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It's Friday and like a lot of you, I'm ready for a laugh, to let go of the week and maybe have a drink. Preferably a hot toddy after all that snow shoveling. Whenever I'm in the nearby town of Hastings-on-Hudson, I often pass by this dive bar, straight out of an Edward Hopper painting, oozing a slice of boozy Americana. If walking past, I pick up my pace, but rubberneck inside the door, the way we slow down to view a car wreck . Yes, the vibes are that nasty. I smell, sixty, seventy, a hundred? years of drunken sadness, stale beer, fights, escapism, working class camaraderie, ghosts of false cheer. You expect to see a Hemingway or F. Scott Fitzgerald slumped at the bar. If you like that kind of thing, John's Bar & Grill is a dive bar par excellence. Cheers, and have a happy weekend !
It's Friday and like a lot of you, I'm ready for a laugh, to let go of the week and maybe have a drink. Preferably a hot toddy after all that snow shoveling. Whenever I'm in the nearby town of Hastings-on-Hudson, I often pass by this dive bar, straight out of an Edward Hopper painting, oozing a slice of boozy Americana. If walking past, I pick up my pace, but rubberneck inside the door, the way we slow down to view a car wreck . Yes, the vibes are that nasty. I smell, sixty, seventy, a hundred? years of drunken sadness, stale beer, fights, escapism, working class camaraderie, ghosts of false cheer. You expect to see a Hemingway or F. Scott Fitzgerald slumped at the bar. If you like that kind of thing, John's Bar & Grill is a dive bar par excellence. Cheers, and have a happy weekend !
Posted by Layla Morgan Wilde at 1/28/2011 6:30 AM 
Categories: Art, Sign of the Times, Photography, New York, Westchester County, Baby Boomers, Humor, Food
Tags: edward hopper americana bar joke johns bar grill hasting on hudson hastings on hudson bar friday funnies americana photography
Categories: Art, Sign of the Times, Photography, New York, Westchester County, Baby Boomers, Humor, Food
Tags: edward hopper americana bar joke johns bar grill hasting on hudson hastings on hudson bar friday funnies americana photography
I love high and I love low; I love high because the insecurities wrapped in expensive pretense are fun to unroll; I love low because its seedy pretenses that pretend not to be prete4nses are much more real to many people. my town is dry, with no bars and only two recently added wine stores; another kind of pretense.
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I like high/low too.Pretense is fun to play with as long as one is aware that it isn't authentic.
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I am planning on a really nice week end since it is warming up a little down here. Good book, good weather and so on. Hope you have a great week end.
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Thanks Marg, I hope so too except the the warm bit.
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Cheers to you, too, Layla!
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Yes, TGIF!
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Have a great weekend,unwinding, Layla! My weekend has arrived early, now that I can access your blog again.
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Oh good! I'll try but it's a busy weekend ahead.
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We also have a cat with one eye, by the way. He rules!
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I must stop by.
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