@GMTplus7 - I grew up in UK and went to college there. We had a student union bar, which was the place to hang out and meet with your friends to get ready and go wherever (movies, party, event etc). It was the place where the rugby club would celebrate a victory etc. we’d have a drink, then go out. Or even stay there and talk. There wasn’t really any need to get hammerered, because it wasn’t furtive and driven underground. No one needed to hoard alcohol, and binge, with the added thrill of ‘doing something illegal’. It was really a sort of social center on campus. On Saturday nights there’d usually be a band playing (punk - it was the late 70s