7.27.2005

a piece of my hometown

longtime reader (and even longertime friend) bc found this image somewhere on the internets.

(note: i had to make it a link, rather than grab the image itself, because for many people the image just won't load)

it's from dutch henry's, a bar in martins ferry, ohio.

bc lives a few blocks from the dutch, though i would suspect that, at one time, one could say that bc's house was a few blocks from his real home -- the dutch. it's a typical upper ohio valley bar, and when i was younger, we'd end our nights of semi-bacchanalia with a wiedmann's fine beer ... first in flavor, first in formaldehyde!

the dutch, i think, was moved down the block a few years ago, but bc can leave a comment and correct me on that one.

anyway. it's a nice touch of home, and it makes me miss ferry.

well, not ferry per se. nobody misses ferry exactly. :)

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

So is this just a trick to see who's still reading?

Fix the image link already!

Anonymous said...

Unless you're too busy making fun of me in the comments section of some other blog, of course...

Anonymous said...

I really did email him!

I'd just moved to Chicago in late 1996 and he had written a few columns about this new-fangled thing called "AOL" and how people were sending messages, etc. He put his screen name in a column and I wrote him (being a fellow AOL user). He wrote back.

It was ... cool. Definitely -- after seeing a woman naked in person for the first time -- the coolest thing that had happened to me to that point.