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
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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
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-KIM DAVIS, OWNER
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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
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