I believe we got a 24 pack of Beast Lite at Barrackās A&P for like $12 in the golden days. Of course it was just tap water with some brown food coloring and 2-3 drops of grain alcohol.
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2007ish or so, Food Lion on 5th Street used to sell cases of Busch for $9. I lived near JPA at the time and my roommate and I would buy these up all the time. Gross
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My freshman (I went to VCU, we say freshman like normal people) roommate was an upperclassman and only lasted the first semester, thank God. Nice enough guy, but from a whole different world as far as hisā¦personal life and interests. Though today, Iām sure Iād be the oddball and heād be the ānormalā one.
He had plenty of disposable income. Heād gotten hurt on an amusement park ride (as I remember him explaining it, the incident sounded like it was 100% his fault) and heād sued the park and won a bunch of money in the settlement.
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The Food Lion at Barracks sold Genesee Cream Stout 30-packs for $9.99 around 2004.
Even then, we knew this was not a deal but you do what you gotta sometimes.
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Iāve asked this before, but whatās the going rate for a $2 pitcher? Meaning, not regular price, but whatever cheap domestic goes on special on whatever off night theyāre looking to pack the house.
A: according to this IG post, a bar called Trinity (help me out late 90s Hoos - which bar is this? ā¦ looks like Greenskeeper) has $10 pitchers on special.
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OIder daughter is coming in as a transfer, and was accepted at Brown college so sheāll be living there. Apparently she has a tiny single and then shares a common area with like 6 other kids.
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I always thought Brown College was kinda nice. Great location. Decent set up.
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Shoot, I remember back in the late 90s, the Food Lion was at a decrepit strip mall on 29 and Rio and was almost always empty. Kroger was in Barracks and a Harris Teeter opened there while I was in school.
One time me and one of my housemates were walking from Kroger to our car and a couple girls approached us to buy some beer for them. I told them we werenāt 21 yet so they moved on. I had a bad feeling it was undercover cops or something, but right now in retrospect I think we shouldāve invited them to our place to hang out. Thatās probably what any other fast thinking college guy wouldāve done, but I wasnāt that back then (or now).
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The Barracks Food Lion was still open in 2004? Wow. Kroger has been at Barracks since the Stone Age and after the Harris Teeter opened there inā¦ ā97, maybe, the Food Lion was about as decrepit a ghost town as it could be at Barracks. Being the third and obviously crappiest grocery store in the same shopping center is a tough row to hoe. I moved to NYC in ā98, and the Food Lion limping along for 6 more years in that state kinda makes me sad.
Trying to mentally piece together the history of Barracks and all I can remember is that there was a Roses** when I started in 95 and a Harris Teeter when I graduated in 99, and a Kroger there the whole time, and I donāt think the Roses and Harris teeter were the same space, but I could be wrong.
** the infamous Olden Polynice Roses, which I think didnāt even last more than a semester or so.
Okay, Iām conflating two shabby grocery stores and it was Kroger.
Maybe this is also a proof point that 33-cent beers are nothing to mess with.
Nah.
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I believe these are correct:
Trinity is at the old Macados and Oneills spot.
Greenskeeper went on to be Jabberwocky, three, no. 3, Poeās, Sheetz, and is now Raising Caneās.
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Ah, when I started in 97, there was a Roses at Pantops, so I just assumed that was the infamous one. The one at Barracks mustāve been gone by the time I started.
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Surprisingly enough, Roses just finally closed down just a little over a year ago
Ha, did it? Even though Iām in Cville frequently, canāt remember the last time I was out by Pantops. Roses is a good one for āremember some (random thing/person/etc) from back in the dayā
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I think a case of natty was like $11.99 at Teeter in 2009-2010. For awhile though you could scan the barcode on the can of Coors light in a case and get the price of a 6-pack. We financed a silver bullet party that way and may have ruined it for all.
Keg of Beast at Andersons was $52. Our fraternity treasurer wouldnāt give me the budget for natty ($60).
Monday nights at Coups. All you could eat burgers and ribs. $1 red stripes. I think they eventually charged a dollar for that slider before I graduated.
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Iām pretty sure the Harris Teeter took the Roses location at the far South end of the shopping center in a separate building. The end closer to the Taco Bell.
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Lol, yep. I live in the Pantops area so it was a big deal to have such a long time icon close down 
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I lived in Brown College my 3rd and 4th yearā¦ it was great. Its a weird configurationā¦ 4-rooms with a shared bathroom. You have to walk through your roommates room to either go to the bathroom or leave your room. The other room shares your bathroom. I lived in Smith, the one immediately across from the E-school. I could get to class in 30 seconds.
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When I started in 92 it was still called Monroe Hill, or as it was often called in my time, āMo Better Hillā. It was renamed Brown College during my second or third year. One of my favorite bits of UVA trivia is when it was built, the students hated it and called it āHellās Half Acreā.
I spent a lot of time there visiting friends but my application to live there was rejected all three years. During my third year, that rejection meant I had to live in Hereford. That was fine, but at the time Hereford residents were treated like we had been exiled from grounds.
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