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Dec. 31 will be your last chance to drink at the famed P&G bar on West 73d Street and Amsterdam Avenue. The 66-year-old Upper West Side watering hole has been forced out of its home and is moving several blocks up, to Columbus Avenue and West 78th Street. This could also be one your last chances to bask in the glow of P&G's great sign. It's not yet clear whether the great neon assemblage will be able to make the move to the former home of Evelyn Lounge, named after Evelyn Nesbit (the Girl in the Red Velvet Swing) who is said to have lived in what will be the P&G's new home.
Click for the full story in the New York Times
For as long as I lived in New York, I would stop by the P&G when I was on the Upper West Side to avail myself of a particularly old school drink or three with an equally old school bartender who was a dead ringer for the actor Hal Linden. And even when passing by in a car or cab, the P&G’s friendly neon provided the alcoholic soul with a Manhattan moment of solace that maybe everything wasn’t as bad with the world as it seemed. I hope there will be a follow-up to this story because Doc40 would like to know if a successful transition was made to the new location and the neon survived the transplant.
The secret word is Yesterday
Dec. 31 will be your last chance to drink at the famed P&G bar on West 73d Street and Amsterdam Avenue. The 66-year-old Upper West Side watering hole has been forced out of its home and is moving several blocks up, to Columbus Avenue and West 78th Street. This could also be one your last chances to bask in the glow of P&G's great sign. It's not yet clear whether the great neon assemblage will be able to make the move to the former home of Evelyn Lounge, named after Evelyn Nesbit (the Girl in the Red Velvet Swing) who is said to have lived in what will be the P&G's new home.
Click for the full story in the New York Times
For as long as I lived in New York, I would stop by the P&G when I was on the Upper West Side to avail myself of a particularly old school drink or three with an equally old school bartender who was a dead ringer for the actor Hal Linden. And even when passing by in a car or cab, the P&G’s friendly neon provided the alcoholic soul with a Manhattan moment of solace that maybe everything wasn’t as bad with the world as it seemed. I hope there will be a follow-up to this story because Doc40 would like to know if a successful transition was made to the new location and the neon survived the transplant.
The secret word is Yesterday
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Old school saloons are an endangered species.
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