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Old 10-20-2014, 02:58 PM
 
Location: A coal patch in Pennsyltucky
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In Oakland, I think Peter's Pub is from that far back and it's still there. Obviously, The O also.

In East Liberty, I think Kelly's goes back that far.
I once ran into Danny Marino at Peter's Pub. He was still in high school at Central Catholic at the time. It was a school night but it was after football season.

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That's too bad they closed. I needed a new waterbed and a bong.
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Old 10-20-2014, 03:05 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh
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I once ran into Danny Marino at Peter's Pub. He was still in high school at Central Catholic at the time. It was a school night but it was after football season.

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Dan Marino was in high school during an age that liquor laws weren't enforced nearly as stringently as they are today.

I'm a few years older than Marino, but I had no problem drinking in a bar at age 18 in 1974.
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Old 10-20-2014, 03:23 PM
 
Location: Mid-Atlantic
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Dan Marino was in high school during an age that liquor laws weren't enforced nearly as stringently as they are today.

I'm a few years older than Marino, but I had no problem drinking in a bar at age 18 in 1974.
Likewise.
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Old 10-20-2014, 03:28 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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That's too bad they closed. I needed a new waterbed and a bong.
Can someone explain waterbeds to me?
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Old 10-20-2014, 03:50 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh
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Can someone explain waterbeds to me?
It's a bag of water with a heater sitting on a bed frame. The odds of your having been conceived on one drop pretty quickly the further you are from forty years old (either way) and increase greatly if your dad ever had a van with airbrushed art on the side.
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Old 10-20-2014, 04:11 PM
 
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I stepped into Games Unlimited on Murray this p.m., and the cashier happened to mention that they've been around for 35 years, which by my laborious calculation says they opened in '79 -- just under the wire for this thread!
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Old 10-20-2014, 04:58 PM
 
Location: North Oakland
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Remember the Listening Post?
Best record store in Pgh. I remember the Shadyside version, when Walnut Street was a destination of note.
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Old 10-20-2014, 05:40 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh
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Best record store in Pgh. I remember the Shadyside version, when Walnut Street was a destination of note.
Walnut Street is still a destination, its the home of city's Banana Republic, American Apparel and Gap.


It just is no longer a counterculture destination that it was back in the day,
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Old 10-20-2014, 09:48 PM
 
Location: Mid-Atlantic
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Wasn't there a bar/club along that stretch called the Gaslight? I think it may have been private, it was back in the 80's.
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Old 10-21-2014, 05:02 AM
 
Location: Awkward Manor
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Wasn't there a bar/club along that stretch called the Gaslight? I think it may have been private, it was back in the 80's.
Yes

Also, today I learned that Le Mardi Gras has been around since 1954!
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