We asked Badgers: What’s something current students are missing out on that you had as a UW student?
Here are some of the responses!
Picking up your registration form at the stock pavilion and then running around all over campus to get your classes.
Gail G.R.
A week of students on campus with nothing to do (except to register) at the end of summer, before school starts.
Tom B.
Student ID with all the stickers!
Rebecca A.F.
The statewide drinking age of 18 and the low cost of rent, food, and drink created an environment that can’t be replicated these days. It was a magical time to be a college student in Madison!
Miki F.
The Red Shed on Frances Street (not the restaurant on Gilman and State). They had a bouncer named Groovy, a bartender named Wayne, pinball in the back, and foosball in the front, and they served brick cheeseburgers when it wasn’t busy. I think the owner’s name was Mark.
Jennie G.C.
Brothers and the chatter of Scanner Dan.
Jeremy D.
Movie theater in the old University Square. 10¢ wing night at Brothers. And I don’t know if this is still a thing, but if it’s not: Jin’s Chicken & Fish food truck at 2 a.m. Had to stand in THE LONGEST line for the best catfish sandwich. You could smell it from blocks away.
Tamara G.
The cookie man on State Street.
Jane R.B.
La Bamba burritos as big as your head!
Tricia T.
The specific sound of the dial-up modem to connect and check your email, the smell of the Nat or the SERF, wandering around a packed Terrace to find your friends and then finding others instead, sticky shoe bottoms from the Red Shed, kissing the bull at Brats on your 21st, and the original “texting” of your whiteboard on your dorm room door.
Angela W.
The quarter man, oatmeal cookies sold on the corners, and Art, the window washer.
Terri T.
Rozino’s pizza truck on Langdon after bar time.
Tony C.
Rennebohm’s counter having burgers and shakes!
Cynthia H.S.
Red & White Hamburgers, the Blue Bus Clinic, used record stores, the muddy Terrace hill, grabbing both bundles of the Isthmus on Thursday morning from Sellery’s lobby, taking them to my dorm room to cut out the Uncle Stanley’s coupons, refolding and tying up bundles to be returned to the lobby, and playing hundreds of games of Time Pilot at Uncle Stanley’s.
Michael C.
The dorms had a sheet service.
Lisa V.
Parents unable to reach you unless you were in your dorm room!
Sue N.
The Onion in print at all the dorms.
Sebastian J.
The Pizza Hut buffet on State Street.
Santos B.
Pail and Shovel.
Susan J.W.
Lunch at Rennebohm’s for about 50 cents. (1964)
Art L.
Bands at Headliners!
Sandi S.L.
Basketball at the Field House.
Gretchen K.
The local campus area celebrities… Cat in the Hat (dorm security guy), Scanner Dan, Art-Paul Schlosser, the “Let There Be Peace” guy around the fountain in Library Mall, Pat McCurdy, and Steam-Tunnel Bob.
Jeff E.
“Teach me how to BUCKY” being a bop.
Allison M.M.
Two years in the dorms being the standard, instead of just one like now.
Laura F.G.
I loved the Women’s Lounge in the Memorial Union — it was the perfect safe and quiet place for female students to rest between classes when there wasn’t enough time to go back to your room. It was so peaceful!
Kate P.
The fire escape slide in Science Hall.
Joan L.
Dancing at the Stone Hearth.
Michelle C.
Camping in line for a few nights to get hockey tickets.
Lisa W.B.
Marshmallow fights in the student section.
John S.
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