Good Times
The only British pub in Salinas was The Penny Farthing. It was walking distance from my office and was where we Tooner/Funsters would meet once a month for talk and drink. One Toon Tuesday, The Farthing up and closed for a remodel and reopened under The Salinas Sports Tavern. Dismay-shock -betrayal. I gave it a shot. I tried to like it. But I refuse to try to ignore 20 tv sets with sports on them… we ain’t found a place to relocate that doesn’t charge 9 dollar shots of vodka.
Epic times of Epicness – what a great line ! Love it and Squish’s face in the last panel. You can really see her trying to remember the epicness!
One sports bar in town (only place that has malt vinegar to go with “Fish and Chips”) has over 30 sets — I’ve never seen more than 3 different feeds…
A fairly reliable indicator of how epic an event was, is how little one can remember of it the following morning.
I’d love to sit around naming bars. If a bar opened up in a construction zone called the ‘Re-bar’.
Eprinc… it’s there somewhere.
Beetles… is there volume? Gah, I hope not!
Bitflip… they say that about the 60’s… but really… were they ALL that great?
Jack… ha! England has the bestest bar names… or rather pub names.
The US does have some of the same problems – mostly the ones with music are the ones that I remember- Mul’s Irish Pub was home toThe Portland Folk Club – folksingers gathering, singing, and drinking, Mulligan’s III (There had been a Mulligan’s II – but never a Mulligan’s… Mulligan’s II was a pun, ye ken… but the new owners didn’t), It’s Magic (a pub with professional magicians as the servers, not music this time), Empty Pocket’s (an Irish music pub owned by a very nice Jewish gentleman that liked Irish music), the Bitter End (different music on different nights), and Morgan’s (blues, folk, and jazz)… all replaced by sports bars, most of which have closed, because the area has too many sports bars….
Raul’s Roadside Attraction was one that I performed in – a drunk crowd, and an enormous poster right behind the stage – advertising The Girl with the World’s Biggest Feet…. The concert was to benefit the Portland Fish Exchange….
Granny Killian’s was an Irish music pub that had GREAT burritos… the pub is gone, but Granny’s Burritos is still around (and the burritos are still GREAT).
The Auld Grump
AG,
I’m sure you remember the song about the Jewish merchant in Dublin who posting his name written in Hebrew above his shop was arrested for using Gaelic.
i recently saw an irish pub with the most perfect name ever: o’blivion.