Case
09-03-2006, 01:53 AM
Well this is compleatly off topic and i love to share so I figure hey whats every ones fav place to shoot the shit and jsut get drinks and have a good time and why?
My Favriot has to be Cedars Tavern that has some serious history. Crypt-dark at noon or midnight, this is the Flying Dutchman of Greenwich Village pubs Its captain's-chair barstools and dilapidated decor stand unchanged by time, trend or tide. The current crowd consists of NYU students and after-work revelers from Fifth Avenue's various publishing houses; later on, fun-city denizens come from points east, west, south and north in search of hearty meat, fish and potatoes served until 2am or 3:30am Monday through Saturday. I love to go in and just grab a booth and break out my sketch pad and draw all night and study the people and atmosphere when im alone. As the night goes on with more beer my stroaks tend to become larger and more loose and all ways surprised at my work the next morning. Its also super friendly you can go in sit at the bar and find a new friend instantly and start talkin up young or old.
http://newyorkmetro.com/listings/bar/1cedartavern.jpg
As far as history way back when in the forties and fifties, still-semi-starving artists like Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Franz Kline, and Robert Motherwell took time from the Abstract Expressionist search for contours of truth seen and unseen to hoist a few, get into fistfights, and hoist a few more at the Cedars. Successor to the Club, at 39 East 8th Street, the Cedars stood amid the mid-century boho belt, close to the Brevoort Hotel (11 Fifth Avenue), sometime home to Isadora Duncan, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Theodore Dreiser. While de Kooning and his wife, Elaine, used the Cedars to play out their 50-year alcoholic co-dependent soap opera, Pollock was banned for ripping the men’s-room door from its hinges. Beat writer Jack Kerouac was likewise tossed, supposedly for pissing in an ashtray. So you can see why it is a Fav. of mine, if you look hard enugh many of the artists names are carved into the wood, Pollock my personal favriot is near one of my booths I like to hog :)
So what about you guys?
My Favriot has to be Cedars Tavern that has some serious history. Crypt-dark at noon or midnight, this is the Flying Dutchman of Greenwich Village pubs Its captain's-chair barstools and dilapidated decor stand unchanged by time, trend or tide. The current crowd consists of NYU students and after-work revelers from Fifth Avenue's various publishing houses; later on, fun-city denizens come from points east, west, south and north in search of hearty meat, fish and potatoes served until 2am or 3:30am Monday through Saturday. I love to go in and just grab a booth and break out my sketch pad and draw all night and study the people and atmosphere when im alone. As the night goes on with more beer my stroaks tend to become larger and more loose and all ways surprised at my work the next morning. Its also super friendly you can go in sit at the bar and find a new friend instantly and start talkin up young or old.
http://newyorkmetro.com/listings/bar/1cedartavern.jpg
As far as history way back when in the forties and fifties, still-semi-starving artists like Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Franz Kline, and Robert Motherwell took time from the Abstract Expressionist search for contours of truth seen and unseen to hoist a few, get into fistfights, and hoist a few more at the Cedars. Successor to the Club, at 39 East 8th Street, the Cedars stood amid the mid-century boho belt, close to the Brevoort Hotel (11 Fifth Avenue), sometime home to Isadora Duncan, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Theodore Dreiser. While de Kooning and his wife, Elaine, used the Cedars to play out their 50-year alcoholic co-dependent soap opera, Pollock was banned for ripping the men’s-room door from its hinges. Beat writer Jack Kerouac was likewise tossed, supposedly for pissing in an ashtray. So you can see why it is a Fav. of mine, if you look hard enugh many of the artists names are carved into the wood, Pollock my personal favriot is near one of my booths I like to hog :)
So what about you guys?