Friday, November 14, 2008
Party Mix Crows Nest: I Was at Gameland in 1985. Where Were You?
Posted by Carrington Fox on Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 10:14 AM
This week's review of Crows Nest in Green Hills was a lot of fun to write, because it gave me an excuse to reminisce about the old days at Box Seat and Gameland. Interestingly, when the Foxes and the Fluffernutters dined together at Crows Nest recently, before heading down the block to see the debut of High School Musical 3, we talked about our respective days misspent at the Bandywood address. It occurred to us that we had very different memories of the same building, which implied that we were in very different places in our lives in 1985. As for me, well, High School Musical 3 pretty well sums it up.
What were you doing in 1985?
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Box Seat was the place we gathered between semesters
at college and in the summers.
Playing at both Madame Wong's - Chinatown and West - and arguing with Epic. Good times, good times. Well, playing those stages was fun, anyway. Nothing quite like a Rick played through a Vox AC30.
I wasn't exactly an infant like Kira, but I had not yet started elementary school...My favorite dining establishment was probably Pizza Hut or, maybe, McDonald's.
I was at Southwinds! Which I think was in the basement of what's now that Indigo hotel...but I could be a little, uh, fuzzy on the details.
Barbara Please, you remember Southwinds? Then you probably also remember Tavern Full of Blow, er, Tavern on the Row, Third Coast and Panama Red, my hangs at the time.
I was 15 and a busboy at The Sailmaker (post costume days). After work my driving friends and I would go to the Gameland on West End, where Stony River now stands. Once they started carding us we turned to the Bandywood locale where they would actually payout to a 15 year old kid on the video poker machines. Which, subsequently is part of the reason they were closed down. Ah, the memories.
You just reminded me of entire Saturdays spent at Gameland on West End with no more than $5 in quarters. (Sonny, back in my day, the movies cost $2..."
I was in 1st grade. The Golden Arches were undoubtedly the pinnacle of my culinary world.
In June of '85 I made my first trip to Nashville for a sorority sister's wedding, complete with big floppy hats poolside at a home on the Boooolevahhhd....then we all danced on tables at the Cockeyed Camel on Highway 100. The groom then shuttled all of us out of towners out for Hot Chicken--I'm pretty sure it was Prince's. Twenty plus years later, I live a block from the would-be Camel. Sadly, it is now a bank.
I was at Buster's in Murfreesboro, having a Busterburger and a couple of bottled Cokes before I had to get back to work at Cat's Music & Video. Either that, or I was at Jabb's watching The Whining Art Fags, Shamalam and 11:59.
fluff, if you cultivated the ripped pantyhose look... let's say you'd be familar with a french omellete with roasted red peppers, feta & spinach for breakfast
fluff, if you cultivated the ripped pantyhose look... let's say you'd be familar with a french omellete with roasted red peppers, feta & spinach for breakfast
Insert cumin joke here.
Insert cumin joke here.
Not to mention coriander amazing legs.
Oregano better get back to work or tarragon a fire me. And you've been saffron through my bad jokes long enough.
Hey Fluffernutter (or anyone for that matter) - I was 14 in 1985 - I remember 3rd Coast...it was where the boundr'y is, right? But where was Panama Reds? Where was Tavern on the Row? And most importantly, where was CANTRELL'S? HELP!!
Panama Red and Cantrell's were the same building. Cantrell's closed around '85 (someone will correct the date) and Panama Red opened around that time.I was dating one of the managers. Tavern on the Row was where Figlio's is currently shuttered. Good times.
Thanks for the info! But where was the building?? (Panama Red & Cantrell's) BTW - I'm not trying to be annoying...I'm just curious...
Cantrell's was across the street from The Mojo Grill, on the corner of Broadway & 19th. The bulding still has the red zinc roof from its Panama Red hey-days.
Speaking of Cantrell's/Panama Red/Jamaica's (or what-ever name the jerk-chicken place was...)
Do I have this sequence of misfortune in the current order?
Casablanca's
Trilogy
M-something
Atlantis
The Blue Room?
More of "Babu Bhatt's Dream Cafe"..
Ultra-Violet?
Canyon?
Noshville?
Bob's?
Bosco?
Thanks, elzorro!! I totally remember - across from "Major Brew"! Sucks that key location is vacant
elz -- I think it started:
Maude's Courtyard
Trilogy
Casablanca's
after that I could not say...
elz -- I think it went like this:
Maude's Courtyard
Trilogy
Casablanca's
Atlantis
Rack Room and Blue Bar...
Multi-Bob! Zorro, thanks for that memory. Great food, and a great space. We spent two New Years' Eves there -- maybe 90 and 91. I hated to see it close. Can still taste the -- was it crawfish hushpuppies -- with roasted red pepper cream.
Loved Multi-Bob but didn't love it anymore after it switched over to Flying Fish; something got lost in the ironing-out. I do remember the legendary night when bartender Ralph gave a whole habanero to a toddle sitting at the bar with his folks. The night got ugly ugly ugly, and fast.
It took me about an hour to remember what Figlio's was before Figlio's but after Tavern on the Row. Toucan! TOUCAN! Such a bizarre concept. Toucan.
Cannery!! 12th & Porter!! Ace of Clubs!!
Loved that Cockeyed Camel, too. The nearest place to eat open when I got off work at my night job. I was a punk-rockin, head-bangin, very young high school teacher.
My family want me to come back. Is there anyplace like those now?
