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| - So, we wandered by Communist's Daughter which I wanted to check out due to the high ratings on this site. It appears to be the highest rated dive bar on Yelp. I like drinking. And I like drinking on the cheap - why not?
After some searching, we finally realized Communist's Daughter doesn't have a sign and it still has the former business sign up. Okay - this is a bad... sign... I can't think of a single 'we don't have signs' place that (a) wasn't hipster central and (b) completely sucked but people liked because they felt like they were in the know. We grudgingly enter and scan the room - the place smelled and nothing on the menu looked interesting, so we did a 180 walked back out.
It sucks when you abandon your plans without a Plan B - but sometimes, you stumble upon gems like Get Well, which happened to be just down the block. The place is pretty big and sufficiently busy on a Thursday night.
But the two big selling points: lots of good beer on tap and free arcade games. Allow me to repeat: FREE. ARCADE. GAMES. The full sized classic cabinets. They had Operation Wolf, Gantlet and Tetris along with 3 or 4 other machines and a couple of pinball machines too. Occasionally, one of the machines would run out of credits, but I plunked in a quarter and got a bunch more credits. So, even if not strictly free - it's cheap.
Also, the beer is reasonably priced - so, it actually quite a bit cheaper than trying to finish Gantlet or Operation Wolf in the outside world. Goddamn, 80's quarter-sucking arcade games were hard.
The only downside is that it can be quite loud. And it's popular with the hipster kids. But the draft beer is good and reasonably priced. Sure the games are gimmicky but dammit, I like it. And fuck the hipsters, I was playing 80s video games before it was cool... (shit...)
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