Bowling Green becomes a home for some students while they are at Western.

Some alumni reminisced about places they frequented as students.

• Courtney Mims, a 2008 graduate who lives in Memphis, Tenn., said the Great American Doughnut Shop, at 901 U.S. 31W, is her favorite place to visit when she comes to Bowling Green.

While at Western, she frequented GADS during sleepless nights, she said. There she and her friends contemplated how they could finance adventurous road trips on the limited funds of a college student.

Mims said she hasn’t forgotten the GADS employees.

“I feel that they never sleep,” she said. “There are always the same people there, day or night.”

• Elizabethtown resident Jennifer Underwood, who graduated in 1997, said Mariah’s, at 801 State St., is her favorite place to visit because she thinks it has the best food in town.

“It really doesn’t feel like I’ve been to Bowling Green unless I go,” she said.

She said she doesn’t always order the same thing at Mariah’s, but her favorite is the fried mushroom appetizer.

• Nashville resident Steve Hopper, who graduated in 2005, said he thinks Mariah’s welcomes everyone from bankers and lawyers to average college students.

“The staff and homey feel at Mariah’s sticks out to me,” he said.

Hopper also has fond memories of Froggy’s, at 1265 College St. He said Froggy’s has evolved a lot over the years. It used to be called Baker Boys.

“I kind of grew up with it,” he said. “It’s the quintessential campus pub.”

• Ameerah Cetawayo, who graduated in 2005 and now lives in Albany, N.Y., said she loves Chaney’s Dairy Barn, at 9191 Nashville Road.

She said she sometimes buys it for her New York friends and her family who live in Louisville.

Cetawayo said Chaney’s Dairy Barn became her favorite place in Bowling Green during her senior year at Western. Then, as a business reporter for the Bowling Green Daily News, the owners became some of her favorite people to interview.

“Chaney’s is an awesome force of tasty food and Kentucky Proud products,” Cetawayo said.

• Owensboro resident Laura Mathis, a 1985 graduate, said she likes to look over the city of Bowling Green from Van Meter Hall on campus.

“From up there, usually around homecoming time, it is beautiful to look out over the city, “ Mathis said. “I feel so comfortable up there.”