I worked at The Total Tan. The clientele was tremendous and was a constant funnel for getting a date.
Where did you work in Btown while you were a student?
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Bullwinkles. Named that because it was in the old Moose Lodge.
strip club where a lot of locals hanging out . you really got to see the side of bloomington that doesn't exit on campus
It's been gone for thirty years. Used to be on Rogers in the old Levee area. Very tough area. Completely gentrified now with the reclamation of the Showers complex.
I don't think it was actually a strip club, just a rough local bar.
Is that the area where the farmer's market is now?
I stayed on Rogers at an AirBnB recently, near the hospital. Sirens and helecopters kept me up all night.
That general area, yes. The market faces Morton to the east. Rod's was on the east side of Rogers a bit further north, just south of the railroad track (which are now the BLine).
That whole area was shit back in the day. The revitalization they've done is amazing.
Yeah, I had a buddy live not far from that area in the late 70s. Pretty sketchy, but you're right - they've done a 180 with it. Nice area now and all those apartments close to their really change the scenery.
I have to laugh at areas of Bloomington called sketchy but that may be to the places I was in when in the Marines. I bounced bar at the Olde Regulator with a number of wrestlers working under assumed names.
Yes it's all relative, but to a 20 year old college kid, Btown westsiders could be intimidating. I've heard some stories from my army ranger brother in law. Was working in a bar against the rules for wrestlers ?
Was it the Sunset Tavern when it finally shut down? Cinderblock building, east side of Rogers just south of the railroad crossing?
Gawd I'd hate to think there were two places like that...
Goddammit you're right. What I was describing as Rod's location was the Sunset. Rod's was nearby, but now I can't remember exactly where. May have been somewhere on North Morton across from the Showers building.
So long ago, all I remember is if you go west on 7th and cross over College it was somewhere between 3rd and 10th street. But I do remember it was in a block type building.
According to the Bloomington Remembers FB page, Rods was on North Morton behind the ST Semicon building so across from Hays Market on the east side of the street. Green and white block building. Back when "the Levee" was the levee...
The Sunset was on east side of Rogers just south of the railroad crossing. Also a cinder block building but with a limestone façade.
Neither was a place I ever visited, but I also wasn't 21 until the 80's😊
The Sunset was on east side of Rogers just south of the railroad crossing. Also a cinder block building but with a limestone façade.
Neither was a place I ever visited, but I also wasn't 21 until the 80's😊
I was there in the crazy, politically charged, late 60s. I worked for IU as an A/V tech setting up and operating movie projectors for faculty members.
I also had a nice gig baby-sitting (9 year old boy) for a married couple who were faculty.
Ye Olde Regulator. fify
"The Reg"
did you work there when it was long and thin and an acoustic venue, or when they expanded into the space directly south as well, and went disco?
It was against the rules for athletes on scholarship to work and earn money during the school terms.
There was a lot of over drinking leading to a number losing their dinner in the place.
We learned how to stagger the ends of sod. Ironically, we had a superintendent at the country club a few years ago who didn't know they were supposed to do that when they laid sod for some of the tees. I pointed it out to him and he looked at me like the proverbial deer in headlights. Needless to say, he didn't last long.
Notice you maintain the ass theme though: well done!
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My now-wife worked at the Red Chair Bakery. Long ago gone. That place had good stuff. I always paired a visit there with a visit to the record store right near it.
