THE BARS OF LYNN

Night of 2 August 1986

01 Wortmanns

What can we say about #1? Good bad or stale ale it's still number one. Kind of a dusty varnished atmosphere that reminds one of his uncles redecorated basement (this turns out to be a reoccuring theme in Lynn) done around 1965. What can you say, when watching (on the COLOR TV ) TV and the bartender asks you if it's "Grease" by way of a conversation starter, and it is in fact "Saturday Night Fever". What can you say? Somehow appropriate for our first stop on our biblical trek - nay Crusade- through Lynn. A "Special Place" and still number one in our book ar,ar.

Photograph: street view looking down a sidewalk. A KENWOOD one hour parking sign and a DEAD END sign in the foreground; the Wortmanns sign and a Schlitz globe sign project from the storefronts on the right.