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🕯️ In memoriam
Park Alley
1970s–1990s
“A High Street regular's regular.”
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One of the beloved old High Street joints — spoken of in the same breath as Papa Joe's and the Oar House — that anchored campus nightlife from the late 1970s through the 1990s. Like most of that vanished strip, it didn't make it out of the decade.
Did you hang out at Park Alley? What do you remember?
The drive, the dance, the heartbreak, the summer. Add a memory of Park Alley.
Community Memories
⚰️ Also gone
Mean Mr. Mustard's
1979–1998
“AC/DC-Cult Sunday nights and the black-clad crowd.”
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Papa Joe's Draft House
1970–1996
“Beer by the bucket and kegs-'n'-eggs on gameday.”
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Larry's Bar
1938–2008
“Poetry readings and the bohemian corner of campus.”
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The Oar House
†2004
“A South Campus rite of passage.”
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