Three Things About The Maggie's Dilemma

by Sean Keeley on Oct 13, 2009 5:44 PM EDT Comment 26 comments

#1 - A "vital" piece of Syracuse nightlife is in fact not missing.

#2 - It would indeed be nice if "something" opened in the space Maggies inhabited. Just not Maggies.

#3 - "Maggies will be Maggies for a long time." So...terrible?

Paid For By The Committee To Convince People There's No Reason To Drink Anywhere Except Faegan's (Now That Darwin's Is Closed)

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“Paid For By The Committee To Convince People There’s No Reason To Drink Anywhere Except Faegan’s (Now That Darwin’s Is Closed)”

This is why I respect you.

by Orange::44 on Oct 13, 2009 5:51 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Erika is way too short for our plasma TV.

by Jameson_Fleming on Oct 13, 2009 5:57 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Chuck's

I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt since you graduated before 2005, but Chuck’s is still my favorite bar of all time, anywhere, if only for nostalgia purposes. That said, Faegan’s is where I take my non-contemporaries when traveling to ’Cuse, and it is yet to receive a negative review.

by temolloy on Oct 13, 2009 6:20 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

To be fair

Chucks was closed during my formative years, so I have no basis

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by Sean Keeley on Oct 13, 2009 6:29 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

+1

by brendoh on Oct 13, 2009 6:37 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Chuck's

seemed to be where most underage would go to drink since it was over/under. Maggie’s was mostly the Greek crowd.

Chuck’s was great, drinking a bottle of Boone’s and eating popcorn, what’s not to love?

by sportzbelle on Oct 14, 2009 9:27 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I still don’t see the deal with Chucks. Darwin’s was my place of choice when I was there (class of 06’). Sad to see it go. It’s always packed, you can’t hear anything, and seems a little filthy. Music is subpar too. I

by JRSu1 on Oct 14, 2009 11:20 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Chuck's was reincarnated

it was Chuck’s, closed and I think became a coffee place, closed and became something else and then reopened again as Chuck’s…. so I can’t speak for Chuck’s 2.0 compared to the original

by sportzbelle on Oct 14, 2009 2:15 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Hey Maggie's,

That’s what you get for playing chicken with the NYS Liquor Authority. You just have to not sell booze to people that aren’t 21. It isn’t difficult.

by Orange::44 on Oct 13, 2009 6:37 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

darwins closed down too

but the best closed bar is def konrads. $2 pitchers at happy hour. two dollars. ridiculous.

by orngfan on Oct 13, 2009 7:05 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

When did Darwin's close?

Remember watching the Bosox beat the Yankees at Feagen’s, good times.

by cuseindahuse on Oct 13, 2009 7:06 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

2006

http://media.www.dailyorange.com/media/storage/paper522/news/2006/10/25/News/Darwins.Bar.Closes.After.15.Years-2399864.shtml

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by Sean Keeley on Oct 13, 2009 7:11 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

RIP Darwin's

$2 pitchers never tasted so good. Same with the fingers & fries.

by Orange::44 on Oct 13, 2009 8:37 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

mmmmm fingers and fries

and quesadillas

~K
"As the governor of Louisiana once said, the only way Chris Kelsay can lose his job is if he got caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy."

by Kurupt on Oct 14, 2009 12:25 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

or the eerily ecto cooler-looking electric gatorades. 2 of those and you’re well on your way to blackout city. i dont think there was one drop of non-alcoholic liquor in those things. delicious.

by Emac33 on Oct 14, 2009 8:56 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Oh no!

Are you kidding me? Is this really news worthy? I got into Maggies at the age of 19 in 1986. Since then Maggies has been shut down and reopened about 1000 times. I guess it was a slow news day at Screwhouse School of Comm.

by cuseXC on Oct 13, 2009 8:56 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Chucks or Faegan's were (and are) the only bars on/near Marshall as far I'm concerned.

I never had a fake, so I missed out on Darwin’s before it closed. “Vital” is hardly the word I’d use. “Irrelevant” might be closer to the truth.

by NOLACuse on Oct 14, 2009 9:57 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Ditto

Went to Harry’s and Lucy’s once to check them out and never went back. Plus Chucks partly sponsors the rugby team (and holds the alumni weekend get together).

by 'CuseRugby on Oct 14, 2009 8:42 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I spent 3 years at Syracuse and only

went to Maggies once. That was enough for me.

Same with Lucy’s.

Think only made two trips to Harry’s and Konrad’s.

Darwins will always and FOREVER be the greatest bar ever. Remember 2 for 1 Thursdays?
Mmmmm, double fisting Long Island Ice Teas while double teaming Long Island Girls.

The 'Cuse is in tha house, oh my God oh my God.

by StrawHatGuy on Oct 14, 2009 10:41 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

double teaming Long Island Girls…booyah.

by JRSu1 on Oct 14, 2009 11:22 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

you could always tell they were ready to go when they fell down the stairs.

by ryanwk628 on Oct 14, 2009 11:49 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

241 Thursdays - check

I had some dumb elective on Thursday nights from 7-9:45pm. Perfect timing to get into Darwins before they started collecting cover but just in time for the start of 241. And I’m not from LI but those stairs were a killer on the way out. You knew it was a good night when you had to be escorted down the back stairway!

by sportzbelle on Oct 14, 2009 2:12 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

If Maggie's was a college, it'd be Georgetown

That place sucked.

by Hoya Suxa on Oct 14, 2009 1:55 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

THE LIMERICK

Can I please nominate the Limerick? Please?

I love that place. Seriously (nh)

by Cody K on Oct 14, 2009 6:17 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

All discussion begin and end with Chucks and 44's

First, Im not talking about your crappy wanna be, I can see outside chucks. Im talking about 98-99 Chucks (only open my freshman year) where it was 18 and 21. You could get cheap pitchers of about anything on Thursday night and get destroyed. I think chucks is the first college bar that made me puke. Ahhh the memories.

44’s was also great. Hell the bar was written up by playboy. How could you not love split day. They somehow convinced a bunch of otherwise stuck up college students to run into a bar, spray each other with little beer and have the girls nail their bras up to the wall while they were in wet tshirts. If this wasn’t the greatest (now stopped) drinking tradition in the history of Syracuse bars, I don’t know what was.

by CapitalOrange on Oct 15, 2009 12:00 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs

Rec'd- 44's split day was number 1

Only open for my freshman year, I was lucky enough to go to my first (and last) split day. Def the best drinking tradition in the histroy of SU bars. Anytime you can hook up with multiple girls at 1pm in the afternoon while soaked in beer…well, that’s a good day.

by StroudFanClub on Oct 15, 2009 7:40 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs