Pre-game hangouts

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TNVOL

TNVOL

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Where does everyone tailgate on the strip before a game? I've been going to O'Charlies since the 1980's when I was at UT. My wife and I still go every pre-game for drinks and jello shooters. I did hear that O'charlies just closed, maybe I need to find a new place !
 
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O'chucks is most definatly closed.

we always tailgate in the lots right behind it.
 
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The Strip is overcrowded before games. The best pre-game is wherever you make it, as long as you make it right (see thread "THE Tailgating Source" for details). BTW, I hear that the VolNation crew is planning to gather near the Rock at Frat Park.
 
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I've heard the strip has become an eyesore. I haven't been there in a long time. What's going on?
 
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I wish they would just treat parts of the Strip as foot traffic only during gameday Saturdays. Similiar to Beale Street in Memphis. That way, you can attract a section of the area that can cater to the crowd and get pre-game type merchants together as a group.
 
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LetMeStay said:
I've heard the strip has become an eyesore. I haven't been there in a long time. What's going on?
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The strip blows. No bar can manage to stay open there for more than a few months. If you plan on going out after the game, it might be worth it to travel over to the Old City or Downtown. It sucks that the strip doesn't have that much action anymore, even during football season.
 
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kptvol said:
The strip blows. No bar can manage to stay open there for more than a few months. If you plan on going out after the game, it might be worth it to travel over to the Old City or Downtown. It sucks that the strip doesn't have that much action anymore, even during football season.
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Umm the Longbranch has been open since at least 1995 and still running strong. I agree that the old city has better bars but my favorite spot in K town is still the branch. Fanastic Juke box and the worst dart board in town.
 
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bigdaddy said:
Umm the Longbranch has been open since at least 1995 and still running strong. I agree that the old city has better bars but my favorite spot in K town is still the branch. Fanastic Juke box and the worst dart board in town.
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The most recent bar to open and stay open for a significant time, is Buffalo Wild Wings. Since then, about 15 or so different places have opened on the strip and closed down shortly after. I can't understand how these places stay open. Any bar that close to campus and Fort Sanders should have no problem drawing in tons of customers. O'Charley's seemed to be packed every night. The restaurant aspect was absolutely terrible, but I figure the bar made up for it. I can't understand how that place managed to close down.
 
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Used to stop in at Vic&Bills for a ruben and mushrooms before all home games. Its a bit of a freakshow anymore. We go via the Tennessee River now days from Travis Marine.
 
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UncleSam said:
Used to stop in at Vic&Bills for a ruben and mushrooms before all home games. Its a bit of a freakshow anymore. We go via the Tennessee River now days from Travis Marine.
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Vic and Bill's no longer exists. They sold to some hippy types who have rechristened the place the Campus Deli. Wow, what originality.
 
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bigdaddy said:
Umm the Longbranch has been open since at least 1995 and still running strong. I agree that the old city has better bars but my favorite spot in K town is still the branch. Fanastic Juke box and the worst dart board in town.
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I've had some of the best times I'll never remember at the Longbranch.
 
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bigdaddy said:
Umm the Longbranch has been open since at least 1995 and still running strong. I agree that the old city has better bars but my favorite spot in K town is still the branch. Fanastic Juke box and the worst dart board in town.
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I was in the Long Branch before 1995.:hi:
 
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hatvol96 said:
Vic and Bill's no longer exists. They sold to some hippy types who have rechristened the place the Campus Deli. Wow, what originality.
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How lame. There's no way I would suffer the leers from the Carousel clientele to go eat at some dump called the Campus Deli. I bet this place will go out of business. The same thing happened when Sam and Andys became Slappy's Deli. The food was similiar, but the mystique was gone.
 
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kptvol said:
How lame. There's no way I would suffer the leers from the Carousel clientele to go eat at some dump called the Campus Deli. I bet this place will go out of business. The same thing happened when Sam and Andys became Slappy's Deli. The food was similiar, but the mystique was gone.
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Yeah, but that wasn't the real Sam and Andy's anyway. That was after they moved across the street. That location was S&A's in name only.
 
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kptvol said:
Didn't the original burn down? About what year did that happen?
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No. The lease for the Roman Room/Sam & Andy's expired and was not renewed the building was then torn down and McAllister's built in its place. That was in 1998, if memory serves me correct.
 
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hatvol96 said:
No. The lease for the Roman Room/Sam & Andy's expired and was not renewed the building was then torn down and McAllister's built in its place. That was in 1998, if memory serves me correct.
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All the cool, original Knoxville stuff is being replaced by more corporate stuff. The strip is now dominated by Buffalo Wild Wings, Chili's (which closes at midnight), Starbucks, Moe's, and Panera. Not exactly a college party atmosphere. I look forward to grabbing a beer on game day, not a venti mocha coffee concoction.
 
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kptvol said:
All the cool, original Knoxville stuff is being replaced by more corporate stuff. The strip is now dominated by Buffalo Wild Wings, Chili's (which closes at midnight), Starbucks, Moe's, and Panera. Not exactly a college party atmosphere. I look forward to grabbing a beer on game day, not a venti mocha coffee concoction.
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The disappearance of the cool, locally owned establishment from the Strip has greatly devalued a UT education. I learned a hell of a lot more from the old guys at the Roman Room than I ever did in a classroom. The widespread corporitization of the campus has turned UT into an academic strip mall. If I were choosing a school now, I wouldn't even consider UT.
 
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Gus's Good Time Deli is still the best place for a gameday lunch. I love it there. There probably no other restaurant with an autographed picture of Randy Sanders as a player.
 
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Bobby Dodd said:
Gus's Good Time Deli is still the best place for a gameday lunch. I love it there. There probably no other restaurant with an autographed picture of Randy Sanders as a player.
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Gus's wins by default. It used to be about the fifth best place on the Strip. Now, through attrition, it has acsended to the top spot.
 
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