PAPA JOE'S (1970-1996)- Papa Joe's was the campus meat-market of the Seventies and Eighties, It was the place where freshmen, sophomores, and high school kids with fake I.D.s went to hook-up.
It was the archeytpe of campus bars. On Friday and Saturday nights, crowds lined up around the block to squeeze themselves inside. Police tied thick ropes to the lightpoles to keep tipsy revelers from falling in the street and getting run over. Beer was served in galvanized buckets. The toilets were indestructible metal prison toilets. Wrestlers and football players worked as bouncers but drunken 19-year-old boys got in fights regularly despite this. At the end of the night, the crew literally hosed the place down.
Pizza was pretty much an afterthought but it was actually pretty good. |