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30-MAR-2004 Karl R. Josker

Mister Goodbar

I'm guessing that this place has been around since the early seventies, and continues to be popular.

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Gary Tanner 17-Jul-2020 20:00
I met a woman who became a famous artist under a table at Goodbar. We ended up living together for awhile. Spent most of the '70's in there.
Liz 12-Aug-2019 22:38
I worked at Goodbar when it first opened as a waitress. Oldman Aliotta paid us from a huge wad of cash in his pocket. I saw a bouncer throw a kid through the front window. Sadly I was there when the fire started. A grill cook tried to extinguish a flare-up with water and the flames hit the ceiling. Fully engulfing the ceiling by the time we got out.Hippies, including myself, were the main clientele. Best music , great place to work.
Brian B 06-Sep-2018 23:00
Goodbar, very late 60's. They had a pair of (at that time, the latest and greatest) BOSE 901 loudspeakers hanging from chains, playing only the best rock. Nietzsche's, CPG, Glenn Park Casino were other favored hangouts. Aah, to be in my late teens again....
Jack 21-Mar-2018 11:25
Gorden, just let it go man. They were old crusty houses over there. This is all a sign of the city thriving, and especially that neighborhood. But lets focus on a couple houses that had no purpose.
Gorden fISHERMAN 09-Mar-2018 08:35
THIS PLACE IS THE PLACE TO BE FOR GENERATIONS. IF YOU ZOOM UP AND LOOK AT THE SECOND FLOOR WINDOWS, YOU'LL SEE THE REFLECTION OF THE GHOST OF BUFFALO. THE HOUSES ACROSS THE STRRET HAVE ALL BEEN TORNED DOWN, AND BUFFALO WILL NEVER BE THE SAME. GLAD WE WERE ABLE TO ENJOY BUFFALO IN IT'S WORKING CLASS HERO DAYS! I WWOULDN'T TRADE THE PAST FOR ANYTHING!
Guest 01-Jan-2018 21:11
Does anyone recall the name of the bar before Goodbar? It was there in the 60s, and it had chess games, jazz, and upside-down flower pots on the lamps. I would love to know.
EricM 02-Sep-2015 18:11
Spent quite a few Tuesday nights there back in the early 80's. Probably some of the best years of my life lol. I remember the .25 drafts and Mighty Taco after.
Guest 13-Jun-2015 16:05
This has been around since the early sixties and possibly longer!, nx to Coles right?
mark patterson 27-Mar-2013 18:57
DJ TONYDREAD .. YES ITS IS .I WAS ONE OF THE REGGAE DJ'S IN BUFFALO FROM 85 - 93 , PLAYED HERE WITH DANNY FOR YEARS , I DID MOST OF THOSE REGGAE PARTIES ON MAIN STREET AND 2001 IN THE UNIVERSITY PARTY .. TONYDREAD@YAHOO.COM DROP A LINE GREAT MEMEORY'S
Bill F 13-Sep-2011 23:56
During the 1970's, Mr. GB was the place for disco. I wouldn't have been caught dead there had it not been for this chick I met. I went for her because she loved to dance and I loved to ... well you know. I danced my ass off and had a great time. I wouldn't admit it to my prog-rock friends though.
Chris Schlichte 30-Aug-2011 04:24
I can remember going to Goodbar in the late 70's (like 1978 1979)one evening, and about every 3rd. person in the bar that night, was an undercover cop, looking to arrest Butch Casey.....It was so strange !! But a great place !!
jackieh06-Jun-2008 14:26
I loved going to Goodbar the music was awesome. They had the best Halloween parties and I remember always closing the bar. Last call 4pm getting out around 5am. Dated one of the bouncers in the mid 70's, nice guy forgot his name.
Guest 01-Sep-2007 18:26
I had been an occasional patron of Goodbar for a few years before it became our regular Tuesday night hang out in the mid-80's. It was known as New Wave Tuesdays for a number of years. There were live bands for a while, I think 10,000 Maniacs played there one Tuesday. They would have beer specials like three splits for a buck or three drafts for a buck and we would play Quarters or just get trashed until they threw us out after closing.
Guest 14-Feb-2007 08:21
I'm 19 and still sober enough from all this bar fun to make a few classes at Buff State. I have pics of Bobby Alioto the owner and the bartender, Johnny B Goode. I had a little job here making chicken wings. I never was good at kitchen stuff and I got fired. This place was a huge hangout for the Sabres and visiting teams on occasion.
I moved to Squaw Valley CA a couple of years later and as I was sitting out on the bar deck there, in walks in Johnny B Goode, complete with blonde afro, bell bottoms and chunky heeled pimp boots. He is still there in Tahoe, owns a bar called Pete and Peters.
Guest 28-Jan-2006 15:02
Never forget the night I almost got into a fight with the bouncer at Mister Goodbar's. I attended Buff State and went out with my then girlfriend, aged 17, I was 18 at the time (legal drinking age then was 18). She got in, but the bouncer told me you had to be 21 to enter. I got into a shouting match with him and as he chased me down the street I saw a whole mass of people(many of them underage, I'm sure) scramble in! Just glad I had fleet feet.
NS 21-Oct-2005 06:34
AFTER MY FIRST NIGHT OUT HERE AT 15, I BECAME A MAN. THANKS SHELLY AND I WILL ALWAYS HAVE A PLACE IN MY HEART FOR YOU.
clay Pasternack 17-Sep-2005 21:04
Karl - I went to Buffalo State from 1968 to 1973. Goodbar's opened up in the early 1970's as I frequented it regularly, as my fraternity brothers lived at 577 Potomac at Ashland. It was a cool place then, and I am sure it still is!
Amir FaSaad 24-Apr-2005 13:20
Originally, the Aliotta family's, Campus Restaurant and Bar. Deli-style booths and sandwiches. This is where stage/theatre people from out of town went to recapture a NY feel. I once sat a booth away from Jack Benny. After a fire it became Mr. GB.