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Author:  pittmike [ Wed Sep 07, 2016 4:23 pm ]
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Dead or alive? When I still lived in Chicago Daley (as I seem to remember) tried to kill off the neighborhood tavern. By not allowing liquor licenses to be sold/transferred or whatever the old school mom and pop joints would die off I assume was the thought. I know there are some on main streets still but I am talking about the in the neighborhood on the corner ones.

Where I grew up on SW side there could be a tavern on three out of four corners of a side street intersection. Area any left at all? You guys miss them or is it all chain places and fancy pants establishments to grab a beer, shoot pool, watch a game and so on.
Author:  Terry's Peeps [ Wed Sep 07, 2016 4:57 pm ]
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Alive.
Author:  Kirkwood [ Wed Sep 07, 2016 5:33 pm ]
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dying
Author:  pittmike [ Wed Sep 07, 2016 5:46 pm ]
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Well we are 50/50. :lol: I remember some years back we went to one and the owner just bought a few cases of beer and opened every weekend and sold them for one cent. Something about just keeping it active.
Author:  Terry's Peeps [ Wed Sep 07, 2016 6:11 pm ]
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Well kirkwood is right in that they're not as prevalent as they once were.

But the ones who are still around are doing good.
Author:  JORR [ Wed Sep 07, 2016 6:16 pm ]
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Long live Shinnick's and T&A Two!
Author:  chaspoppcap [ Wed Sep 07, 2016 6:17 pm ]
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Where I grew up,Canaryville. When I turned 21 there was 9 taverns. Now there is 2
Author:  Terry's Peeps [ Wed Sep 07, 2016 6:24 pm ]
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Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
Long live Shinnick's and T&A Two!


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Author:  Terry's Peeps [ Wed Sep 07, 2016 6:26 pm ]
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chaspoppcap wrote:
Where I grew up,Canaryville. When I turned 21 there was 9 taverns. Now there is 2


Kelly's is still going strong.
Author:  Frank Coztansa [ Wed Sep 07, 2016 7:26 pm ]
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They are perfectly fine and plentiful if you look for them.
Author:  good dolphin [ Thu Sep 08, 2016 9:19 am ]
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They are present but there are fewer of them.

Typical of Daley, it was never these corner joints that caused the problems. They could be policed by the community in which they existed. It is the one's he allowed to flourish in the trendy stretches of the city that caused the bulk of the problems.
Author:  redskingreg [ Thu Sep 08, 2016 9:21 am ]
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Sponge Reef is still alive and kicking.
Author:  Walt Williams Neck [ Thu Sep 08, 2016 9:44 am ]
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Once did a Pub Crawl from Archer and Kedzie to Halinas ( Archer & Harlem ) definitely dying. If I did that today wouldn't probably get a buzz ...back the I was fucked up!
Author:  Kirkwood [ Thu Sep 08, 2016 9:46 am ]
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good dolphin wrote:
They are present but there are fewer of them.

Typical of Daley, it was never these corner joints that caused the problems. They could be policed by the community in which they existed. It is the one's he allowed to flourish in the trendy stretches of the city that caused the bulk of the problems.

Was there a lot of NIMBY-ism in decades prior? Seems like today yuppies bitch up a storm over anything let alone a tavern disrupting their idealistic $600K+ enclaves.
Author:  Jon Taffer [ Thu Sep 08, 2016 9:59 am ]
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Listen guys, these are bars where the bartender just pours beer all day. This isn't the clientele that's going to get us out of debt. If we don't establish a cocktail program to pull in that young 20-30 female demographic, we're done!

Bottled beer runs a 13% profit margin. Draft beer is around 20%. But spirits run a 30% profit margin. If I can convert you to a cocktail drinker, we win!
Author:  good dolphin [ Thu Sep 08, 2016 12:55 pm ]
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Kirkwood wrote:
good dolphin wrote:
They are present but there are fewer of them.

Typical of Daley, it was never these corner joints that caused the problems. They could be policed by the community in which they existed. It is the one's he allowed to flourish in the trendy stretches of the city that caused the bulk of the problems.

Was there a lot of NIMBY-ism in decades prior? Seems like today yuppies bitch up a storm over anything let alone a tavern disrupting their idealistic $600K+ enclaves.


Always. The change is that there used to be strong elected officials who understood that they were to make decisions rather than defer their power to a straight democracy. The tavern issue was just a Daley peculiarity, like wrought iron fences. Most of those taverns weren't causing anyone any problems. Daley didn't like them and he put some diligent teetotaler in the position to police the licenses.

When you think about it, there could not have been a much more neighborhood guy than Daley but it was almost like he had some self hatred over it
Author:  Terry's Peeps [ Thu Sep 08, 2016 1:03 pm ]
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good dolphin wrote:
When you think about it, there could not have been a much more neighborhood guy than Daley but it was almost like he had some self hatred over it


Weak pimp hand.
Author:  JORR [ Thu Sep 08, 2016 1:21 pm ]
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good dolphin wrote:
The tavern issue was just a Daley peculiarity, like wrought iron fences.



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