Thursday, January 9, 1969
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
9
Beer sold by the gallons
TGIF profitable for local taverns
By LINDA LOYD Kansan Staff Writer
Although beer, world's oldest alcoholic beverage and long-time fermented favorite of the college student, is usually consumed by the pint, at KU it's being drunk by the gallon. More than 8,000 gallons per week.
Asked when they sell most of this beer, tavern managers agreed that Friday and Saturday are their busiest days.
This estimate, compiled from a recent survey of taverns popular with students in Lawrence, excluding pizza parlors and dancing places, is based on the volume of beer delivered in cans, bottles and kegs by area distributors. Lawrence, Topeka and Ottawa beverage companies reported monthly totals, which were broken down to a weekly average.
Traditionally, hundreds of students discard books once a week to celebrate TGIF (Thank God It's Friday). "At least 400-500 people come and go in here on a Friday afternoon," said Jayhawk Cafe manager. "I buy $1,000 worth of beer weekly and probably gross $750 on an average Friday," she estimated that he sells
Kansan sketch by Mike Shearer
Student prepares for finals
600-800 bottles and cans and ten kegs or 150 gallons of draft beer on Fridays.
The Gaslight Tavern reported selling 2-3 cases of pints and 2-3 kegs of draft beer on Friday
afternoons. "Between 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. Fridays, I sell nearly 75 cases of 16 oz. cans and 15 cases of 12 oz. bottles," manager of the Wagon Wheel Cafe reported. "I sell about 180 cases in a week."
Friday is one of Ace Johnson's busiest days at The Stables. "I sell an average of eight kegs and 15 cases," Johnson said. "I probably sell 45-50 kegs and 60 cases a week."
Johnson said 90 per cent of his business is at night and most of that is draw beer.
The Studio reported weekend sales of $150 or eight kegs of beer.
All tavern managers reported that they keep well-stocked refrigerators in preparation of special student occasions. "At boom periods such as Country Club Week or between semesters, I've sold as much as $5,000 worth of beer and 1500 half quarts.
"I keep 10 cases of each kind of beer in the storage cooler because we never know when there's going to be some student occasion such as mid-term exams," the manager of the Gaslight Tavern reported. "Final week we sell an awful lot of beer."
Chinese painter will demonstrate ancient methods
A Chinese artist-scholar, IChen Wu, will exhibit his work and give demonstrations of ancient Chinese painting techniques at Watson Library January 19.
Wu, a graduate student in guidance, will demonstrate Chinese brush techniques and explain differences between Western and Chinese painting. He will augment the showing of his own works with those from the early 18th century to the present.
The exhibit, sponsored by the School of Fine Arts, Watson Library and KU's Chinese Student Association, will be shown free to the public from noon to 6:00 p.m. daily.
A frequent prize-winner in Midwest art exhibits, I-Chen Wu, gave a series of demonstrations and lectures on Chinese art at the Chinese Pavilion at Expo '67 in Montreal, Canada, and HemisFair '68 in San Antonio, Tex. During the past two years he has traveled extensively giving lectures and demonstrations.
Several of his presentations were filmed and made into tapes.
Wu came to this country in 1966 after studying art with the professor Chi Pei-shih, a renown Chinese artist.
Playtex invents the first-day tampon
(We took the inside out to show you how different it is.)
Outside: it's softer and silky (not cardboardy).
Inside: it's so extra absorbent...it even protects on your first day. Your worst day!
In every lab test against the old cardboardy kind... the Playtex tampon was always more absorbent. Actually 45% more absorbent on the average than the leading regular tampon.
Because it's different. Actually adjusts to you. It flowers out. Fluffs out. Designed to protect every inside inch of you. So the chance of a mishap
is almost zero!
Try it fast.
Why live in the past?
The University of Kansas Theatre presents
MEDIEVAL CHRISTMAS PLAYS
The Annunciation The Offering of The Magi The Second Shepherd's Play
Experimental Theatre
Curtain
8:20 p.m.
Murphy Hall UN 4-3982 Tickets: $1.50 w/KU ID: 75c
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