# What is the most interesting bar/pub addition **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 9, 2021, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-interesting-bar-pub-addition/941718 "2021-05-09T23:29:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2021, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-interesting-bar-pub-addition/941718/41 "2021-05-11T00:56:02Z")
Here in Olympia we’ve got a bar with a taco truck in it, which the building was built around. [![](https://s.yimg.com/fz/api/res/1.2/ti626pa4ZLLs41vLTzfLyA--~C/YXBwaWQ9c3JjaGRkO2g9MTAwMDtxPTgwO3c9NzUw/https://s.yimg.com/bj/3adf/3adfc43406b8aa2f06242b6685a4f363.jpg) ](https://s.yimg.com/fz/api/res/1.2/ti626pa4ZLLs41vLTzfLyA--~C/YXBwaWQ9c3JjaGRkO2g9MTAwMDtxPTgwO3c9NzUw/https://s.yimg.com/bj/3adf/3adfc43406b8aa2f06242b6685a4f363.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2021, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-interesting-bar-pub-addition/941718/42 "2021-05-11T01:07:09Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > > [@dalej42](#): > > > > Oh, another one I forgot that was ubiquitous in college towns is something like a Soap and Suds, combining a bar with a laundromat. Not sure if they’re still a thinking with modern dorms having new washer/driers and there’s no more wink wink nod nod towards under 21 drinking > > There was a chain of those (whose name escapes me at the moment), which opened up a location in Madison _ **Duds ‘n’ Suds**?_ We had a washer in our apartment, but would drive a couple of miles so we could do ten loads at once and fold big sheets on big counters (the place was huge!). ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2021, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-interesting-bar-pub-addition/941718/43 "2021-05-11T01:14:18Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#): > > Even though I have relatives in Wisconsin, I never got to experience that monument to late 1960s kitsch that is The Gobbler. As a tiny kid, I got dragged to Dinner Out, which was always two hours of my parents’ friends talking golf and banking. But once it was at the Gobbler. The rotating bar inside the restaurant (rotating the other direction) was fun, but click on that link, and tell me you wouldn’t be traumatized by acres of vivid purple plush walls…and counters and tables and stages. All purple. Really purple. > [@WildaBeast](#): > > [LILEKS (James) :: The Gobbler](https://www.lileks.com/institute/motel/roost/4.html) ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2021, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-interesting-bar-pub-addition/941718/44 "2021-05-11T01:27:33Z")
> [@digs](#): > > _ **Duds ‘n’ Suds**?_ That was it! ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2021, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-interesting-bar-pub-addition/941718/45 "2021-05-11T12:00:58Z")
This. Tripler It’s shorter than “girl, who at the time was my girlfriend, whom I later engaged, and then married to become a husband to.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-interesting-bar-pub-addition/941718.md?page=2)