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In my opinion as a (now former) dive regular, change for a dive is usually bad; today my heart was truly broken.
I was faced with the reality that my dive will never be the same again. It closed almost 3 months ago, my boyfriend and I (who incidentally met at the bar on a Tuesday in Feb 03)
purchased most of the sentimentalities including the pool table, and an orange vinyl barber chair - Yet, I still held on to the possibility that the deal wouldn't go through...or that history would repeat itself again; and it could possibly still be a dive. The 529 in Santa Cruz (formerly named the Knight Owl and the Stardust Lounge) - stayed a neighborhood dive through 3 owners (all who tried to "fix it up")- all the regulars stayed the same - you could spot someone trying too hard before they walked in the door; but this year, the Valley invaded.
As you can see in the "Santa Cruz Underground" tribe post regarding "The Cardiff Lounge" - My dive has officially been laid to rest for the public...All I can hold on to now is the beautifully stained and tattering felt of the pool table that now sits securely in my garage - My Boyfriend and I still use it everyday, and drink and smoke with our old 529 regulars that became orphans as well.
Thanks for being the type of folks who understand :)
I was faced with the reality that my dive will never be the same again. It closed almost 3 months ago, my boyfriend and I (who incidentally met at the bar on a Tuesday in Feb 03)
purchased most of the sentimentalities including the pool table, and an orange vinyl barber chair - Yet, I still held on to the possibility that the deal wouldn't go through...or that history would repeat itself again; and it could possibly still be a dive. The 529 in Santa Cruz (formerly named the Knight Owl and the Stardust Lounge) - stayed a neighborhood dive through 3 owners (all who tried to "fix it up")- all the regulars stayed the same - you could spot someone trying too hard before they walked in the door; but this year, the Valley invaded.
As you can see in the "Santa Cruz Underground" tribe post regarding "The Cardiff Lounge" - My dive has officially been laid to rest for the public...All I can hold on to now is the beautifully stained and tattering felt of the pool table that now sits securely in my garage - My Boyfriend and I still use it everyday, and drink and smoke with our old 529 regulars that became orphans as well.
Thanks for being the type of folks who understand :)
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Re: Mourning the loss of a dive
Wed, December 21, 2005 - 2:48 PMAwwwwww... I feel your pain. My favorite dive "The South Seas Hide-away" in SJ closed down last year. Even though I still see some of the old regulars around other neighborhood bars... it's just not the same. My heart felt condolences go out to you...
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Re: Mourning the loss of a dive
Wed, December 21, 2005 - 9:29 PMoh yes, the pain, i deeply sympathesize. the transfer here in san francisco, at church & market. my god, i slept with half the bartenders, made all my friends, softball team, league pool, massive spin the bottle games, absolute debauchery, went thru my babydyke face, became a chickenhawk, girlfriend #1, girlfriend #2, my raver phase, my goth phase, my laura ashley phase, my white trash what the hell happened to me phase, 5-6 years...
bought out by a castro multi-bar franchise end of october, all the bartenders that everyone loved were fired, it's now just like every other castro clone bar. an epoch ended. at least i got to barback there during its closing weekend. but the following weekend, standing across the intersection on my way home, seeing the empty windows, boarded up door... something in my soul died just a little, and i sniffled walking the rest of the way home.
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Re: Mourning the loss of a dive
Sat, January 7, 2006 - 1:02 PMConan's at 39th and Hawthorne in PDX: old theater converted to dive bar...enormous open space with everyone hunched over the bar...2 pinball games...videopoker along one wall...$1 PBR on sundays, free 2 other nights a week (it pays to sleep with the bartender's best friend)...now its an all ages music venue...boo! -
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Re: Mourning the loss of a dive
Mon, January 9, 2006 - 11:27 PMAww, y'all are making me miss this dive bar that I worked at for a bit in Austin... $1PBR all the time, worn out brick floor, bathrooms were plywood around a toilet in the back area with no roof. Nice. I think it's still there. -
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Re: Mourning the loss of a dive
Tue, January 10, 2006 - 7:52 PMI worked in a dive in Austin that sounds the same. Where did you work?
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