🕯️ In memoriam
The Pit
1992–1996
“Sticky floors and a basement full of dancers.”
Campus Bars · South Campus · OSU
Opened in 1992 in the underground South Campus room that had just been the alt-dance club Purity, The Pit kept the space grimy and beloved — sticky floors, low ceiling — but true to its name and its Purity roots it leaned hard into the dance floor, the DJs favoring dance, techno, pop and club remixes over straight rock. It closed around 1996, part of the wave of classic spots — Papa Joe's, Mean Mr. Mustard's, the Locker Room — that vanished as the city and university redeveloped the South Campus strip.
Did you hang out at The Pit? What do you remember?
The drive, the dance, the heartbreak, the summer. Add a memory of The Pit.
Community Memories
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Mother Fletcher's
1980s
“Mirrors on the ceiling over a packed dance floor.”
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South Heidelberg
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“The cave-dark basement roadhouse under South Campus.”
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B.K. Flyers
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“A South Campus regular caught in the crackdown.”
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Coeds
closed 1996
“The South Campus name everybody still remembers.”
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