With the shuttering of Pinch Penny, Polar Bear apparently died a quiet death this year. For about a decade, on the last weekend of January, Carbondale would see an influx of students and others converge on Pinch Penny for drink specials all weekend. Other bars would host competing events (Puck Finch) and the Grand Avenue area would fill with drunk students, and others. One year, it got so bad the Univeristy set up a hydration/first aid station at the coner of Grand and Wall. None of the other bars in town appear to have th space or inclination to carry on Polar Bear.
I did note a couple of large house parties the weekend before in the Unviersity/Poplar street area the weekend before with 'caution" tape up and lots of broken glass covering the road on S. Beveridge Street the morning after.
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