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When I was there in the late ‘70’s:
Papa Joe’s….peanut shells all over the floor!
Shrimp Boat… best fried chicken around!
Fifth Quarter out on Broad … great hangout after the game … could often see your favorite football star!
Poss’ Barbecue… great deck on the roof for hanging out and right across from the freshman dorms!
O’Malley’s.. decks over-looking the river… by far my favorite!
There was a place on Alps which served pitchers of Sangria… but can’t remember the name
Schlotzsky’s got its start then … we thought we were in heaven… best sandwiches around!
And Krystal’s … for those late nights!
Mostly gone but well-remembered!
O’Malley’s ‘Drink N Drown’ night… (Wednesdays? 🤔)… best place to cruise for girls! 😉
Thursday nights was beer and those peanuts in the shell at Papa Joe’s (after Chapter meetings… yes, I was a frat boy).
Friday nights… The Mad Hatter Ballroom had a great little house band called… REM (!!!) $5 cover… and ‘slam dancing’… !!!
What was the bar/restaurant on Baxter…? two stories tall… Papa Joe’s moved there after it closed down… Harry’s maybe?
The sangria place was still doing its thing when I got there… don’t recall the name…
A buddy of mine worked at Rocky's in the mid-80's. They had good pizza.
Great times for sure! Love the memories at O’Malley’s ……don’t remember the restaurant to which you are referring, but I am glad that it’s not just me remembering the pitchers of Sangria!
There was also a pretty cool little piano bar near the Sangria place whose name also escapes me…..but it was a rather calmer, nicer place to go …. about when Billy Joel’s “Piano Man” came out which made it fun!
Got to wonder how a place like O'Malley's, in a great college town like Athens would ever go out of business 😕.
Destin Mellow Mushroom closed. Sad.
We use to go to Mellow in Suwanee. Very good pizza and I loved their Spinach Salad w/candied walnuts. Much better than what I'm use to in Georgia with chain Pizza joints like Pizza Hut, Marcos, and Pappa John's. Probably need to drive over to Athens or down to Atlanta to find good Pizza.
Being from Chicago, they have some great Pizza joints both thin and thick crust. And while I didn't grow up with thick crust, Gino's East in Chicago on East Superior was awesome. At least it was back in the 80's.
Old style Pizza joint with ovens in the basement and wooden tables in the restaurant. Peoples names carved into the tables.
Growing up I thought pizza was chef boyer d in a box, didn't have real pizza until in my 20 s.
I was a poor boy on scholly in the mid 70's. There was a place called Alice's Crazy Corner Restaurant (a table and chairs were attached to the ceiling) for a meat and 3, and a kind of boarding house cafeteria with the same that had good cornbread, whose name I don't recall. I was much slimmer then, too. I don't even recall eating pizza that wasn't delivered during my time in Athens. I did eat at a Mellow Mushroom in Greenville, SC a time or two.
Is that on Baxter? If so, I remember when it opened across the street from Papa Joe’s (old location). 👍
Sons of Italy near 5 Points (Milledge Ave/Lumpkin intersection) was the best pizza in Athens in the 80s. Expensive for college students but great, even met a group from Clemson once that drove down just to eat pizza there!
Other favorites from 1982-86:
-Classic Sub Shop across from Brumby.
-The Taco Stand on Prince Ave.
-Western Steer $1.99 Wednesday night Steerburger special with all-u-can-eat salad bar.
-Bennigans tavern for nice date with fern bar atmosphere
Funny true story about Shrimp Boat: we’re in there one night with guys from Myers Dorm and looking at a UGA Girls Gymnastics poster while waiting for our order.
Guys being guys, we start choosing which gymnast is the cutest. I put my finger on one and say loudly, “I like HER the best!” Then, we hear a high-pitched voice behind us say, “You guys should come watch one of our gymnastics meets sometime.” I turn around, still with my finger pointing to her picture, AND it’s that EXACT girl standing behind us!!!” Red-faced, but at least glad I hadn’t said anything bad, I put my hand down.
That’s hilarious!
Great college “foot in mouth” story! 🤭
Well did you go to a meet?
It is (or was) indeed.
I recall Sons’ of Italy… my first time sampling pineapple and Canadian bacon pizza! 😬
Am I right that Son’s and Steve’s were close/next to each other?!? Regardless, there was many a time I’d get a hot sub at one and then walk over and get a pie at the other.
And don’t get me started on the Davinci’s marinara sauce…used to ask for extra and just sip it with a spoon.
Those we’re the days, surrounded by endless eats, my stomach was cast iron, extended into my legs and I could metabolize errthing I ate without ending up looking like a stick with a big azzed goiter at my middle!
(here ends cloud-telling old man reminiscense).
Go easy on Mellow pizzas y’all…they caused a severe gluten allergy for my wife who worked there in college. Now I suffer too…second hand lol
Yeah, they were on adjacent parcels in 5 points. Steve's had amazing wings served on the large pizza pan.