Chumley's

It was 1984 State College was little more than a cow town, associated with a big league university.  The hopeful passion of the Civil Rights era of the 1960s and '70s had touched State College in small ways, but had settled into a malaise during the early '80s.

Liz Pierce and husband Joe Schrantz opened our little pub right in the center of town and across the street from the university.  They served soups and sandwiches and cold beer to a professorial crowd.