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Matthew Schroll, kitchen manager
at Bilo’s Cafe and Underground Bar,
said people can “stumble in” there until
1 a.m.
“This place will be kickin’,”
Schroll said. “The game gets out, and
this place gets flooded.”
Schroll said live jazz starts around
8:30 p.m. every night, and that the
place is always crowded.
“It’s a party here every night
regardless,” he said.
Bilo’s is two blocks from the
Stadium at 501 S. Mill Ave.
Other restaurants and bars will be
offering special promotions for the
Fiesta Bowl.
Jeff Pittman, general manager of
Macayo’s Depot Cantina, said he was-_
n’t sure what his promotion would be
yet, but that it would probably involve
Killian’s Red beer and Cuervo Gold
tequila.
Pittman said Macayo’s is a popular
hang-out spot after Arizona State
University football games.
“On Friday nights, this is the
hottest happy hour in Tempe,” he said.
“We’ve got a huge patio with a bar,
two beer tubs, two fireplaces and
heaters outside.”
Patty St Vincent, owner of Kasey
Moore’s Oyster House, said her bar is
rated number one among college stu
dents.
St Vincent said she always has spe
cial promotions for the Fiesta Bowl,
but doesn’t know exactly what she will
do this year yet.
Kasey Moore’s has 28 beers on tap,
St. Vincent said, and it usually has girls
from different liquor companies come
to the bar to promote the Fiesta Bowl.
The festivities start in the morning
and last all day, she said.
In fact, a lot of fans park at Kasey
Moore’s, eat lunch there and then walk
to die stadium.
The Oyster House is located at 850
S. Ash Ave., and has been around since
1910.
St. Vincent said she remembers
what it was like the last time Nebraska
came to die Fiesta Bowl in 1996.
“It was just crazy,” she said.
“There’s a lot of support for Nebraska
in this town. They kind of have their
own following, and they definitely do
this year, too.”
The local restaurant owners aren’t
the only people preparing specials for
Fiesta Bowl fans.
John Junker, the Fiesta Bowl’s
chief director, said Husker fans can
expect to ring in the new millennium in
style.
“We’re going to have a huge block
party in downtown Tempe on New
Year’s Eve,” he said. “Sugar Ray and
Billy Idol will be there. If people are
coming all the way to see our bowl
game, we need to reward them with a
first-rate millennium party.”
Junker said fans can expect tem
peratures to be in the 70s and 80s in the
day, but a jacket would be handy in the
evening.
“People can sit around the fire at
night and the pool in the day,” he said.
Aside from the temperatures,
Junker said, the Valley of die Sun lights
up particularly brightly when Husker
fans roll into town.
“Nebraska fans just bring a certain
aura with them,” he said. “They love
their teams, and it shows. They really
travel well, and we love to see them
come here.”
In the mid-1970s, Nebraska
accepted an invitation to play in the
Fiesta Bowl, which was a rather
insignificant bowl at the time, Junker
said. Their appearance that year helped
propel the Fiesta Bowl to become one
of the elite bowls in the country.
“We owe an awlul lot to Nebraska,”
Junker said. “So each time they come,
we feel like we need to pull out all the
stops and put out the red carpet to wel
come the Big Red.”
East O vote faces delay
By Sarah Fox
Staff writer
Christmas shoppers only have to
battle holiday traffic at Gateway Mall
once a year.
Butin 10 to 15 years, normal traffic
on East O Street could be like holiday
traffic every day, according to support
ers of a measure that would widen the
main thoroughfare.
The City Council could have autho
rized plans today that would have
widened East O Street to three lanes
each way from 52nd Street to
Wedgewood Drive.
The council will probably delay a
vote on the plans until January, said
Coleen Seng, council chairwoman.
“There’s a lot of controversy right
now, and I think the director of public
works wants to work with some of the
businesses,” Seng said.
The East O Street project is contro
versial because some businesses along
the 1.3 miles of East O Street have said
they would lose accessibility.
^ East O Street would lose left-turn
lanes from Cotner Boulevard to 56th
Street, and 19 driveways onto East O
Street wpuld be closed.
Construction of the $15.2 million
project would start in 2002 and last for
two years. It would be paid for by
Gateway Mall, the city of Lincoln and
federal funds.
“I would be highly against it,” said
Don Pleas, manager of Amigos near
56th and O streets. “The accessibility
would be extremely bad.”
Amigos is near 56m Street, which
would become one-way only going
south in the plan. Cotner Boulevard
would be one-way going north.
Pleas said the one-way streets would
make entering his restaurant difficult.
“People will come to your establish
ment if they like (it), but if it’s too much
work, they won’t come,” Pleas said.
“The world is based on convenience.
That’s why drive-thrus are so popular.”
Pleas said he would also lose five
parking spaces.
Making Cotner Boulevard and 56th
Street one-way was the best solution
because the intersections are too close
together for good left-turn lanes, said
Correction-—
It has come to the attention of the
Daily Nebraskan that portions of
Thursday’s column by Josh
Moenning were plagiarized from The
Associated Press. Moenning was
fired Friday, in accordance with,
Daily Nebraskan Editorial Policy.
Linda Weaver Beacham, deputy vice
president of The Schemmer Associates
Inc. Schemmer was hired by the city of
Lincoln to design the project
The construction is needed because
East O Street is used by more cars than
it was designed for, Beacham said.
East O Street was designed in 1971
for 24,000 vehicles a day, Beacham
said. By 2022, about 44,000 cars and
trucks would use East O Street each day.
“It would look like Christmas traf
fic,” Beacham said. “People will start
seeing (using O Street) as a negative.”
Charlie Colon lives in the Eastridge
neighborhood south of East O Street. •
“If we wait five or 10 years, the con
gestion will be horrible,” Colon said.
“There are a lot of people who don’t
drive on O Street right now because of
the congestion.”
Colon works for The Gallup
Organization and has collected data for
businesses.
He said O Street businesses may
worry about losing sales because of die
construction, but good customer service
u
To say we could
build something that
wouldn *t affect
anyone adversely
can %t be done.”
Allan Abbott
director of public works and utilities
was more important than accessibility.
“I can have access all day to your
business, but if you don’t provide good
customer service, I will never go there,”
he said
The city will keep trying to work
with die O Street businesses, said Allan
Abbott, director of public works and
utilities for the city of Lincoln.
Abbott said whatever plan is used
will upset some people.
However, he said he thought most O
Street businesses would be OK.
“I don’t see this project putting busi
nesses out of business because they are
very viable,” he said.
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