KAEO DeJon Jarreau (2016)

[baseline47]

I miss Barselotti's

I miss the Drake, the downstairs bar with beer served in plastic cups for the 30 cents, the pool tables (25 cents a game), etc. Hm, am I dating myself?

[tdmass]

^ "Everybody loved the Drake" . . . Seinfeld show early ' 90's !

[Not Trigger]

Had someone pull a gun on me at the Drake back in the mid 70's

[m626t]

I miss Barselotti's

I miss the Drake, the downstairs bar with beer served in plastic cups for the 30 cents, the pool tables (25 cents a game), etc. Hm, am I dating myself?

How about the "bowling machine" ?

[JoleonLescottsHair]

Save the Drake. For Willy! For Humanity!

[vanmeter]

Didn't the Drake have Jiffy Pop popcorn?

[LS71]

The Drake...by far...my favorite bar when I was at UMass.

First time I went to a bar...summer of '68. I was 18. My roommate told me I wouldn't get carded during the summer so I'd probably be OK.

We walked in and thankfully I didn't get carded. When I looked down, there was a twenty dollar bill peeking out at me from under the peanut shells on the floor.

Let's just say...two people could drink a lot for $20 at the Drake in 1968.

[DoctorJ]

They hadn't changed the drinking age to 18 by 68?

When did it drop and when was it raised?

[69MG]

It was 21 in 1968. 4 of us drove to just over the line in NY to buy booze and we got stopped by a Hadley cop on Route 9. He made us empty the car and put everything we bought on the curb. He then gave us a warning and "confiscated" our purchases. A long ride with a very sad ending.

[nv73]

I think the drinking age became 18 on election day1972. I remember there weren't enough bars to handle the overflow so they turned blue wall cafeteria into a bar. Good times!

[philosopher]

It was 21 in 1968. 4 of us drove to just over the line in NY to buy booze and we got stopped by a Hadley cop on Route 9. He made us empty the car and put everything we bought on the curb. He then gave us a warning and "confiscated" our purchases. A long ride with a very sad ending.

As the song goes, "Those were the days, my friend...." Barsie's with 15 cent drafts and 25 cent hot dogs. A popular motto: "don't let your schooling interfere with your education."

[LS71]

^^ Yeah...the age went down to 18 right after I turned 21!

[TheOFFSeason]

It was 21 in 1968. 4 of us drove to just over the line in NY to buy booze and we got stopped by a Hadley cop on Route 9. He made us empty the car and put everything we bought on the curb. He then gave us a warning and "confiscated" our purchases. A long ride with a very sad ending.

As the song goes, "Those were the days, my friend...." Barsie's with 15 cent drafts and 25 cent hot dogs. A popular motto: "don't let your schooling interfere with your education."

That was Eddie Montavani, correct?

[InnervisionsUMASS]

I've probably spent more time in Amherst and in the Amherst bars than any of you.. I guess that's not something to be proud of but it's a decent college town. I've been to better. Honestly it's a great town for people the are 30+.. as for people that are 21...ehhh

I think your point is fair, but it has a lot less to do with the amount of establishments a 21 year old can enjoy, and more to do with the police state of the town.

[philosopher]

It was 21 in 1968. 4 of us drove to just over the line in NY to buy booze and we got stopped by a Hadley cop on Route 9. He made us empty the car and put everything we bought on the curb. He then gave us a warning and "confiscated" our purchases. A long ride with a very sad ending.

As the song goes, "Those were the days, my friend...." Barsie's with 15 cent drafts and 25 cent hot dogs. A popular motto: "don't let your schooling interfere with your education."

That was Eddie Montavani, correct?

Original song was "By the long road," a Russian romantic folk song (1925 1st recording).

Gene Raskin wrote a very very loose interpretation in English, which we know.

Mary Hopkin recorded it in 1967 or 69.

(More than we needed to know but there it is.