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bitching about places i miss

Post by joseph » Mon Jun 09, 2008 2:07 pm

millies tenderloins, nunes market, marys, practice space...

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Post by Beaver » Mon Jun 09, 2008 2:09 pm

I was just talking about millies last week. I liked the traffic lights and animal heads.

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Post by joseph » Mon Jun 09, 2008 2:14 pm

i even miss the reserved table for robert d ray

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Post by baron.von.wasteland » Mon Jun 09, 2008 2:20 pm

Joseph also misses gay bars.
eatin witches...elbowin bitches

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Post by joseph » Mon Jun 09, 2008 2:33 pm

i also miss baron having a 14 year old girlfriend

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Post by joseph » Mon Jun 09, 2008 2:42 pm

vickers, fina, walnut, luckys,

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Post by Beaver » Mon Jun 09, 2008 2:56 pm

I miss luckys, marys, walnut, Richard's, joe's hair, world wide imports, super toad, the arcade at Merle Hay (pre lazer x where they had those huge trampolin areas), Happy Joes at Merle Hay and Southridge, Bishops, Venture, The superplex movie theatre that used to be in the sky walk, freestyle walking.....

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Post by joseph » Mon Jun 09, 2008 3:04 pm

NICKELODEON

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Post by joseph » Mon Jun 09, 2008 3:15 pm

sutherlands

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Post by Hank Fist » Mon Jun 09, 2008 3:27 pm

topless car wash.

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Post by joseph » Mon Jun 09, 2008 4:10 pm

Hank Fist wrote:topless car wash.
across the street from westside best buy 2 saturdays ago.

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Post by Joe » Mon Jun 09, 2008 5:07 pm

Emerald Isle Games, Video Game Depot.

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Post by robdigi » Mon Jun 09, 2008 6:11 pm

GAMES TO GO
All that's missin' is the retired band teacher with the self-inflicted gunshot wound!
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Post by DaVo » Mon Jun 09, 2008 8:12 pm

I miss Mary's, Safari, Lucky's, Stella's downtown, Peeple's Records, Archives, The Outhouse in Lawrence, The Ranch Bowl and The Cog Factory in Omaha,, The Chat Nior, Christine's, Music Circut, The Anarchist Book Store, 2nd Ave Foundry, and countless other place that failed to be supported.
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Post by El Rhino » Mon Jun 09, 2008 10:41 pm

Beaver wrote:Bishops,.....

lol que???

I actually thought about that place last week. Des Moines is certainly lacking in the cafeteria-style dining catered towards senior citizens department. That place must've closed in what, '95 or '96?

I was talking with someone the other day about how Southridge used to have a water slide, probably around '85 or so over by where Shoe Carnival is at now or Waldenbooks, I forgot which one. I don't recall if the tower extension thing is still up, but I know it was there for a while after they shut the water slide down.



Little Ceasar's. The Souff Side A&W. Archives. Thought about that place the other day as well, it closed down about as I became "musically aware". I remember buying Suicidal Tendancies, Bad Brains and some other cool shit on cassette there. The Argentine Restaurant, even though it was the worst ran place ever. A chivito sandwich would be good right now.
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Post by jjjsXe » Tue Jun 10, 2008 1:03 am

music go round, the place where you could buy and sell used shit by half priced books and toys r us. easy place in iowa city
abortions for some, miniature american flags for others

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Post by Cosmo » Tue Jun 10, 2008 1:33 am

Mary's, Lucky's, Denny's, Peony Park, Fun Plex, Jim's Center Gyros, Sol's in Iowa City, Dirt Cheap
My parents used to take me to Bishop's in Council Tuckey back in the day, I was too young to understand that it wasn't a hospital or a school.

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Post by Joe » Tue Jun 10, 2008 2:48 am

Richmond Gordman's.
Used to chill in that elephant slide when I was a kid.

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Post by Thom » Tue Jun 10, 2008 3:12 am

Joe wrote:Richmond Gordman's.
Used to chill in that elephant slide when I was a kid.

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Every once in a while I have a random memory of this, and until now I couldn't remember the name of the store with the slide in it. Thats awesome.

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Post by Furious D » Tue Jun 10, 2008 5:16 am

Discovery Zone, Whitewater University, Old Downtown Library.
....just kidding.

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Post by DaVo » Tue Jun 10, 2008 5:38 am

El Rhino wrote:
Beaver wrote:Bishops,.....

lol que???

I actually thought about that place last week. Des Moines is certainly lacking in the cafeteria-style dining catered towards senior citizens department. That place must've closed in what, '95 or '96?

I was talking with someone the other day about how Southridge used to have a water slide, probably around '85 or so over by where Shoe Carnival is at now or Waldenbooks, I forgot which one. I don't recall if the tower extension thing is still up, but I know it was there for a while after they shut the water slide down.



Little Ceasar's. The Souff Side A&W. Archives. Thought about that place the other day as well, it closed down about as I became "musically aware". I remember buying Suicidal Tendancies, Bad Brains and some other cool shit on cassette there. The Argentine Restaurant, even though it was the worst ran place ever. A chivito sandwich would be good right now.
Fuck the little lights that you lite when you wanted them to come to the table. Yeah Bishops was some of the worst food ever but it was a big part of growing up in Des Moines.

Yeah Al got kind of fucked by his business partner and had to close Archives and then opened Oddities which was never as cool as BPE(this could be cause you will never see hippie chicks breast feeding at the front counter and a larger sellection).

Yeah I remember when the water slide opened at Southridge. If I remember it was like $3 per rides or something crazy like that. It didn't last long.

OH fuck I forgot about Knott's Cafe, the Why Not Grill and the Pickle Barrel. God their Rubben's were by far the best in town. Big Daddy's BBQ with Big Daddy walking around with a spoon full of sause that would send you to ER.
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Post by DaVo » Tue Jun 10, 2008 5:45 am

Furious D wrote:Discovery Zone, Whitewater University, Old Downtown Library.
I drive by Whitewater about twice a month. I'm bummed I never got around to taking my son there other then for mini golf. I lived real close to it growing up and it was a big part of my early teens.

It's strange to have it sitting there empty. I guess they were trying to get Pleasant Hill to buy it and they refused. Seems like a real waste, they need to get their head out of their asses.

Building a new downtown library was a real stupid idea. I remember reading that when they budgeted the new one, they left out the cost of the underground parking and it ended up costing more to build the new one then it would have to been to re-model the old one.
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Post by Joe » Tue Jun 10, 2008 5:45 am

Furious D wrote:Discovery Zone
SERIOUSLY.

Beggar's Banquet.

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Post by joseph » Tue Jun 10, 2008 10:04 am

El Rhino wrote:
Beaver wrote:Bishops,.....
I was talking with someone the other day about how Southridge used to have a water slide, probably around '85 or so over by where Shoe Carnival is at now or Waldenbooks, I forgot which one. I don't recall if the tower extension thing is still up, but I know it was there for a while after they shut the water slide down.

Archives.
i thought the waterslide was inside of montgomery wards? i think they finally took the tubes off the roof, you used to be able to see them from army post.

archives was great. i used to save all my receipts and put them inside the record sleeves. every once in awhile i pull out a record and one of them falls out and i get all EMO...

aladdins castle and java joes when it was good. 7-11, botan...

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Post by crow » Tue Jun 10, 2008 10:09 am

des moines as a whole but i'm missing it less and less as everything cool about it keeps disappearing.
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Post by joseph » Tue Jun 10, 2008 10:20 am

12 packs of heee haw for $1.40.
8 packs of coke in 16 oz glass

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Post by joseph » Tue Jun 10, 2008 10:23 am

RIVER HILLS

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Post by @nonymous » Tue Jun 10, 2008 10:42 am

joseph wrote:8 packs of coke in 16 oz glass
73rd st hy-vee has 16 oz glass bottles of mexican coca-cola. real sugar(no high-fructose corn syrup). it's delicious. it's located in the hot sauce area on the top shelf, between some hot sauce.

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Post by joseph » Tue Jun 10, 2008 10:47 am

hyvee on se 14th has them and so does that mexican store on e14th by the freeway but its like a 1.60 a bottle

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Post by Beaver » Tue Jun 10, 2008 12:13 pm

Juaritos is the name of the pop I believe. Ole'.

The elephant slide at Richmond Gordmans was sweet until scruvs started pissing in it. I think there was a dinoasaur too?

Bishops was sick, but convienant.

At Alaadins Castle you could easily just rip the tickets out of the machine. I woudl mountains of cheap shit.

THeres a little ceasar's up in Sioux Falls.

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