Bg’s Lounge

As I was walking down the street one day, this bar passed me on the other side of the street. I did a double-​take because it was on a residential street and the bar had a Zywiec sign. So I turned around and caught up to the bar and went inside to order a Zywiec. Sturdy beer, and who can argue with the $ 3.50 price? Certainly not me. There was really not a whole lot else going on at the time, just a few neighborhood rascals and a television set silently playing some gangster movie on TNT with lots of people getting hurt and yelling at each other and pointing guns at each other and generally having a terrible time. My beer was good, though.
Not unusual for a bar on the northwest side, there was a signboard listing birthdays for the upcoming month. Respectable northwest side names, like Marco, Humer, Archibald, Dorothy, Milo. I only made up one of those names, just for effect, but you can’t guess which one so it fits right in, right? Classic northwest side neighborhood bar.