packed for lunch here at Fins today(located on the Rock River, across from the Anchor Inn.) No complaints about portion sizes. In fact, we are quite well known for having high quality food and generous portions.

For as long as I can remember there has always been a "bad reputation" bar in Janesville where local troublemakers congregate to get drunk and fight. I think there will always be a place like that in every city and Janesville should leave ours alone. It's close to the police station in case the cops need reinforcements. It's out-of-the-way, with downtown Janesville being a permanently former high-traffic area. Word gets out and smart people stay away from a place like that.

Let the bad apples all flock to one basket where the police can easily keep an eye on them. The other bars in town should chip in to cover police overtime and be grateful the place isn't shut down, scattering the troublemakers all over until they select the next place to gather.

Steve, you wouldn't like Quotes anyway. They don't have any Journey in the jukebox and they don't serve Zima.

Why don't you talk about something you actually know about ! Without going there you cannot actually give an honest opinion now can you ?

That Lava place was supposed to be classy. But it has big giant Miller High Life signs on the windows.

The council should pass a resolution to build a big cage on the top level of the parking garage. All the goofs who cause the violence at Quotes and the other place should be locked in the cage and be allowed to drink in it all night. Then in the morning before they're released they should be made to listen to billnewbie read all his posts from this site.

Quotes is a nice bar by day, but I never step foot in there past 9 on a Fri or Sat night. One thing is for sure, they NEVER have enough bartenders on staff. Looking Glass used to have a lot of issues, they also used to have the largest closing crowd. Maybe that's a big factor to consider. As far as music goes, no bar plays hard-core rap or extreme profane metal. But Quotes is known for dancing, which brings in a younger immature demographic. Jealousy and tempers are going to flare. I do find it quite snobbish for you to comment on a place as a whole when you have never been there. They have really great food.

If Sigma is the type of person to go to this place, I'll gladly stay away. The I.Q. level must be very low in that place.

steve you should have been more direct in your title and maybe fishingal wouldnt have been so surprised or offended by your blog;)

Start a wall of shame by posting peoples pictures that have caused problems in the past. Refuse service to repeat offenders. Let them know there not welcome.

I'll go to Quotes...during the day. They've tried to clean it up, and even put up a list of rules, and there are still problems? Bazinga, previously known as Jumbo's certainly cleaned up their "riff raff" issuses. Why can't Quotes do the same? It's the people that go in there. Not the bar.

"Hey Steve, the ocean called; they're running out of shrimp."
"The Comeback" is the 147th episode of the NBC sitcom Seinfeld. This was the 13th episode for the 8th season. It aired on January 30, 1997.
Oh, "Your cranium called. It's got some space to rent." and "The zoo called. You're due back by six." The other ones, I will hold back on...
What do I win...

You should it will make you feel old and THIN.
Lava was suposed to be a lounge as well but pretty sure it didn't turn out that way as he said the plan would be.
I agree they all have troubled people in them.

@fishingal - I am involved in my community. What does volunteering in my community have to do with visiting a bar downtown? Jerk store called and they're running out of you (me). Show? Episode? No, I didn't hear that at Quotes.

Thanks for reading Fishingal.

Steve

Also it was posted on here a video of a guy starting stuff/trying to rob (dont remember) when Quotes was full of cops for a pub crawl. So does that mean that a bar full of cops is attracting a bad crowd? That video had the cop taking a guy to the floor.

I agree with Maerice,
If you are in Newville, try Emigails. They have a great fish fry on Friday nights, and on Saturday they have a wonderful smoked prime rib dinner. And the servers are very efficient and friendly.

Really, Steve? The only time you hear about Quotes is when there's trouble or attached to trouble?!

Quotes is involved in many community events. Pub crawls for Project 16:49, Habitat for Humanity, Echo and so many others.

Sounds like maybe you hang out with too many trouble makers. Take up a community project or two and maybe you will finally step foot in Quote's door and form an opinion of your own.

This Blog is in totally poor taste if you have never been there to blog about your own experience. Jerk.

Why people watching at WalMart is more fun than going to quotes - http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/photos/pa...

The Music at Quotes is the same music they play at Time out, Wiggys, Looking Glass, and Lava when they dont have bands or a DJ. A DJ will play all the stuff too. Its not hardcore rap....NEVER. Its hip hop dance music. And the only kind of people that music attracts is the girls that dance to it. Quotes has the better dance floor. When Quotes has a band it is NO differnt than Time out. I see the same people in all the bars, thats what is cool about downtown... several bars to hop around to within walking distance. Quotes is knows to be the better place to be at the end of the night. Just because everyone ends up there does not make it a bad place. Check any other bar at 1:45.... alot are dead. Wigys and time out has their bands quit at 1am... so that leaves the bars dead and boring... Quotes fills the gap and ends the night. Maybe we should put the city on the watch list because they own the sidewalks that transports the people there?
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You haters of this place....have you actually been there within the past couple years? Its not the same place it was 4+ years ago. Not at all.

i understand the point of a bar and have absolutely nothing against them, or their patrons. ive spent more than enough time in them. it amazes me that anyone 21 years of age or older can DRIVE to a bar, drink what they want and leave, but its illegal for that same adult to sit on their couch and smoke a J. ignorance and hypocrisy. we are not the criminals.

"I don't want to be caught in reality."

In the words of Robin Williams. "Reality What a Concept"!

I can't believe you have not gone to Emigails across from Anchor! Good Cajun food and Friendly staff.

"I don't want to be caught in reality."
Steve, that is one of the best quotes that I have read in a long time.

Big Mac = 540 calories according to mcdonalds.com, so have two.
(Don't really have two.)

HECK NO!! NEVER HAVE & NEVER WILL VISIT A SLUM BAR. THAT PLACE IS NOTHING BUT TROUBLE, ALOT BETTER BARS AROUND THAN THAT ONE. (PROBABLY NOT DOWNTOWN THOUGH)

So it is not "cheap" that causes trouble. It seem to be cheap beer rather than cheap people.

@mgcarguy: "angry" music. Hard-core rap, extreme profane metal and techno with a very high BPM. Walmart and McDonald's don't serve beer. I'm not going to get drunk wandering the aisles at Walmart and I can't have a Lite Beer when I down my 700 calorie Big Mac.

Couple questions: What kind of music causes trouble? Please explain riffraff. And if cheap people are trouble makers why don't we see more fights at Wallmart, and McDonalds? I think there are too many Republicans at bars that have fights.

Why does the media only believe the JPD and take what they say and run with it? As a weekly customer to Quotes, we stop in for an hour usually, sometimes longer. In the past 3-4 years it has been fine. Prior to that there was a lot of problems but Mrs. Carpenter has cleaned it up and I think runs a very tight ship. The number of police calls can be contributed to the encouragement from the JPD to do so to cover her butt because she knows they are watching. Other bars in the area I've seen people escourted out as well.... but most bars dont call the cops. Failing to call the cops in a situation im sure the cops would be all over her for that... so the police created something to use against her. This is borderline communism by the JPD. What happen to a police force "serving and protecting"? Now they act like they own this town.