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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 5, 2011)
AUGUST 5. 2011 • com m unity’ ÜRELHÜR owned a bar in the 1950s. ture,” she says. W hen the Dirty Duck closed, “I went Kennedy plans to open a new bar, this through a mourning period, o f course,” Ken time with her husband and son. “I t’s going nedy says, “not only for me and the bar, but to be another family affair,” she says. “My for my family. It was a hard thing. I miss it. son is the next generation. I miss my friends a lot, but life goes on.” “I’ll be back. My family isn’t easy to get Kennedy says during the bar’s last 15 rid of.” years, the PD C “hung a dark cloud over our heads,” always with the threat o f throwing Blain Grover at Fortis Construction says de her out. She says she wishes she could have molition should be completed by Wednesday , stayed the past two years until the building August 10. was demolished. — A aron S pencer “We were just little guys in the big pic W e ird B a r to c lo s e o n e y e a r r . . r _ _ Davis says. It was perhaps a fte r tra n s itio n fro m E -R o o m the seventh stroke shed had in recent years, though Weird Bar—formerly Portland’s only lesbian she can’t remember exactly, adding, “I need to bar, the E-Room—will close in late August reduce stress to get rid of the strokes.” after existing in its current form for just under So when a broker approached her with a a year, according to owner Kim Davis. reasonable offer on the bar, and a backup offer, Davis remodeled and rebranded the South- Davis decided to take the out. The sale has not east Portland bar last October, after initially yet been finalized, so she cannot say for sure announcing its closure, in an attempt to keep who the new owners will be or what they will the business afloat in difficult economic do to the building. She acknowledges, how- conditions. ever, that the new owners will be under no “We were trying to dig ourselves out of a obligation to leave the place standing, hole we let get too deep,” Davis says. “We were The last show in the back bar (formerly The going to try anything before we gave up.” Tomb, and one of the venue’s three bars) will But Weird Bar is far from be Kings for a Cause, a fund- the only business shutting its W e w e re trying to dig rajser for the Sexual and raiser doors. Davis says that when E N T I 5 T R Y GENERAL & COS MET IC DENTISTRY Offering the latest in advanced dental technoloy: + Low radiation digital x-rays ♦ Porcelain veneers and crowns ♦ Cerec single-appointment porcelain crowns ♦ Invisalign left to nght A PROGRAM FOR PEOPLE LIVING W ITH HIV OR AT RISK WHO ARE INTERESTED IN TALKING ABOUT WAYS TO PROTECT THEMSELVES AND THEIR PARTNERS. 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The other two bars plier said she was one of seven pickups on should remain open through closing weekend, their route. tentatively scheduled for August 20. W hile Davis cannot deny the role the fi- Davis says she’s sad to see it all go, calling nancial climate played in her decision to sell the E-Room “the biggest thing I’ve ever the business, she says a year filled with per- done,” but is looking forward to more time for sonal and family challenges made it nearly herself and her girlfriend of 16 years, impossible for the business to survive. “It’s been a threesome— me, her and the “I didn’t get a good crack at it, because of bar,” Davis says. “We’re gonna start our life what was going on in our personal lives,” Davis together now.” says. Her girlfriend s terminally ill sister moved in, and passed on, in the last year. 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