DonRocks Posted August 25, 2015 Share Posted August 25, 2015 Reynolds Street Bar and Grill in Alexandria. (I've never been there). How did you know? Did my website post give it away somehow? When you drive past this place from the outside, it looks abandoned at this point, but it's still chugging along - I can't imagine it will be there much longer because the land is fairly valuable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveO Posted August 25, 2015 Share Posted August 25, 2015 How did you know? Image search in google (tx for the tip, Don) from that old website, it does look nice and divey and neighborhoodly. If I lived near there I would have found it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kev29 Posted August 25, 2015 Share Posted August 25, 2015 and I'm certain that some people here have been (I have, anyway). Looks familiar. Bet I went there once or twice as a kid when my dad worked at Duke & Pickett. Speaking of inside the Beltway dives, my dad also played softball for The Keyhole Inn. Bet that gets some memories jogging! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonRocks Posted August 25, 2015 Share Posted August 25, 2015 Image search in google (tx for the tip, Don) Harumph. Well, since you foiled all the fun, can you list the steps of going from a screenshot to doing a Google image search? I can't even cut and paste the picture. I wonder how long this might have taken - you can see it from Duke Street, but not all that clearly; unless you've actually been there, or lived or worked near Landmark, it would be pretty tough to know it was there. Despite their claims of homemade soups and homemade pizza dough, this place is a pretty massive dive. The high-rise behind it is under pretty heavy-duty construction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveO Posted August 25, 2015 Share Posted August 25, 2015 Harumph. Well, since you foiled all the fun, can you list the steps of going from a screenshot to doing a Google image search? I can't even cut and paste the picture. I understand there is a more 'tech way" to do it. I did it more old fashioned. I had the pic you showed in one frame and went to google image search in another frame and tried a couple of different phrases in the search box and scrolled down and damned if it didn't pop up. Sometimes searching is just persistence to find some freaking little detail. And sometimes you need to use some programming to find tons of data. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kev29 Posted August 25, 2015 Share Posted August 25, 2015 Harumph. Well, since you foiled all the fun, can you list the steps of going from a screenshot to doing a Google image search? I can't even cut and paste the picture. Put your image URL in to a Google Image search: http://www.donrockwell.com/uploads/monthly_08_2015/post-2-0-12782200-1440527714.png And you get Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonRocks Posted August 25, 2015 Share Posted August 25, 2015 Put your image URL in to a Google Image search: http://www.donrockwell.com/uploads/monthly_08_2015/post-2-0-12782200-1440527714.png And you get Huh. How do you get the image URL? (I'll move these posts, don't worry.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSnake Posted August 25, 2015 Share Posted August 25, 2015 Huh. How do you get the image URL? (I'll move these posts, don't worry.) Since you're using chrome, you can just right-click any image and click "Search Google for this image." 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveO Posted August 25, 2015 Share Posted August 25, 2015 Since you're using chrome, you can just right-click any image and click "Search Google for this image." Oh yeah. That does work. I had never done that before. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonRocks Posted August 25, 2015 Share Posted August 25, 2015 Since you're using chrome, you can just right-click any image and click "Search Google for this image." But that doesn't work for screenshots. Let he or she who could have guessed this without trickery come forth and claim their prize. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSnake Posted August 25, 2015 Share Posted August 25, 2015 On 8/25/2015 at 11:03 PM, DonRocks said: But that doesn't work for screenshots. Let he or she who could have guessed this without trickery come forth and claim their prize. I just did it, though. --- Brinkley's (Arlington Kabob)Quarry House Tavern (dinwiddie) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kibbee Nayee Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 On the topic of dive bars, Springfield has a few. Moe's Peyton Place earns that distinction, serving as a greasy spoon most of the day and a dive bar at night. Across the street is JW and Friends, which tries to be a family restaurant on one side and a dive bar on the other side, but mostly devolves into dive bar. JW's also features live music on occasion, from the same artists who might perform at Potbelly. --- JV Restaurant and Bar (Simul Parikh) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Posted September 10, 2020 Share Posted September 10, 2020 On 8/17/2005 at 11:54 PM, bubbaque said: 3.) The Capitol Lounge - a quasi-dive - good bartenders, good conversations, and always a bevy of people watching to be had. Closing for good, September 20 😢 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tweaked Posted September 10, 2020 Share Posted September 10, 2020 The Lounge. That's a rough one. It's as if millions of livers suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened. (Apologies to Obi-Wan) 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Dedrick Posted September 11, 2020 Share Posted September 11, 2020 Cap Lounge closing is really rough. It's the first place I ever went in DC, and was a big part of my life for many years after. Here's a fitting obituary by Tony T, who managed the Lounge for a long time before opening up the Pug on H Street. https://barredindc.com/2020/09/11/guest-post-tony-t-remembers-capitol-lounge/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Posted September 11, 2020 Share Posted September 11, 2020 I spent a fair amount of time there, especially in the late 90s. Some days Tony would give me money to pick songs for the juke box. He talked about his plans to open The Pug for years before it happened. So much planning went into that. I hope he'll eventually be able to reopen. One of the odd things that came back to me when I saw The Lounge was closing was the time I took my late aunt there for brunch. I think we may have been coming back from the Mall or something. She only visited a few times. We had a good meal. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcs Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 On 5/8/2006 at 4:50 PM, clchurch said: I can't believe no one's mentioned the Post Pub, on L St, across from the Washington Post. It's gotta be one of the darkest places I've ever been in. I hear that now that Stoney's is closed, they've decided to open on Saturday's to try and pick up some of their business. Although it closed in the middle of 2020, the Post Pub appears to have reopened. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keithstg Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 1 hour ago, dcs said: Although it closed in the middle of 2020, the Post Pub appears to have reopened. Indeed it has. Was open when I last walked by - a few weeks ago. Here's hoping business rebounds, though I doubt the Midtown Center restaurant openings will drive ancillary drink traffic. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcs Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 On 2/15/2022 at 12:54 PM, Keithstg said: Indeed it has. Was open when I last walked by - a few weeks ago. Here's hoping business rebounds, though I doubt the Midtown Center restaurant openings will drive ancillary drink traffic. The Post Pub is reborn, with touches aimed to class up the joint, by Tim Carman, May 23, 2022, washingtonpost.com. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kibbee Nayee Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 3 hours ago, dcs said: The Post Pub is reborn, with touches aimed to class up the joint, by Tim Carman, May 23, 2022, washingtonpost.com. Tim Carmen did a good job of capturing the feel of the dive bars of days gone by, when many workers were smashed by 1:00pm and still worked through their afternoon, at least in most cases. Stan's is still alive and around the corner, a touchpoint to the days gone by. There was a bar in the area called the Barrister, long since closed, where the local workers went at lunchtime for the Bloody Mary, which was very powerful and came with a skewer of alternating pepperoni cubes and cheddar cheese cubes as the garnish, which also served as lunch. A few of those and it was back to work, wobbly and in a whole different mood. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcs Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 Whitlow’s Bar & Grill Stages a Surprise Comeback to D.C., by Tierney Plumb August 4, 2022, on dc.eater.com. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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