Oops - Alexandria, VA not Arlington, VA.... same thing, basically. Only a few miles apart.
Original Birchmere (this area) was in Arlington.
Talk about holding onto a dream and seeing it through.
Birchmere was a hole in the wall beer joint in South Arlington in the 70s or so and Gary Oelze stuck it through, moved it to Alexandria and ‘took off’.
I remember us bar denizens telling him it would never work.
See, don’t always follow the advice of your so called ‘friends’ even though they kept your business open..(at least in our minds)...<: <: <:
Glad to see him ‘make it’.