Great town. I spent about 6 months working there last year. Joe's Bakery, the Gaslight, and the Bourgeois Pig were my favorites, along with Love Garden and that cool little water garden store on 9th St.

Frank




Oh yeah, those frosty schooners from Louise's were righteous, too.

here is me playing that awesome centipede sit down game.


things I enjoyed while down there free state brewery, jackpot, harbour lights, pita pit, ingredient (pizza), sonic, window shopping, and all the hot chicks. we never made it to yellow sub

maybe it's because I'm from wisconsin, but my first impression of the people is that it's hard to meet people down there by just approaching them. that is all.

When I'm in L-Town I have to watch myself in Love Garden. It is incredibly easy to spend entirely too much money there, at least for myself. It's wonderful.


Harbour Lights is good. I like 8th Street Taproom & Harry's (?, the one upstairs next to The Sandbar, which sucks) as well. Many a drunken evening spent at The Pool Room as well (free pool from 12 - 2am!). The Replay Lounge I enjoy when it's not shitpacked.


I probably enjoy going there now more than when I lived there, mainly since I make much more money than when I lived there & my car works. But it still is a damn fine place to be a lazy, broke-ass, carless bum.

I once read that Lawrence was founded by abolitionists. Massachusetts was squarely anti-slave, but the new territories were still up in th air, so a group of busybody Yankees packed up and moved to KS so they could swing the vote.
And it worked.
They settled in Lawrence.

With them they brought progressive ideas, for the time, and it's been a liberal bastion in an otherwise conservative state ever since.

If this story is true, I think it's the coolest thing ever. What commitment.

It got me thinking: If any of y'all who live in lost cause states want to move to NC, in an attempt to tip us to the Blue Team, please come. I'll show you the best BBQ joints. One is called "The BBQ Joint."

-A

i too grew up near lawrence (overland park). the bottleneck was the first venue to ever let me in underage (didn't need a fake). most of my friends went to ku and now they treat me to an endless parade of pbrs at the replay lounge whenever i come into town -- which, coincidentally, i will do again this weekend!

it's easy to get around and has some great music coming from there. big fan. i wouldn't live there, but only because i grew up in kansas.

Didn't William S. Burroughs live there?

katie, a princess wrote:i too grew up near lawrence (overland park). the bottleneck was the first venue to ever let me in underage (didn't need a fake). most of my friends went to ku and now they treat me to an endless parade of pbrs at the replay lounge whenever i come into town -- which, coincidentally, i will do again this weekend!

it's easy to get around and has some great music coming from there. big fan. i wouldn't live there, but only because i grew up in kansas.

oooh...Johnson County-ite

bring it! we water our lawns with perrier!