Murphy's RIP

Well I was out of town last weekend and missed the Sat paper story about Murphy's closing on Sunday. I knew about it but didn't know when. Driving home after dinner out on Sunday evening we were driving by Murphy's just by chance. Obviously something was going on. Food table set up in the parking lot and lots of people. Then I read the Sat paper Monday morning. D'oh!
Well it had a good run. Plenty of nights with Dee at the bar and Jimmy singing in the corner, but that was a long time ago.
I hadn't been there much recently. I'm a Riley's after work person (well before the zombies come out downtown). I also noticed a new license post in the window of The Lie N Den. Wonder what's up there.

Yet another one gone.

Passed Out

Drinking to excess is never too good (and I've never done it). You usually pay one way or another. And of course the best is when you end up passed out in some embarrassing position and your friends do their best to 'help'.

Here's of few good ones.




http://www.passedoutwookies.com/

JBs & Around the World

Well last weekend I found out they demolished the old office building at The Ice House. Now most of you will remember it as the BBQ Factory, but when they first turned the old Union Ice plant into a retail center they took the old office building, moved it to the side and it was JB's Tavern. JB as in John Bryant, was meant to be a more casual cousin of the John Bryants on California Ave. This was somewhere around 1980 give or take a couple of years.

And they started a Beers Around the World promotion. Of course some of my friends and myself were right on it. I was recalling at RTs last night it was when I first had a Guinness Stout (from a bottle and no widget to make that foam). We thought is was the worst beer we had ever had. Live and learn. I never finished out the 100 beers but I was up there at 90 or so when it closed. It wasn't that we didn't have enough time, the cheap pitchers of beer often kept us from even getting to the relatively expensive and often weird 'ferign beers'. Some were good, other were just plain awful too.

Well I'm not too good with these beers of the world deals. I started and never finished Spike's and Britannia.
One of my friend finished JBs, Spikes in SLO and here both, and Britannia as well. What a drunk(HA!). Hey I really don't need any more t-shirts anyway.

A little bit of Bakersfield history gone. Damn!