Special Collections). The revival began in 2013 with the opening of Wileyville, Lago and Ken Stewart's restaurants on West 10th Street, three upscale venues that attracted a new, more sophisticated clientele to the Flats. 2053 Ontario St., Cleveland, 216-861-6446: So many new places talk about being authentic. This little-known downtown institution from 1976 doesnt have to. In other words, the circa-1909 joint has seen a lot and is still going. "Light of Day" was filmed here. It's had regulars in their 90s that came as teenagers, no joke. The name reflects its low-lying topography on the banks of the Cuyahoga River. It was also on the west side that one of the first developments in the remarkable Flats revival of the last two years began, with the opening of the Music Box Concert Club in the summer of 2014. Then theres the milieu Mere words cannot describe You just have to go. 15607 1/2 Detroit Ave., Lakewood, 216-226-4080: Art Carver opened Merry Arts in 1932 in the middle of the Great Depression. ST. PETE. I read the article someone posted above "Who Killed The Flats" and if it is all true about what M. White was doing to harass the independentsand bully the place into hiring blacks, then by all means a lot of the decline was inevitable. Then that terrible summer happened ^This was my point. With the highest concentration of bars in the Midwest, the Flats quickly achieved a party-animal status. Yes, the bebop era is long gone, and jazz ain't what it used to be. Ohio was one of the last states to raise the drinking age to 21.it was (reluctantly) raised from 19 to 21 in 1987 per Federal mandate. And worry not: The economy will rebound, and the East Bank will live again maybe not on the back of a convention center, but maybe a casino. Farther north you'll find party-centric Shooters on the Water, the Cleveland Improv comedy club, and the Music Box Supper Club, an indie music venue with an eclectic music lineup, killer views and contemporary dining. Add in psycho doormen at the basement. 1085 Old River Rd, Cleveland, OH 44113 Ohio was one of the last states to raise the drinking age to 21.it was (reluctantly) raised from 19 to 21 in 1987 per Federal mandate. The ghost of its original owner came a little later. 18500 Detroit Ave, Lakewood, 216) 521-9999; barslakewood.com: The circa-1930s joint became the Riverwood in 1982. We're happy we took the risk. If you are trying to fight this is the spot. 1219 Main Ave., Cleveland, 216-241-3232; These new-fangled whippersnappers might boast a longer list, but this comfy symbol of the Old Flats has attracted beer adventurers since 1895. The way that area was completely destroyed was extraordinary, maybe even unprecedented. Now, it only gathered crowds on the weekends and then, much reduced from the Mardi Gras-like atmosphere in the late-80s and early-90s. The courts ultimately forced Cleveland to rebuild its half of the Main Street Bridge, but the damage had been done, and Ohio City soon became the first area to be annexed by the larger city. Ah, but Ness was also known to get his drink on, which became a political issue during his tenure in town. "At the beginning, there were no other buildings open at all around the Cove," says Hudson. The Flats and Cleveland had soon become an entertainment mecca and destination for the region. I think that is why there was lax enforcement of the 21 drinking age and so many 18+ bars. CLEVELAND, Ohio - Cleveland punk-rocker Mike Hudson remembers when the Flats used to be a scary place. 6088 Mayfield Road, Mayfield Heights; 440-442-2755; dicillotavern.com: Signs of modernity are all around Mayfield Road, but this comfy spot continues to serve as a time capsule. I sorta view Wolstein as the Art Modell of the East Bank. Bernie Sokolowski, owner of Sokolowski's University Inn in Tremont, remembers seeing Eric Burdon and Pere Ubu at the club "and walking home from there. Truly the most depressing thing to think about. It started as a speakeasy, then a men's-only bar, then Herzog's and finally the DB where the 100-plus beers, old-world menu and cases of nutcrackers remind me of a beer-hall hop in Deutschland. 3908 Denison Ave., Cleveland, 216-351-9826: Sometimes you want to go with an Ugly Broad. The 70,000-square-foot building was constructed in the late 19th century to generate electricity for the citys cable cars. 13 Best Vintage Photos From Cleveland In The 1970s 12 SF Restaurant Markets for All of Your . Peabody's took over literally and artistically from Pirate's Cove when Tom Rutzen and Dewey Forward bought the club in 1981. There was a time when this area held the distinction as home to the highest concentration of bars in the Midwest. Plato (1748 E. 22nd, Cleveland) - One of the first bars for the college crowd, started in 1967 and located near the Cleveland . REMEMBER THE FLATS? An estimated area population of 1,204,799 in 1937 was served by 120 hotels. The most . But it was Cleveland's mayor at the time, the beloved Carl Stokes, who passionately dedicated himself to cleaning up the city's waterways. The lots weren't owned by the bars. Maybe we need less of the bar scene types and more of some of something else. But it still feels like a neighborhood joint and a home for tunes. Welcome to another era. The people that didn't began to frequent the WHD and their diluting effect was lost down in the Flats. The Flats destroyed itself through over-indulgence, neglect, greed and corruption. Infuriated Ohio City residents, rallying with the cry of "Two bridges or none," marched on the new bridge with guns, axes, and other tools. All rights reserved (About Us). Yards away, a small plaque nestled alongside the river marks the northern terminus of the Ohio-Erie Canal.Although settlers landed in the Flats forty years earlier, the area only began to prosper and grow with the creation of the Ohio-Erie Canal, which first connected Cleveland with the city of Akron in 1827. The '70s-themed disco bar opens in Cleveland's Flats East Bank this weekend. 13046 Lorain Ave., Cleveland, 216-671-6220; derbrau.com: Check out that sprawling mural on the wall of Neuschwanstein Castle, the Bavarian Disneyland where King Ludwig lost his mind while listening to Wagner. "It seemed the bar was three deep every night. 795 Broadway Ave, Bedford, 440-232-9825; tinyurl.com/krtbuh9: I've hit this spot after band practice a bunch of times and walk away with the same impression every time: cheap drinks and no pretentions just the way Leo Sirna imagined the joint when he opened it in 1953. Kind of a sad but interesting look at tbe Flats today. another major contributor was the complete lack of security. Three drowning deaths in one month in 2000, along with a city crackdown on fire and health code violations led to the closing of many bars. Burn it all down and start over. It lasted in the location more than 100 years before its moved to Euclid Avenue. I can't get on board with the "easy way out" approach but I think it's important to understand how it came to that. Cleveland's oldest bars: 50-plus classic taverns, cafes and clubs, Story by John Petkovic, The Plain Dealer(First photo, of DePompei's Broadway Garden, courtesy of Blaise DePompei. In September 2010, Cleveland Rowing Foundation closed a deal to reclaim 6.5 acres (2.6ha) of vacant, industrialized land to create Rivergate Park, a public park devoted to rowing, canoeing, kayaking and dragon-boating. The boating crowd is a deep pocketed bunch that Downtown has been missing out on recently. Much like everything in Cleveland, pressure creates diamonds. These days, if you're looking for real-life connections, the East Bank is the place. I remember hearing the complaints at City Hall and among business owners that the Flats didn't offer enough mixed uses to tame the bar scene down there. Now, granted, places like Fagans had more than others, but the vast majority were minor infractions that could have been corrected. Cleveland Flats memories from back in the day! Some of the photos are newer, like when Sandy Alomar came in many years back. "The Flats was still frightening, a lot of bands wouldn't play down there. Independent restaurants and bars began to close. Then later that year, outside the Flat Iron Cafe, two men who worked for George and formerly worked for then-La Cosa Nostra boss Joe "Loose" Iacobacci were shot by several Lake County drug dealers. In the 1980s and 1990s, as manufacturing slowly dissipated throughout the United States, the Flats transformed itself into an entertainment destination. Cleveland is lucky to have so many old joints. Collision Bend Brewing Company/Google Images. My two most memorable nights in the Flats were the biccentenial (1997?) A history of the Cleveland area from its industrial roots to the dive bars of the 1960s, the punk scene of the '70s, the club scene of the '80s and '90s and its reemergence as an entertainment . For decades, the land's proximity to the Cuyahoga River, Lake Erie and railroad . 1990 . Check out the glowing bridge above, the river and the warehouses. Moses Cleaveland might have founded the city, but he high-tailed it out of here three months after landing on the banks of the Cuyahoga River, 1796. 12387 Cedar Road, Cleveland Heights, 216-795-0550;nighttowncleveland.com: These days, "jazz club" is shorthand for all sorts of things: "upscale," "serious," a place where you come to hear, uh, Kenny G. In other words, more show than go. These include renowned chef Zack Bruell's Alley Cat oyster bar - not far from where Fagan's once lorded over the Flats; the 27,000 square footPunch Bowl Social eatertainment complex;Flip Side burger bar; chef Steve Schimoler Crop Rocks music themed eatery and other ventures; FWD Day + Nightclub, the most "Old Flats" like venue, a Vegas style dance club for twentysomethings; and theBig Bang dueling piano bar. The last three times I went to the Flats I got into some altercation and I'm not a fighter at all. 651 Huron Rd E, Cleveland, OH, 44115. This circa-1936 space just keeps jamming away first as a machine shop, then as Vic's Tavern and, yes, as Cebar's going on four decades. Of this we are certain: This joint has vintage vibes and look of an old-timer Oh yeah, there are also a bunch of stuffed monkeys on the wall. ft. health club, The office tower has been named the "Ernst and Young building." Decades later, the ship sales on. 1401 East 55th Street, Cleveland, 216-881-4181; sterlescountryhouse.com: Well, well, time seems to have stood still at Sterle's a Cleveland institution that's been kicking since 1954, with beer, polka, schnitzel and, yes, those Friday fish fries, which come with live music. The space now houses Wonder Bar. Two Waterfront Line Cleveland RTA stations, Settlers Landing station and Main Avenue station received $375,000 upgrades. If you turned 19 before July 1987, you were grandfathered in and were allowed to drink even after the law became 21. Now based in Nashville, Leatherwood got a call from Fairmount Properties a couple of years ago. Just check out the old photos on the wall. Now I want to look for them. Even better, the walls are timeless with old photos and bric-a-bric that span the decades. More recently, the Happy Dog took over. Informacin detallada del sitio web y la empresa: travelingcaddy.com, +18445334653 Golf club rentals - phoenix / scottsdale, arizona | traveling caddy And it was under the White Administration because I remember it well--one day city inspectors just showed up and shut down most of the business on Old River Road for both major and minor building code violations. More restaurants opened. 7001 Denison Ave., Cleveland; 216-651-0888;facebook.com/sachsenheim.hall: They come en masse for the taco nights, served with vintage vibes on the side. The bowling machine isn't nearly as old, but vintage nonetheless. Send a News Tip. Many of the mobbed-up Flats bar owners refused to sell to Wolstein who enlisted the help of Mayor Jane Campbell to seize blighted properties by eminent domain. ", Then one day "we went away and came back and there were these big barriers erected so you couldn't see the river anymore. By 1930 Cleveland had 1,073 restaurants with 5,959 full-time employees, doing $27,084,127 worth of business. Michael Schwartz Library. This place feels like a world away from South Park. I bet he'd go bonkers over this spot, which dates back to the Weimar Republic 1925, to be exact. W. 6th also stole a lot of the crowd the bars desired and left the riff-raff. The reason, of course, is the circa-1870s cocktail is a timeless classic. "I thought I-Tal was the greatest band in existence then, and Cleveland was an hour away from my hometown but it seemed like a world away. 13600 Pearl Rd, Strongsville; tinyurl.com/krwos2a: Forget the mall and sprawl all around you. Patrons becoming scared off due to safety concerns led to a sharp decrease in business. Scope an interactive map of this Downtown district. Later you had the Warehouse District and Ohio City, but there wasn't anything like this before the Flats.". Of course, Brothers was closed for a few years between then and now at the beginning of the century. The shuffleboard game is from 1936. However, at the same time, there were a lot of places down there that were just turning into crap all on their own. The Flats got rougher and people started retreating to the safety of the Warehouse District in droves. There were always a few shady characters down there, including among the owners of bars. No, bro, not tacos. Ugly is in the eye of the beholder, baby. The city was a wreck but I never noticed- it was all about music and fun times. Moriartys is one of the few joints left standing from that era and, like a tough fighter, it keeps on swinging. Ken Stewart's has announced that it will close on Saturday. Plans for the East Bank suggest . The last time I was there, several years ago, the dart room was closed and the place was . At a converted ex-workhouse in Cleveland Street, W1, owners of private flats will enter at the front, while owners of affordable homes will have a "poor door" round the back. town literacy rate is 70.8% and the Female Literacy rate is 30.6%. The Flats and Cleveland had soon become an entertainment mecca and destination for the region. It located in a house and has a worn-but-vintage look and feel, from the molded zinc ceiling to the long wooden bar. Or had Wolstein already locked up most of the land rights that he needed by that point and was slowing strangling the remaining businesses? At least it feels like some place in a '50s movie. But old-timers on the West End still recall the Telstar back when the bikers would cruise down Detroit and pull up for a Rolling Rock. Our musicians don't pick a setlist in advance. on Other warehouses and buildings were also renovated into nightlife destinations. But all that is dead.time to see if we can get this place into something more respectable now than a pile of dirt. :drunk: NO we do not have enough bars. One of the patrons says the 1880s. Even drag queens couldn't get in back when the walls were all black and there were two red lights, with a chain hanging on the wall where patrons would hang their helmets. Mostly every labor day weekend was a blast in the flats. Instead, we choose the music based on real-time audience requests, so every night is different. 5759 Ridge Road, Parma, 440-884-0310; ridgewoodinn.com: New places would kill for this kind of real-deal vibe. And the vibe is timeless. : Anyone who's had the Pastrami, Corned Beef and Swiss Sandwich and a shot of Jack will plead a case for Barrister's. 2233 West Third St., Cleveland, 216-621-8044;patsintheflats.com: "The Working Man's Bar" has been a bastion of saloon stability in Cleveland's Tremont neighborhood since the 1940s - even as Tremont has changed. Deee-Lite first performed in Cleveland April, 1988 See . 5. However, My favorites were in either 95 or 97 when they were televising World Series Games from Nautica on the Big Screen. Either could get city or county health officials to look the other way. ^ Yes, that would be nice, but we have to ask ourselves whether or not we have enough bars/restaurants already. to sustain the current numbers of those who visit such. The project was delayed by the 2007 Recession and court battles of property acquisition.[3]. The people that wanted the rowdiness stayed down in the Flats. In 1796, Moses Cleaveland and his survey party landed on the banks of the Cuyahoga upon their arrival from Connecticut.Early settlers included Lorenzo Carter . 11802 Detroit Ave, Lakewood, 866-257-6252; phantasycleveland.com: Is there a club with a more colorful past or a pirate ship? You'll feel those real connections from head to toe - on the boardwalk sidling on the Cuyahoga River, along bike paths adorned with public art, as you guise skyward at majestic bridges, and while filling your belly and brain with good food and great conversation. Use of and/or registration on any portion of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement, Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement, and Your Privacy Choices and Rights (each updated 1/26/2023). Otto Moser's on Euclid Avenue in Playhouse Square might not seem like an old joint. That is one reason people are worried about the warehouse district going down the same path. We combine live music, comedy, and audience engagement to . The building dates back to the 1880s, when the area was farmland. ATC might seem old at 43, but that's nothing when you consider the back bar in this joint dates back 150 years. "American cities steal your freedom of movement and sell it back to you for the price of a car." :-D. ^That's right, I should have stated it was 19 for regular beerand 21 for everything else. Wolstein was waiting in the wings for the land grab, and we should all collectively blame him for what is there now. Big Bang opened in early August, the second in the East Bank Phase 2 - and has been packed almost every night since. Best Bars in the Cleveland Flats: Where to Go Out for a . Underground music venues appeared on the East Bank, while mainstream development first took place on the West Bank. About $4 million in loans and grants from the city, county and state have been awarded for brownfield remediation. Shes funny, has a unique personality and yippee! I refuse to believe anyone other than the city officials and Wolstein deserve the blame. Not the most professional video, but the pop ups are very informative to someone who doesn't really know that much about the Flats clubbing history. You kids missed a damn good time! Map of Cleveland and vicinity 1 : 28000 Forman-Bassett-Hatch Company Forman-Bassett-Hatch Co. Cleveland. Yes, 1959. You have a great start to a lightly fictionalize murder-crime mystery. In July 1928, 681 Cleveland restaurants were feeding an average of 300,000 people daily. 'There was something really cool starting at the West Bank then," says Sam Leatherwood, who managed the former Howl at the Moon saloon in the Powerhouse at Nautica. Green Day graced the stage years before the band was playing arenas. By no means should it be as dirty/crappy as it used to be, but it would be nice that along with whatever other development goes on down there that there are at least a few more nice restaurants/bars. Kindler's - Restaurant - Downtown - Cleveland 72 reviews of Big . Other outcomes were possible, and perhaps desirable, to put it mildly. Hotel B.G.Jaiswal Bar &Restaurant, #3 among Sengaon restaurants: 5 reviews by visitors and 17 detailed photos. Michael Schwartz Library. Apartments above the tourist area rent in the $2000 range, and activity in the Flats might now be surpassing its former glory. You need to be a member in order to leave a comment. But we were pretty encouraged. Ah, I see. 777 Cahoon Road, Westlake; 440-835-3090; white-oaks.com: That photo of Eliot Ness over the bar stared at me as I sipped my Manhattan. For over 220 years, the Cleveland Flats generated all kinds of grit - malaria, skirmishes, the thunder of railroads, bootlegging, smoke stacks, fire and sweat equity. (The Flats) is really something that has turned out pretty cool.". They might remember when it was Ginleys, though probably not. I think the change in the drinking age was the first nail in the coffin, and it started to die a very slow death from that point on. Whoa, it's actually from the 1920s, when it was a speaking, before opening as a bar in 1934. 5780 Ridge Rd, Parma; 440-884-3330: Yeah, the pink flamingo on the glass says Parma, but this circa-1934 place resides in another time back when neighborhood saloons in the inner-ring suburbs became regular stops after work. The reggae club called Splash was a Jamaican drug dealers hangout. As a member of Cleveland punk legends the Pagans, he was a part of the seminal music scene that emerged around the Pirate's Cove club on Old River Road in the mid-1970s. Perhaps the only place that might come close again is the part of the Flats under the Detroit-Superior and RTA bridges. Early settlers included Lorenzo Carter, whose land holdings included much of what makes up today's East Bank entertainment district, including Whiskey Island, which was created when the mouth of the river was straightened by the Corps of Engineers. Address: 1250 Old River Rd, Cleveland, OH 44113 | Video Tour. My favorite memory was the Sohio Riverfests and Aquilon. At Settlers Landing, crews will restore eight etched glass panels that act as wind screens. The pop-up bar, located near Margaritaville . It does seem like good material for a book. crowds filled the street on weekend and thousands of seats were . At its peak in the early 1990s, the Flats had the highest concentration of bars in the Midwest, with both locally owned bars, nightclubs, and national restaurant chains lining both sides of the river from the mouth to the Oxbow bend. A multiphase, $500 million mixed-use redevelopment along the East Bank of the Flats is being developed and financed by the Wolstein Group and Fairmount Properties. Open since 1939, it looks like some place Eliot Ness would've hung out in or busted up. Several Restaurants (Alley Cat, Crop East Bank), bars (Beerheads, Punch Bowl Social), 1200-foot boardwalk, and 243 Apartments opened as a part of Phase 2 in 2015. They saw no need for the "unnecessary" expense of safety.until it was too late. Lumberyards lined the river with freshly cut wood waiting to be shipped. People said it was because these drunk college kids were falling into the river and yuppie bars were worried about liability but what's the point of being next to the river if you don't see it?". Woohoo, let'sparty like its 1939. Hotel Indigo Cleveland Downtown, an IHG Hotel. (Photo by Josh Gunter, The Plain Dealer). But how many of them will be around in 2057? Thanks, Santa. The Flats began attracting downtown workers for lunch to watch the boats go by and became a more accepted place to a larger audience. Community Rules apply to all content you upload or otherwise submit to this site. It was still surround by the lumberyards and warehouses and railroads that defined the first century of the Flats when the punks began to kick out the jams. By the second half of the 19th century, Cleveland was an international hub for commerce and manufacturing. Perhaps a few more like Shooters. The Cleveland Heights club-bar-restaurant-institution has been doing it since 1965 and looks like something out of the Blue Note heyday. Raise a glass to Lorenzo Carter,the first permanent settler in Cleveland. This website relies on ads for operating costs and new features. Subscribe now to get the latest news delivered right to your inbox. [4] The initial opening restaurants and bars included Ken Stewart's, Lago, Flip Side and Wileyville. The bar owners were the real cancer on the Flats, especially on the East Bank. 2023 Advance Local Media LLC. Former May Company Ad-Man Jim Jensen recalls many nights spent at Fagan's with clients and coworkers in the "Old Flats." There were biker bars, mob hangouts and shot-n-beer pubs where longshoremen from the docks came to drink before and after work. If . 18616 Detroit Avenue; 216-521-4413; atccafe.com: This circa-1974 institution has been a hangout decades, with a roster of regulars that go back to Day One. This bar, you see, is housed in a 19th-century building that was built when North Olmsted was farm country. 13200 Madison Ave., Lakewood; 216-521-3280; mahalls20lanes.com: If bowling is a retro blast, then this circa-1924 alley and bar is a prehistoric hoot. : This storied old spot claims to be a Cleveland tradition since the 1800s and the oldest saloon in the area. Layoffs in the late 1970s forced many to find work elsewhere, or support from welfare programs. Three drowning deaths in one month in 2000, coupled with a crackdown on under age drinking and code violations, were the nails in the coffin. (Photo by Gus Chan / The Plain Dealer). He made the moves he thought was necessary at the time. Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:45 am. Hudson's later memories are equally sonic. ", "So we signed a lease three-and-a-half years ago. Check out the bar of this 1949 gem. In the latter years of the Voinovich administration, there were plans for offices, hotels and more housing to mix things up and dilute the Flats' wildness. Their business vision does not extend past their current scam. It certainly was not the only factor, or even the biggest factor, but it was a factor. By the time White actually tried to clean up the flats, it was too far gone. Guest TBideon, Dec. 23, 1982, Cleveland Heights. Sitting along the water on one of the decks with friends on a summer evening after work while the sun went down was magical. ft. office tower is all Class A office space and features a green, open-air rooftop terrace. The city is littered with areas like this due to cancerous business practices like this. But, in 1969, the Flats would pay the ultimate price. Chain restaurants like Hooters, Dick's Last Resort and Joe's Crab Shack, packed up and left. (Photo courtesy of Gunselman's). Anyway, much thanks for the thoughtful and thorough retrospective KJP. She previously managed Tiffany's strip bar in the Flats. This bottom land, the floodplain of the river separating the high plateaus on which the city stands, is known as the "Flats." Although Cleveland's earliest settlers chose the lowlands near the mouth of the river as the site for their . The worst was at Mirage where three people were killed in one year -- the same Mirage where county auditor Frank Russo held a fundraiser and lobbied to keep the club open when the city, under Campbell, tried to shut it down. Despite blazes of these kinds occurring on waterways all across our nation, it was happenstance that Time Magazine snapped a photo of Cleveland's burning river. That's when the Cuyahoga River, which had been heavily polluted from decades of heavy industrial manufacturing, caught fire. ", He also recalls the Harbor Inn as a big draw in 1978. Throughout the West Bank, you'll also find a little piece of paradise known as Rivergate Park. The diviest of dive bars, but you can still get a good IPA. shes a cheap date. My guess is that you're thinking of the Harbor Inn on Elm St. in the West Flats. Moby, Progeny, Shamen spin at Empire Whoa, check out the ornate woodwork, elaborate drapes, ceiling-to-floor windows overlooking Public Square, a touch of class and that killer Manhattan. Very interesting read. The Cleveland Memory Project's Clay Herrick Slide Collection, donated by Clay Herrick, author of "Cleveland Landmarks," consists of 100 pamphlets, brochures, books, and photographs. It's been open since 1908, even during Prohibition. DePompei's, you see, dates back to 1934 and little has changed ever since from the fabulous rectangular bar to the woodwork. and New Year's Eve (2000). after seeing the Isley Bros. perform on Public Square first of course. There's Room for You at The Flats at East Bank Book Your Tour Apply Today The Flats at East Bank 1055 Old River Road Cleveland, OH 44113 (216) 677-2062 It's not so Tom of Finland anymore, as the LSS has become a chatty neighborhood stop not to mention one of the few gay clubs still kicking in town. A former Christmas-themed pop-up bar in the Flats East Bank reopened Friday as CLover Bar. wide. ), We built this city on rock 'n' roll? On the East Bank, a large riverwalk is traversable, connecting parks and restaurants. Others claim it dates back to around the 1920s. But generally it was the same 50 people there every night. Another mixed use development, Thunderbird, was announced for Scranton Peninsula, in June, 2018. Toward the end of it's run, the bar owners spent little or no money to maintain their establishments and flashier, classier places were starting to pop up in the Warehouse district. It might seem crazy to think that far into the future, especially in a business thats so topsy-turvy, where places come and go all the time. Almost all of the parking on the East bank was at least a block away from the bars. 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