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4 Hams on Rye - never thought I'd hear that name again!

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I actually still have a cassette tape of the Hams. Possibly the only surviving one in existence.

you could smoke in the bars

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I actually still have a cassette tape of the Hams. Possibly the only surviving one in existence.

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Didn't they form another band after they broke up or did 4 hams form from another band?

I remember writing checks for "Five dollars over" at the NG 7-11. Five dollars would buy you six or seven Lone Stars at The Chicken where we would spend all night playing "42".

Double Dave's and their "Global Beer Expert". Are the plaques still there?

Northside dorms were more than just a place to sleep. They were your family. Dorm parties at the KC Hall or at the Q-huts. "No Frats" was more than just a saying back then.

"Grode flicks" at the theater on University were only a $1 for the Thursday midnight showing. Imagine MST3000 for a porn movie and you get a feel for what that was like.

Yell practices at Sbisa during the Friday night dinner.

Steam tunnels...

the judy's!

damn, i really miss tom's bbq. i took the fil there after the ou game in 00 or 01. the next time i tried to go it was closed. very sad.

doing 'the walk' and 'the bump' at The Sports Club in my Oleg Cassini 1000% polyester cuffed bell bottom pants with the platform boots that zipped up the side and a florescent blue polyester shirt with greek ruins on it (tmi X 10^23)

The Peanut Gallery on Wellborn

paying basketball in GRW with Lester Hayes and Sonny Parker

Fajita Rita's and girls in tight Guess jeans.

All the pot heads sold plasma for extra cash to buy dope at a place on Old College Main across from the Church of Christ.

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Didn't they form another band after they broke up or did 4 hams form from another band?

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Not really. The lead singer [Scott] left for California to use his EE degree. That's why they broke up.

Drew [the lead guitar who played Eddie Van Halen's rif behind his head] lost his sex-kitten girlfriend and stayed around CS playing acoustic for a few years. Don't know what happened after that.

Never knew happened to the drummer.

Here's some song titles you might remember.

"Out of My Reach"
"When I Look in Your Eyes"
"You're All That I Need" (my favorite - and Drew sang this)

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The beer barn place was Cargo Bay. I worked there. One of the most fun jobs that I ever had.

I miss "Bladder Buster" at Sneakers on Harvey.
I believe nickel drinks until someone went to the bathroom or left the building.

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Cargo Bay was a mandatory first stop on your way out to Graham's or whatever party you happened to be hitting that night! Awesome place. And Bladder-Buster was the best. Remember how it was always some chick that ruined it for everyone else, and she got booed out of the building? I remember one girl who actually peed her pants rather than go to the bathroom. Now THAT's taking one for the team!

Damn you guys are killing me. I feel so damn old......but Gawd almighty those were the best times. Anyone who missed that time.... your loss.

In 1975 Texas Avenue was a bunch of strip mall businesses

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I was also at the R.E.M. concert.

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Ah the REM concert..... the band at the height of their anti-militarism, playing to a crowd full of CT's and conservatives. Strange bedfellows. And it didnt go over too well from what I remember. Stipe was being a bit antagonistic. Don't think they've ever come back.

Now Four Hams, the Judys, Ten Hands...... THAT's how we rocked it! Sneaky Pete at the Cow Hop. Anyone remember REK playing on the back porch at the Chicken?

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Kroger on SW Parkway sold extremely cheap kegs of Meister Brau...

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Yes they did. $16.99 I'll never forget it because I sent my cheap ass roomie out to get the kegs for our first apartment kegger and that's what he came back with. THE WORST damn tap beer anyone ever made. Oh well we all got our buzz on.... all that counts huh?

Wow, this brings back some memories.

And yes, it was Night Ranger.

$0.39 Archie burgers were S.O.P. on Sunday nights... had to move my car ('72 Olds Delta 88 2-door, white vin top with gold paint) from the Law Hall parking lot to the Fish lot (where the student rec. center is now)... prior to parking it was 5 Archie burgers + fries + soda).

Inflation sucks... bring back Archie's.

Trajan88
TAMU '88
Law Hall (may it R.I.P.) Ramp 9 Mule
fup!

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I was also at the R.E.M. concert.

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I helped build the stage for that concert, Romeo Void opened for REM, Stipe got pissed off because somebody was wearing a halloween mask and he went off on some babbling rant.

RE: "I helped build the stage for that concert, Romeo Void opened for REM, Stipe got pissed off because somebody was wearing a halloween mask and he went off on some babbling rant"

Didn't he pi$$ and moan about sticks being felled for Bonfire? I cannot remember if someone who went to the show told me or if it was in the show's review in the Battalion.

That was one of the subjects he lectured the audience about as he rambled on and on.

Petro, the Global beer Expert Plaques are in the location on the corner of bush and texas. I heard they were once on northgate, is that true?

True. Double Dave's was on University close to Welborn. I think there is a Zapatos Cantina there now?

If I recall, you had to drink 40 different beers to become a "Global Beer Expert". Once you did, you got your name on the plaque, a t-shirt and a free pizza. Then you could shoot for the "Global Beer Master". It took me a couple of months to become an expert not from lack of desire, but rather from a lack of monetary resources. But we had several guys who completed their fourty beers in less than a week. True dedication from some of those guys... If only they had been as dedicated to their studies!

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True. Double Dave's was on University close to Welborn. I think there is a Zapatos Cantina there now?

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yup. i wasnt around in the 80s, but we never got carded at double daves back in 1997.

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Ten Hands

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I almost forgot about them. And About 9 Times, Pushmonkey, Billy Goat, X's for Eyes. CS is due for a live music revival.

I was also at the Cheap Trick/Night Ranger concert.

I have fond memories of:
Youngbloods
Driving Spence street from University to the Commons
West Campus parking
Bonfire
Cow Hop
Aggie basketball at G. Rollie
The Creamery
playing basketball in East Kyle
the Flying Tomato
quadding
registering for classes in the Animal Husbandry building
Piranhacon at the Grove

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I'm guessing Shadow Canyon is now called Daisy Dukes?

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No, that was the Campus Theater (first date with Teacher Wife '82 was there - Stripes). They did show Rocky Horror and Debbie Does Dallas at midnight on occasion. The real porn theater was above Loupot's ("Sun Theater" maybe?)

-The creamery was where the Pavilion is now.
-Casa Tomas was on Texas and had great $1 margaritas on Fridays
-More CTs at Sparky's than The Chicken
-Lakeview was an alternative to HOF
-Tom's BBQ on Texas was actually good w/the butcher paper "plates".
-Not much on University going east beyond Texas Av.
-Mushroom Cowpie w/gries was great



I almost forgot - everything was in black and white. Color didn't come in until sometime after 1990, I believe.

b-1 83,
Campus was small enough you knew people by sight, such as " Roller Skate Girl", and the "Moan and GRoan twins". Campus showed grode every Friday night, and when somebody brought in a date the whoel place stood up and clapped. Every movie was interactive, not just Rocky Horror", and comments were yelled out at appropriate times - spent more time laughing than watching movie. Remember?

Ah...... the Moan and Groan twins. One of my seniors "knew" them ..... at the same time the legend goes.

Who can forget Mr.Hardwick spanking Debbie and the interactive "clapping" and "Wipe your face!"

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I'm surprised no one has mentioned Zephyr's

MC-squared

I saw Cheap Trick, Night Ranger and Huey Louis & the News at GRW.

Waited in line for 3 days for '85 / '86 Cotton bowl tickets

Hall of Flame

Los Nortenos

Cow Hop at Northgate

Flying Tomato

Deluxe Burger Bar

Fajita Ritas

Gizmo's

Woody getting drunk and peeing on himself at the Chicken.

Good times.

On Thursday nights there were so many people in front of Duddley's that traffic was down to two lanes. The '80's were great. STDs werent as prevalent...

Had forgotten all about Woody!

MC2 was much better during their Eastgate days than after they moved into their fancy digs.

1985 football season was magical. Seems like in order for us to have had a shot at the Cotton Bowl, multiple things had to happen. Arkansas had to beat Baylor, tu had to beat Arkansas and then we had to beat tu if I recall. 42-10 at Kyle and the loudest game I have ever attended.

Those 3-4 days waiting in line to buy Cotton Bowl tickets were classic. Somewhere at home I still have pictures of all the tents, beds, people, etc. Waiting in that line would have been worth it even if I hadn't bought tickets to the game. But watching us make our defensive goal line stand against Bo Jackson to win the game made the wait in line that much more worth it!

no cell phones
no internet
no laptop computers

everything shut down at midnight

aTm machines were limited. You cashed a check at the MSC and learned the meaning of a what they taught you in the pre Mays days - float. Took 14 days for a check to go from the MSC to the home bank on the high plains. You had time to recover from the party and wait for that Sunday night call home because of long distance charges to tell the folks you needed a little extra, and Dad had til Midweek to get to the bank. Kids, do not try this at home now.

Cargo Bay, indeed!. I loved that place. I could buy five cases of beer and five bags of ice and never get out of the truck. Of course the girlfriend (whoever it was at the time)would always get a daquari for the road and I would have to finish it for her. Not much of a problem with the open contain law back then.

The Chicken played country music - on records (they are round pieces of plastic).

Plenty of parking around the corps dorms without any garages, but it didn't matter unless I wanted to get crapped out (blackbelts had to park across the tracks).

The pre-renovation Corps dorms where you could wake up every room above and below you by kicking the pipes at the heat/ac unit.

The girls from the Commons laying out on Gator beach.

If I knew then what I know now, my grades would have been just as bad.

Re: "registering for classes in the Animal Husbandry building"

Anyone remember using computer punch cards to register...? Turn in a card(s) and wait overnight to find out if you did/didn't get the class/time you wanted.

If memory serves... I believe I ordered my Aggie ring (10k rose, no diamond) in that building... picked it up at the Clayton William AoFS building (may have been the first ring disbursment at the then new building).

Regarding eateries: Partner's Hamburgers... was in a store front at East gate... they delivered on campus... very good bull... cash or check only... no Aggie Bucks.


Trajan88
TAMU '88
Law Hall (may it R.I.P.) Ramp 9 Mule
fup!

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The girls back then wore Rockies jeans. You talk about showing off some curves!