Proud Tiger 4,261 Posted January 25, 2018 Share Posted January 25, 2018 Next thing you know they will tear down Toomers Drugstore. Enjoy: https://www.auburnvillager.com/news/compass-bank-being-razed-within-month/article_e8179e14-01df-11e8-b7cf-0331e126ac29.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=user-share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aubiefifty 16,778 Posted January 25, 2018 Share Posted January 25, 2018 i doubt you have anything to worry about. Tearing down toomers would be akin to killing our beloved trees. that being said i have seen cities do some pretty stupid stuff so i certainly understand your concern. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lionheartkc 6,150 Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 8 hours ago, aubiefifty said: i doubt you have anything to worry about. Tearing down toomers would be akin to killing our beloved trees. At one point, they said that about The Flush, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aubiefifty 16,778 Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 9 hours ago, lionheartkc said: At one point, they said that about The Flush, too. lionheart my mother and her best friend took m and her daughter to the flush. we at down and were waiting for them to bring food right? they turn around and our mouths were absolutely full and we were just chewing for all we were worth.seems we discovered the old gum stuck on the underside of the table lol. that is a true story.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lionheartkc 6,150 Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 34 minutes ago, aubiefifty said: lionheart my mother and her best friend took m and her daughter to the flush. we at down and were waiting for them to bring food right? they turn around and our mouths were absolutely full and we were just chewing for all we were worth.seems we discovered the old gum stuck on the underside of the table lol. that is a true story.... Ummmmm... gross. I, sadly, was at Auburn when the Flush was demolished. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McLoofus 35,182 Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 39 minutes ago, aubiefifty said: lionheart my mother and her best friend took m and her daughter to the flush. we at down and were waiting for them to bring food right? they turn around and our mouths were absolutely full and we were just chewing for all we were worth.seems we discovered the old gum stuck on the underside of the table lol. that is a true story.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aubiefifty 16,778 Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 my mothers same friend used to work at the copper kettle. she also worked for archie at archies bbq. i doubt anyone remembers archie but he was a huge man............so over weight he could barely walk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lionheartkc 6,150 Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 15 minutes ago, aubiefifty said: my mothers same friend used to work at the copper kettle. Glad she wasn't there when it met it's fate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aubiefifty 16,778 Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 1 minute ago, lionheartkc said: Glad she wasn't there when it met it's fate. thanx. she was lke a second mother to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarEagleDG 6 Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 I'm not going to shed any tears about that building being razed. It really didn't fit in anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AuburnNTexas 7,143 Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 Thanks for the memories. Boy oh Boy do I remember the Copper Kettle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
augolf1716 21,123 Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 8 hours ago, aubiefifty said: my mothers same friend used to work at the copper kettle. she also worked for archie at archies bbq. i doubt anyone remembers archie but he was a huge man............so over weight he could barely walk. Don't you mean Kopper Kettle. That was my place to go for a 25 cent breakfast/lunch to get over my hangovers. I knew Archie https://www.thewareaglereader.com/2011/01/it-was-a-blast-the-legend-of-the-kopper-kettle-told-with-photos-never-before-seen/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madkat7 233 Posted January 27, 2018 Share Posted January 27, 2018 10 hours ago, lionheartkc said: Ummmmm... gross. I, sadly, was at Auburn when the Flush was demolished. As was I. Sad day. I guess things change, but it seems that more often than not money is involved in precipitating it. Oh well. Does the change to the Compass building impact Wares Jewelers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aubiefifty 16,778 Posted January 27, 2018 Share Posted January 27, 2018 1 hour ago, augolf1716 said: Don't you mean Kopper Kettle. That was my place to go for a 25 cent breakfast/lunch to get over my hangovers. I knew Archie https://www.thewareaglereader.com/2011/01/it-was-a-blast-the-legend-of-the-kopper-kettle-told-with-photos-never-before-seen/ she worked for him as well at a bbq joint golf. her name was eloise and she was a pretty big woman as well. i think she waited tables all over auburn for a few years. she dated a guy named jerry baker who played on the auburn allstars softball team and he was a big man. he was a home run machine. he later went to work for barber milk. and i got mixed up in a previous post a month or two ago. we lived on east glenn avenue. there was a baseball field with a tiny creosote log bridge at the park. my grandfather was william v clayton and everyone in town knew him and called him sarge. he hung out some at a barber shop that opened on the main downtown drag and also a side door and they had the biggest stack of comic books i ever saw. oh and the bridge in the park? my grandfather told me a troll lived under the bridge and to run across it when i was alone and he was not there lol. wowo you have no idea how this excites me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3rdgeneration 6,469 Posted January 27, 2018 Share Posted January 27, 2018 Great stories @aubiefifty! We were in school when the Kopper Kettle blew. It was big news! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glen from West Glenn Ave 44 Posted January 27, 2018 Share Posted January 27, 2018 There were rumors while I was in school (66-70) that Dean Cater had put the Kettle on the Out of Bounds list for Auburn Women. I think it was the only place open after midnight, so the architecture students would go there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TigerTennis80 345 Posted January 27, 2018 Share Posted January 27, 2018 I was in my dorm in the quad when the Kopper Kettle blew. The building shook. My roommate & I looked at each other, eyebrows raised in surprise. I remember saying, "Earthquake? In Auburn?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AURex 1,995 Posted January 28, 2018 Share Posted January 28, 2018 It's really a sign of the times -- in online "journalism." An article about a building being razed and a new building to be built on the spot -- no photo of the existing building and no picture of the architectural vision of planned new building. I was in Auburn last fall, so I definitely know what the current building looks like. But simply writing that it will be brick and fit in with the current aesthetic of campustown ..... how sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CCTAU 3,325 Posted January 29, 2018 Share Posted January 29, 2018 On 1/26/2018 at 9:52 AM, lionheartkc said: Ummmmm... gross. I, sadly, was at Auburn when the Flush was demolished. Well. To be fair, it might have just fallen down on its own in a just short time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lionheartkc 6,150 Posted January 29, 2018 Share Posted January 29, 2018 5 minutes ago, CCTAU said: Well. To be fair, it might have just fallen down on its own in a just short time. There is some truth to that. I just remember being the student population ranging from sad to mad that someone would tear down a tradition. Of course they tried to relocate, but that was a huge failure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoALtiger 3,860 Posted January 29, 2018 Share Posted January 29, 2018 From an article on AL.com a while back.... In my Odd Travels, in both literal and virtual worlds, I have come across photos of places I once frequented as a student at Auburn University. They always make me nostalgic. Anyone who's ever had an ice cream from Sani-Freeze ("The Flush") or danced at The Hungry Hunter will understand. So I gathered photos to represent five Auburn landmarks lost to time. They are from different eras of Auburn's history, although I could not find start and end dates for all of them. Add your memories of these places in the comments section or emailkkazek@al.com , especially if you have photos or info to add. Or suggest other lost landmarks. Click here to see 5 of Alabama's lost landmarks. 5 of Auburn's lost landmarks The Blocked Punt This bar opened downtown in the early to mid-1970s and was named for the famous 1972 Iron Bowl nicknamed the "Punt, Bama, Punt" game, according to TheWarEagleReader.com . As one of the first downtown bars, The Blocked Punt billed itself as "the original student lounge." It also offered pool, video games and disco dancing. Closing date unknown. Darnell's Darnell's was a cafe and bar opened in the 1980s by Billy Brown and Marcia Darnell. It was located on Magnolia, where SkyBar is now, and featured live bands on weekends. It closed in the 1990s. The Hungry Hunter The Hungry Hunter was a nice, sit-down restaurant with an attached bar called Tally-Ho Tavern. Steve Strother opened The Hunter at 1400 Opelika Road in 1978. The dance floor in the tavern was popular because there weren't many places for couples to dance at the time. It reached its heyday in the 1980s when it was a popular hangout for the football team. Closing date unknown. Sani-Freeze, aka "The Flush" (Formerly The Doll House) The Doll House was a tiny sandwich shop opened by Red and Luckie Meagher in 1937 or 1938, according to grandson Mark Meagher (pronounced mee-ger ) in the book "Hidden History of Auburn." The shop on East Glenn was popular with students. In 1952, the Meaghers rented the building to Bennie Hunt, who modified it to serve as a dairy bar called The Sani-Freeze, serving ice cream, hot dogs and burgers. At about that time, a toilet-bowl cleaner called Sani-Flush came on the market. Due to its shabby appearance, the beloved ice cream stand was nicknamed "Sani-Flush," or "The Flush." Despite a student-led "Save the Flush" campaign, the land was sold to a bank in 1993 and the Sani-Freeze moved to a strip mall. Without the charm of the little house, it closed in 2000. The Kopper Kettle The Kopper Kettle opened on Magnolia Street in downtown Auburn in the 1960s and quickly became a hub of student activity. Students not only loved the 10-cent Kettleburgers but liked the fact that breakfast was served all day. The diner also stayed open late enough to be an after-party go-to spot. It became affectionately known as the Kopper Kommode. At 8 a.m. Jan. 15, 1978, the Kettle's great run came to an end when it suddenly exploded, along with numerous downtown buildings. A gas leak led to the horrific blast. Fortunately, it was a cold, Sunday morning and the streets were deserted, so no one was injured in the blast. The relief that no one was hurt and the sadness over the much-loved Kettle's demise led two fraternity brothers, Chuck McDowell and Chuck Staub, to create and sell "I survived the Kopper Kettle explosion" T-shirts. Then McDowell decided to write a song commemorating the event. "The Kettle's Gone" was written to the tune of Ronnie McDowell's Elvis tribute: "The King is Gone." McDowell had 45-rpm records made and sold them on campus. You can listen to the song on YouTube below: Join al.com reporter Kelly Kazek on her weekly journey through Alabama to record the region's quirky history, strange roadside attractions and tales of colorful characters. Find her on Facebook or follow her Odd Travels and Real Alabama boards on Pinterest. Comments Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gulftiger66 166 Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 On 1/26/2018 at 8:59 AM, aubiefifty said: my mothers same friend used to work at the copper kettle. she also worked for archie at archies bbq. i doubt anyone remembers archie but he was a huge man............so over weight he could barely walk. I thought Archie was a great guy. I remember getting a late burger one night, maybe at the Torch on the way to Tuskegee (not at Archie's BBQ). Anyway we had had several beers before getting there and when we finished eating realized that we didn't have money to pay the whole bill. We saw Archie on the other side of the restaurant (he was hard to miss) and even though we weren't regulars at his place and he didn't know us, he bailed us out with a loan. Of course I went to Archie's BBQ the next day and repaid his kindness and from then on I would stop in periodically to say Hello to him and thank him again for his helping us out of a jam, an act that I have obviously never forgotten. BTW, Archie's BBQ had a dirt floor in those days, a unique and colorful place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AU64 10,122 Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 On 1/26/2018 at 9:52 AM, lionheartkc said: Ummmmm... gross. I, sadly, was at Auburn when the Flush was demolished. Must have been a quick trip....it was a dump when I was there in the 1960s...probably took about a half hour to pull it down.... That place was a tribute to the theory that anything can become a sacred institution if people don't look at it too closely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aubiefifty 16,778 Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 58 minutes ago, gulftiger66 said: I thought Archie was a great guy. I remember getting a late burger one night, maybe at the Torch on the way to Tuskegee (not at Archie's BBQ). Anyway we had had several beers before getting there and when we finished eating realized that we didn't have money to pay the whole bill. We saw Archie on the other side of the restaurant (he was hard to miss) and even though we weren't regulars at his place and he didn't know us, he bailed us out with a loan. Of course I went to Archie's BBQ the next day and repaid his kindness and from then on I would stop in periodically to say Hello to him and thank him again for his helping us out of a jam, an act that I have obviously never forgotten. BTW, Archie's BBQ had a dirt floor in those days, a unique and colorful place. if you went down a ways past toomers corner there was an old concrete block building that used to be some kind of dance hall and my mom and dad used to hit it when they were dating. not sure if they had live bands or juke box but they loved to dance so they went often my mom actually named me for some kid that used to go and could dance like mad and his first name was eric. i always wondered if my old man liked that lol. my dad played on the frosh football team and my pic on my bio etc is a pic of him. best times i think i ever had in my life. oh and the juke joint sold cold beverages i am assuming. i would not want people to think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TigerOne 1,140 Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 What was the name of the club on Gay near the corner of Thach near the laundromat? At least I think that's the right area This would be back in the 80's. Anyone remember the Randolph House (Now a fraternity house) and Thorntons dining hall? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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