White House Visit (Now Gainesville Nostalgia . . . LOL!)

I really liked the breakfast buffet at Grandy's

 

And I think I may be the only person to remember/really liked El Toro on 13th, a few blocks south of campus.

 

We were talking live ALBUMS. The best LIVE CONCERT I ever saw was the last show of the TP&THB "Hard Promises" tour, which was in the O Dome . Played for almost 3 hours and as it was seeming to wind down, Tom said "gonna take a quick breaK". The stage lights went down except for the drop spot on Tom's mic. Then that drop spot went to two side by side and a roadie brought out a second mic. The band launched into the opening chords of "Stop dragging my heart around" and out came Steve Nicks. The crowd went, as the saying goes, WILD! This was pre-internet so they may have done these things in other stops but we thought it was all for us. Great, great show.

 

In $ Out hamburgers

 

YOU REMEMBER! This was, of course, not the In & Out that was famous in California. That was good food and not expensive, IIRC. Ad from the Alligator... I used to go to the 2d Ave location.

 

Yes, across the parking lot was a bar called The Spectrum (also called a derogatory name, which I won’t type or this will end up in too hot)

 

There was a place near there that had "Punk Rock" night occasionally. My GF and I would leave behind our Donigan's attire and 'go native' occasionally. Fun to scratch that itch.

 

Donigans was right near Jimmy Hugh’s sporting goods store. My first pair of Converse came from there. I was acquainted with the Donigans. Cool house near the law school

 

I worked at Donigan's my junior and senior year. Mr & Mrs D (can't call them Bill / Cissie) were wonderful people.