@ams66 I loved Pancho Villas! Lived up the street on Walnut and could walk there in 84'-85'. The hilarious thing to me is that their beer special on tap was that famous Mexican brew: Molson Golden! $2 pitchers for happy hour that year and everything on the menu was half off on Sundays from like 4-6 or something. You could also help yourself to chips and salsa when you got there, and I can remember dying while waiting on our pitcher to arrive after a bunch of their hot salsa. Paid for many pitchers there with change. We watched the '85 Nova v Gtown championship game there.
PS, found a facebook group called "Remembering Pancho Villas - Bloomington IN" . Says it closed on '87.
@hooky Forgot about Dharma Emporium, I bet that's the place he was thinking of for bootlegs.
awesome. Thanks for the link. My older son is a freshman at Purdue. I'll have to hit it up when I'm down there. Yes it's hard to have a son at Purdue. Real hard. :).
I had the same situation.......son wanted to be an engineer, and Purdue wanted to give him some nice $....what are you gonna do? Worst thing was, my wife made me wear a Purdue shirt 'in support' sometimes when we visited. I never wore one outside of W.L., and never since he graduated. As I was kind of incognito, I was shocked at just how much Purdue fans & alums hated IU.....much more than vice versa in Bloomington....
He never was a big IU fan growing up as we struggled so much is both football & basketball, so once he went to Purdue he converted....he's not as huge a sports fan as I, so it's not problematic, but it is awkward sometimes.
My daughter went to Ball State...never had any problem wearing BSU merchandise. I still wear some of that.
It was very interesting spending 7 years in B Ton (2 decrees) then spending so much time at Purdue & BSU!!
ok that makes me feel more sane, hearing it closed in 87. I got there in 90 and I just couldn't remember it.
@hooky Forgot about Dharma Emporium, I bet that's the place he was thinking of for bootlegs.
Last time I paid attention, I think it was an Indian restaurant now. Not sure when Dharma closed up shop.
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oh man I'm living your scenario now. My wife bought me a Purdue sweatshirt too. She also went to IU. She doesn't have one yet and I do. Funny. Some sort of torture she's secretly placing upon me . I've worn it in WL and in the confines of my home once. It's and eery feeling when it's on me. :). My son isn't a big sports fan at all either and IU has been abjectly awful in both sports so to speak his whole life so never took to it. He also got a partial scholarship at Purdue ... for business management nonetheless how that compares against Kelley I'll never know but that's where he wanted to go
If I recall we were there same time. I graduated in 94
We just missed each other. I was 86-90.
Seeing kkott's info on Pancho Villa's explains why I barely remembered the place. Mustards was another one that went under while I was there.
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86-90 for me and man you guys are reminding me of a lot of my old haunts!!