Post #203320 by tikivixen on Thu, Dec 15, 2005 8:00 PM

How cool of you to include the Alley! (From up in heaven, "Stormin' Norman" is hurling benedictions down upon ye.) Now the Grand Lake area has TWO great theme bars, and as you point out, they're such a quick hop from each other! It never fails to surprise me how many vintage-loving folks have never experienced the labyrinthine and faintly seedy MEGA-retrosity that is "The Alley".

Of course, I also like Scary House* :wink:...but I'm Irish, so I can't help it.

(Now if a TRUE W.C. Fields-o-phile would just buy ol' Egbert Souse's a little further down the street and spruce it up--Mae West imitators, anyone?!?--Piedmont Avenue would be a hoppin' street for classy boozehounds!)

To get to the point, we might be able to make it. We could drag Paul over. He DO love them cheeep Alley steaks!

I still say Oakland is ripe for a dive bar crawl--not just Tiki! OVERripe, probably...:wink:

tikivixen

*aka Kerry House