🕯️ In memoriam
Papa Joe's Draft House
1970–1996
“Beer by the bucket and kegs-'n'-eggs on gameday.”
Campus Bars · High St · OSU
The campus draft house that sold beer by the bucket and threw legendary kegs-'n'-eggs parties before the OSU–Michigan game. It opened in 1970 and was a High Street institution for a generation. A fire shortly after midnight on April 3, 1996 — with about a hundred people inside — brought it down for good.
Did you hang out at Papa Joe's Draft House? What do you remember?
The drive, the dance, the heartbreak, the summer. Add a memory of Papa Joe's Draft House.
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