Doing the Lincoln Highway Crawl

This was my earliest crawl, dating back to my college days in 1972 and 1973 and every homecoming for many years after that.

Main Street in Dekalb is along Illinois Highway 38, otherwise known as Lincoln Highway, the original one. There have always been lots of bars, both townie and college along it.

Bars both today and back then are concentrated between 1st and 4th streets.


ANDY'S

My old fraternity, Delta Sigma Phi pioneered going to the former townie bar called Andy's back in the early 70s. As soon as I was old enough to go in (and even before), we started partying there along with the AKLs. It was especially the place to go Thursdays for quarter beer night and they always had really good local bands like the Dekalb Footstompers (polka and rock), Mr. Myers (Buffett, reggae and Caribbean) and Howard and the White Boys (blues).

Back then, we had The Uprising and Shamrock on the south side and Andy's and McCabe's on the north.

Farther east there was the CandleLight by the railroad tracks (with free peanuts) and Sullivan's.

We did the Lincoln Highway Crawl, but had no idea of the significance of the road.

Coming Up, the New Bars. --RoadDog