University of Alabama - Corolla Yearbook (Tuscaloosa, AL)

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Night ing up all the happy hour snacks in the place for supper. Klogging and buck dancin ' easily rival Travolta moves. For a wild night at Tuscaloosa, students gather at Tivoli ' s every Wednesday night for the featured Zoo Night. The famed night offers SOcf drinks and no cover charge to herds of students. Those expect- ing Zoo Night to be a kinky celebration of the animals found in the zoo ought to look elsewhere. Bonnie and Clyde ' s is the number one disco spot for most students. Friday night is the night to gather there. Starting at 6:00 for happy hour drinks and munchies and going straight through to the disco light show, students are provided with an atmosphere of intoxicated pleasure. The Side Track, playing off the theme of Down the Hatch, whose place it took last spring, is stocked heavily with pinball ma- chines and places for students to relax and socialize. Though the paraphenalia is tak- en directly from Down the Hatch, The Side Track has failed to capture the atmo- sphere that prevailed at the closed bar Many feel it ' s because of the close atmo- Male students find Egan ' s a place to en- joy a beer and good sports. Gary Stevens and Robert Williams watch on as Mark Drensky competes with the pinball machine for points at the Side Track. Students find the Side Track a low key place to enjoy a few beers and to mingle with friends while watching the World Se- ries. 1 6 Night Life

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Night Lights Get loose at the Noose sums it up best when you ' re talking about U.A. night. Besides the regular pool tables, pin ball machines, T. V. ' s, and bar side manners of the bartenders. The Noose is able to attract a crowd of students on it ' s courtyard merits alone. The courtyard serves as a romantic spot on the nights when The Noose is less crowded, and as a cool place for students to mingle when the inside is packed with pool hustlers and smoke. The Noose ' s slogan sums it up perfect; students like to go out to the local night spots, get loose, and have a good time. Gilletes seems to be able to draw in quite a few greek students. But they don ' t do it on the atmosphere or bargains that they may supply, but on the students whose friends go there to mix with their other friends. The Sigma Nu house always has plenty of cars in their yard from the spillover. A popular method of beer drink- ing is to buy all the 254: beer your table can hold before the special has ended and to drink it as quickly as possible. Greeks are drawn by the Greek night specials where a particular sorority or fraternity is honored by allowing all its members to drink all the beer they can for just $1. Look out for the bull. Not the Schiltz bull, but the new mechanical bull at Solo- mon ' s Downstairs. If you ' re not a pinball whiz then try your hand (or other parts) on the new bucking and turning bull. There ' s plenty of padding to cushion those rough landings. Solomon ' s Downstairs is able to attract students with the hit rock performers they book in the place. Though the seating ca- pacity has decreased significantly to make room for the bull and the steep prices seem to discourage students, Solomon ' s Dowmstairs is still able to pack them in and charge a three or four dollar cover charge on nights when popular stars, such as Eli and Hotel, are featured. For a real western atmosphere students head out to The Cowboy. Stuffed cactuses, waiters in boots and hats, and country mu- sic brings out the country lover in every- one. Thursday and Friday night happy hours are the best time to see University students sitting in the western bar and eat- Solomon ' s is a popular gathering place for beer drir king students who enjoy the live hard rock band music performed for their entertainment. Night Life 1 5

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sphere that The Side Track failed to produce in trying to provide the students with enough space to mix comfortably. Burnam ' s is another place designed to attract large groups of students who are out to mingle among friends. Yet, Burnam ' s fails to attract the weekend crowd because of all the specials they have during the week, such as baseball night with all the beer a student can drink for a couple of dollars, and ladies ' night featuring mixed drinks for a dollar. Lee ' s Tomb was ranked as the number one spot by most students for just plain so- cializing and having fun. Lee ' s Tomb fea- tures several top student bands including Bootleg, Oakley Hill, and Chevy 6. One student commented that he liked Lee ' s Tomb because they book good bands that already know most of us and we can really have a good time making jokes and drink- ing. Though high alcohol prices and cover charges discourage some students from partying in Tuscaloosa, Lisa Bowelles, a freshman majoring in accounting, said, Partying here is better than at home be- cause there isn ' t anyone watching you who can go back and tell your parents what you are doing. When asked about the extension of the weekend from Thrusday night last year to Wednesday night this year, Kim Taylor said, I think that partying on Wednesday and Thrusday is good because it gives stu- dents that like to go home on the week- ends a chance to socialize and become a part of University party life. Julie Spano said, I ' ve noticed that more and more college students are going out earlier in the week and I think that is great because it allows the student an op- portunity to relax and get away from the books. I like the University night life because it is so unique, said Melinda Crawrford, a junior business major, You can go out and have a good time in places that are geared to college students. I usually go out with a group of my sorority sisters to Bonnie and Clyde ' s and get some happy hour munchies. We all have a great time. I Karen Tucker Many students are reluctant to challenge the bull for a ride at Solomon ' s. This stu- dent takes it on despite the odds that she will fall off. Night Life 1 7