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Hello Beer Lovers and Homebar tenders!
I started this web site Baltimorehomebars.org/net/info back in November.
What the hell are homebars?
Homebars are just that, bars that people build/buy for their house, usually in the basement. Basement bars/rec rooms have been around forever especially during and after Prohibition when the U.S. saw large waves of immigrants from Italy and Germany settle into Baltimore neighborhoods like Highlandtown.
I had the idea to take pictures of peoples bars and start a website and club devoted to people who want to show off their cool homebar hangouts.
My Dad built a bar in the basement of our second house back in the early 80s. That simple rectangle bar had a butcherblock top with Jack Daniels labels on top. When we moved he took the tops for the next house (early 90s) to build the new bar where the dinning room used to be...sorry Mom.
But Martha, I mean Mom, wanted the room back so Dad moved it the back of the house. Ya see they have no basement which is weird but they live in White Marsh so a basement would fill with water pretty quick, which would be great for a swim-up bar.
Anyway I moved out of the house in the mid 90s and got my first apartment.
I quickly bought an old bar and two stools from a thrift store and Nichols Pub was established in 199
Im too lazy to build my own so that bar has lasted our first house in Catonsville and now our second in Ellicott City. The rancher in Catonsville also had a bar in the yard we built out of cinder blocks with a nice tile bartop...lots of backyard brew ha has.
To me its not the size of the bar that matters but how you use it. I have collected enough brewania(l) (beer advertising of all sorts) to start a mini beer museum.
My bar is sort of like the Wharf Rat in Fells Point or the Salty Dog in Homer Alaska with all kinds of beer stuff on the walls, hangin from the ceiling, over the fireplace, in the head...all over, collecting dust but looking very cool in my humble opinion
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