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How many of you Clemson guys are old enough
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May 21, 2024, 4:19 PM
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to remember "Dan's" hamburgers. Still one of the biggest best burgers I have ever tasted.
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Re: How many of you Clemson guys are old enough
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May 21, 2024, 4:22 PM
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Me. Was in elementary school (Margaret Morrison), though. Got my hair cut in the shop on the corner (owner became Mr. Knickerbocker).
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Re: How many of you Clemson guys are old enough
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May 21, 2024, 4:25 PM
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Hung out there many a night watching the pin ballers.
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Here..in 1959 as RAT I was used by senior cadets to go get em
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May 21, 2024, 4:33 PM
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and be back pronto with correct order & change!
Also, Dan would give credit when needed.
They put too much mayo on bun for me.
Oh, was back at Clemson in 1962-66 married & living in pre-fab house above what’s baseball park venue and Dan’s was still going I believe even though had bad kitchen fire and served burgers at outside seating on sidewalk.
Great Guy & big Tiger!!
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Re: How many of you Clemson guys are old enough
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May 21, 2024, 4:29 PM
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After a "good night" of cards, I frequented Dan's for his famous steak for 2. And of course I did Dan's duty when I was a rat. Go Tigers.
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Re: How many of you Clemson guys are old enough
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May 21, 2024, 4:56 PM
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Early 60's -my parents took us there when my brother was a student at Clemson.
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Who remembers Dans Duty?
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May 21, 2024, 5:08 PM
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Re: How many of you Clemson guys are old enough
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May 21, 2024, 5:11 PM
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I'm old but not that old.
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Re: How many of you Clemson guys are old enough
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May 21, 2024, 5:23 PM
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In 1967 the football schedule was painted on Dan's outside back wall where there was a service station next door. The painting showed opponent, date, home (away), and ticket price. As I recall it was $6, $6, $6,... 9 times and last game (USC) was 7 bucks. Wish I had a picture.
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Re: How many of you Clemson guys are old enough
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May 21, 2024, 5:41 PM
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That’s where “Mac” got his start; right? We’re also old enough to remember when “Mac’s” was in the old trolley car.
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Re: How many of you Clemson guys are old enough
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May 21, 2024, 6:05 PM
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I think that Mac's was originally called Little Dans ?
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Re: How many of you Clemson guys are old enough
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May 21, 2024, 5:55 PM
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Dans? I remember the Clemson Cafe that was there before Dans. Then there was Dans, Dans expanded, then Dans with the Basement room and a rear door. And the Klutz Steak House (Dan's FIL).
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Re: How many of you Clemson guys are old enough
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May 21, 2024, 6:59 PM
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I remember going with my grandparents to eat at Dan's before the 1:00 kickoff of the football game back in the early 60's.
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Re: How many of you Clemson guys are old enough
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May 21, 2024, 7:19 PM
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I loved their burgers in the early 60"s, and if I remember correctly they were only 25 or 35 cents. TOL
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Re: How many of you Clemson guys are old enough
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May 21, 2024, 8:44 PM
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Remember it well. Some of the upper classmen would let me go to the canteen on the quad but most wanted Dan's.
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Re: How many of you Clemson guys are old enough
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May 22, 2024, 2:33 AM
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Well I was in Clemson when Dan's was there. But I was a kid while my father played baseball for Clemson.I know he went there , did he ever take me??
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Re: How many of you Clemson guys are old enough
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May 22, 2024, 3:37 AM
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Dan Gentry.
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Re: How many of you Clemson guys are old enough
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May 22, 2024, 6:38 AM
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Dan's had all of the athletes pictures on the wall. A friend of mine was going through the line naming the pictures and someone bet him that he could find one he couldn't name. The guy went way back down the wall and picked a baseball player. My friend looked at it and said,"Charlie Mimms, Elliott, SC! He is my cousin!" Bet won.
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Re: How many of you Clemson guys are old enough
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May 22, 2024, 7:03 AM
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Back in “my day” going to Dans on a Sunday evening was a ritual that I truly enjoyed. Dans had the ONLY TV in town so I would go there to watch Bonanza! Can you believe there was not a single television on campus? Late in my last year they put a black and white tv in one of the old study halls near the loggia.
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It was my favorite place for eats my entire four years. There was
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May 22, 2024, 6:58 AM
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one other place that ran a close second, located just out of Clemson across the 76 bridge. Can't remember its name, but I loved their fried chicken meals, eating there when I could afford it.
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Re: How many of you Clemson guys are old enough
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May 22, 2024, 10:23 AM
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I think I ate one every night my junior year when the meal plan wasn't required for the first time. Mustard, chili and onions! Wish I had one about now.
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Ok, question.
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May 22, 2024, 6:22 PM
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First trip to Clemson was in ‘89. Was Dan’s where Acropolis was in the 90’s, or TDs or the the Subway? Just trying to get my bearings-things have changed so much over the years. RIP The Gameroom, snake & slug
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Re: How many of you Clemson guys are old enough
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May 22, 2024, 12:13 PM
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Dan's and the Study Hall, too! Remember taking a Dan's cheeseburger and fries into the Friday night late show at the Clemson Theater. Good times!
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Re: How many of you Clemson guys are old enough
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May 22, 2024, 1:38 PM
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How many remember when the Walhalla steakhouse on Sunday served a steak that covered a whole platter...not thick and an unidentifiable cut of beef (think they cut their own) with all the fixing for $4.95 which was great but this Ole house beat them hands down serving cafeteria style...went one night with a bunch of tigers and they brought out a whole fried rabbit, cut up just to let us try it!
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Re: How many of you Clemson guys are old enough
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May 22, 2024, 2:54 PM
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When I was 12 or 13 I could go to a Clemson game with a dollar in my pocket, go by Dan's for a burger and a coke, and go to the game for $.50. As a student, I ate at Dan's all the time. There was no bigger Clemson fan than Dan Gentry.
Also did my share of trips to Dan's for upperclassmen when I was a rat!
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Re: How many of you Clemson guys are old enough
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May 22, 2024, 6:09 PM
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Yes sir and Dan had a son named Butch who was a great athlete at Daniel High School. (Football and Baseball)
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Re: How many of you Clemson guys are old enough
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May 22, 2024, 6:28 PM
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From '62-'66, most weekday nights at 11:00 would find me there through Johnny Carson's monologue. Great place! Many good memories.
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