I volunteered to come up there to help out on a system install and will be downtown at the Residence Inn Sunday thru following Saturday. It's been 21 years since I've been to Louisville, I'll be busy during the day so gun shopping is out, but what is there to do in the downtown area after work? Good places to get food and drink? Any shows or music worth seeing? Also any places to avoid would be good to know. May hit a strip joint if any are near and worth a hoot.
Advice?
RD

Good place to stay. I'm old so I don't get out much after dark but the Residence Inn is 1/2 block from Gold Club type strip joint. Also easy walk to Slugger Field, home of The Louisville Bats, the triple A farm club affiliated with Cincy Reds. They are home thru Tuesday and this is one of the best ballparks in the country.

Stevie Rays is a good blues bar also walking distance. Also some gay bars in the area so don't flirt with any girls with adams apples.

Go to southern Indiana to eat. Buckheads is very good and has a great view of Ohio River and Louisville skyline. Also Hooters, Kingfish and Bristol all close.

If you're on I-65 in s Indiana keep your speed below 65. It's 6-8 lane and 55 speed limit with troopers doing sneaky stuff. Keep it below 65 and you'll be ok. Big Bass Pro on Veterans Pkway and about every restaurant/big box store known to man.

Seems to me there's a big gun museum in Louisville. I think it's supposed to be near the Slugger plant but I can't recall the name of it.

Haven't been to Louisville since 1998.

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Originally posted by ACP230:
Seems to me there's a big gun museum in Louisville. I think it's supposed to be near the Slugger plant but I can't recall the name of it.

Haven't been to Louisville since 1998.

Frazier Arms Museum at 8th and Main. Be warned, though, they have a "No Guns Allowed" sticker on the door. For that I've only been there once. It is a great museum.

Strip clubs: The best ones are on Preston Hwy, about twenty minutes outside of downtown. Godfather and Trixie's. (The ones downtown are a bit seedy. 'Course, I sometimes like seedy.)

Fourth Street Live is a complex of bars and stuff to do after dark. 4th and Liberty. It's the "in" place.

No good gun shops in town. You have to get out in the suburbs for the better ones. Firearms Service Center and Shooter's Supply are two of the best. Shooter's is open on Sunday.

Welcome to Louisville.

Thanks all, hit town @ 2230 tonite, everything local is closed, so cooked soup in my room and having a few beers. I gotta slow down, this wild life is killin' me...
I'll check out the local spots this week.
RD

If I remember correctly, rburg is in that area

The last few years have not been kind to Louisville - go armed in the urban areas. Dick is a bit east of Louisville I believe.

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Originally posted by CAJUNLAWYER:
If I remember correctly, rburg is in that area

Unless something has changed recently, he's from farther north, about an hour and a hald, just south of Cincinnati.

Seems like you guys have me pinned down. Doublesharp is right across the river from Lvlle.

Yes, they have a crime problem in a lot of area's. Who doesn't? They use a very effective police tactic, they just shoot the perps. If more inner cities used that, we'd have a lot less crime. Thats because the recidivist rate isn't high with dead criminals.

There are some good if expensive eating places in the downtown area, by they museums mentioned. There's also a glass blowing facility there, too (it depends on your other hobbies.) They've got a fairly well established trolley system in town. It kind of runs east/west. Out to the east they have a fairly nice antique shop (Jo Lee's) with a candy store across the street. Pretty good stuff. Near by is my wifes favorite yard goods shop, multiple floors of sewing crap, Baers.

Best value eatery is out on the southwest corner of I65 and the Watterson, the 5th Quarter. Still in the $20 a person range, but good steaks and salad bar.

The gunshow isn't for another 4 weeks, Sept 27/28th. That will be on the northwest corner of the same intersection. Its always a monster show in Sept. Often it runs to 3,000 tables and you can't walk it in a day. Many of our members here have tables there.

Dick, I hate to be the bearer of bad news but Baer fabrics closed about a month ago. No warning, just made an announcement on a Friday that this is the last day.

Some said the abrupt closing method was insensitive but I'm of an opinion that bad news is best delivered fast and I've been around retail enough to know that an extended going out of business is an invitation to employee theft.

If I hear of a final liquidation sale/auction I'll let you know.

Are you going to come down for the RK/K Woods show at the FG Sept 13/14? I don't have a table but may still get one. I was disappointed in the last one in July but a show is a show and you just never know what may come thru the doors.

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Originally posted by doublesharp:
Are you going to come down for the RK/K Woods show at the FG Sept 13/14?

Joe and Glen want to, and are suggesting we do that. I'm thinking its too close to NGD to bother.

On the Baer's thing, Momma will be crushed.

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Originally posted by rburg:
Seems like you guys have me pinned down. Doublesharp is right across the river from Lvlle.

Didn't mean to sound stalker-ish. I remember you made a comment about where you lived once, about 20 minutes from my house.

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Originally posted by HOUSTON RICK:
The last few years have not been kind to Louisville - go armed in the urban areas. Dick is a bit east of Louisville I believe.

I was born there. It's always been a rough place.

But, how has it gotten worse?

(I haven't lived there for a long time.)

Went out the the 4th st area tonite and had dinner and some drinks. Louisville seems to be a drab city, something is missing here, I thought. Then I got in this cab to go back and holy smoke, was it a hoot!!
Check this out, it was the best cab ride, with the most interesting person I've met for along time.
Be sure to scroll down to the video link and watch it!
Welcome to: The Happy Cab:
http://www.fox41.com/Global/story.asp?S=8781665&nav=menu1404_2_4

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Originally posted by Smithhound:
Louisville seems to be a drab city, something is missing here

You ought to be there during Derby Week. Thunder over Louisville is good, too.