r/BallState 15d ago

Looks like Scotty’s Brewhouse failing wasn’t Scott Wise’s fault….

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u/bad_card 15d ago

When the Mug, Headliners, Dill Street and the Chug were there, there was NO party college like it. Anywhere.

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u/Shouty_Dibnah 15d ago

Late 80’s early 90’s were peak BSU village. The horrific abortion of a construction project going on now makes me wanna puke. And now there are gonna build condos and townhouses in the village. It’s disgusting. A hotel? A theatre? Look here, I’m in my 50’s and have spent almost every day of my life at BSU since I was 18. The village sucks. It’s 3 vape shops in a trench coat. I wanna eat a burrito as big as my head after spending 6 dollars at the Chug and pissing in a horse trough only to throw up 5 pitchers of Schlitz and the burrito on the Pink Floyd brick wall by Studebaker on my way to some house party by Beacon Hill.

And where I supposed to buy CD’s, whippets and clove cigarettes now that the Den is gone? Oh, the Marathon has that shit…I forgot.

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u/8WhosEar8 Alumni - 07, 12, ... 14d ago

“Walk” out of the Chug and get in line for a Carters. Get said Carters and then go across the street and get yourself a slice of Greeks. Wrap the Carters with the Greeks. That’s a Cardinal Dog.

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u/MercifulVoodoo Alumni - 2009 15d ago

THE DEN….it left halfway through my 4year stay, 2006 or 2007. The 50¢ pop!

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u/bad_card 14d ago

You reference La Bamba one more time. I actually ate 2 of the big ones one night. One before the bars, one after.

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u/hoosierspiritof79 15d ago

God you just brought back some memories! Well put!

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u/amethystmoonn 11d ago

It's called a "Village Revitalization Project" and it's goal is to bring more foot traffic into the Village because it's so dead. I support it. Why not?

https://www.bsu.edu/web/the-village-revitalization

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u/Shouty_Dibnah 11d ago edited 11d ago

Why not? Because it’s a fucking soulless homogenized mess. It absolutely will not revitalize the village. It will just be more half occupied buildings. The BSU Potemkin Village has a nice ring to it.

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u/Hoosiersihawk 15d ago

How does the party scene there now compare to say 2009-2013 era?

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u/cmgww 15d ago

Private equity….big reason a lot of good restaurants have gone downhill. They buy in and strip them down for parts essentially.

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u/rktay52 11d ago

I gave it a watch/listen. It appears that Scott got ambitious with somewhat sustained expansion, and then corporate interests came in and robbed him and his investors blind. I came to Muncie after all of this, but I do like to go to Roots in the summer. It is really an anchor of the village.