Where Can A Fella Get a Drink Around Here?
June 24th, 2008Taken in Brooklyn, May, 2008.
I’m always struck how real cities have neighborhood bodegas and bars. It’s too bad that culture doesn’t really exist in Utah, as I think it would help those not of the predominant faith find similar minded people close to them.
I wish I had come back at night and shot this sign. Maybe next trip? o
Tags: Brooklyn, NY, sign, spring
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June 24th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
Man, I so miss living in NY. This picture makes me miss the neighborhood bars and bodegas you mentioned. Like so many things in our youth that we should have appreciated more eh? =).
June 24th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
But, what happens if you decide to gulp?
June 24th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
One can only dream…
It is too bad we don’t really have that culture though. Maybe we could start with a support group then buy an old ward house and make it into a bar.
You could always create your own night version. Fluorescent light glow is relatively easy to recreate in Photoshop.
June 24th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
I found that neighborhood bar culture at The Republican in SLC, down on the east side of State between 9th and 10th South. When living near Liberty Park, I’d ride my bike down there, play some shuffleboard (woo hoo shuffleboard!), and get hammered on car bombs and pints of Guinness. They even have bike racks inside.
June 24th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
I like this one.
June 24th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
Oooh, I love this one!
Reminds me of some of the local neighborhoods here in Seattle, especially Capitol Hill or Wallingford.
I could use a drink right about now!
June 24th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
Same here in semi-dry North Texas. No pubs in suburbia, not many in the city of Dallas either. I’m sure there are bars but the type you expect from a city that belong to a neighborhood as a hangout are hard to find. My top 2 are Irish pubs and the 3rd has too much cigar smoke for me anymore. And now there’s a pseudo pub (really a restaurant) in Frisco, TX… but I’m not sure it counts. LOVE THE SIGN photos. We collect interesting and odd signs from our vacation travels. Someday I’ll have a website with them displayed…. may be retired by then. PS. It’s 7:45pm and I’m still at the office, not home yet. Waiting for Chinese food to be ready to go pick it up and take home to the hubby.
June 24th, 2008 at 8:18 pm
I like this one. And I am REGISTERED! YAY!
June 24th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
No culture here in NH either…ah, New York! Great find!
June 24th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
Hey, Sip is right around the corner from my apartment! Great photo! I’d definitely buy a print of that one if you put it up there.
June 24th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
Your next trip would definitely be highly anticipated. I need to explore Brooklyn more. While I enjoy the villages of lower Manhattan, Brooklyn is its own class of cool.
June 24th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
i feel you on the place where everyone knows your name, but to your town’s credit, SLC DOES have world class rock climbing within 60 minutes of any home, and maybe the best snow in the continental USA also within 60 minutes of any home. and i’m pretty sure the mountain biking is just as cush.
and homes that normal people can afford.
on top of all that, i’ve gotta tell you, those mormons keep those streets CLEAN.
and they totally return lost blackberries.
June 25th, 2008 at 5:47 am
Well, that culture doesn’t exist until Jon decides to open said bar
June 25th, 2008 at 6:56 am
Brooklyn is super rad. I love living there. I’m going to have to do some searching and find out where Sip is–there’s too much awesome stuff to explore here.
And please, please come visit. I missed Heather’s last appearance in Brooklyn, and I’m so mad!
June 25th, 2008 at 7:25 am
Yeah, Jon, I think you have to open such a bodega yourself, and call it Heathens.
June 25th, 2008 at 10:28 am
9th and 9th needs a pub, if you feel like opening one.
I feel like we have parallel lives in certain ways. My husband and I moved from LA to Utah for a higher quality of life, we are both designers and we love the Utah culture.
The funny thing is, we have been here for 2 years, and have met so many like-minded, mellow people. We spend a great deal of time in the outdoors and have found that the best place to meet friends who love a great beer is on the trail. No one out hiking or riding on a Sunday morning is going to turn down a cold one at a BBQ, should you offer.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/91694861@N00/2430325214/in/set-72157604647165422/
Utah is the best. I love it here.
June 25th, 2008 at 11:00 am
Beautiful. I love the copper-? against the leaves and sky. Very nice.
June 25th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
I think a night shot for comparison would be very cool, but I LOVE this photo as is. The green leaves in the background that have the splattering of sunlight, the shadows and the vibrant colors all remind me of when I interned in NYC in college. I almost feel like I’m there again just looking at the photo. I live in a low-key ‘burb and so I’m also lacking the culture that this sign captures. Now when I go back to NY to visit it is always for holidays or weddings or other family obligations and I never get to just walk around the city and stop in unique spots like this. See, this is what I love about photography…the connections it draws for each participant. Thanks for sharing (and thanks for getting my login working!)
June 25th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
Jon, would you consider posting this print on Etsy? I would buy it. I love the colors and the feel of the image.
June 25th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
Jon, would you consider selling the “sip” print on Etsy? I love it and would snap it right up. Jen
July 8th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
You don’t get places like that in any suburb really. You get suburban sprawl with genericized chain places. There’s nothing inherently wrong with them, per se. The food’s good, the prices are okay, you get the same thing at any one of them anywhere. But it’s not special. It’s not individual. It’s not original. That is what I think today’s culture lacks and is missing, even though most of today’s kids wouldn’t believe they are missing anything. You can’t miss what you never had.
I grew up in Flushing, Queens and got milk at my local small grocer, a store called Milky Way. We got veggies at the corner chinese (oriental?) owned produce market. We got meat at the butcher. These places were all on the SAME BLOCK on Main St. And we went to Key Food for weekly shopping, which was only about 4 blocks further down Main St. There was a bakery where we got our Sunday goodies, a candy store where I got my candy and chips with my allowance, a bagel place where we would get bagels on Sundays for breakfast. These places were all independantly owned by people. They were not chains (except for Key Food). We knew the owners and people who ran them. We got meat from Richie; Penny ran the Milky Way. It just isn’t like that anymore. I love places like that and have felt nostalgic for it over the years. But it’s just rare to find places like it anymore.
The one problem I have with the big chains are that it is so cheap for them to establish their business because they have the name to ride on that it becomes preventatively expensive for the small business owner to try and establish a place of their own because of it.
But I think, to this audience, I am preaching to the choir…