re: Hammond's bar scene. Where did all the bars go?

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Benny's

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bennys has all i need out of a bar. its perfect

You mean bars were more popular when there weren't 400 other cooler things to entertain you besides paying 500% markup on alcohol?

The Crescent still around? Had the coldest draft beer ever.

Also, the first New Orleans Original Daquiris opened in Hammond back in the spring of ‘83. It was a trailer with a deck built around it on the old Highway 51 just off the 55 exit.

Mariners was always a great place for a burger and a beer. We always called it Hammond’s Port 0’ Call.

Anyone remember the Huddle lounge, we watched it burn down one night at 3am in the morning.

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bennys has all i need out of a bar. its perfect

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I haven't walked in that place in 35 years!

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Yep and still going strong

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Do they still serve those drafts in the frozen fish bowls?

Brady’s still open?

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it’s still there

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Im aware.

I just listed it along with some of the others from back then. Stray Cat's is also still around but in Ponchatoula now.

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Not sure the accuracy of the claim, but there’s been a lot written surrounding Gen Z and not drinking.

Personally I think it’s due to the internet/smartphones. When people talk about the scene for college kids in the 80s/90s there is a feeling of degeneracy. While I’m sure that still occurs, I’d imagine people are more risk averse when there are cameras everywhere recording your every move.

This is a stance with no moral assignment. I’m sure there are both negatives and positives if this has something to do with it.

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All of this.

I have a little cousin at LSU right now, and he pretty much confirms this. All he and his friends do is just lay around, play on their phones, smoke weed, and play video games. Not everyone does that, but that's all he and his friends say they do.

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It's where my dad would sometimes go after he divorced my mom in the early 80's.
Now my daughter and her friends go there and Benny's....weird.

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The Crescent is where old men went to drink PBR before it became hipster. Benny's was a good place for lunch, beer, and playing cards with the old men in town.

That's how I remember them.

The Brown Door has been through the cycle of boom, bust, boom. I have no idea what it's like now.

Mariner's was good burger for lunch and live music at night.


Do remember the old small downtown place Central Flyway or something like that net to the old pharmacy. Then there was Cate St Cantina between Susan's General and Guy's Grocery.