LAist: Deacon Booze: LAist Happy Hour

Sloane Berrent

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:58:12 -0800

Redwood used to also be a speak-easy open after hours where you entered through the building next to it and into the side door vs. entering from the street. I don't know if this was a long-standing tradition but it recently ended and was very sad. I felt pretty bad-ass knowing about an after-hours that wasn't a dance party machine.

Carrie Meathrell

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 06:31:31 -0800

sorry guys, I'm way too young to know what either of you are talking about. OOOOOOH BURN!!!!!!

Andy Sternberg

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:03:04 -0800

The small room in the way back still has much of the old skool feel, actually. I believe they even ceremonially re-connected an old phone w/ a direct line to the Times newsdesk at a recent SPJ soiree. But dontcha wish journalism was as classy as it used to be -- when the best columns were fueled by two- and three-martini lunches and ink pens and typewriters were the writer's crutch? Before the copy/paste electronic press release? OK, who's cranky now? I agree, it's as hard to truly define the new Redwoods as classy as it is to call it a "pirate bar." But any joint with multiple flavors of Craftsman on tap gets points in my book. Arrrr!

paperhaus

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:20:03 -0800

Just to be cranky oldskool bitch - The Redwood was once a genuine journalists' bar, where the folks from the LA Times and the Herald -- back when there was an LA Herald -- would go to drink. This version is certainly welcome, and the calamari is OK, but it is only classy if you never saw the original.