Slog - Comments on Sad Hour http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/sad_hour When I lived in San Francisco, I used to go to a bar in the Tenderloin that offered Sad Hour. Paper coasters bore the details: "Sad Hour, 5—7 p.m. Come in and cheer down." It was a colossally divey place, genuinely so, a place you would not want your mother to know you were. The portly bartender, Carl, when not screaming Tourette's-style at regulars staggering in high out of their minds or passing out in their seats, was available for a slow dance or two. Sad Hour had no drink specials, no snacks, just bittersweetness served up with a view... Copyright 2007 Thu, 10 Aug 2006 16:30:31 -0800 Fri, 11 Aug 2006 10:15:48 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by scojo I miss that bar.

]]> scojo http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/sad_hour#c445000 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/sad_hour#c445000 Chow Thu, 10 Aug 2006 16:57:10 -0800 Comment by Dougsf Was that the Ha-Ra?

]]> Dougsf http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/sad_hour#c445001 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/sad_hour#c445001 Chow Thu, 10 Aug 2006 16:58:44 -0800 Comment by Jensen Interceptor Seattle no longer has a proper
dive bar. They've all been turned
into ubiquitous coffee houses.

This city no longer has s soul.


----Jensen

]]> Jensen Interceptor http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/sad_hour#c445021 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/sad_hour#c445021 Chow Thu, 10 Aug 2006 17:39:55 -0800 Comment by riz then you haven't been to angie's in columbia city. while not divey as it once was - the no guns and drugs policy finally took hold about three years ago, the whores can't do as big a buisness since the housing rates have shot up, and the smoking ban hasn't helped a whole lot..on a saturday night it still has it low life charm..
it's not nearly as divey as that sf joint and would never have a sad hour. there are lots of folks that wouldn't spend ten minutes init.. and when i last checked they still were serving only beer and the cheapest wine imginable.. you could still get a twenty of OE there.. ..
and there's that bar on the corner of 5th and king.. i once seent a guy jack-off in plain view..and the ID crack trade HQ's there

]]> riz http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/sad_hour#c445038 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/sad_hour#c445038 Chow Thu, 10 Aug 2006 18:07:52 -0800 Comment by pierre love you bethany- so dont be sad!

]]> pierre http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/sad_hour#c445059 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/sad_hour#c445059 Chow Thu, 10 Aug 2006 20:24:33 -0800 Comment by Big Poof Was that the place with the horse shoe shaped bar? The one that opended at 6 AM? I loved the dive bars in the tenderloin. Real people, real fun. Those days will never happen again. *big heavy sigh*

]]> Big Poof http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/sad_hour#c445080 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/sad_hour#c445080 Chow Thu, 10 Aug 2006 21:59:12 -0800 Comment by bethany Indeed, the Ha-Ra. Bobby was the bartender when I started going there—he was also portly and would slow-dance but didn't yell at people. He was given to telling bad jokes and saying uber-bartenderly things like, "You wanna know how to change the world—to change the world, you change yourself." He died.

]]> bethany http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/sad_hour#c445188 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/sad_hour#c445188 Chow Fri, 11 Aug 2006 10:15:48 -0800