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Just not enough money and dollars and population base to go around Jackson. All the businesses competing for the same small group of people. I guess the brewery and other factors cannibalized Fenian's.

So sad. I used to go there every Thursday to hear some good live Celtic music between 2001-2003. I even started to have lessons on Celtic dance close by the Planetarium at that time.

Very sad, but the service has suffered. About a year ago we went there on a weekend night. It was almost totally empty, but the staff seemed annoyed that we were bringing a group of 10. They actually had the gall to ask us to be quieter in the midst of buying a few rounds of shots. People vote with their feet (and dollars).

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This is the worst day in the history of Jackson

I have not personally been in 15 years, but I do hate to hear that. Very sad.

A sign of the times. 75-year-olds can't climb steps like they did 40 years ago.

Another one bites the dust.

The time for journalism is now, we gotta have the answer! This feels like an attack on the social life of Jackson.

The title is fitting, as this is a crying shame!

Another Chokwe casualty

Damn…

First the Dutch Bar, then Marney’s, even Studebaker’s, now this. Please don’t tell me The Gin, Len-Lew’s, or The Warehouse have closed.

THIS SUCKS.

Close friend robbed at gunpoint after a few drinks there just over a year ago. Location, location, location and Jackson as a location is a zero.

Dang, they used to have so many new artists come through there. The last few years it has dwindled though.

@2:40. I think you hit the nail on the head. It's very sad to lose another Jackson landmark. Chokwe and gang definitely haven't helped.

That brewery is like a beer cafeteria and the products not that great. I prefer the pub setting and Fenian’s always has a good draft red.

There's already a new tenant taking its place and renaming/revamping it.. It's going to be a comedy club that stays open til 2 a.m. every night with live stand up / open mic / various regular talent / etc. Food reduced to appetizers. Booze wide open.

I will miss my liquid marijuanas. Best price in town

Scott egg….it will be missed

Was definitely the spot back in the day. Nowadays not so much. Food quality when down, hot girls stopped coming, staff stuck up. Definitely a lotta memories in that place. Will be missed.

I'm getting one last pint of Guinness before Fenian's closes. This makes me feel so incredibly old. This place was a big part of my young adult life in Jackson.

Bulldog next.

That's depressing.

I remember first going with a certain dapper former mayor 20 years ago. Hate to see it close but definitely a sign of the times.

I had some fun times there in the late 90s and early 00s. Time passes, things change.

I go past it every day. The homeless are always on that stretch. Walgreens closed a few days ago. Rite aid closed a year ago. There will be more.

What was the original name? I can’t freaking remember.

The paper loss is no longer necessary for tobacco money. It has been time...

Kristo's?

yep, i've been here 41 years and i don't have long before i shut it down as well, commerce is drying up.

"Food quality when down, hot girls stopped coming, staff stuck up."

Ah, I can help you with part of that. The 'hot girls', like you, got old, fat and married with grandchildren.

Married means "not on my payroll." If we could get rid of that alienation of affection law I would be okay.

If threatened or propositioned, by a thug or ho always offer: "I don't cary cash or a card,
I keep an account at the bar, but I'll be glad to write a check, who do I make it out to?"

ugh. been going about once a week. my favorite burger in town.

Will the new tenant, assuming there will be one, have to make the building ADA compliant? That would probably mean an elevator, which would be a prohibitive expense.

Maybe if they put as much effort into promoting their musicians as they have put into letting everyone know they are closing they could have been different. You have to actively attract customers. You have to build up your musicians. If the venue isn't excited about who they have playing, then the crowd surely will not be either.