Food,booze and Memories

[Rekdiver]

Let’s use this for all the food talk and outta the Drink Staff thread.

By the way who remembers the name of the bar that was where Woodlands was in the early 70’s?

[/\PP ST/\TE GRAD 09]

Breakfast nights at Welborn was always a favorite for me.

[NO.2]

If I had a dollar for every PB Scott's story I've heard I'd be able to rebuild the damn place.

Wish I could have seen it in its glory.

[Arsenal App]

Sorry, the early 70's was before my time. I remember Woodlands, Holley's Tavern, Mother Fletchers, Clyde's, Antlers, and P.B. Scott's. Seahorses in Johnson City was another hangout of mine. Believe it or not, some nights there were more ASU students in there than ETSU students.

[Arsenal App]

If I had a dollar for every PB Scott's story I've heard I'd be able to rebuild the damn place.

Wish I could have seen it in its glory.

I'll give you one right now. A friend of mine went to P.B.'s one night. An old bluesman named Lightning Hopkins was playing. My friend had never heard of him but he encountered this old black guy in the Men's Room. He muttered out loud, "I wonder if this guy Lightning Hopkins is any good."

The old guy replied, "Son, I guess we'll both have to stick around and see."

It turned out that the old guy my friend encountered in the Men's Room was Lightning Hopkins himself. Put on a great show and sought out my friend during a break to ask him how he liked it. My friend replied that he was glad he stuck around.

[scatman77]

On 321 before you got into town: The Red Dog Saloon......coldest beer around.

[bigdaddyg]

Freshman year was the last of the “bars” in Blowing Rock. The town starting enforcing the 51% food sale law so that was that. Spent many a Friday afternoon at Holley’s Tavern. Tried to make sure class was over early enough on Friday in order to be able to secure a spot at the table.

[Lowcountry App]

Anybody remember Rochelle’s? Might have been the only sub shop in Boone back in the early 80’s. Quarter beer night at Mother Fletchers? I still have my PB Scott’s membership card stored somewhere in the attic. “Sunning” on then Conrad Stadium field? Boy, the memories come flooding back.

[NoLongerLurking]

If I had a dollar for every PB Scott's story I've heard I'd be able to rebuild the damn place.

Wish I could have seen it in its glory.

I'll give you one right now. A friend of mine went to P.B.'s one night. An old bluesman named Lightning Hopkins was playing. My friend had never heard of him but he encountered this old black guy in the Men's Room. He muttered out loud, "I wonder if this guy Lightning Hopkins is any good."

The old guy replied, "Son, I guess we'll both have to stick around and see."

It turned out that the old guy my friend encountered in the Men's Room was Lightning Hopkins himself. Put on a great show and sought out my friend during a break to ask him how he liked it. My friend replied that he was glad he stuck around.

Lightning Hopkins is a national treasure. I'd place him up there with Doc Watson.

[appbud]

Was a taco place on 321 in the early 80's that had 4 for $1.00 can't recall the name but really helped out a poor college student.

[booneboy92]

Here’s my favorite High Country nightlife history lesson of all time, as told by a very close friend who was at App in the early 70’s.... there was a bar in Banner Elk called The Hub Pub (maybe had common ownership with PB’s?)... A friend of my friend came to him on A Saturday afternoon and invited him to go see the drunk that had been playing some at the Hub Pub... the guy was supposedly an awesome singer/songwriter, but you had to get there by 8:00, or he was too hammered to sit on his stool, play his guitar or remember his words... They went and all this proved to be true... the singers name?.... Jimmy Buffett!... My friend said Buffett went from Banner Elk to Outer Space in the matter of a year....

[Arsenal App]

Billy Joel played ASU in the late 70's and didn't exactly pack Varsity Gym from what I've heard. Basically it was because nobody in the Atlantic Coast region had ever heard of him. His popularity base was mainly in the Northeast. Then, shortly after playing ASU, his album Glass Houses was released which made Joel an international superstar.

[booneboy92]

Buffett actually played Varsity my freshman year (‘88)... I remember him having some choice words about the poor attendance then.... It really surprised me, because he was a huge name at the time.

[yikas1]

The stray cats, outlaws, Louise Mandrell and Ronnie Milsap, sponge tones. Early 80s

[Arsenal App]

The stray cats, outlaws, Louise Mandrell and Ronnie Milsap, sponge tones. Early 80s

Saw them all except Sponge Tones. Also saw Cheap Trick. Missed Little River Band.

[appstate77]

If I had a dollar for every PB Scott's story I've heard I'd be able to rebuild the damn place.

Wish I could have seen it in its glory.

I'll give you one right now. A friend of mine went to P.B.'s one night. An old bluesman named Lightning Hopkins was playing. My friend had never heard of him but he encountered this old black guy in the Men's Room. He muttered out loud, "I wonder if this guy Lightning Hopkins is any good."

The old guy replied, "Son, I guess we'll both have to stick around and see."

It turned out that the old guy my friend encountered in the Men's Room was Lightning Hopkins himself. Put on a great show and sought out my friend during a break to ask him how he liked it. My friend replied that he was glad he stuck around.

Lightning Hopkins is a national treasure. I'd place him up there with Doc Watson.

I met Doc at a checkout at the old Roses
In the Watauga Village Shopping Center. One of the best memories of my days at App.

[Yosefus]

Drink and drown at Mother Fletchers and Antlers. That was always a Wednesday night staple. And who could ever forget Solecitos in Boone? That's Amore! Double keg parties after every home game, we always had a good crowd at our place and met new friends at each one. Mike Cross at PB Scott's was awesome as well.

[Arsenal App]

Drink and drown at Mother Fletchers and Antlers. That was always a Wednesday night staple. And who could ever forget Solecitos in Boone? That's Amore! Double keg parties after every home game, we always had a good crowd at our place and met new friends at each one. Mike Cross at PB Scott's was awesome as well.

Man, you're about to make me cry remembering those old good times.

[Longrifle28]

I was at App from 78 to 82. We lived for PB Scott’s, especially when Super Grit Cowboy Band or Sidewinder was playing. Always got there early and got a front table on the second floor. Also saw BB King and Mike Cross there. We were lucky to ever make the drive back from Blowing Rock.

[T-Dog]

The way some of y'all talk about the past, I'm surprised you haven't built a time machine to go back and live there.