University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, August 22, 1990
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Lawrence bars brace for KU student boom
By Holly M. Neuman
Kansan staff writer
Local bars have beefed up staff size and employees are carding frequently during the boom in business between week and fraternity and sorority rush.
At The Bottlecene, 737 New Hampshire St., manager Doug Vinke said everyone was carded at the door throughout the year. He added that business had been good since students started coming back to Lawrence and that additional staff was hired to deal with the increase
"Business was steadily last week, but we're hoping this week will be one of the busiest of the year," Vinke said.
Greg Young, assistant manager at
The Wagon Wheel Cafe, 507. W14th.
st., predicted that business would
remain steady during rush but that it
would be busier afterward because
it will be in rush would have
more free time.
He said the carding policy there varied. When it is busy, everyone is carded at the door, but when business is slower, customers are carded at the bar. Staff is on call to work if企业 gets heavy, Young said.
The carding policy will not change during Hawk Week at Johnny's Tavern, 401 N. Second St., where all IDs are stored in the door, said bartender Jack Door.
"I't it's tough to get into Johnny's without an ID." he said. "There are no exceptions made for checking IDs during Hawk Week and rush."
Steve Noble, St. Louis junior, said that he had never been carded at a Lawrence bench until after he turned 21 and he was carded at the Lawrence bench at nearly every bar he went to.
"Most places card at the door now." Noble said. "If you're underage, bars aren't as easy to get into as they used to be."
Steve Noble
St. Louis junior
'Most places card at the door now. If you're underage, bars aren't as easy to get into as they used to be.'
Bar managers and employees said that their carding policies did not change after the ruling in a local case last year that a police officer could not ask a patron's age based on his perception of that patron.
Donald Strole, the attorney who won the September 1989 case, said that the most important part of the ruling was that a person did not have to respond when anyone, including a police officer, asked his age.
“If they don't read you the Miranda warning, you can just walk away if they ask you how old you are,” Strobe said. “It is still the responsibility of the bar employee to check IDs and ensure that through checking IDS. The important thing is the age determination made by the seller about the buver.”
He added that officers cannot use threat of force to make someone give their age.
Nearly half the time someone gets into trouble at a bar, it is because of a fake ID. Strode said. However, Vinke had an idea that Ds usually succeeded in getting in.
"Those people who have a good ID that doesn't look photocopied or obvious, it is pretty easy for them to get into Lawrence bars," he said.
Now eat, drink and play ball
Bar will create gym, ballpark ambiance for sports lovers
By Amy Zamierowski
Kansan staff writer
A sports bar and restaurant scheduled to open in mid-September will feature a basketball court, tennis nets and artificial grass.
Benchwarmers, which will be located in the Southern Hills Mall, 1601 W 23rd St., will not be a man sports bar, co-owned John Weaver
"It will be the Disneyland of sports bars" he said.
Hetler said Benchwarmers would be separated into sections with different sports themes, such as volleyball, basketball and golf.
Tennis nets will separate the seating and artificial grass will be
placed on certain sections, he said. A basketball court will be used as a dance floor.
Heter said the bar would be decorated with sports paraphernalia, such as a replica of a baseball dugout and a crew boat. Benchcharmers also will have 20 large screen televisions.
Heller said he chose the location because of the 8,500 square feet of available space. He also plans to add a 2,000 square-foot deck with
Hetter is co-owner of Benchwarmers with a friend, Reed Brinton. Brinton and Hetter became friends in 1968 after he graduated from University of Kansas, Hetter said.
Hetler also owns Pup's Grill, 847
To make Benchwarmers a success, Hetler and Brinton are implementing a full scale marketing plan, Hetler said. Also, everyone they hire will be enthusiastic and upbeat, he said.
Indiana St., which he opened in 1988, when he was a senior at KU.
Charles Tetrick, advertising and marketing director for Pup's said, "We tried to come up with a concept entirely different from any other bar in the area. We are always friends in the Lawrence market."
"This is not going to be just a bar but also entertainment. It's going overdone."
Band of public defenders rocks for clients on Washington stages
The Associated Press
MEDICAL LAKER, Wash. — When the Throbbing PeeDeez six public defenders and a spouse — played recently at a juvenile-detention center, some of the minors in the crowd "Hey, that my lawyer on there!"
After a week of representing too many people that the world assumes are guilty, playing rock music definitely releases tension, say the band members, who celebrated their first anniversary together this month.
Recent free concerts also were an occasion for fun with the type of people they often represent.
"It took them a while, but they loosened up and became children again, as opposed to hardened young people with behavior disorders."
The rockin' lawyers had another recent gig at the state mental institution in Medical Lake, 15 miles west of Spokane.
Of the concert at the Spokane center, lead vocalist Jim Kane said.
"It's getting people to hear music that they're not gonna hear, at least while they're in there," said guitarist-lawyer Steve Heintz. "We all have different reasons for being in the middle of a very body. 'A is to have a good time.'"
Consensus among the residents at Eastern State Hospital was that the band was "much better than last year."
The Throbbing PeeDeez started on a dare from the owner of a local seafood restaurant.
A week of practice and a few borrowed instruments later, they made their debut with the theme "The Guitar Blues." A sampling of the lyrics.
None had ever played in a band, although a couple of them had guitars stored in the closet since junior high school.
"We work with liars, cheats, wife beaters and drunks on a daily basis and those are just the judges."
That brought down the house, which was filled with curious colleagues from district court, Kane said.
K.C. couple get married in toll booth
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — The toll for
crossing the Platte Purchase Bridge
is 35 cents for cars, 75 cents for three
axes and $1 for four.
But that didn't matter Saturday afternoon. If you said you were there for the wedding, you didn't have to pay
Anna Delores Smith and Bobby Dale Winter were married in the toll booth on the bridge, which links two cities in Kansas City, Kan, with Riverside.
"We met here, we work here and we got married here," Smith said during a reception in the office next to the toll booth.
Winter has been on the job about four years, and Smith just one.
In addition, both the best man,
Scotty Fount, and the maid of honor,
Hattie Forbes, are toll booth attendants,
as were many of the 40 relatives
and friends who attended the ceremony.
Nobody could recall whose idea it was to have the toll booth serve as a wedding chapel. Somebody said it was David Brenner's.
"No, no, no, it wasn't mine," said Brenner, a Platte County commissioner. He said he heard about the case after the Court House earlier in the week.
"I thought, 'Boy, I can't miss this,'" he said.
Betty Hunstman, the bridge supervisor and the bride and groom's boss, doesn't remember how the idea materialized, either, she said.
"It was everybody's idea, and it just snowballed," she said.
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