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. At the time, it had seven years left on its lease, and it seemed likely that it would be ’dozed over for yet another luxury apartment complex once the economy bounced back. But 2015 came and went, and Bar Bar remains — on a month-to-month lease ever since, according to Ed, the longest-tenured bartender at the place after nine years pouring drinks for current proprietor John Kennedy .
Bar Bar has long been known as a live-music venue. The first time I stumbled in, sometime around 2005, there was a rowdy punk band playing just inside the doorway — a scene I'd encounter many times after that. It was the live music, Granville says, that got Bar Bar through the last two-plus years as it, like every other bar and restaurant around, navigated the pandemic.
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