From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for May 17, 1986:

Members of the Kansas University class of 1936 had gathered on campus to celebrate their 50th anniversary. One man, who had served as class president in ’36, visited the Yello Sub at 624 W. 12th Street and “tried to explain to the proprietor how much we loved this place” when it was a college hangout called the Cottage. “We used to go there for something we called Kansas Champagne,” he said, explaining that this was a mix of the reduced-alcohol beer sold at the time and a shot of “any kind of alcohol we could get our hands on.” “They never could figure out how we got so drunk on that beer,” he reminisced, adding that there hadn’t been much social life in 1936 Lawrence but that the students had done their best to create one. Another former student chimed in with a memory involving an upstairs room at the Cottage where a fellow student had paid his way through school by playing bridge and betting his scanty allowance on his game.