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Ben Parker on what the “very fine people” wanted.

Jim Swift
Sep 29, 2021
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Rebirth.

Two of my favorite bars in the world, Post Pub in Washington and Humphrey’s in St. Louis (where I worked as a bouncer), are reopening.

This is a good thing.

Both will have new owners—and while I knew the old owners of both, and I’m sad that they’re not the proprietors anymore, life moves on.

Humphrey’s was founded by a guy named Robert “Humphrey” Mangelsdorf who worked as chief bartender of Friday’s (no, not the chain) across the street. When Friday’s the chain came to Missouri, they bought out the bar’s name, which changed to something else. Bob Sr. started his own joint in 1976. It lasted a long time.

Many people met their future spouses in their bar, some probably got divorced because of what happened in their bar. I never met Humphrey. He died long before I came to Saint Louis. His youngest son, Mark, is the same age as me. But if you look in the photo above, you can see a street sign behind the bar.

I had the St. Louis City Street Sign department make a custom sign for my old boss, Jan, Humphrey’s widow. We put behind the bar until it closed in 2017. (There is a Humphrey Street in South City, no relation.) Jan put our wedding photos behind the bar. Where else does that happen?

Bars are institutions, they’re a lifeblood of the community. Some come and go, as most businesses fail in the restaurant industry. But some endure. And when they go, we should mourn. But when they come back? We should cheer.

Homecoming.

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🚨OVERTIME 🚨

Happy Wednesday! Here’s your #pupdate. We’re having the carpets and the house professionally cleaned for an upcoming dual birthday party (mine and the twins) and area dogs have impressed every visitor to our home. Almost to the point of being distracting.

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Next steps? Stop funding the people who promote these bans.

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Win a free alt-right Harley*! Unless you fail to pass a background check that determines you’re “dirty” in the mind of former Trump spox Jason Miller….

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Keeping OVERTIME short today. The fam is in town and we’re making goulash.

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