[blackdog]

Anyone remember McSoorley's in downtown Manhattan? The single ale house with only one bathroom that refused to sell? In the end, the Manhattan high rise wanting their 1500 square foot pub compromised and built the high rise around the bar and above it. All 80 stories above it. The storefront, bathroom(one) and ale remained as unchanged as the building.

[Heyworth]

In Chicago, there was this little bar called McCuddy's, across the street from old Comiskey Park. Babe Ruth used to go there for a beer between innings. It was a celebrated institution. When they wanted to build the new White Sox park (whatever corporate name it has these days), they promised to preserve the bar, to incorporate it into the new park or to rebuild it on the other side of the street, in the parking lot that was the site of the old park. It never happened. The bar was torn down, just like Comiskey Park, neither ever to be seen again. Never believe a developer's promises when he wants something.