University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, August 22, 1990
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Keith Thorpe/KANSAN
Johnny's Tavern is liked by students and Lawrence residents.
Bars offer variety
Kansan staff writer
Bv Ann Sommerlath
With nearly 50 bars in Lawrence there is a large variety of taverns for students to frequent.
Some are traditional afternoon meeting spots and others are geared more toward night time entertainment.
Most owners and managers said they tried to cater to a varied clientele.
One bar whose owner said it attracts a variable clientele is Johnny's, 401 N. Second St. Johnny's, a Lawrence establishment for 40 years, has three separate bars under its roof and offers live entertainment and lunch and dinner specials daily. co-owner Lueie Riederer said
"The fact that we attract locals, college students and business people mixes older and younger and adds to the atmosphere of the bar." Riederer
The owner of Jayhawk Cate, 1340 Ohio St., popularly known as "the
Hawk." boasts that it has been a campus tradition since 1920.
Owner Ken Wallace said the Jayhawk Cafe also had a varied clientele.
"We're all things to all people," he said. "We attract locals, non-Greeks, Greeks and athletes as well. And we are not college-aged. Not everyone is college-aged."
Louise's Bar, 1009 Massachusetts St. tries to attract an older clientele.
"We card harder than a lot of places in town so older people like it," bartender Scott Henry, said.
The Jazzshaw, 92% Massachusetts St. is centered mainly around music and conversation, owner Rick McNeely said. There are no television sets to detract from the atmosphere.
"The Jazhhaus is for anyone who wants to come in and listen to great groovy music." McKeely said "We're all young people, unique music and unique people."
Barn hosts good times for groups
By Ann Sommerlath
Kansan staff writer
The music and party themes may be different now than they were 190 years ago, but one place where they are enjoyed has remained largely obscured.
The barn party tradition began almost a century ago at Shirk's barn on Rural Route 3 in North Lawrence with family and neighborhood parishioners. Students for KU students and groups when the Shikrs began renting the barn in 1966.
Margaret Shirk, whose grandfather David Hamilton Lewis built the barn, can remember. She has lived there all her life.
"As I was growing up, we had neighborhood parties and holiday parties, like for Halloween, at the barn." she said.
The first KU barn party on the Shirks' land was held in 1966. But that barn was destroyed by a tornado in 1970, Shirk said. That year the Shirks owned a barn, but it was used for parties sponsored by various groups, which is the barn used now.
Shipk said that she and her husband enjoyed playing host to KU groups. She said that he made a lot of money from profit but simply because they liked young people.
"We're glad to do it because it provides some place for the kids to go, which was a bigger problem when we started doing it than it is now," she said. "We probably wouldn't do it if the kids didn't enjoy it so much."
The Shirks have faithful customers in the fraternities and sororites at KU, she said. Last year, however, more outside groups used the barn to house their students. The groups that are responsible and can be kept under control, Shirk said.
The Shhrs rely on tradition and word-of-mouth for their business, so they do not advertise. But Shhrk said they were not looking to increase their business because renting the barn was not very profitable.
Shirk's Barn, located on Rural Route 3 in North Lawrence, has held parties for nearly 100 years.
Safe House offers homelike atmosphere to those without homes
By Nicole Linck
Special to the Kansan
Safe House got started because the Salvation Army gymnasium, which provides hot meals and sleeping accommodations, is a statistic for long-term housing.
To help the 300 to 400 homeless people in Lawrence, the Salvation Army has opened the first permanent shelter in the city.
"The Safe House was planned in order to have a more homelike environment for the homeless." Blankenship said.
so far. Blankenship said.
Jeannie Blankenship, the Safe House shelter director, said the shelter opened seven months ago. The
She said the Safe House was a unique shelter because normally single men and families did not live together. We separately separate buildings for each group.
However, the arrangement, which consists of single men on the bottom floor and single women and families on the top floor, has worked out well
The Safe House prohibits alcohol and drugs, and insists that residents strive to be good neighbors. Blankenship said a person could stay in the Safe House for three months if the Queen wanted to change his life, she said.