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This May Dave's taproom opened to suitable fanfare. Dave even made the bar. He covered it with metal sheeting he patterned himself. It looks for all the world like one of those zinc bars that Hemmingway was always leaning over in the Paris twenties, pondering some beauty or some darkness. Electric Dave himself is usually on hand to greet his guests and talk about his beer.
Not unexpectedly, the main focus of the decor is neon. Neon Electric Beer signs in several incarnations. A classic Tom Wheeler for Mayor sign. Some kitsch electric nudes. Ted White's classy prints hang on the walls - some of his best work. The tattoo guy, the crazy guy, some shots of long-gone local talent.
The neon reflections streak the glassed photos, splash and puddle along the steel bar, glow back at you in the eyes of the guy next to you who's telling you a story about the stained glass artist in the picture across the bar there who, in a sodden moment, threw a painter through the window of the Copper Queen one night because he thought the painter was selling out - or something. And how the painter - equally drunk - was miraculously as unharmed as if he'd just gone through one of those windows made out of rock candy they go through in Hollywood that don't cut you. But the stained glass artist got a little hurt because he thought that's really what must have happened so he went out and tried to take a bite out of a shard of the glass laying on the brick patio.... Or something. Memories fade, you know, while the art of storytelling grows stronger. Those were the old days, anyway. Nobody defenestrates anymore. We're civilized. The Taproom at Electric Brewing is open Thursdays and Fridays at 3:00, Saturdays at 2:00 and Sundays from 2:00 til 6:00. Dave says, "Sometimes, there's even music on Sundays." Dave also drew the map, below, on the back of something else - ed.
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