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THE GOOD OLD DAYS.

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Byline: Mark Baker The Register-Guard

Duffy's is long gone, and so is Guido's, but the spirit of what was once a red-brick building at the corner of East 13th Avenue and Alder Street on the University of Oregon campus is still alive.

It's alive in the memories of the many UO students who frequented what was once a tavern with bad lighting and pool tables and plenty of nachos and beer; where, what else, a Starbucks sits on the corner today.

Saturday is the UO's Homecoming game against the University of California. And even if Homecoming isn't quite the tradition it used to be and only a smidgen of the UO's 155,000 alumni come back for it, we were nonetheless feeling a bit sentimental about it all. So we asked alums, wherever they may be, to respond to this question: "What do you miss most about the UO and Eugene?"

And wouldn't you know it? Not just one alum, but two, miss the tomato-cheese soup at The Glenwood on Alder Street. (We're pretty sure a lot more do, too).

But that's not all they miss. They miss certain classrooms and certain professors. And they miss a lot of food that you can't get anywhere else - everything from spaghetti to ice cream to burritos. They miss beer, or rather, the places where they used to drink the beer around here. They miss a former "Voice of the Ducks" and school spirit and the strange, strange creatures that sometimes appear on the UO campus.

They miss statues and tailgate parties and "liquid sunshine." They miss "old hippies" and Monster cookies and running on a certain trail.

They even miss chalk - if it's on a professor's sweater. They miss brick buildings and tofu and, ahem, making whoopee on parade floats. And, of course, they miss a certain "Fishbowl."

Here are some of the e-mails we received:

"I miss the 'Old' Taylor's, the bookstore, the 'Fishbowl' and the campus ... I love the place!

- Milton Seligman,

Pittsburgh, class of 1968

"I miss Wendy Ray and his great radio coverage of the Ducks on the old KUGN. I'll never forget the game against...

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