Are we having fun yet?Yesterdays trivia

• This is the second bathtub on the roof in Yesterdays’ 30-year history. The first one was stolen off the street in broad daylight during a re-roofing.

• This is either the fourth or fifth cowboy mannequin in the bathtub. The owners have lost count.

• The first slogan before “Are We Having Fun Yet?” was this: “If Life Hands You A Lemon, Make Whiskey Sours.”

• The slogan “Are We Having Fun Yet?” has been spotted on T-shirts sent in by customers from the top of Mount Whitney, the highest summit in the continental U.S., to the bottom of the Caribbean, where a diver put it on a boat anchor.

• S.C. Air National Guardsmen also sent in a photo that showed the altered slogan, “Are We Having Fun Yet, Saddam?” painted on a bomb during the Desert Storm operation in 1991.

• Owner Duncan MacRae, a Rutgers graduate, was a U.S. Marines helicopter pilot in Vietnam.

• Famous customers over the years include Beau Bridges, James Caan, Leon Russell, Dennis Hopper, Dan Marino, Bonnie Raitt and Pat Riley.

• One renowned booth regularly brought together some of Columbia’s finest writers, including James Dickey and William Price Fox.

• A roll call of longtime employees still working there: Roberto Cruz, Bennie Isaac, Doc Isaac, John Fassett, Karen Martin, Becca Hamby, Tony Washington, Ned Marshall, Marvin Bracey.

• The original 12-item menu has expanded to more than 60 items.

• The annual St. Patrick’s festival started 26 years ago in the Yesterdays parking lot.

• Four Conroy brothers — but not Pat — worked at one time or another at Yesterdays. The Conroy connection meant that dad Donald — immortalized forever in “The Great Santini” — would occasionally show up at the tavern, an event that would invariably lead to, as Duncan says, “people always coming up to Pat’s dad and telling him their family was just as screwed up.”

• The owners always knew when Hootie and the Blowfish singer Darius Rucker was calling in a pickup order because of the request for meatloaf and double sides of mac-and-cheese.

• In 1999, a set of false teeth was found clogging a toilet. They were never claimed.

• A bar scene in the 1993 football movie “The Program” (which starred James Caan and Halle Berry) was filmed there. The restaurant was paid $3,000 to close for the day.

— Compiled by Neil White from the best, but sometimes foggy, memories of the owners