Reader snoopz got a hot tip that whoever owns Delirium may have purchased the International Club out at 29th and Tiffany in La Lengua. In which case, the scene at south Tiff’ might change quite a bit.
Neighbor Katie, in response to snoopz’s comment, hopes otherwise: “I would rather have the IC’s midnight accordions than what i walk through on 16th street.”
Photo by Robby Virus.
That’s awesome news. International Club is sketchy as fuck. I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re involved in human trafficking.
I think we can do better than Delirium. Hopefully something that would be complementary to Front Porch.
Yet another sketchy-seeming bar (Clooney’s was one) that was super nice when I needed to use their bathroom/payphone/etc. in high school times. But I wouldn’t go as far as to say that it’s actually sketchy. I bike by at off-times, sure, but since it’s been there forever (I grew up a couple blocks up the street, and I feel like it used to be called something else, but whatever) I’ve never heard of anything too dramatic. Same thing with the bar that used to be in the Front Porch space. It would be very interesting to witness the continued gentrification of La Lengua, though.
Jeebus, changing owners does not constitute gentrification. Nor does changing clientele from Latino to Anglo. You people who write of gentrification have funny notions and I mean funny not in the Nelson ha ha way but in the odd, maybe you should think it through a bit way.
True, true; you mos def have a point and I hope I didn’t seem like I was jumping to NIMBYist/reactionary conclusions. It’s hard for me to classify the changes to that hood as anything but gentrification, but I’d be more than stoked to entertain other descriptors.
On the other hand, 26 Mix went from being a mostly Anglo lounge to being a Latino sports bar. Bars change ownership sometimes.
The gentrification of the neighborhood around 29th and Mission happened long ago, in terms of who lives there. Businesses may change to reflect this, but they are not the main drivers of the changes to this neighborhood, but rather a reflection of it.
Very good point re: reflection not main drivers…
I dated a guy that lived above that bar for six months and let me tell you the prospect of not having to hear reggetone from 10 am till 2 am is fine with me.