How cheap did you drink in college?

[NTAlum09]

I started school in 2005 and graduated in 2009.

Here were my places to go for cheap drinks

Garage - .50 cent wells or $1 doubles from 9pm to 11pm

Lucky Lous - $2 dollar LIT

Atticus on the square - Wed. night were $1 pitcher night - Anybody remember this place?

Sidebar - Nickel Natty Night during Monday Night Football games

[oldguystudent]

7 minutes ago, NTAlum09 said:

 

Sidebar - Nickel Natty Night during Monday Night Football games

I graduated college in 1994, and don't think I ever saw bar prices like the ones you just listed.

The nickel natty perplexes me though.  I was quite certain that TABC has a rule that a bar must at least break even on every drink it sells.

[NTAlum09]

Just now, oldguystudent said:

I graduated college in 1994, and don't think I ever saw bar prices like the ones you just listed.

The nickel natty perplexes me though.  I was quite certain that TABC has a rule that a bar must at least break even on every drink it sells.

Sidebar just closed it's doors last year.

[SilverEagle]

They didn't have bars in Denton (except for private clubs) when I graduated in 75. When I was attending was when Lake Dallas went wet and opened a couple of liquor stores. One of them ran a special for "Old Mill" @ .88 cents a six pack. The Sig Eps bought up a large quantity of it and put it in their "soda" machine, and during rush week they had it for 50 cents a can..........and still made money.

Edited February 8, 2016 by SilverEagle

[DeepGreen]

Really cheap.  NT women bought my drinks.

[EagleMBA]

35 minutes ago, DeepGreen said:

Really cheap.  NT women bought my drinks.

Were they slippin' dollar bills in your Fruit of the Looms?

[jtm0097]

.50  cent wells were awesome at the Garage.

My friend was dating a bartender at sidebar, so I always got the friend discount on my beers. 

Roosters on the Square had dollar pint night.

Rocky sports bar was next to my neighborhood and they had $5 pitchers on Saturday nights. 

[HarringtonFishSmeller]

1990-95:

-As I recall, O'tays had dollar pitcher night
-Rick's Place would have those 'any coin' nights where you could buy drinks with coins

Don't recall what specials, if any, Riprock's ran...of course, that could be the reason Riprock's outlasted all of them as well.

Anyway, I think most bars in the area had the dollar pitcher thing.  Sounds like they still do.  Most of the specials were run on Thursday nights back then as well.  Not sure if that's still the case.  Thursday seemed to be the big drinking/going out night back in the day.
 

[southsideguy]

mean green inn 3 long necks for a buck on tuesday nights

[ShiftyFive]

Lots of dollar pitcher nights at Otay's and plenty of heavily discounted checks at Cozy Oaks, since my roommate was a waiter there.

[DeepGreen]

1 hour ago, DeepGreen said:

Really cheap.  NT women bought my drinks.

What???  -3?  Was it something I said???

[Tyler Maryak]

If @NTAlum09 makes one more post about drinking, one of us needs to go check on him.

[oldguystudent]

Man, I really should have gone to college in Texas.  Then again, I worked my way through college (ha!  that was possible once!) in the campus pub.  The employee discount was pretty much steal one, get one free.

[greenminer]

1999 - 2003

When I first got to Denton, there was a place next to Karma Cafe (State Line? State Club?) that had nickel beers served in cups.  The venue was gone before I graduated.

My last year in Denton I was walking to the gas station across the street to get the 30 pack of Keystones for $18.

I understand the Loophole currently does Shiner Black pitchers for $5, and the Greenhouse has $1 Shiner pints on Monday nights.  Other beers were/are $2.  I could get 3 pints and take care of tab/tip at $10.

[HoustonEagle]

1 hour ago, greenminer said:

1999 - 2003

When I first got to Denton, there was a place next to Karma Cafe (State Line? State Club?) that had nickel beers served in cups.  The venue was gone before I graduated.

My last year in Denton I was walking to the gas station across the street to get the 30 pack of Keystones for $18.

I understand the Loophole currently does Shiner Black pitchers for $5, and the Greenhouse has $1 Shiner pints on Monday nights.  Other beers were/are $2.  I could get 3 pints and take care of tab/tip at $10.

Loved the food at State Club.  Was really sad to see it go.  

Every trip back to Denton my friends and I marvel at how cheap it is to drink there.  Frankly the prices now don’t seem that much more now than when I was an undergrad from ‘92 - ’97.  

[Mean Green Eagle]

Across The Street Bar off of Greenville Ave had $.25 pitcher nights. Also used to hit up Rick's for coin night. 

[THOR]

Oddly, I never drank alcohol in college...damn, I missed out on some good deals....95-2000 I was there...

[greenminer]

If tabs are calculated as a percentage of your total, then you have to assume Denton servers are getting less than the rest of DFW because of all the cheap drinks.  I don't know one way or the other if the employers compensate with better pay, but it doesn't matter to me.

This thread has inspired me to tip my Denton servers more.  Anytime I go up there, I am saving so much on my drink total, I can budget a little more for the staff.

[foutsrouts]

7 hours ago, DeepGreen said:

Really cheap.  NT women bought my drinks.

You win. Especially if they were really cheap women.

Edited February 9, 2016 by foutsrouts

[Stix]

1980-81: $1.50 pitchers of Old Milwaukee at the Rock Bottom Lounge.

[James]

Attending North Texas from 2012-2016:

Spent most of my time at Mulberry St. Cantina for $3 double LIT.

Wednesday nights on Fry St. with $1 double wells were also an adventure.

[eulessismore]

9 hours ago, NTAlum09 said:

I started school in 2005 and graduated in 2009.

Here were my places to go for cheap drinks

Garage - .50 cent wells or $1 doubles from 9pm to 11pm

Lucky Lous - $2 dollar LIT

Atticus on the square - Wed. night were $1 pitcher night - Anybody remember this place?

Sidebar - Nickel Natty Night during Monday Night Football games

Ah, y'all don't know serious drinking.  Ray Wylie Hubbard knew serious drinking because his lawyer suggested it:

http://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/ray-wylie-hubbard/

Ray Wylie will be at Dan's Silverleaf May 3, 2016, at 9:00, but he won't be drinking.  Be there.  You could get lucky like me and become the straight man for his story about how he came to write "Up against the Wall Redneck Mothers". 

Edited February 9, 2016 by eulessismore

[Dr. Seuss]

2 hours ago, eulessismore said:

Ah, y'all don't know serious drinking.  Ray Wylie Hubbard knew serious drinking because his lawyer suggested it:

http://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/ray-wylie-hubbard/

Ray Wylie will be at Dan's Silverleaf May 3, 2016, at 9:00, but he won't be drinking.  Be there.  You could get lucky like me and become the straight man for his story about how he came to write "Up against the Wall Redneck Mothers". 

but snake farm just sounds nasty

[97and03]

6 hours ago, HoustonEagle said:

Loved the food at State Club.  Was really sad to see it go.  

Every trip back to Denton my friends and I marvel at how cheap it is to drink there.  Frankly the prices now don’t seem that much more now than when I was an undergrad from ‘92 - ’97.  

State Club was our go-to for cheap beer night for sure.

[GangGreen]

4 hours ago, Dr. Seuss said:

but snake farm just sounds nasty

Pretty much is.