R.I.P JUST KILLED THE CLUB, literally.

The infamous Cass bar officially closed last week, ending an epic era that none of us will even remember. Though most of us didn’t see it coming, the death of Cass was apparently slow and painful. Steve Chimeri, an ex-bouncer of Cass, gave me the low-down on the bars closing.

“My boss would call me on Saturday’s and say it wasn’t busy and that he didn’t need me to come in. This started to happen weekend after weekend,” said Chimeri. Eventually his boss told him that there was going to be one final Tic toc Tuesday and then Cass would close for good.

“It wasn’t advertised at all,” said Chimeri. “There was no Facebook event or anything. No one knew it was going to be the last Tic-Toc Tuesday ever.”

Chimeri suspected his boss kept it under wraps on purpose, because if students knew it would be the last tic toc in history, they would destroy the place.  (Which I agree, we would have definitely F##KED sh#t up).

Despite the news, it is still unclear what exactly caused Cass bar to fall off the map. One theory is that they got stricter on ID’s, causing students to opt for places with a more leneant policy. Another is the sudden popularity of local bar, Pachyderm–the usual crowd of freshmen and sophomores that went to Cass on Saturday nights started to be seen at Pachyderm on Saturdays instead, causing a decline in Cass’ sales.

Chimeri’s boss is now working at Platinum, a strip club on North Dale Mabry. Chimeri has since found a job working for Legacy Production Group, and is also a bouncer at Pachyderm. As for Cass, it is under new management, and has since changed its name to Ten-o-One Bar and Grille. Despite the name change, it continues to look like an abandoned shack when seen in broad daylight.

You might be asking yourself, what now? Well, most students will continue to head over to Pachyderm on Saturday nights, and hope that the new manager of Ten-O-One can revive what once was. In the mean time, we can look back on Cass with fond, and often not-so-proud, memories.

Cass Bar was a magical place. You could do repulsive things there and no one would judge you for it, simply because they were too drunk to care. And that my friends, was a beautiful thing that we often took for granted.

R.I.P Cass-Forever in our hearts, but mostly in our livers.