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| - For my 100th yelp review I want to take a nostalgic stroll into my past. I haven't been back to Madison in 20 years since I graduated, and my parents moved away. I spent ages 5-22 living in Madison, and it's a lovely town. I sometimes wonder how I can get back there, except I'll probably end up elsewhere, like Santa Fe or Newmarket New Hampshire or somewhere in Europe or India.
Anywho, I started going here when I was 16. I was carded on my 19 birthday, which was ironically the first time I was legal.
Do they still have the cool landscape paintings? Do they still have the Lucky Strike pinball games? Do they still have Plaza Burgers, which I tried when I was in Rochester MN, and realized that the Plaza served burgers. Does the same family still run the place?
Fond memories of a gentleman going around smashing bottles into a trash can and yelling, "get the F#$! OUT! Plaza time was of course 15 minutes fast to build in buffer time. They used to have a really early closing time, when they moved it back, that took some of the wind out of that sail. Used to go here to find the cool after-bar parties.
I now see those endless pitchers of bud as misspent youth, but I have a zillion fond memories of the place, so can it be that bad? I hope it hasn't changed much. I might have to go back to Madison to check the place out. So many fond memories.
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