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kmp1284

01-08-2009, 09:09 PM

Yes, another one has bitten the dust. This time, it was my own. At about 6pm this evening I discovered my favorite local bar has closed. The Last Drop is no more. It is under renovation and will be reopened in the coming weeks as the terribly unoriginal Corner Tavern, serving lunch and dinner. Needless to say I can't wait to see how much the new incarnation utterly blows.

kennedy

01-08-2009, 09:33 PM

Where is this?

kmp1284

01-08-2009, 09:58 PM

Northwest corner of Marlborough and Mass.

Beton Brut

01-08-2009, 10:06 PM

Sorry for your loss.

May I suggest Crossroads, on Beacon.

Suffolk 83

01-08-2009, 10:19 PM

So the Last Drop won't be called the Last Drop anymore? That space is pretty small. What can they really do with it? I liked it, can't say I was crazy about it, maybe because it wasn't my neighborhood and it seemed a little overpriced to my memory, it was usually one of the last stops of the night so I might be wrong.

jass

01-09-2009, 02:46 AM

Is this the bar visible from mass ave downwards?

bbfen

01-09-2009, 05:11 AM

Is this the bar visible from mass ave downwards?

Yes.

Crossroads is soon going to be the only dive bar/locals bar left in the Back Bay.

Lurker

01-09-2009, 07:53 AM

Holy Hell, Crossroads is still open? That place put the "famous" in infamous for drug related incidents in the 1970s and early 80s. I suppose it has become a haven for all those fraternity pigs along Beacon Street there?

Beton Brut

01-09-2009, 08:10 AM

I missed the bar-top Studio 54-style coke parties in the 70's. I frequented the place in the 90's (like 4 nights a week), and still stop by to catch some wings and a ballgame. Food's decent, good beers, and it's the same help as back in the day. The owner's a good guy. The fraternities occasionally hold court upstairs, but they're relatively harmless. If I'm upstairs, I'm throwing darts.

underground

01-09-2009, 08:41 AM

Sorry to hear about your loss. Any idea what's going to happen to the other Last Drop in Oak Square?

kz1000ps

01-09-2009, 06:13 PM

Ack -- If the last drop in Oak Square goes under then I'm screwed!

garbribre

01-10-2009, 01:59 AM

Wow! Crossroads!! :cool:

Damn. Not sure I could step foot in there again. ;)

Always amazed when I read/hear of any place I used to hang that still operates in relatively the same way it did after thirty years. Too often, I am informed, on a regular basis, about what unique Boston institution is fading into history next.