University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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I continued from page10l Chalk Chant. Iohn Wooden died in March, 1997, but his legacy continued in the form of a red and blue shack on 14th Street. The late 1960s posed a threat to weekends in Lawrence. As KU students became increasingly enamored of marijuana, beer sales declined significantly. The Wheel's beer sales fell from 200 cases of beer a week to only 60 cases a week in 1969, but the Crossing, which alumni from the flapper generation to the hippie generation would recognize as The Rock Chalk, was hardest hit by the rampant drug use. The establishment was frequently used for drug trafficking and became so notorious that Dan Rather and 60 Minutes chose the Chalk as the setting for a story on campus drug use. The names and the faces X K 22 ' z- 3 A ji 'W changed, but the structures ATW' and the traditions remained L , Y , ' the same. V 7 T A l l l 1 IT Il Fiji F ly fl ll N' ll Nxt lr' X If' li 1 11 4 fi L it ,lf i tgp! C 1,1 lo Tj D ta I, THE Rock CHALK CAFE CLOSED IN 1971 and reopened as the New Haven. The New Haven did not last long and the bar operated under a steady stream of different names and owners. By the early 19805, the front porch had been added and the Crossing was the name that stuck. Wil , ,, 3. gwww- fffsw- 'N' 'I ' QW ie'- E Vip,-s, er' 9 K. .rf

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lub THE WAGON WHEEL CAFE WAS A touchstone to many genera- tions of KU students. Alumni often went to the Wheel to sit in the big corner booth and check if graffiti written during their college days was still there. 'diff' -'lip' gz'-f,,gg:2-:f':1,,ff.5g4.f1p-:QQ-' ftgiffv A A-f ff 1-f- '7' L- ,,f,::j.5f'L. ..w A-f:.T-mf ,,.- A,- - ' ,.f- .f ft -ff ...f-4, ,.,,-11,1-f-'fly s ,gz ' ' v ' ,-w '- Y- .ff- ORIGINALLY, THE BUILDING occupied by the Wheel was the only bookstore serving KU students. The bars on the windows were installed by the bookstores owners during the Great Depression to deter theft. Bars

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it l 'THE FRONT PORCH OF THE CROSSING lx was a popular place on sunny tafternoons. lt was common A ltxfFfO1' students to walk straight off campus and into the for a beer after were over for the day. -sg' M Q0 wnmi 'X -, 'NW ,pw . ' :f ig km LN 1975, THE CITY COMMISSION attempted to close the Wheel after football games. There was concern that the masses invading the bar after the games were dangerous. This led to the establishment of the beer garden to ease crowding in the building. Bars OC' V..