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thursday february 24. 2000
Dukes of Hazzard, General Lee crash into Finks
1980s TV series
finds new home at local bar
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By FRANCES BOWDOIN
Assistant Features Editor
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KRISTIN LENZ/Copy Editor
Dave (Peso) Woest and Ben Hagler of the Wayne Mills Band began the Boars Nest Party at Finks by playing the Dukes of Hazzard Theme Song to a crowd of more than 300 reminiscent college students on Tuesday night. |
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KRISTIN LENZ/Copy Editor
The bartenders, dressed as Bo and Luke Duke, served Cooter Shooters at the Boars Nest Dukes of Hazzard Party at Finks. |
Hay bales and straw cowboy hats don’t usually make it into the bar scene on College Street.
But a little bit of country hit downtown Auburn last week.
Fink’s Grill hosted the first Dukes of Hazzard Boars Nest Party on Tuesday, Feb. 15, complete with a replica of the General Lee parked at the front door.
From the size of the crowd, the early ‘80s sitcom featuring the Boss Hog, Bo, Luke and Daisy Duke was once quite popular with Auburn students.
Jeff Finkhousen, owner of Fink’s, said the idea came from some of his employees.
“One day a bunch of guys were sitting around and said something about the Boars Nest,” Finkhousen said.
From there, he said one thing led to another, and the first Duke’s of Hazzard Boars Nest party was established.
Fink’s hosted a successful crowd of about 300 to 350 people enjoying the Dukes of Hazzard theme party.
“We knew we could play it up by having hay and the Wayne Mills Band playing,” he said.
The country music band said they were glad to play at the Boars Nest party, and they were once fans of the show themselves.
“I used to get off the bus about third or fourth grade and run inside to turn my TV on to watch Dukes of Hazzard,” Mills said.
“Daisy Duke was always my favorite,” Mills added with a smile.
Although there weren’t many women dressed in the cut-off denim attire of Daisy Duke, the guys did enjoy dressing as there favorite Dukes character.
Reynolds Bickerstaff, a junior in business, dressed as the Duke brothers’ mechanic, Cooter.
Bickerstaff, wearing a sleeveless button-up shirt with a 1973
Georgia/Alabama Bass Rodeo patch, said he dressed as Cooter because “he was the sole engineer behind the General Lee.”
“I always liked the General Lee, and Cooter basically built it.”
“More bars should have theme parties like this,” Bickerstaff said. “It’s a lot more fun than wearing collared shirts and khaki pants out.”
Fink’s gave more than $100 in prizes to first 20 people who came to the party dressed up. Prizes included T-shirts, key chains, free cover for two weeks and Fink’s mugs.
Finkhousen said he knew the bar would have a good turn out because there was “no special dress about the Dukes of Hazzard.”
“It was just a chance to let people relax and let lose, and we knew people would have fun with it,” he said.
“This needs to become an annual event,” said Matt Homan, a junior in management information systems. “It’s a good tribute to the Dukes of Hazzard.”
“We had such a good turn out,” Finkhousen said. “We’ll definitely do it again.”
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