The Lodge Sports Pub

01/28/2025

I was just thinking about The Lodge and all the people that came through the doors that made it so great.

Thanks to one and all for the good times.

Frank

12/22/2023

Wishing everybody a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Frank

08/14/2023

I'm still alive and still miss it all good and bad, I miss all of you to good and bad, Please take care. Frank

12/27/2022

I had good intentions of wishing every one of my past customers, employees and friends that was a part of The Lodge a Merry Christmas and simply failed to get it done. I'm not sure who all might still be following but maybe you can spread the word I'm wishing one and all a Happy New Year. What a ride through the years and despite it all some of my most fond memories and I am not sure I showed my appreciation for everyone as I wish I had. One memory that will forever live in my heart is the day the two soldiers showed up hours before opening, just back from the war. They knocked on the door and ask if they could come inside and just sit until I opened, they said as bullets were flying all that kept them going was thinking about The Lodge and The Lodge Burger. They remained loyal until relocating as many soldiers do. What a ride and what a group of people passed through my doors. Thanks Frank

05/29/2022

Tomorrow, we pay tribute to all that made the ultimate sacrifice. I was taught to respect the service of all that contributed to service of our country. I wore my dad's dog tags and played with his well-worn canteen with deep scratches in the pot that meals and coffee was made. It had coffee stains and black on the bottom from heat. I was around four when I saw him pick up a man with no arms lying in a ditch in front of our truck stop on Hwy, 45 and 278 where the bus stopped going to Tupelo and Memphis. He cradled the man in his arms and took him into our house that was in the back of the restaurant section. He undressed the man and put him in a hot tub of water and bathed the man head to toe, dried him head to toe, and put him in a pair of pajamas and carried him to bed. The next morning my dad fed the man breakfast because he had no arms. Dad also brushed the man's teeth. He put him in good clothes and shoes, bought him a bus ticket to get to Memphis so he could get help from family. My dad marched in the parades, was VFW Commander, and decorated war veteran with bronze star and purple heart earned in combat. His citation read Sargent Caldwell advance to an exposed position and laid down withering fire with his BAR so his men could retreat. The man in the ditch was a vet. I was at Fort Campbell defending my business against lies perpetuated. I was said to be unscrupulous and treated soldiers poorly and there was danger for them at my business. In the second meeting over lies of beating two soldiers I remember having to brush back a tear. I still love and respect our solders but still get in a sad state thinking about the lies and who they came from. Clarksville is as corrupt as it gets and runs layers deep.

On Memorial Day remember the ones that gave the ultimate sacrifice. Their life,

Fighting Blue Devils 88th Infantry read about the bad ass bunch on the internet.

Thanks Frank

02/15/2022

Joe Thronson is my first cousin and was the grand national drag racing champion. He won on that yellow bike he built. I will post up a current picture of me and Joe with that say yellow bike. Things have changed. The bike is going to a museum. Twin engine sporty motors with 2 speed transmission Joe built.
https://youtu.be/K8Llhf4Vz30
https://youtu.be/GuxxDufd6uo

Steve Stordeur riding Elmer Trett's Double vs Joe Thronson in 1982 at Gulport, Miss

02/13/2022

Happy Big Bowl Day. Nobody could do it like The Lodge. God Bless our troops, let justice prevail and the truth be told. One of the greatest bars to ever hit Clarksville. It raised the bar for all and was singled out by downtown because of the competition. I miss all my folks and all that passed through my doors.

01/01/2022

Happy New Year to all and special thoughts and well wishing to active duty and military vets. I hope you will not be forgotten. This will be the year of truth in many ways. Thanks to the years of past support and sharing some good times. Frank

12/24/2021

Have a very Merry Christmas!!! Frank

08/19/2021

To all the heros around the globe The Lodge loves you and needs you. Keep the the faith and fight on for all our freedom. Flags still fly in my mind despite it all.

07/04/2021

Happy Independence Day.

07/03/2021

Happy Forth everybody.