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Wednesday, December 9, 2009

City / Chow / Drunk The 5 Point's 80th Birthday

Posted by on Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 3:35 PM

I don't know who I loved more—while filming this little video at The 5 Point Cafe's 80th Anniversary yesterday—the lady who couldn't WAIT to confess her decades-old dine-and-dash story, or the funny lady at 0:48 who told me they were there "celebrating a colonoscopy with cheap beer and bad service."

The first time I ever went to The Five, back in '98, someone read my tarot cards, I cured a hangover by drinking a bloody mary and eating a whole jalapeño pepper, um, I slipped and fell on my face 'cause someone spilled brown gravy on the floor... and then I went home and got laid. The 5 Point has a special kind of magic. The kind of magic that takes 80 years to brew. Everyone who I talked to yesterday had nothing but love for the place. Here's to 80 more years! And shine on, you crazy diamond.


 

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I looove the 5-Point. Great food and Bloody Marys. I even got lucky with one of their waitresses. Ahh, memories.
Posted by steakhaus on December 9, 2009 at 3:39 PM
Andy_Squirrel 2
wow, this looks just like the bars I was trying to escape from when I lived in bumblefuck....
how funny.
Posted by Andy_Squirrel on December 9, 2009 at 5:54 PM
3
@ 1 - me too!
Posted by Meinert on December 9, 2009 at 7:35 PM
drewl 4
@2 yeah... but ya get away long enough, ya get the nostalgic twinges.
Posted by drewl on December 9, 2009 at 8:50 PM
Roosevelt 5
Great video, Stranger! I'd like to see more little shorts like this featured.
Posted by Roosevelt http://www.youtube.com/user/matthewcobrien?feature=mhum on December 10, 2009 at 12:33 PM

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