From the customer side, things have improved at Sadie's. I've been going there since the late '90s and, while some of the punk rock attitude has dried up, the place is slightly tidier, the juke box has finally moved on (the same CDs were on it for 6 years), and the pool tables have new felt. Yeah, they raised the price a quarter and they took out the book shelves, but they kept the couches but most of the stale bar flies that inhabited the place are gone. The drink prices may have been raised by 50 cents--maybe--but they were so cheap to begin with that the drinks are still some of the most affordable around.

I don't know what it was like to work there, only that I know what is like to drink there--still.

See ya there.