This sign is a lot like our old hometown. Standing proud underneath a grey sky with it's colors fading and rusted around the corners -- it still stands as a reminder and testament to it's once glory days.
Seems that I've heard Pete Townshend of "The Who" went there once with an American friend after the '67 Atwood Stadium show. Am I mistaking it for another Flint bar?
Ah, My first bar. We used to go there in '79 and watch the mayhem. I was 16 yrs. old at the time and I looked like I was twelve. It did'nt matter because I had the $1 cover.
I remember that all my friends from Ainsworth would fast at lunch and dinner to get the full effects from the experience. Free popcorn, $1 pitchers of some kind of beer, perhaps Pabst, Goebel, Black Label?
What a Rock-N-Roll haven it was though. Roll whatever you had on the sticky table and smoke it up!
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Mercedes Wrex and Cylence are playing tonight. Anybody wanna go?
ReplyDeleteNice photo. :)
ReplyDeleteThis sign is a lot like our old hometown. Standing proud underneath a grey sky with it's colors fading and rusted around the corners -- it still stands as a reminder and testament to it's once glory days.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if that sign came from Bill Daup Signs- "Signs from a nickel to a million dollars"
ReplyDeleteSeems that I've heard Pete Townshend of "The Who" went there once with an American friend after the '67 Atwood Stadium show. Am I mistaking it for another Flint bar?
ReplyDeleteAh, My first bar. We used to go there in '79 and watch the mayhem. I was 16 yrs. old at the time and I looked like I was twelve. It did'nt matter because I had the $1 cover.
ReplyDeleteI remember that all my friends from Ainsworth would fast at lunch and dinner to get the full effects from the experience. Free popcorn, $1 pitchers of some kind of beer, perhaps Pabst, Goebel, Black Label?
What a Rock-N-Roll haven it was though. Roll whatever you had on the sticky table and smoke it up!
The anonymous poster is correct! The Who and Peter C and some other folks hit Contos together when the boys were in Flint in 1967.
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