No, not the Diamond Dawgs, more of a flashback moment, similar to yesterday’s post.
There’s a pretty good article on Fan Buzz about T.K. Harty’s, in case you’re not too familiar. As a teaser, here’s a quote:
No place in SEC, however, contains the chilling and eerie backstory like that of T.K. Harty’s Saloon in Athens.
Reminisce, Refugees.
I was there with a group and one of our friends slipped coming down the wet stairs. She wasn’t hurt badly but, when I went a told the bartender and he just blew me off. Needless to say I got all up in his shit!
Many, many vague memories of Zoo Night.
it’s weird this came up today. I was in Athens last week for a conference. Decided to drive around some of the old haunts, most of which are gone. The B&L, gone. O’Malley’s is now the UGA school of social work (but the deck remains!), the Odyssey is something else. Finally rode down to where TK’s was, and it’s actually a grass field.The Station is still there, as a part of the Athens Council on Aging. If you look uphill from there toward downtown, they seem to be building another giant condo development. I have a picture of me and a friend having a beer at TK’s the day we found out we had passed the bar, which was 43 years ago last week. Time sure does fly.
Always considered O’Malleys a great place do social work….GO DAWGS!!
It was great when the Jesters would play when the students had left for break. I still have an O’Malleys Health Club decal on the windshield of my 66 Chevy Truck!
Odyessy…is that now the Nowhere bar or somewhere else? It was a regular spot in the day.
yes, it’s the nowhere bar. Back in 81, it was actually owned by a local attorney named Bubba Head. Some time later in the 80s, Bubba became way more famous for being probably the top DUI specialist attorney in Georgia.
Don’t forget the 5th Quarter. It’s amazing that there were not a bunch of folks that got run over stumbling out into the Atlanta Hwy.
How could I forget the 5Q? I learned about Waylon and Willie there, and the greatness of David Allen Coe. I suppose I should have mentioned Cooper’s, too. Only went there a few times, but the fishbowl glasses were always ice cold.
I knew it as Hoyt Street Station in the early 90’s. Saw Dave Matthew’s there at least once. Now costs a gazillion dollars to watch on a Jumbotron in a stadium. Told my wife I will never pay that kind of money for someone I saw for 5 bucks at a bar.
Great title for post. Most great nights in Athens started with one guy saying to the other, “Let’s go to ——— for a pitcher or two.”
Steverino’s, Little Italy, Mexicali…all places where two turned into four or five back in my day.
Steverino’s especially caused me to have a very screwed up perception of the cost of a pitcher of beer out in the real world.
My high school crowd used to spend quite a bit of time there and at Somebody’s back when the drinking age was 18 and nobody asked for an ID if you looked old enough.
My wife didn’t work for TK, but she did work foe another business that was there (no restaurant or bar connection). TK was always stopping by as if he owned the place, and she really disliked him. When it happened we were in Oklahoma visiting her grandfather, but when we got back we visiting some friends on Milledge and in conversation someone brought up the killing. We did not know about it until it was brought up and the first words out my wife’s mouth was “Hey we were out of town and can prove it.”
Dawgs are getting killed!
11-0 in the second.
Fortunately, it is best 2 out of 3. Maybe NC State used up all their luck today.