Bush administration - the only furnishings from the 21st century are the flat-screen TVs and the internet jukebox. Dive bars, however, are much more resilient to the vagaries of real estate and economics, and it’s obvious that G Williker’s has hung on relatively unchanged since the George H.W. I don’t know what that block of 109th Street was like in 1989, but one of G Williker’s neighbors is a used-car dealership, so the idea that an eatery of any sort would tank in a semi-industrial area is pretty believable. The building’s exterior did give me a vibe that the place may have been some kind of restaurant a lifetime ago. While the former utility of the Sidetracked’s building was obvious by its unmistakably Wendysian (copper mansard) roof, I would’ve never guessed that G Williker’s Pub was once a place where you could get fried shrimp, but maybe that’s because I’ve eaten at a Long John Silver’s only once in my life. I wrote it as a joke, but as it happens, there is a bar near the Sidetracked that used to be a Long John Silver’s. I might have ignored it if not for the fact that the Sidetracked appeared to be housed in a former Wendy’s, and when I wrote about it, I wondered if there was a bar around here that made its home in an old Taco Bell. Last October, during an idle drive down Division Street, I happened upon a place called Sidetracked Pub and Grub near the slowly dying Six Flags Mall.
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