Ricks tried to do the whole library feel with 3 different bars and failed rather quickly. Problem is Starkville is spread out where people go to party. District, Dowtown, Ricks and Cowbells. Oxford 90 percent of the people go downtown.
I bartended for 3 years in Starkville. It is hard to run a succesful bar with having to run specials all the time to get people in. 2 dollar and 2.50 bottles and dollar nights on weekends. We are the only town In American who does it. And nobody wants to pay cover anymore in Starkville. Thus you make bars 21 and up because you can't risk the fines.
Look at what bars have lasted in the town. They all serve food and are very successful at it. ricks is the only one that's lasted without it. I started at state in 02 and just naming off the bars I remember not making it
Cheers, blue marlin, boars head, court house, luckys, whiskey blues, bistro, state theatre, old manhattan, up your alley, tabs, the hunt club might as well be listed, and mugshots. Yes a few have changed ownership and names but the only 3 I can think that have lasted Are old Venice (food), Dave's, and Ricks.
Starkville is not a party town. Every bar is to small besides ricks and the theatre. kids go home on weekends, cops are awful, Only big party weekends are bulldog bash, Super Bulldog, and some home football game weekends.
Best thing could ever happen would be on weekends close down the streets in the cotton district from the old texaco to past the bin. Ands well and page. Line up beer carts and make it like a mini bourbon street. Or more bars open downtown and close off Main Street.