"UT opts out of campus carry" - this has to be a media typo, right?

[JALLEN]

The Monument Inn is still there and still has great seafood. Other great food if you're like my wife & not partial to seafood.

I am partial to seafood.

The Monument Inn website reveals it started in 1974, 25 years too late for it to be the one I was remembering.

The truth is I can't remember much about it. I don't think it was on that side. My grandparents came from the west. It was on that side, was kind of a dark brown wood tile, with blue lights. So much has changed in the ~60-65 years, it would be hard to replace it. I'll ask my younger brother. He remembers everything, his memory undimmed by decades of exposure to night air, strong drink and wild women. He might be too young, though, at a boyish 68.

That said, if this place serves great seafood, close enough! No need to be picky.

[Nuts]

The local chapter of Students Wildly Indignant about Nearly Everything has been very active through the years and more so now.

Lol, S.W.I.N.E.

Got to remember that one.

[JALLEN]

The local chapter of Students Wildly Indignant about Nearly Everything has been very active through the years and more so now.

Lol, S.W.I.N.E.

Got to remember that one.

Apologies to Al Capp, I believe it was, who came up with that back in the doper dirtball socialist hippy days of SDS.

[JALLEN]

Cheap Charlie comes through!

He thinks it was the San Jacinto Inn. It was there by the Battleship, now the parking lot. It had been there long before the battleship. It closed in 1987.

Google the name, look for the story in Houston Historical Magazine. There is even a picture that resonates in my memory. This thread takes unexpected twists and turns, and boy, am I glad!

[ELB]

The local chapter of Students Wildly Indignant about Nearly Everything has been very active through the years and more so now.

Lol, S.W.I.N.E.

Got to remember that one.

Yes, I am so stealing that.

[The Annoyed Man]

The local chapter of Students Wildly Indignant about Nearly Everything has been very active through the years and more so now.

Lol, S.W.I.N.E.

Got to remember that one.

Yes, I am so stealing that.

I'll bet it is wildly popular at Mizzou, with those students and faculties who have retained......well.... retained their faculties.

[JALLEN]

I googled Al Capp, and found the following, of interest:

Capp became a popular public speaker on college campuses, where he reportedly relished hecklers. He attacked militant antiwar demonstrators, both in his personal appearances and in his strip. He also satirized student political groups. The Youth International Party (YIP) and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) emerged in Li'l Abner as "Students Wildly Indignant about Nearly Everything!" (SWINE). In an April 1969 letter to Time, Capp insisted, "The students I blast are not the dissenters, but the destroyers—the less than 4% who lock up deans in washrooms, who burn manuscripts of unpublished books, who make combination pigpens and playpens of their universities. The remaining 96% detest them as heartily as I do."

From Wikipedia