Peacefrog
Degenerate
This does concern me. I like having dive bars close to campus.
Aardvark is closing
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Peacefrog
Degenerate
Hi hat was great. James made a hell of a drink. Sucked if you were tall though.
tcumaniac
Full Member
Christ Chapel’s college ministry has been meeting here every Sunday morning since before even I was a Freshman.
I heard Christ chapel made the owner an offer he couldn’t turn down.
lonestarfrog89
Active Member
I heard the article mentioned the same thing.
Tom Brown
Active Member
Go to Heaven free card
frogs9497
Full Member
Half the congregation may leave when they stop serving beer on Sunday mornings.
YA
Active Member
The Hi Hat was for sale in 1994-1995 timeframe for $25k--the bar location was not owned and was a leased space. I and a friend came within a day of buying the bar before my dad convinced me that going to law school and owning a bar was not a combination that a young lad should take on. We backed out and was sold to the folks that made it what is was till it was closed.
BrewingFrog
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Loved catching Schwantz Lefantz at the HOP back in the day. I wonder whatever happened to the old portrait of Bob Dylan that hung in the booth?
One Frog Nation
Active Member
House of Pizza
worked there
saw space opera many times there
Country Max
I'm in love that's no lie
you don't need to ask me why
cause I'm high high high
Vince ran the place. Toad was the owner. Don't ask the year cause it was a while back
Tom Brown
Active Member
Early 90's the O was stolen by my buddy and he prominently displayed it in his apt.
berryfrog95
Active Member
Hottest girls per capita of any bar in the country
Man, if I had a time machine, and could go back in time 5 times, I would spend one trip going back to the HOP on a night when Pico de Gallo played. Some TCU profs (Franzwa & Galvin, to name a few) led an incredibly above average garage band that played a little of everything from Sugar Magnolia to Piss Ant. Most nights would result in gyrating with lady profs and dancing on tabletops, the latter of which once resulted in one being splintered by a lad called Big Jay. People would chant in unison one phrase that I'm pretty sure today would qualify as sacrilege, but it was pure, unadulterated, harmless bacchanalia back then.
I could write paragraphs about the character that was my Philosophy prof, Gregg Franzwa, but I can sum it up with this. When he passed in late 2016, the final line in his obituary read... "He passed surrounded by broken-hearted women begging him not to leave, just as he would have wanted."
Long live Pico, and long live memories of nights at the HOP...
I could write paragraphs about the character that was my Philosophy prof, Gregg Franzwa, but I can sum it up with this. When he passed in late 2016, the final line in his obituary read... "He passed surrounded by broken-hearted women begging him not to leave, just as he would have wanted."
Long live Pico, and long live memories of nights at the HOP...
TX_Krötenechse
Active Member
Which German professor?
FrankDMaynard
Active Member
I couldn't verify this personally, but I had a good friend that was in the HOP when Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell actually came in late one night after a concert in Dallas.
Chico Dusty
Active Member
Must have been before my time - where was HOP? Pizza spot ...bar too?
I would guess that the guy who owned The HOP still has it. I believe it was a work by James Record who spent a lot of time there.
BrewingFrog
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Hence the picture.
froggrad08
Active Member
Aardvark, The Moon, The Cellar.. The Pub...all classics in that area.
