@hoosiers94 Maybe Bass? Pretty sure the dark is Guinness but haven't been there in a while.
Big Wheel, where was it? Don't remember the location. I was a traveling man and used to catch RMK in there late at night on several occasions. Got to Bloomington 2 - 3 times a year. About the 3rd or 4th time he seemed to acknowledge my presence as he was getting up to leave and we'd made eye contact. I nodded my head. Happened couple times after that. We never spoke. He didn't so I didn't. I imagine Big Wheel is long gone. Used to be a lot of them in Indiana and other Great Lakes locations.
@hoosier-clarion Big Wheel was on College just south of the intersection with the 46 bypass. After they closed there was a Steak-n-Shake there but that's been closed for several years now and is boarded up and looking pretty bad so will probably get torn down at some point.
Thanks that brought it back. Makes sense, Steak and Shake originally owned or bought the S&S chain.
We try to make the last weekend home stand at the Bart every year. That's usually after the semester is over. We stay downtown and Saturday evening is almost always sitting outside at Crazy horse, then Sunday morning is breakfast at the spoon. You can't beat Bloomington in the summer.
Hangover cure at the spoon.
Reason for the hangover
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@hoosier-clarion yeah big wheel is gone it got turned into Colorado steakhouse my junior year in 92 I think
ah man yes. Opie Taylor's! And the Barrel!!
I couldn't tell you if video is still open.I used to love the Peanut Barrel, so much so that there were several of us that tried to buy it.
The running joke on the watercooler on the old site was that we should pool our money and buy the Irish Lion when it went up for sale. They weren't selling the IP, so we would name the new place The Irish Loin.
Loved it when Dave(?) the bartender would get up on stage & sing Neil Young songs when someone was playing live. Had a couple of buddies that bartended there & were friends with the owner…
Crazy Horse on Thursday nights for 1/2 price black and tans was always a good one
It wasn't Harp and Guinness though. Can't remember what brand they served.
Bass I think?
nope. Did some research.. it was Tuxedo Tuesday... Michelob dark and regular michelob.
Yeah the Lion closing really bummed me out. Went there a lot. Loved drinking yards of black and tans. Actually loved the food as well luckily while my daughter was there we went there just about every time we visited her. Crying shame that no one was able to step up and keep it going.
The knuckleheads could have sold and kept it going had they not insisted on not selling the IP, among other stipulations. The talk among a number of Coolerites was serious.
@unclemark Probably but that building is in bad shape. Really old, doesn't meet code in a variety of ways, just a money pit waiting for that one thing to happen that triggers the need for a full upgrade.
ah man yes. Opie Taylor's! And the Barrel!!
I couldn't tell you if video is still open.I used to love the Peanut Barrel, so much so that there were several of us that tried to buy it.
The running joke on the watercooler on the old site was that we should pool our money and buy the Irish Lion when it went up for sale. They weren't selling the IP, so we would name the new place The Irish Loin.
Loved it when Dave(?) the bartender would get up on stage & sing Neil Young songs when someone was playing live. Had a couple of buddies that bartended there & were friends with the owner…
I don't remember a Dave or a bartender that would sing Young songs. Was there a bartender named Jerry? That rings a bell. This would have been 89 and 90, as I turned 21 during finals in the fall semester of '88. Prior to that, I would have used a fake ID at Hooligans if I was going to a bar.
Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for. - Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and likely Hoosier basketball fan.
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@unclemark Probably but that building is in bad shape. Really old, doesn't meet code in a variety of ways, just a money pit waiting for that one thing to happen that triggers the need for a full upgrade.
Yeah, that was part of the calculus. Regardless, no one was interested in buying the Irish Lion if it wasn't going to continue as the Irish Lion. Doesn't look like the old man (and his son) have had any luck unloading it, and it's been what, three years or more?
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