When I rearranged my dorm for Mad Munch I stopped sleeping on a twin bed for months. I slept on a couch & pretty much built a bar in my room. I hung a strand or two of black lights to enhance the atmosphere. It was cozy with a pinch of hustle & bustle from the electric griddle & Pizza Pizzazz traffic we were getting.
DP got us hooked on a local radio station (he said they were broadcasting out of a trailer near Atlanta, Illinois) called FIX 96.3. They played a lot of random bluegrass, country & blues. It was like nothing I'd ever listened to. Every night from 8-9pm the FIX featured the "Blues Power Hour," & we listened religiously. Mad Munch started advertising a "PBR Power Hour" to coincide with the radio show. It was our first real promotion & several folks became regulars for "2 for 1" cans of Pabst Blue Ribbon (back when PBR was a poor man's beer).
In my final art class at Lincoln that semester, I was tasked with a 3D art project. We could carve out any thing we wanted out of foam blocks as long as it had a color in the name. I decided to make a sign for my underground bar & grill. Here's how it turned out:
Don't ask me why I went with red instead of blue or black, but it now hangs in my spare room as a reminder of the early days of Mad Munch.
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