Yet another of Portland's many likeable neighborhood pubs.
2221 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Portland, OR 97214 - Phone: (503) 445.4600
marysue - mercury - yelp - barfly
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
#906 - Hawthorne Hideaway, Portland- 9/25/2009
Yet another of Portland's many likeable neighborhood pubs.
2221 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Portland, OR 97214 - Phone: (503) 445.4600
marysue - mercury - yelp - barfly
#904 - 4th Ave. Ale House, Olympia, WA - 9/25/2009
The VIP section?210 4th Ave E., Olympia, WA 98501-1105 - (360) 786-1444
Previous bars at this location: Rudy's, Pizza Pete Tavern, Wimpy's Tavern
the4thave.com/ - weekly volcano - yelp - beermapping
Monday, September 28, 2009
#903 - Spar Cafe, Olympia, WA - 9/25/2009
Built in 1935 and run by the McWain family since 1945, this is now a McMenamins. People in the Seattle and Portland areas will know what that means -- a historic building with a pretty fine remodeling job, modest art, a good selection of beers they brew themselves, and reliably good food. Some of the decorating can get to look a little formulaic, but I'll take it to preserve all these great old spaces.The drunken longshoremen at the Spar have been replaced by polite company and pols, but the orginal art moderne sign is still looking great out front, and the bar, the wood, the photos, and paintings of the crew all speak of good faith to the history of the place.
114 4th Ave E., Olympia, WA 98501 - (360) 357-6444
web site - history - yelp
#901 - Lockspot Cafe, Seattle (Ballard) - 9/22/2009
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| Lockspot Cafe, Ballard, Seattle, WA |
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| Lockspot Cafe, Ballard, Seattle, WA |
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| Lockspot Cafe, Ballard, Seattle, WA |
yelp - seattle weekly - the stranger - nw source
Sunday, September 20, 2009
#900 - Gossips Club, London (Soho) - May 1990
When I first started this project with a list of every bar I could clearly remember having a drink in, my poor memory confined the list to those in areas with which I am familiar. I couldn't recall the name of any bar I'd been to in Rome or Florence, nor any pub in London, cafe in Paris, or cantina in Mexico. But I finally realized that I could track down at least one club, because we went there for a special reason.
The Batcave, once frequented by the likes of Robert Smith, Nick Cave, and Siouxsie Sioux, is widely recognized as the birthplace of what we now call the "goth" scene. It was hard to find and what we didn't realize until we found it was that the Batcave was actually not the club itself, but an event that once ran Tuesday nights at Gossips Club. The night we went to Gossips was some kind of gay theme, and though a few people in the line made it clear they didn't welcome a clearly hetero couple, we did at least get to see the club (which apparently closed just this year).
69 Dean St., Soho, London, W1D 3SG (corner of Meard and Dean)
urban75 - batcave wikipedia - batcave reunion @ club antichrist - Specimen live @ Batcave (video)
The Batcave, once frequented by the likes of Robert Smith, Nick Cave, and Siouxsie Sioux, is widely recognized as the birthplace of what we now call the "goth" scene. It was hard to find and what we didn't realize until we found it was that the Batcave was actually not the club itself, but an event that once ran Tuesday nights at Gossips Club. The night we went to Gossips was some kind of gay theme, and though a few people in the line made it clear they didn't welcome a clearly hetero couple, we did at least get to see the club (which apparently closed just this year).
69 Dean St., Soho, London, W1D 3SG (corner of Meard and Dean)
urban75 - batcave wikipedia - batcave reunion @ club antichrist - Specimen live @ Batcave (video)
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