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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 5, 1977)
’Side’ Must Go, Co-op Needs Space The College Side Inn will be gone next year. A campus tradition, "the Side” will be tom down to make room for a new Co-op building. At a meeting Thursday, the Co-op Board decided not to renew the leases of the three establish ments on its 13th Avenue prop erty. Bill Baker’s Men’s Wear and the Westgate Shop will also yield to Co-op expansion. DESTRUCTION OF the Side has elicited no protests from alumni or students, accord ing to Walt Evans, Co-op Board chairman. "In the last ten years, the Side has been just a place to sip cof fee,” he said. "The only times the board hears about protests is when we bring it up.” "In four years,” Evans said, "there will be anew campus tradition. The alums recognize the changing needs of he Uni versity,” He said that no deci Two Campus Restaurants Have Become Institutions By CAROL FRASER Emerald Contributor As familiar as Oregon rain and just as characteristic of the University of Oregon are two on-campus restaurants, The College Side Inn and Tayior’s Coffee Shop. THERE IS a rumor that both restaurants were originally taverns. But it’s a false rumor, according to Rod Taylor, son of the origianl Taylor’s owner, Hersh Taylor. We just served bottled beer when we opened in ’31 along with milk and cokes. We had no trouble at all. If anyone got noisy we just signaled his friends to walk him home.” TAYLOR, alum of the Univer sity and Phi Delta Theta frater nity, grew up on the comer of 13th Ave. and Kincaid St. Re membering the former reputa tion of the University as the country club of the Pacific Coast Conference, he explained that even if the dry zone were lifted, as in the "old days," he doubted that his business would increase greatly. ”1 know; I've been here to see the change in student attitude. Oh, we’d probably have the steady three to nine Friday crowds, but I seriously doubt if we d have the weekday business we had about ten years ago. Stu dents are just more studious minded now,” he said. ACROSS THE street, the College Side Inn is now under its sixth ownership since it opened in 1922. Originally it was strictly a coffee shop and re staurant, but an area for serving beer was added on later. Wooden swinging doors separated the re staurant and bar. Since 1951 both Taylor’s and The Side have been included under the dry zone restriction. The Side’s bar became Bill Baker’s clothing store. The Side, owned by the stu dent co-operative store may be tom down in the future, but Mr. and Mrs. Howard Twite, the pre sent owners, say that although things are "up in the air now,” they are looking forward to many more years of business. UPDATE - The English Tudor building on the comer of 13th Avenue and Kincaid Street is hardly the "dry" spot it used to be in 1962. True, the place still holds the name "Taylor’s Coffee Shop," but it sells a lot more than coffee now. The place is a regular tavern with the beer flowing out its taps as smoothly as any other beer hall in town. In 1962, Taylors was smack dab in the middle of a dry zone that encircled the University. This zone, instituted in 1952, ringed the campus from the Wil lamette River to22nd Avenue be tween Patterson and Villard streets. During the zone’s reign, no market or eating establishment in the dry area was allowed to sell beer. The zone was estab lished in 1950 when a 19-year-old student secured a mug of beer from Taylor’s by ask ing an of-age friend to buy it for him. The dry zone legally lifted in 1958 when the state attorney general ruled it illegal. The Oregon Liquor Control Commis sion, however, refused all licenses to sell beer in the zone until 1969, when it granted a few markets in the area beer-selling licenses. Taylor’s finally obtained a 1 Living, loving holiday gifts. Send Our FTD Season's Greeter Bouquet 8:30-5:30 Free flowers Refreshments &uqene s fl/owen pme .—:- THE UNIVERSITY FLORIST Christmas Open House Serving the campus since 1920 Phone 485-3655 license to resume selling bottled beer in 1970. During the zone’s reign, Max’s Tavern, just beyond the zone, continued to sell beer and became the hot spot for college beer drin kers, according to Ray Hawk, vice-president for administra tion and finance. Nowadays the only dry area in conjunction with the University is the campus itself. Despite at tempts by several student officers since the 1960s, beer and liquor have remained strangers to the campus. The target of all campus tavern attempts, of course, is the EMU. While tavern proponents argue that a tavern in the EMU would enhance the University’s annual revenue by as much as $150,000, historically the University presi dents have vetoed the idea. Arthur Flemming, University president from 1961 to 1968, openly opposed the tavern issue, just as University Pres. William Boyd has indicated he would if the proposal ever becomes a likely reality. sion has been reached regarding preservation of Side furnish ings, although it has been sug gested that they be removed to the Bottom of the Bowl in the SU. PRELIMINARY architectural and financial plans for expansion of the Co-op will be discussed at the Co-op Board’s next meeting, Evans said. Because of increased University enrollment, 10 per cent over last year, Co-op facilities are very cramped, Evans said. He added that the University of Washington, which had no significant increase in student body size, plans to ex pand its bookstore to 45,000 square feet of floor space. The new building will give the Co-op 36,000 square feet of space. Other large Universities have facilities of comparable size. THE PRESENT book store, opened in the fall of 1961, was built with knockout partitions, so that it can be converted to part of the addition. Plans to expand the Co-op have been formed for many years, according to manager Gerald Henson. Ground work, originally done in 1948, provides for a building that will house the entire Co-op under one roof. The Co-op now pays $8,000 a year to the University to rent space in Champman Hall. UPDATE - The battle raged on for years, but in the end the Co-op won. That’s why the corner of 13th Avenue and Kincaid Street features the University Bookstore instead of a popular hangout that reigned there for so many years. The College Side Inn, or just "the Side,” as it was commonly called, was part of large two story structure on the ?omer of 13th and Kincaid that sported a quasi Tudor style. According to reports from the early sixties, the Side was comparable to today’s Duffy’s as the social gathering scene for University students. The 1962 decision by the Co-op board, which owned the building that housed the Side, resulted in a large crusade to "save the Side,” led mostly by an architec ture student named Vic Sabin who even dropped out of school during the controversy to spend more time on it. The entire build ing finally came down in Feb ruary, 1964, and the Bookstore was in full swing on the same spot by 1966. The Side’s interior looked like a medieval hall, according to Ted Mahar, Emerald managing editor in 1962-63. The place was popular mostly as a place to sit and talk or study, and really wasn’t much of a money maker, he says, because most of the cus tomers would only order a coke or two during their hour or longer stay. The Side used to sell beer but was forced to go dry in 1952 when the Oregon Liquor Control Commission instituted a dry zone around the University. Today, there’s still a College Side Inn in town, at 86495 Col lege View Road in Springfield. The place opened after the origi nal Side was torn down and rumor has it that U.S. Con gressman Jim Weaver con structed it in the hope of carrying I on the Side tradition. ! NEIL Goldschmidt for ASUO President v;&, 't * • ASUO Senator at Large • CHAIRMAN Record Breaking 1962 Campus Chest • DYNAMIC LEADERSHIP i Speaking on behalf of a large number of University students, I would formally like to introduce our candidate for ASUO President. This person is important to YOU because he is qualified . . . and running vor your highest office. Neil Goldschmidt will talk to you during the next two weeks. He will demon strate why he should be . . Your Choice Too! endorsed by . . . i •• •l<Ui limult i.»r l*u—i«!« • i I'iiul Cmiwi. I'hunt. ^ ASUO experience does not stop after four years Come by Suite 4, EMU — Help needed on the following projects: Women’s Symposium Committees EMU Tavern Primary Elections Forum Originally published April 12. 1962 in ODE
