OT: Skeeps or Ricks

Submitted by Qmatic on
Which shitshow college bar did you all enjoy more? And favorite memory from either? Skeeps>Ricks My biggest memory from Ricks was on St. Patrick's Day being in the bathroom and someone left a beer bottle on top of the toilet. For some reason I tried to grab it and it fell to the floor. As I go to pick it up, my hand starts getting wet, because the dude in the stall next to me is 100% missing the toilet. Most of my Skeeps memories involve seeing underage football players be insanely drunk and have usually 4 or 5 females around them the whole time.

Bando Calrissian

August 26th, 2016 at 1:32 PM ^

Neither. Ashley's, Old Town, Red Hawk, Charley's, or the Jug for me.

Although the one time I went to Rick's was at closing time, and they turned the lights on. Cannot unsee...

schreibee

August 26th, 2016 at 2:13 PM ^

Some of those didn't exist yet in my days, but we loved Old Town & Del Rio.The Del had totally underrated food, and my freshman year GF's older Sis waitressed there to pay for Grad school, so we got the hookup sometimes.Mind you drinking age in MI was 18 then, so yeah I'm old.

Old Heidelberg was another in the Main St area that was lax on checking IDs, so those who weren't even 18 could drink. Also defunct I guess?

On campus, Skeeps was Dooley's then and Rick's was Blue Frog (Madonna was a cocktailer there in like '75-'76 era) and while they were pretty gross, that's where girlz were so whatcha gonna do?!

Also there was a live music club on Liberty near Dooleys/Skeeps we used to go to on a Saturday night. Saw Romantics there just before "What I like About You" broke big. I don't know what's in that space now?

M-Dog

August 26th, 2016 at 1:37 PM ^

I hated Ricks in the '80s when I was at Michigan and I still hate it today.  It's got to be the most overrated bar there is.  So between the two, Skeeps (Dooleys back in the day), I guess.

To be honest, for a major university the size and scope of Michigan in a great town like Ann Arbor, the bar scene leaves something to be desired.

 

901 P

August 26th, 2016 at 6:35 PM ^

This might not be a popular opinion, but I also felt like Michigan didn't really have a great bar scene. The other campus where I spent the most time was Wisconsin, which always seemed to have more and better bars than Ann Arbor. Then again, Madison is often considered to be a great college town, so maybe falling a little short by comparison is not that bad. 

jmdblue

August 26th, 2016 at 3:07 PM ^

Among others, we saw Gatemouth Brown, Matt Murphy, the Kinsey Report, Son Seals, Lonnie Brooks, and many many other solid to great blues acts at ricks in the late 80s. All for free by getting in before10. It was absolutely great. On top of everything we could usually beat frat boys for pitchers at the pool table and get out if there for maybe $10 or 15 a man. Great great times.

RGard

August 26th, 2016 at 3:19 PM ^

in 1979 through 1982.  

One class I was taking met M,T,W,F at 4:00 pm.  The professor took us (the entire class of 8 of us) to Rick's on the Friday each week.  We drank pitchers and ate chicken wings.  I was underage at the time and that was simply fantastic.

I went in there on my 21st birthday in 1982 and asked the bar tender who knew me as a regular at that point for my free birthday drink.  He smiled and ask for my ID, saw I just turned 21 and kicked me out.

goblueram

August 26th, 2016 at 1:41 PM ^

Skeeps over Ricks.  No cover, great deals like $4 pitchers of Dos Equis, and they used to have the best chicken wings on Sundays (weird, I know).

But really Brown Jug over anything else.  Best quarters tables in the game.

mGrowOld

August 26th, 2016 at 1:41 PM ^

Dooleys or the Village Bell (obviously both no longer exist)

Charlie's opened up my Jr year and was packed every night.  The V-Bell was mostly stafffed by fraternity brothers of mine (Sigma Chi) and I got a job there my senior year as a bouncer.  Worked at the Bivouac too for Ed selling Levi's.

 

mGrowOld

August 26th, 2016 at 1:55 PM ^

And there were two bars - one upstairs and one downstairs.  The year after I graduated the place got bought by a Japanese resturant who tried to keep the bar going at night after the restuant closed.  That worked out great until one night when a fight broke out and somebody knocked over a HUGE fish tank killing all the fish and making an enormous mess of the place.

Doing your "Bell" back in the day consisted of drinking 18 shots of something on your 18th birthday (drinking age was lower obvviously) and living to tell about it.

schreibee

August 26th, 2016 at 2:26 PM ^

Ya know what I don't like Mr. Old?

You call yourself "old" but we're clearly about the same age as we have so many of the same drinking references!

We are NOT OLD Man!!!!!!!

We're seasoned, cellared, wise and worldly.... well, I'm not worldly, but the rest, fer sher!