As bartender Danny Pods opened Frizzy’s, a popular Allentown dive for cheap drinks, darts and pool for the Bills game last Sunday, flashing emergency vehicles barricaded part of the neighborhood to deal with the aftermath of an early-morning fire that decimated one of Frizzy’s neighbors, Mulligan’s Brick Bar. Brick Bar was next to the Old Pink, which burned down seven months ago. Two Allentown nightlife institutions are now rubble.
Frizzy’s quickly filled up with Brick Bar’s commiserating regulars.
“What’s left? Nothing’s left,” Pods recalled a patron saying.
One of Buffalo’s oldest bars, Swannie House, closed in November after the death of its longtime owner, Tim Wiles. Mohawk Place, a 35-year-old downtown music venue for indie rock, punk and hardcore, is closing at the end of the month.
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