all good things
must come to an end.
or so it seems...

this week in san francisco it was the embers, a bar in the "inner sunset" area (irving street near 8th), with a decor consisting of happy, sad, and demented clowns... whose last day was wednesday. it's been around as long as i can remember (opened in 1960), and was always a good alternative to the overly trendy bars around town. when the "niners" used to play at the original kezar stadium, the place was packed... me? i'll always remember it as a relatively quiet place to sit amongst the clowns and get good ol' fashioned drunk...

i wonder what's going to happen to the sign...

this fellow would greet you on the way to the ladies room...

just like a living room... right?

the walls were already getting bare three nights before closing...
this one still had a few clowns hanging...

clowns, beer and martinis... what else could you want?

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