There is great sadness in Hokie Nation as 40 years of Hokie patrons will no longer be able to stop by Mike’s Grill for a pre-game meal. The Varelos family fed two generations of Hokies, friends, relatives, Tech Staff, and Blacksburg locals. Please, say goodbye and thank you in the comments section.
It was late in August 1977, and a tired group of “Rats” had just completed their last official day of Cadre. Everyone had earned a Friday Pass, signed the book, and headed out off of old Brodie Haill to make a bee line for anything serving anything better than the usual Splut, Flitch, and Splat that they served at old Shultz Dining Hall (God bless the folks there, in those days they did what they could with what they had, and those bowls of peanut butter and jelly next to the stack of bread bags were often life savers, oh it was another time.