R.I.P. Alki Tavern

While I don't have a lot of memories of Alki Tavern, it's always been there.  I remember going to taco night a longggg time ago, but other than that, it's just been that funky biker bar you pass on the way to the beach.

When we moved to Alki a year ago, we didn't spend time at Alki Tavern, its on the other side of the beach.  A few times we rode the beach cruisers down and enjoyed a few cheap beers there. It was such an oddity, a blast from the past.  I doubt anything had been cleaned in a decade.

Usually bikers ruled the place, but it was always friendly when we were there.  I never saw any problems, but we were never here after dark!

B and I went down on the beach cruisers the week before it closed. We bought shirts and made plans to come back for the final weekend.  Pat came over on Saturday to join us, but by the time we got going, we realized it was too late to try to get in to Alki Tavern. On Sunday, St Patricks Day and the last day, we drove down at 4 pm to have one last beer. The line was a block long and the place ain't that big!

We said our last goodbye as we drove by, turned around and went home.