Weekday
The weekly feature page of the University Daily Kansan February 1. 1978
Lawrence Bars... The Life of Night
Three smiling faces in a crowd typify the kind of spirit found at Lawrence bars.
hing to make a slight at the here all worthwhile for from left to right! Mike McQuaid, Greg Farnen, Mark Cermey, Kevin Hines, Dave Sosinski, Marty Modorcin.
Some people take time out to put their concentration to work in a game of pool, as does Mark Neuser, Toperka senior.
For some, the memory might die hard. For others, a generous quantity of beer seems to ease the stress and quantities manage to obliterate it.
When praises of nightlife in the nation's great cities are sung, Lawrence rarely rates a single verse.
Yet, every weekend University of Kansas students fill the streets and bars trying to erase the memory of a child named Quizzee, quizzes and calculus equations.
The large weekend crowds in most local bars attest to their popularity, as pinball games are pounded and beer pitchers emptied in what is often a jam-packed, shoulder-to-shoulder atmosphere.
"Weekend crowds vary with what's on in town, but when crowds are unusually large, things get messy. A former owner of the Jayhawk Cafe, said
Story by John Whitesides
"We have more doors open so we have to watch those and make sure no one takes out their beer," he said. "We also have two or three floormenders around to make sure we have all up glassware or getting into fights."
"It's a continuing fluctuation, with people coming in and out, and not everybody knows the rules," Wallace said.
Large crowds also mean large clean-up jobs, which in the end mean long hours spent sweeping up peanut butter and cream cheese, beer and cleaning up broken glass.
Photos by Tim Ashne
"It really isn't too bad," Wallace said. "After busy nights you just have to pull out the tables to reach all the peanut shells."
Despite all the large crowds at the bars there isn't always something for everybody in Lawrence.
"I Lawrence is a dead town compared to Manhattan or Kansas City" Haydee Mackahle, Fairway hockey coach (isn't a lot to do on weekends.)
To others, bar scenes are better suited for sociological studies than nighttime enjoyment.
"I had some friends who had to do a sociology study on a different culture," a Lawrence senior said.
An hour was too much for one student who witnessed the more boisterous antics of some bar patrons.
"I used to go by a few of the bars every day," he said. "After a while I decided that some of the people that were there were a few of those places should be caved."
"They went to the Hawk and the Wheel.
"After an hour they'd had enough."
Regardless, most bars in Lawrence aren't suffering for clenthe. After a Friday morning Friday night beer can be enticing.
With life gone except for a lone barkeep only trash remains to be swept away at the end of the night