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We were down in St. Augustine, Florida, earlier this week to bring my mom up to our place in New Jersey. We stopped at our favorite dive bar/grilled cheese restaurant for lunch on Tuesday. Brought my Contax III with a Voigtländer SC-Skopar 25mm f/4 lens and loaded it with expired EuroPrint 100 film (rebadged Ferrania). Developed in ECN-2 chemistry. Has an interesting teal cast to it (I can remove it with Photoshop, but figured I should post as is first).
Ukranian Village
Chicago, IL
November 15th, 2025
A 70-degree day in November
All photos © Joshua Mellin per the guidelines listed under "Owner settings" to the right.
Many musicians including the Ramones, Iggy Pop and Guns N’ Roses played at this venue, but since 2006 the bar stopped hosting live music and instead pushed cheap no-frills drinks 🍸 including “5 Shots of Anything $10”.
this is a bar on the outskirts of the town outside of town. i got to choose a bar to depict nightlife in the town and on my way out, after getting in my car to leave, i noticed this scene.
after the awkward-motioning-nonono-dance i did with a guy playing pool thinking i was hitting on him through the window, i shot this frame and left.
it feels like an old painting to me, with the mixed natural blue and unnatural yellow light.
there's line dancing with older women every other saturday and i hope to make it back with some of my ladyfriends to boot, scoot and boogie.
Smith’s Bar in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood near Times Square has been in business since 1954. Although this old Irish ☘️ pub which closed briefly in late 2014 before a new owner (actress Hayden Pannetire’s father) took over the former dive bar and renovated it, he thankfully kept and restored the original #neon signage.
This photo of the original #storefront was taken in 2004 and appears in our book “Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York”.
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This great dive-bar is at the edge of Seattle's University District and Esquire magazine named it one of the best bars in America in 2014: www.esquire.com/food-drink/bars/g1654/best-bars-in-americ.... They used to have a sign at the front door saying: "Sorry, We're Open."
Larry, the guy in the striped shirt, told me that some of the barflies who drank here when I was a student at the University of Washington in the mid to late 70s, still frequent the place.
Finally, urban legends and some documented stories have it that famous (and not so famous) poets, writers and musicians have been drunk here.
One of the bartenders told me the Mystery Shot is booze the distributors are promoting, so essentially, the bar is getting it for free and testing it on those of us who are adventurous and/or too drunk to care.
This joint is located south of California Street and north of Geary Boulevard on Divisidero Street in San Francisco's Western Addition, which, despite many beautiful victorian homes in the area, was relatively run-down until the late 90s. Now that the area has gentrified, recent residents and social climbers who live there call it "Lower Pacific Heights."
At the Eagles Drift In, SoMa, San Francisco.
Sabatier effect, In the darkroom, this effect was achieved by a short flash exposure during development causing a partial reversal of the image.
The coolest bar on earth- AERO CLUB, San Diego.
Hundreds of whiskeys. May be the most of any bar in USA. This bar was started by woman pilot in the 1940s. All kinds of aviation photos, aviation memorabilia, models etc, inside decorating it.
Used a Nikon FE2, Fuji Superia 1600, pushed 1 stop. Its now a very hip place and classy, yet full of soul!
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