Coming Up: Something other than Vandalia Lounge
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If you’ve passed by the shuttered Vandalia Lounge on Hale Street recently, you’ll notice a come-on for a new business. That, and Bat Boy. Bat Boy? Well, we’re happy to find Bat Boy anywhere in West Virginia, him being a native, and all. If HE opens a bar there we might be persuaded to drop by. Then, there are the claims (on the front window) that Vandalia blazed the trail for high-end bars in Charleston, where the martinis are named after cars with fins and no one without a collar is allowed in (at least in the earliest iteration of Vandalia).
We still miss barmeister Pierre, who was cashiered and is now making high-end cement fixtures and furniture. The bar-to-be still sounds like a Virgil Sadorra project. Anyone got news? Speaking of BBoy, all things considered, and considering his recent run, we’d rather have Bat Boy succeed Sen. Robert C. Byrd, when he passes on to that great Senate cloakroom in the sky, God bless him, instead of guv’nr Joe.
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:19 pm
I like that sign in the window maybe the empty glass should put one up that says
25 years ago
we started a trend
25 years since
others followed
25 years later
stronger than ever
April 7th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
And I have had many a musical epiphany at the Glass. But after all these years, it’s time to, like, renovate! The place needs a fresh smell. (Or maybe another shot of Jagermeister will do the trick̷
April 8th, 2008 at 8:37 pm
Good one Roadblock ! The Empty Glass will always be the best place to see live music … the rugged drop ceiling and various array of duct tape just adds to its character (although I wouldn’t be upset to see a new character either). Long live The Glass.