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Friday, August 17, 2012

Booze / Chow Happy Hour at The Crosswalk in Greenwood Starts at 3 pm

Posted by on Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 2:30 PM

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  • Kelly O

Description: In a city overrun with replicated dive bars, the Crosswalk in Greenwood is refreshingly used and bare and feels like it's been around longer than anyone can remember. Inside the vast space are pool tables, buckets of pull tabs, and old-timey mounted bar stools, while fleck-tile floors and scatterings of cheap furniture recall factory break rooms and even more distant scenes: deep-woods resorts with dusty taxidermy and mesh hats hung from nails in the wall.

What else: A nice selection of convenience food is piled into a cubby behind the bar and illuminated by seedy yellow lights. The collected image of beef jerky, peanuts, trail mix, and potato chips evokes David Adler's Warhol-inspired passage from The Life and Cuisine of Elvis Presley: "Packaged snacks are the universal food of America. They can be purchased virtually anywhere, in all regions, at all times, in the same wrapping, and at nearly the exact same price. They are thus the most democratic of foods, and not just because they are so cheap. Fritos, for instance, whether eaten by Elvis, the president, or a homeless person on the corner, are all exactly the same, crunchy and delicious."

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That place scares me. And I don't scare easily.
Posted by paulus on August 17, 2012 at 3:11 PM
Baby Blue 2
They have some really great bartenders but I think they inherited the crowd that was run out of Goofy's. Go to Gainsbourg instead.
Posted by Baby Blue on August 17, 2012 at 3:16 PM
3
All you damn hipsters could only class up the joint. The clientele seems to be chronic drunks that cash their assistance checks there and proceed to drink it all.

Just do me a favor and keep it down when you leave, my apartment is right across the parking lot. Thanks!
Posted by K X One on August 17, 2012 at 4:22 PM
McGee 4
As a bonus if you frequent the Crosswalk enough you'll eventually get to see a real live paramedic.

It was once a pretty great place back in '93.
Posted by McGee on August 17, 2012 at 4:29 PM

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