Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012, September 17, 1990, Page 10E, Image 120

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849 E. 13th, Eugene, Oregon
565 W. Centennial, Springfield
Bars pick up slack from Taylor’s
By Pat Malach
t-me'aid A- o< 4l« ! I'l"
Wlicn the door ill I.iylor s
d avert) swung closed earlier
Ihis summer, it left in,tin peo
pie st.Hiding outside wondering
what w ill happen to tin' Ini al
blues scene and the building
that used to lie its home
! he well used building at the
corner of Kith Avenu and Kin
(aid Street has been serving
food, beer and the town's I test
known blues to Iniversilv stu
dents sun e the earls seventies
The bar bad attracted national
Is known blues aits including
(iraminv \ward winner Robert
( rav
After filing for < diopter 1 1
bankrupt) \ at the beginning of
June, tavern owner Dave Ding
man turned out the lights lor
the last time on Julv 1(1
I didn't really know I was
going to close it until a couple
of days before it happened."
Dingmnn said "1 had an inves
ior interested in coming in. but
the deal fell through
l lle lor ked doors ol the tas
ern took Rodney I ns lor the
man whose family has owned
the building situ e pi tfl In sur
prise as ss ell
I didn't know until I ties
day.” In' said "1 i amr I Mi k
from the coast and heard the
plai e was i losing " Taylor said
he got the news form one of Ins
sons who had been at the tav
urn and hoard the announce
ment 'They kept annoum trig
(at the tavernl that it was i los
mg I guess they had a real ball
III there
It was it 1 vs ay s busy ,it
night " he sail! reflecting on
yyhy the business mav have
tailed i Ifingmanj is a nit ■ -
gin lie pis! wasn’t making
ends meet so he walked away
Dingman cited several tea
sons for his decision to leave
the business He said he tell ihe
building owners did not want
to re lease the structure as a
tavern and yyith the lease mm
mg up soon lie thought it was
I mu' to get out
Dingman also said the build
mg s si/e am) lack ol potential
tin grmvtli limited his opportu
nitles to coy ei his debts
'You k limy how big the
butiding vy as I here \y as no
yyay to groyy and I bad a lot ot
i i
Taylor's Tavern, the popular student hangout and blues bar
just off campus, closed its doors luly 10.
rontrai Is to pay." hi; s.iit! "It
was .1 job I wasn't making any
headway nr moving forward
"1 had a good time there."
Dingman said It was a tun six
years hut il was time to move
on Someone ran make a living
there, hut they're not going to
get rii h
Allegations that mismanage
ment was a i ause for the failure
ot the business have been
raised by law \ ers for It A I’ In
vestments, the middle men he
tween the Taylors and Ding
man
Attorney Wilson Mulheim
said Dingman s internal audit
mg system made it impossible
to tell how mui h money the
business was making lie add
ed that beeause Dingman kept
most of the rash on the prem
ises and did not make daily de
posits, it was difficult to a<
count (or the daily rei eipts
"It there is no control of the
i ash you don't know it your
employees art' robbing you
blind or ii the owner is taking it
out ol the till." Mulheim s.iid
You can’t accuse anybody be
cause you have no proof
Mulheim also said there was
no accounting for tips received
by employees and payroll taxes
had not been paid in a tiniek
manner.
" I be\ 're tr\ ing to dig up all
the dirt they i an." Dingman re
sponded. "The people making
those allegations have novel
been in the building "
I ormer operations manager
lor laylor’s Tavern. (>avin
"Rooster'' Fox declined to
(omment on the financial as
pect of the business, saving
that it was Dingman's depart
merit But he did say the over
all management of the tavern
was "oil the up and up
"All of our dealings w it h
music i a n s w e re straight
Turn to TAYLOR'S. Page 18
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