We wanted to have a party in a bar somewhere I we went around and talked with the folks at a few of them. We didn't want to rent a special event space somewhere because we really didn't have the money for it. Those rental spaces were expensive. We just wanted to go to a regular bar somewhere but we wanted to be able to control the music.
We also didn't want some fancy bar. A dive bar was preferrable. I did talk with a few places on Elmwood but that wasn't going to work. We also really wanted to do it on a Saturday night. I remember checking out a few bars on Grant street. They definitely fit the dive bar description.
I would end up working at the Pastime Lounge for five years.1982 to 1986. I had a lot of fun spinning records there and booking local bands. I even bartended a little bit... a very little bit.
The owner at the time was Bobby's father and mother. Bob worked there spinning records on Friday nights. That was their busy night and Bob's mother cooked a popular fish fry that night. Saturday night was always a slow night which is why Bob's father gave me the OK to come in with a party and play the music too.
Becky and I would have a few more parties at the bar including our annual 60's party and a couple of after art opening parties. I played the music for those parties and we had a good crowd. It was soon after that the family hired me for every Saturday night and eventually I also worked some other nights too.
In that old box of "stuff" on the 3rd floor I found lots of flyers for the Pastime Lounge that I made to promote the local bands playing on our stage and for the nights that I was the DJ playing music.
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