Sam Jacques retweeted
No one turns first-and-goal at the 1 into second-and-goal from the 3 into third-and-goal from the 6 like the Packers.
Sam Jacques retweeted
There's a certain type of Midwesterner that knows the value of the pallid marriage of purple and orange on a deathly silent winter night.
It is one of the purest forms of existence in the great North.
Sam Jacques retweeted
falling asleep on planes is a feminine trait
what do you mean your brain allows you to let your guard down 35,000 feet above the ground in a compressed tin can with no way out
if you feel ‘sleepy’ in this situation then you do not have true warrior blood
it’s not time to sleep, we are VERY far from base camp and MUST stay alert
Sam Jacques retweeted
god i remember when this shit first came out my family was in actual tears lmfaooo
Sam Jacques retweeted
You're paying 100 dollars to fill up your tank and this is what our lawmakers are busy doing
This goes for dive bars, restaurants, affordable houses to rent, bakeries etc etc
America lost one in six of its neighborhood bars in a single decade, and the killer was real estate math.
A bar like this can pour $3 beers because the building was paid off decades ago. The owner often lives upstairs. No rent, no investors, no debt service on a Pabst sign that's been hanging there for 40 years.
The moment that building sells, the math dies with it. A new operator inherits a market-rate lease, which forces $9 drinks, which forces a renovation to justify $9 drinks, which produces another exposed-brick cocktail bar where the dive used to be.
The Midwest kept its dive bars because of how they got built in the first place. Before Prohibition, Milwaukee's breweries put up corner taverns themselves. Pabst and Schlitz wanted guaranteed outlets for their beer, so they built bars directly into residential blocks. That's why these places sit on quiet snowy corners between houses instead of on commercial strips where rent explodes.
Chicago had around 3,300 tavern licenses in 1990. It's down to about 1,200. At the worst of the decline, America was losing six neighborhood bars a day.
And every single closure is permanent. You can't build a dive bar. You can only inherit one.
Sam Jacques retweeted
America lost one in six of its neighborhood bars in a single decade, and the killer was real estate math.
A bar like this can pour $3 beers because the building was paid off decades ago. The owner often lives upstairs. No rent, no investors, no debt service on a Pabst sign that's been hanging there for 40 years.
The moment that building sells, the math dies with it. A new operator inherits a market-rate lease, which forces $9 drinks, which forces a renovation to justify $9 drinks, which produces another exposed-brick cocktail bar where the dive used to be.
The Midwest kept its dive bars because of how they got built in the first place. Before Prohibition, Milwaukee's breweries put up corner taverns themselves. Pabst and Schlitz wanted guaranteed outlets for their beer, so they built bars directly into residential blocks. That's why these places sit on quiet snowy corners between houses instead of on commercial strips where rent explodes.
Chicago had around 3,300 tavern licenses in 1990. It's down to about 1,200. At the worst of the decline, America was losing six neighborhood bars a day.
And every single closure is permanent. You can't build a dive bar. You can only inherit one.
