Anyone ever hang out at Lake Okoboji?
 

Its in Iowa. I'm going to be up there this weekend. Any cool bars or stuff to do?

oh, shit...

i thought maybe you couldn't spell lake okeechobee...

never mind...

The Ritz is a pretty happening place I hear.

I thought it was Obe Wan Kenobee. Hell, I do not know if that is spelled right. Where's gochiefs?

There's some good places to party up there. I don't remember any of the names. I have 2 customers in Spirit Lake.

I've been up there a couple of times...the inlaws always spend the next week up near Arnold's park.

I've been on my pretty good behavior when I've been, so haven't done much of the bar scene...Been to a couple, but couldn't even tell you the names.

I've been up there but its been a while. Its me a 2 buddies looking to drink it up.

Are they wearing cement shoes ?
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j/k ........... ROFL

"Day Job" customers. ROFL

There was a club next to the lake called the Roof Garden some years ago(I played there once)... no idea if it's still in business.

At Arnold's Park, try 'The Bug House'. Freaky.

Z

I'm glad that didn't say "somethingelse Job" customers.

Hoover, you will lose all respect from me if you don't go to Boji Nites (the best Okoboji has to offer :D )and the Regal Beagle............. ;)



Funny true story. A couple of years ago we were up there over the fourth, and we checked out this dive called The Garage. They had a sign out front saying they were selling nickle pitchers. We go in, and me and my sister in law pay the guy a buck for the pitcher, and he starts counting out change for us!! We had to explain to him that it was OK for him to keep the .95 for himself. He smiled real big and thanked us over and over.

Of course, I'm sure those kegs were probablly a year or more older, but we still got effed up that night. Fun times!

If you like golf, the Brooks is a really nice 27 hole course, and they have all you can golf after 4:30 for $25.

Sweet, we are staying right on the that Course, Sweet! But I think my friends just want to drink

We've got a place up there, its a beautiful lake. Any of the bars around Arnold's park area - where east and west are split by the bridge get pretty packed are are a blast.

I heard playboy a few years ago named it best place to get laid on the 4th.

Makes the ozarks look like the extended suckpump that it is!

One of my friends got fired for going there for the 4th.

God, the Roof Garden is a club now? It used to be a venue that was called a ballroom by upper midwesterners. Kinda like the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, where Buddy Holly did his last gig.
I played the Roof Garden a long, long time ago with BJ Thomas, and it was my first of 5 gigs with him. I was just a kid (really-16 years old). He comes walking into the venue for a pre-show rehearsal,and says "boys, I'm gonnna be a big star. I just got in from New York and signed a deal to sing the title song from this movie comin out this fall-some western with Paul Newman and some guy by the name of Robert Redford. called Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid."
"And I want to do the song tonight".
He opened a briefcase and tossed out some sheet music, and we rehearsed "Raindrops Keep Fallin on My Head". But the thing that blew me away was the fact that the sheet music was in Burt Bachrach's own handwriting. That night at the Roof Garden we played it, and, as far as I know, I was the first bass player to ever play that song live.

A little useless trivia fact.








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Didn't Okibogi used to have some sort of mythical critter?

One of those seldom seen things like a Loch Ness Monster, or a Yeti/Sasquatch mythical type things?

IIRC, Lake Okiboji is one of only a few true blue water lakes in the world. I mean true blue water, not chemically ehhanced. I don't remember what natural phenomenon causes it, but then again I don't remember what I did last night after 11:00. :rolleyes:

Hoov, I'm going there for RAGBRAI, good friends say the Lighthouse is a good feedbag. Been to the Ritz, decent bar on the water.

Its blue b/c its one of only 5 spring fed lakes in the world... IIRC... or at least of its size or something, i forget... anyone... ? !?

I think the Ritz has been replaced by some fancy steakhouse, but I might be mistaken.