You can still see part of the brick wall where it sat on the map. Brings back good memories.
It's visible on street view too, but I didn't want to invade any privacy.
The Landing
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It's visible on street view too, but I didn't want to invade any privacy.
Prior to it being the Landing,it was called The Triangle Club ( TC) and across the highway was Len Lew's
It still shocks me how many people had no clue how to spin a beer cold. I met my wife when she was 20 and legal to drink, the law changed before she turned 21 and she spent about 6 months unable to legally drink. Weird times.
Marie Redus was a gorgeous physically put together person.
She had some serious issues due to a tough life, and some things that were simply out of her control. She died several years ago sadly.
Climbing up on the brick wall was the best vantage point to watch fights
I think I found it.
OK, that's helpful. Always thought you guys were talking about a place in Columbus. There was a place called The Club (I never went) I thought was on/near the river and that might have become "The Landing".
Seems it was the TC when I was around but never went "over there", just a Len Lew's guy. Curious if it became popular because Len Lew's had burned down by then or was there a cross over when the Landing had just become the place to go?
You missed out not going to Da Club!
If those walls could talk...................
Thursday nights were hopping out there in the early to mid 80's. For some unknown reason I signed up for a Tuesday/Thursday night 'Commercial Law" class one semester that met from like 7:00 to 8:30. I would sit in that class on top floor of McCool just dreaming about what was going down at The Landing the entirety of those Thursday night classes when I should have been listening to the prof. I always had a few beers on ice in the truck to consume on the way out there because I knew everybody was already out there and way ahead of me in ounces already consumed.
I did my share of time at The Club too. It was an old furniture warehouse if I remember correctly. The football team would line up along the wall and drink free beer nightly. You can still buy these shirts at American Retro Apparel. They also have Flo & Eddies, and all of the old Jackson joints like Dutch Bar, The Dock, Poets, The Cherokee, Recovery Room, Tubby's Tavern, etc.
I love that site. I wish they had an original Mayhew Landing shirt. I imagine they would sell like hotcakes at the new Landing, mostly to old dudes like me.
I'm still waiting on the John's Texaco or "I survived Tibbee Bridge" shirts.
Bonnie and Clyde’s, later Classix, until it closed. Off to The Club, until it closed. Off to The 45 to shake your hiney at the half of 90, until it closed. By then it was time to go home.
In 1978 it was the Golden Triangle's wanna be Studio 54 as I heard the tales of those that went. Peak disco era.
Cookie was still doing Eli not long ago, still based out of Tallahassee. They eventually opened for KISS
I remember a band called Dash Riprock playing somewhere all the time. Was that The Club or somewhere else?
DRR has a cult following and played a lot everywhere, and I actually think they're still around. I know I've seen them pop up here and there around New Orleans - they may have even played at Duling Hall sometime in the last couple of years IIRC. Awesome country/punk band. I had their first couple of albums, and I will still listen to Jenny Says or Johnny Ace when the mood hits.
Was Cowboy Mouth's Jenny Says a cover? Did not know that if so.
I saw Dash play in Tupelo 2 years ago with Blue Mountain.
Fred wrote the song, but he was in both bands. From wiki:
"Jenny Says" is a song by Cowboy Mouth, written by drummer and lead singer Fred LeBlanc from the band's 1992 first studio album, Word of Mouth. The song was first released by Dash Rip Rock on the album Ace of Clubs in 1989, for which Fred LeBlanc was a member of at the time. Cowboy Mouth later re-recorded the song in 1996 for their debut major label album Are You with Me?, which was released as a single
I wonder if he can still kick the high hat. That would really be impressive at our age.
We usually started Thursday nights at Danvers who served $.25 or $1.00 pitchers - I can't remember, but it was dirt cheap. After several rounds, it was on to the crossroads, Tibbee bridge, or maybe Harveys if they had a band. Friday morning classes sucked.
I don't remember ever having beer at Danvers, only burgers or salad bar or the combination of dressing your burger at the salad bar. And I don't think I ever stepped foot in another Danvers, no prejudice, was just not one anywhere I ever went. If I wasn't at The Landing or The Club I was at Shakeys Pizza out on Academy Road.
Can't blame him, the old Landing was very forgetful. Why that was the bar to go to back in the day is a tragedy in itself.
My senior year, bid night, 1992. People everywhere. Late in the night a frat fight breaks out. We are sitting in the bed of my friend's truck watching the dusty mele ensue. Cops were everywhere, but just observing.
A new white Trans Am rolls in the parking lot slowly. T-tops off. The fight kind of parts open and someone yells 'That's Sleepy!' It was him, and William Prince. They were hammered. The crowd moves in to greet the two Bulldog stars. Sleepy, looking 'sleepier' than I'd ever seen him, keeps rolling slowly, runs over the feet of a few dudes and rolls on through unaware of what happened. We said, 'Heeere we go. The season is done because he's fixin to go to jail.'
Sure enough Lowndes County's finest stopped them on the edge of the parking lot, talked to them for a few seconds and let 'em go right on down the road.
A new white Trans Am rolls in the parking lot slowly. T-tops off. The fight kind of parts open and someone yells 'That's Sleepy!' It was him, and William Prince. They were hammered. The crowd moves in to greet the two Bulldog stars. Sleepy, looking 'sleepier' than I'd ever seen him, keeps rolling slowly, runs over the feet of a few dudes and rolls on through unaware of what happened. We said, 'Heeere we go. The season is done because he's fixin to go to jail.'
Sure enough Lowndes County's finest stopped them on the edge of the parking lot, talked to them for a few seconds and let 'em go right on down the road.
The Club was the Southernaire in the 60s. B. J. Thomas performed there before he got real famous.
Danvers served beer? Wasn't that the fast food joint in the parking lot of Sack and Save?
I know this board is heavily populated by guys who were at State circa '99-'01. It's wild that two of the most legendary Starkville area bars burned to the ground during that time, in The Landing and Flo & Eddies. There were always rumors about the cause of the fire at Flo's.
My time up there ended just before that, but my brother fits in that window. From what he's told me, the greatest regret ever in my life should be that I never entered the hallowed doorway of Flo & Eddies. I lived in another state at the time and never indulged in the legendary cheese sticks, which is the only menu item I've ever heard about. Then I woke up one day, heard the news, and realized that I would never really have a chance to live life to the fullest.
People loved the original Grill's cheese sticks, but the cheese sticks at Flo's were a legit 2" thick. They had bbq. I remember it being fine.
But the best time to be at Flo's was a spring Saturday afternoon when we were playing an away baseball game. They'd have the dulcet tones of Jim Ellis on the radio, open doors creating a slight breeze through the restaurant, cold longnecks, and Gerald (RIP) asleep at the bar. It really didn't get much better.
And after the Landing closed at 1a.m., it was time to head to Macks Supper Club in Crawford. Mack wold sing about your girl behind some chicken wire.
That's funny, Gerald used to sleep at Cheers and other places too! (RIP legend)
I would swear on a stack of Bibles that Danvers was where we use to get cheap pitchers of beer on early Thursday nights. If it wasn't Danvers, it was some place like that right about where Starbucks is on HWY 12 just off campus.
Is the Grill in the building that use to be the District Cafe in the Cotton District?
Im pretty sure Danvers did not have draft beer.
I think you’re thinking of JC Garcia’s on 12 - closer to the old Pizza Hut
Saw him fall asleep on a bike on the downhill section on Maxell Street, went straight into some cars and crashed the 17 out. He got up all 17ed up and rode off like nothing happened. Of course we were all drunk and yelling at him.
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