Welcome back to the Pictures of Dives substack! This week guest writer Garrett writes an ode to his favorite bar in Washington DC. PoD will be back next week. There’s a conflict in the city I live in between the old “DC” and the new “Washington.” “Washington” is the National Mall, the K Street lobbying firms, the Capitol building and the Lincoln Memorial. “DC,” however, is the punk music, and the theater, and the empanada restaurants. It’s the people who have lived here for decades who have to pick up and move further and further from the city center as rent prices go up, only to have their houses razed and replaced by huge glass condo buildings that nobody lives in. Those buildings are “Washington” too, and day by day, block by block, they’re pushing out a DC that’s fighting desperately to stay alive and thriving.
The money raised via crowdfunding would have lasted a lot longer if any effort was put into it by the owners or if Tolga had not taken all the money they received to buy himself a van to go on vacation... That was a big fuck you on the way out to everyone who loved that bar. 🤷🏻♂️
RIP Codmother
It wasn’t that great...
The money raised via crowdfunding would have lasted a lot longer if any effort was put into it by the owners or if Tolga had not taken all the money they received to buy himself a van to go on vacation... That was a big fuck you on the way out to everyone who loved that bar. 🤷🏻♂️