Liqour Licenses

I would venture to bet when the neighborhood was at it's best, back in the day, it had a lot more bars than the Grove has now. There used to be a bar at every intersection. They catered to ... View more their neighbors but served everybody. Some had food, some didn't, Rarely were there outdoor activities after dark. The neighborhood bars for the most part did not have outdoor seating or service. The bars were here for the people who used them. Back then the bars were a gathering place and parents brought their children. Some of the bars in the neighborhood, you did not go in, anything could happen. So, you didn't go in. The rest of them were safe for women and children. Then a killing occured at Jake Corbin's Bar on Manchester (maybe about 1991) and it was time to close down the bars in the neighborhood. People were active with that issue and bars licenses were not renewed. For many years we were protected from having bars return to the neighborhood. Ida Fields on Gibson remembers that issue. There was an agreement made that: if bars wanted to return they would have to sell more food than alcohol. Eventually that agreement was not enforce anymore. When I came back in 2010 I was amazed at what I saw.