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Ah yes, CLUB BUCA! What a place that was. I remember going to MP O'Reilly's in the CWE on Thursday nights quite a bit our senior year. I also remember Dante's and a club opening up briefly in that church looking building adjacent to Urban Chestnut. There wasn't much within walking distance when we were upperclassmen.

I believe Dantes closed after someone was shot there. Now it is LIT
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Didn't they buy that abandoned church on the corner of Kingshighway and McPherson (I might be wrong on the cross-street)? I'd heard they were going to renovate it and put their brewing operation there with a taproom or full brewpub, but that it had been taking a while to come up with the millions necessary to do so.

They did. Nothing has been done to the building, however. I get the impression they don't have deep pockets, don't know what they're doing, or both.

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Now Talayna's is a former stip club turned shady bar where many students go around 1am and stay until close. Man that place is fun to people watch if you're not ###### up. But to go there you really should be ###### up

Mike Talayna's has been there for a long time. It's been various other things before it's current name (I remember a previous one with a hockey stick on the sign), although I'm not sure it was really ever a strip club. It just looks like that. Cocaine is a hell of a drug.

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The Landing was pretty cool back in the day. Unfortunately, the stupid casino tore down Mississippi Nights and the old Harpo's. There was also a club called Kennedy's, where I recall seeing Uncle Tupelo, The Urge and other good local bands.

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Mike Talayna's has been there for a long time. It's been various other things before it's current name (I remember a previous one with a hockey stick on the sign), although I'm not sure it was really ever a strip club. It just looks like that. Cocaine is a hell of a drug.

Schmiezing's?

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Schmiezing's?

Yes! And then it had another name briefly before Talayna's. It was dumb looking, like a comic sans font over a hockey stick and had a really bad name.

But it was definitely Shmiezing's when I was a kid. I remember the sign.

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I'm sure it was him. Did he also have cigarettes and a 'handler' of sorts? Because that other guy was my brother. He did his best to keep the guy in the wheelchair from starting fights, and was his caretaker back in his dorm room in Fusz. The guy in question lost almost all of his mobility due to a car accident in high school. Flipped his car on a highway ramp when it was rainy. His life was a struggle after that. He passed a couple years ago.

Thats the guy. He was smoking and kept flicking ashes at some girls we were with. When one of them asked him to stop, he got angry and basically ran into them with his chair. Then when I called him a timely description of his physical ability and what I assumed he did with his mouth, he ran into me too. I figured there was no good look for me at that point, so I just ignored him as much as possible. Then someone he was with tried to calm him down and get him away. He smashed his wheelchair into a wall in Coronado by the elevator and put a hole in it. Someone after the fact told us the story about like high school athlete, kinda dick head to begin with, extra after being crippled, and so on..

Talayna's was a karaoke stop when I was there. Is it still?

What was the place over by the med campus called? It was only open a year maybe. I remember some of the sororities would have parties there. Multi level. Tucked back in to the east of Grand on some random side street.

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Thats the guy. He was smoking and kept flicking ashes at some girls we were with. When one of them asked him to stop, he got angry and basically ran into them with his chair. Then when I called him a timely description of his physical ability and what I assumed he did with his mouth, he ran into me too. I figured there was no good look for me at that point, so I just ignored him as much as possible. Then someone he was with tried to calm him down and get him away. He smashed his wheelchair into a wall in Coronado by the elevator and put a hole in it. Someone after the fact told us the story about like high school athlete, kinda dick head to begin with, extra ###### after being crippled, and so on..

Talayna's was a karaoke stop when I was there. Is it still?

What was the place over by the med campus called? It was only open a year maybe. I remember some of the sororities would have parties there. Multi level. Tucked back in to the east of Grand on some random side street.

That is definitely our guy. He went to Chaminade, but I don't recall him being an athlete. He was always a dick head, but endlessly entertaining once you knew him.

Was that the Clubhouse or something like that? I work near there frequently and I think there is still a bar there.

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Rossinos on Sarah for those who had any money left after paying for tuition back in the day where people could get construction jobs in summer and pay two semester tuition

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The Landing was pretty cool back in the day. Unfortunately, the stupid casino tore down Mississippi Nights and the old Harpo's. There was also a club called Kennedy's, where I recall seeing Uncle Tupelo, The Urge and other good local bands.

It started to really fade when the national chains started to move in big time. Bar took over Kennedy's, Planet Hollywood opened, Rum Jungle opened, Fat Tuesday's opened, The Big Bang took over LaFite's, Banana Joe's took over Alligator Alley's space and America's Pub took over the Bommer's space. Rents shot up, prices went up and local music vanished accept for certain nights at Mississippi Nights. The casino doing away with Mississippi Nights, Rivers and Harpos delivered the final death blow.

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That is definitely our guy. He went to Chaminade, but I don't recall him being an athlete. He was always a dick head, but endlessly entertaining once you knew him.

Was that the Clubhouse or something like that? I work near there frequently and I think there is still a bar there.

Definitely not an athlete. Class clown. Was a total disturber before the accident. I definitely see how he got under people's skin. He was wild before his accident, and then afterwards went about life like he didn't give a - and he didn't, mostly. You definitely had to know him. Your description of events sounds totally believable, JMM28.

Lot of places I'd forgotten being mentioned now - Morgan Street for those cheap pitchers, and how could I forget "Rum Jungle Rum Jungle Rum Jungle!"?

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I thought I'd remembered this, and I just found some documentation: 20 North was known as The Loading Zone at least into the late '70s. I wanna say at least early '80s, but I can't find anything more to verify that.

Kennedy's was a darn good restaurant before it started to club-ify. There was also a joint down the street called, I think, 2nd Street Fish Market -- one of the better seafood places in town back then.

The one Landing spot that hasn't been mentioned is legendary, almost mythical. It faced the elevated part of 70 and was called Cafe Louie. It was a major hangout after hours for MAC types, plus all the guys from Streckfus, including the captain of the Admiral, seemed to be permanent fixtures. There was this old waiter guy named Robert whose parents were freed slaves. That was absolutely my go-to underage restaurant. It was frequented by a bunch of cops, plus the MAC guys, so it was basically "protected." I think I had my first drink in there when I was 15.

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We went to Soulard sometimes, and actually went to the Landing a fair amount. There was some dumb place there (Buca Lounge, maybe?) that did an all-you-can-drink extended happy hour and if you went, you put your name in for the following week and could be eligible to 'win' the privilege again. So if you brought a group, you could get this dirt-cheap drunk fest every week, pretty much. And by the time it started turning into a dance club with full-price drinks for the night, we'd split.

Driving is the problem. There's no substitute for getting shitfaced at Humphrey's and Laclede's and walking across the street to get home. No one wants to be the DD. AND WE DIDN'T HAVE UBER IN MY DAY, EITHER.

I think most early SLU-related facebook posts were girls saying "Hey I won a free all you can drink deal at Buca who wants to come!"

And yeah - getting back from Buca was either a drunk drive, expensive taxi, or potential mugging on the metro.

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