Goody Woo shutting down

[zork 629]

On 4/28/2018 at 1:41 AM, DaysOff said:

Massacres. 

Were those the blue drinks in the mason jars?

[TwiceHorn 31537]

3 hours ago, zork said:

Were those the blue drinks in the mason jars?

 

[hobbs 243]

7 hours ago, blacklab said:

I'll never forget  seeing the LGBT float in the round up parade get pelted with beer cans from the Woo in 1987.

Yep, that was also when the aforementioned keg toss incident occurred, but I thought it was 1984/1985.  Regardless, thankfully, the keg didn't make it all the way to the float, but I think it may have hit a car that was parked at a meter in front of the Woo.

 

Edited April 30, 2018 by hobbs

[Judge Roybeanbag 11821]

“Regradless” is a fantastic Freudian slip.  

[hobbs 243]

4 hours ago, zork said:

Were those the blue drinks in the mason jars?

The mason jars were at Uncle Susu's, but I can't remember what the drinks were called.

[hobbs 243]

5 minutes ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:

“Regradless” is a fantastic Freudian slip.  

Yikes, need to slow down.

Edited April 30, 2018 by hobbs

[Judge Roybeanbag 11821]

7 minutes ago, hobbs said:

Yep, yikes.  Need to slow down.

Eh, it took me six years.  I worked security one summer at some Catholic housing next to the Woo.  It was brutal.  I don’t remember the name of it anymore. Also worked the Zeta House, the Tri-Delts and Greenwood Towers.  Fucked with people in Greenwood mercilessly because I had the elevator key, and they’d come in drunk as fuck and get in the elevator to go to their floor, and right before they got there I’d recall them down.  Also there was an Arby’s across the street I would either eat at, or hurl shit at off the 9th floor roof depending on my mood.  

Edited April 30, 2018 by Judge Roybeanbag

[Judge Roybeanbag 11821]

There was a blind fellow that lived there, he was a government major.  He would order pizza and I would have to escort the delivery guy up to make sure the toppings were correct and the cash was the right amount, because he couldn’t tell between a 10 or 20. He also ordered whores occasionally and I’d have to let him know they were the right sex.  

[TornACL 7722]

I got hammered in a friends dorm room and smoked victory cigars on the balcony when Texas beat Nebraska in the 1996 Big 12 Championship. We watched the cars honking up and down Guadalupe until well into the morning.

[woohorn 1131]

So many Qs:

Has it effectively been co-ed recently because it is so empty? It was a male dorm historically, but I remember a few years at least where it was co-ed. I knew a girl who had to "fake" a pregnancy to get out of her lease once she saw what a dump it was.

12.5 rooms on 7 floors is 175 residents/double occupancy, so the 80 residents listed in the paper is pretty light utilization.

The long time manager listed in the article was a pretty nice dude, but he went to UT law. Is the legal market THAT bad in Austin?

I remember they were planning on adding meal/service at one time in the space above quackenbush's (that instead became quackenboxes).

[JimmyJames 12271]

On 4/27/2018 at 10:55 PM, skipperj said:

Late 90’s. Dragworms in the early 90’s.

This is correct. In 1990 it was strictly dragworms. By 1999 it was strictly dragrats. The 90's were a transition period. 

Do the dragrats still exist now? Haven't been down there in awhile.

[TornACL 7722]

Does that valuation of $5.2M strike anyone as incredibly low? I would think just the land itself is worth more than that.

[Celery Man 20997]

55 minutes ago, JimmyJames said:

This is correct. In 1990 it was strictly dragworms. By 1999 it was strictly dragrats. The 90's were a transition period. 

Do the dragrats still exist now? Haven't been down there in awhile.

Definitely there are still some vagrants about - the horribly dirty old woman who sits at the bus stop in front of the.... catholic church? is there every time I walk by.  But I don't know if she quite fits into the dragrat/dragworm mold, and I imagine there's been a crackdown since a homeless guy murdered a female student behind the alumni center.

[hornimal 80]

the version of the keg story I heard involved roger clemens being the one to launch the keg from the balcony.

[Monty86 60]

11 hours ago, blacklab said:

I'll never forget  seeing the LGBT float in the round up parade get pelted with beer cans from the Woo in 1987.

 

4 hours ago, hobbs said:

Yep, that was also when the aforementioned keg toss incident occurred, but I thought it was 1984/1985.  Regardless, thankfully, the keg didn't make it all the way to the float, but I think it may have hit a car that was parked at a meter in front of the Woo.

 

Only time I was in the Woo was probably 82 or 83, Roundup parade day.  The gay float was bombarded by beer bottles that year.

[PRONG HORN 3159]

Woody Goo

[TwiceHorn 31537]

5 hours ago, hobbs said:

Yep, that was also when the aforementioned keg toss incident occurred, but I thought it was 1984/1985.  Regardless, thankfully, the keg didn't make it all the way to the float, but I think it may have hit a car that was parked at a meter in front of the Woo.

 

It was spring 85.  I was on the float right behind it.  

[TwiceHorn 31537]

5 hours ago, hobbs said:

The mason jars were at Uncle Susu's, but I can't remember what the drinks were called.

Those were small mason jars.  Massacres were quart jars.

[TwiceHorn 31537]

3 hours ago, TornACL said:

Does that valuation of $5.2M strike anyone as incredibly low? I would think just the land itself is worth more than that.

I would guess that isn't a real appraisal.  Probably what's on the appraisal district site and the beneficiary of some spending to keep it low.  Tl;dr yeah it's low as shit.

[RD3 64]

11 hours ago, TornACL said:

Does that valuation of $5.2M strike anyone as incredibly low? I would think just the land itself is worth more than that.

Yes but it isn't an empty lot. Someone is going to have to spend a lot of money to tear it down.

[RD3 64]

Who here is shocked it made it this long?

The last time I went in there my freshman year in 1993.  I had a friend who lived there and it had a funk smell. That's what I remember the most about the place.

[CycleTex87 2981]

My dad lived ther in the 60’s. His roomate got in a fight in the hallway with Whitman at some point. That dude was unhinged from the word go.  

My dad took me there when we were looking at dorms in 1983, about 8:30 am on a Saturday.  The desk guy took us to see a room, and had to wake some hungover guy up, and the room was absolutely wrecked.  It didn’t appeal to me and we crossed it off the list.