Somebody PLEASE Go By Gus's and have a Sammich today...!!!

[number1volfanfrom76]

I worked at The Vol Mkt in '65. I made about $.39/hr if memory is right (not often today). I made so many wonderful hamburgers and I can't duplicate them anymore. What great times!

 

[Teeman]

Ahhhh, the old strip. Dollar pitchers at the Library. Tall Paul outside at O’Charley’s. Anyone remember Ivy's?

 

[Teeman]

I worked at The Vol Mkt in '65. I made about $.39/hr if memory is right (not often today). I made so many wonderful hamburgers and I can't duplicate them anymore. What great times!

Where was the Vol Market located?

 

[GiveHim6InSC]

I'm TOO FAR away...or I'd BE THERE!

SUPPORT Gus's and post a pic if you can...

What things are changing?
We come up every year and try to eat there, but are they having a hard time?

 

[vol94]

The Last Lap, what was the name of the bar connected to it?

Library

 

[TAF]

What things are changing?
We come up every year and try to eat there, but are they having a hard time?

 

[dieseldaddy]

Got excited. Thought we were talking about Gus's chicken in Mason.

 

[number1volfanfrom76]

Where was the Vol Market located?

It was on the NW corner of 20th or 21sr st, There were other locations scattered around town, but your asking a question of my diminishing brain.

 

[Chickenfarmer]

Ahhhh, the old strip. Dollar pitchers at the Library. Tall Paul outside at O’Charley’s. Anyone remember Ivy's?

Ivy’s; beer blast with 50 cents draft Natty Light.

 

[JustFunnN'Orange]

Made sure to go have lunch there on Tuesday before the baseball game. Still a must-visit, even more-so now that the strip has lost it's soul.

 

[JustFunnN'Orange]

Yes, I attended UT from 1974 to 1979. I worked at the original Copper Cellar and frequented every place on the strip.

TIn, do you remember a guy named Eli Whitney??? at the Cellar!

 

[Special Ed]

The Last Lap, what was the name of the bar connected to it?

The Last Mile?

 

[Tin Man]

TIn, do you remember a guy named Eli Whitney??? at the Cellar!

Yes, I do. Drove Eli to the home of the parents of the woman he was going to marry. Saw him almost every visit to Knoxville after I graduated. RIP Mr. Whitney.

 

[TAF]

TIn, do you remember a guy named Eli Whitney??? at the Cellar!

I do...the Chef? He was friends of a couple of my friends on the Golf Team back then.

 

[AlsaceFreak]

From 2019
https://forum.trackandfieldnews.com/forum/things-not-t-f/60394-iconic-knoxville-bar-the-last-lap

@BillVol ’sis yourn?

This link mentions the Sports IIlustrated article about the Last Lap. I remember something about the Top Ten best College Bars in the US and there was an asterisk after the list that said ** " Sorry Last Lap we don't rate professionals" ** basically giving the top honors to the Last Lap.
Every student in the Lap was taking shots of Jack Daniels. Boys and girls. The energy in that place was off the charts.

 

[OffTackleVol]

From 2019
https://forum.trackandfieldnews.com/forum/things-not-t-f/60394-iconic-knoxville-bar-the-last-lap

@BillVol ’sis yourn?

Wow, thanks Tin Man! What a story, really appreciate it.

 

[OffTackleVol]

The Library, the Last Lap, the Tap Room all followed by a fried chicken sammich at 1 AM in Gus's.

Damn life was good.

Yep, either that or a smoked turkey with cheddar from Horizon's in Shelborne Towers.

 

[OffTackleVol]

Ahhhh, the old strip. Dollar pitchers at the Library. Tall Paul outside at O’Charley’s. Anyone remember Ivy's?

Ivy's? Oh hell yes. They had 3 for 1 pitchers of beer on Thursdays. Went there to play Quarter Beer often.

 

[OffTackleVol]

My phone number in Hess Hall one year was one digit off from Gus’s number. I received a lot of late night phone calls from folks trying to place an order. I even took a few orders

I lived in Hess two years, 78-79 and 79-80. Ate at The Zoo many times.............

 

[Gandalf]

I thought that was OCI (Old College Inn). The Lap was just up from Yosemite Sam's. There was a bar connected to The Lap, maybe The Library?

The library was just next to the Lap but was a separate building and not connected to it. I remember when my dad came to see me in my freshman year and saw the Library as we passed by it on the strip. He said, "all those times when we were on the phone and you said you had to get to the library, I thought wow my son is really hitting the books, but now I know better"

I remember watching R.E.M. there when they were not much more than a garage band.

 

['Boro-vol]

The library was just next to the Lap but was a separate building and not connected to it. I remember when my dad came to see me in my freshman year and saw the Library as we passed by it on the strip. He said, "all those times when we were on the phone and you said you had to get to the library, I thought wow my son is really hitting the books, but now I know better"

I remember watching R.E.M. there when they were not much more than a garage band.

Walk the West, and the Black Crowes too.

 

[Gandalf]

Ahhhh, the old strip. Dollar pitchers at the Library. Tall Paul outside at O’Charley’s. Anyone remember Ivy's?

Ivy's was pretty great to me. They would fill up my end piece of the '89 goal post for free whenever I brought it in. Granted, I usually had 4-5 friends with me who would drink too so wasnt like they were losing anything. My buddy, who was a UT QB at the time, always wanted me to put a handle on it lol.

 

[VolCalls]

The Library, the Last Lap, the Tap Room all followed by a fried chicken sammich at 1 AM in Gus's.

Damn life was good.

I used to wolf down 3-4 chili dogs from the Smokey Mtn. Market in a drunken stupor after football games. Those were the days...

 

[OffTackleVol]

I used to wolf down 3-4 chili dogs from the Smokey Mtn. Market in a drunken stupor after football games. Those were the days...

A food truck parked outside of Hess Hall most nights had some great chili dogs..........

 

[TAF]

I used to wolf down 3-4 chili dogs from the Smokey Mtn. Market in a drunken stupor after football games. Those were the days...

"GIVE ME A ROOSTER...AND CHASE HIM THROUGH THE GARDEN!!!"

"SMOKY MOUNTAIN MARKET...YEAH!"