your favorite college bars has me feeling nostalgic about my JMU days of ordering dollar jello shots and smoking indoor cigs at Finny’s.
- And let’s not forget downing beers under the bra-covered ceiling of the OG Jack Brown’s — or all the times we fell off the mechanical bull at Backcountry (RIP).
Yes, but: Your college bar picks were even better.
At VCU: One reader remembered Andy’s in the ’70s, where 18-year-olds drank 3.2% “kiddie beer” in the back room.
- Another met their spouse at Chuggers in 2002.
- Several shouted out the Jade Elephant on Grace Street in the ’80s, where throwing peanut shells on the floor was encouraged.
- Then there was Back Alley Tavern on Robinson, known for $4 Sam Adams pitchers, 25-cent wings and eventually, a fire.
University of Richmond: City Limit — now Toast — was where one reader would walk the two miles from campus in the early 2010s and “try to convince the Jimmy John’s delivery drivers to give us a ride back.”…