Down and out downtown

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Pity the neighborhood saloon in this pandemic. But pity even more the happy-hour and lunch spot for tie-wearing, pantsuit-donning, expense-account-having crowd.

The lockdowns and the plague have delivered a body blow to the corner pub, but they’ve delivered a death blow to the business district watering holes.

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