Local blogger anadromy left the following analysis in the comments section of yesterday’s post about the Lexington closing maybe because the cliquiness of the clientele made it unwelcoming to a potential new generation of customers:
I don’t think this phenomenon is limited to the Lex. It seems pretty common. A bar–straight, gay or otherwise–gets popular. People attach themselves to it and form a clique-ish attitude about who “belongs” there and who doesn’t. This attitude calcifies and over time, the people inside the bar become unwelcoming dicks. (it doesn’t help that the people who give off this attitude are the type of people who spend a lot of time in bars–ie: alcoholics) Potential new customers are scared off. Slowly but surely, the bar’s business wanes and eventually, it closes and everybody laments the passing of another longstanding institution.
Yeah, that does sound familiar.
Bars close. People move on. How old are you?!?
maybe the bar owners were tired of catering to the crowd represented by the guys pictured. i certainly wouldn’t look forward to going to work every day if that was my clientele.
Wait, I thought Rick WORKED at pop’s!?
You are correct, he did work there.
oh no! tattoos and beards, so spooky!!
Liver failure
Incarcerated
Except, you know, some bars do seem to hang on forever. Might be worth analyzing that.
Owners of bars come and go yes… during the late 90′s the city put a moratorium on bars in the mission if you didn’t know.
There was a time when you walked into a bar here and young mixed with old. Lawyers with junkies, plumbers with accountants…
Everyone is so judgmental without knowing the facts. (depending on how far back in history you go)
Nobody went there anymore–it was always too crowded.