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an overview/update via the chronicle

bicycled past the pig stand today and noticed that the two wall mounted wooden pig waiters are missing. i think they had the location numbers on them... hope they went to a good place.

there are a few pieces of furniture from the old place. the neatest and most upsetting thing is the old oversized ledger books on the bar. i enjoyed looking through them but couldn't help thinking of someone spilling a drink on them. i would describe it as a cross between a watered down version of the old notsuoh and the engine room. the walls have some modern/minimalist artwork and similar lighting to the engine room, which i am not a fan of --- the club, not the lighting. my favorite thing there is the huge wall map behind the stage, makes for interesting photos. maybe it will take time to build up the amount of clutter again, hopefully that's it. i would really love to see this place grow into the desciption above. i do think it's possible!

it would be nice to get another wooden coaster! just wasn't sure if this was a serious rumor or not... would be happy if it was though!

the a9 maps site no longer works.

good heavens! you say this and mention that you have had personal dealings with him. is there no way you can give a generalized non-selfincriminating example?

i get the feeling the uppity overall guy wasn't with AAA. actually, he was pretty fancy and the AAA fellas have been polite before. i almost get the feeling that he was the man with the salvage rights that he referred to.

ah, never been in one...

any photos? ok!

first of all, i was there today and spoke briefly with another HAIF person. i didn't identify myself at the time which was rude and i apologize. if it was you, please PM me. anyhow, we were both there for the same reason: bricks. this morning i may have found a few. yet, when i returned an hour or so later there was another fella in overalls, hard hat, glasses and a pony tail. he was not standing with the demolition company, he was at the side looking for pieces, within the gate. we was going to fresh piles of rubble and removing the detail work with a crow bar and placing them in a pile. he had a dust mask on so i made eye contact with him and tried to get his attention. i was interested to see if he was in fact with a preservation society or a resale person. i called out to him with no response. the other person who was there went over to the pile and pointed at the stack politely. the overalled man waved his hand for them to step back. when we did not leave, he approached us. we asked if this was a preservation effort of some sort and he wouldn't say... he did say that "he worked for someone with exclusive rights to pieces recovered from the building". he said they were not allowed to take it out, only to retrieve it once it fell. i said i was happy that he was salvaging the pieces and they weren't just going into the regular bin to be hauled off. he asked the other HAIFer and i if we had arrived together and i said no, we were interested in maybe getting a brick, for nostalgic purposes. he then let us know that we could go to a brick retailer off of I-10 and get the same bricks... which would lead me to believe that he's not a preservation kind of guy. we mentioned that we just wanted "a brick" from the building for nostalgic/romanticized reasons. he then said the person with the salvage rights (not sure if that's the term) "would be pretty mad if people were taking things, not mad but it wouldn't be good". he also stated that "some one or some people were arrested saturday morning for taking bricks. not just bricks but wood and metal items". is there a way to verify if someone has been recently arrested at the site for looting/ trespassing, saturday or otherwise. during the time we spoke to him the demolition men were not around so i could not verify the gentleman with them.

just found it odd that someone would share something as intensely personal as that, unless it was already commonly known. quite unusual.

hear hear!

did the source say whether the work had been publicly displayed?

i have a bunch of old objectivism philosophy books left from my ex... was about to ship 'em your way!

thought it was funny! the photo is from little britain... an awesome show if you haven't seen it!