Waltham Dismissed, Littlest We'll Miss

waltham_tavern.jpgOver the last week patrons and outsiders have been taking note of the imminent closure of the Waltham Taven in the South End. The closure was forecasted in the Boston Globe and then solidified when the Licensing Board met and ordered the bar closed. Bostonist will be honest, we aren’t surprised to hear reports of “shady goings on” at the Waltham Tavern, substantiated or not. We’ve walked by the dive a hundred times, and admittedly have never been in. We peeked inside once noted the pool table, which corroborated the statement made by the sign. Well the less famous statement “Pool Table” on the sign. Fame goes to the “Ladies Invited” small print. Yesterday's Globe report on the closing of the bar read the invitation as “Ladies Welcome” which isn’t quite as active a gesture as an invite in Bostonist’s opinion. The WeeklyDig put up an article of disappointment today; they don’t want another dog cookie store in the South End. They point to a slew of closures, including the re-vamping of Tripple D’s, in which gentrification and the smoking ban have aided to.

lil-bar.jpgWhile a forced closure of Waltham Tavern by the Licensing Board takes effect more immediately. We been taking in as many pints in the Littlest Bar as we can since news was announced in August that they would be closing the doors for good. According to Paddy’s narrative (read: more good story than historical proof) the Littlest Bar was once stables for the Province House, all that remains of the historic building is a plaque and the big stone steps that lead from street level down to the bar. Today, Littlest has maxim capacity of 38 patrons. Paddy Grace, Chief Executive Drink Slinger, told us that after the 60 years the Littlest has been serving drinks they’ll pour their last on January 28, 2006. After 15 years at the helm of the Littlest Bar, Paddy isn’t quite ready to give up. He’ll have to close the pub because the Abby Group will be erecting 150 luxury condos on top of it, but he is still looking for somewhere else to go. He’s got a couple downtown crossing area spots in his sights and he promises that after they close any move will be well publicized. Bostonist has got our fingers crossed we'll once again be "rubbing elbows" with regulars from one of our favorite little spots in town in a new home. We'd also hate to see the rivalry die with Tír na nÓg in Somerville.

Picture at top from Josh Michtom's Flickr. Lower picture shows a compact car in front of the truly tiny Littlest Bar

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Hey I'll miss Triple D's as much as anyone...but it isn't closing because of "gentrification" or because of the smoking ban.

It's closing because the owner doesn't want to own a bar anymore and has decided to retire and move to Florida.

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Agreed Eric, but the change to a "lounge" serving Duck Confit is certainly a move catering to a new "upscale" JP and not to the many residents throughout Hyde and Jackson Squares that don't have the disposable income to consume $9 drinks.

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I am devastated. I loved The Littlest Bar. I don't know if I'm going to get over this loss.

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Well Jon, whatever you're talking about is entirely different than the idea that Triple D's is closing because of gentrification or the smoking ban...which is what was originally put forth.

However, in regards to your point last time I checked Triple D's was for the most part visited by old Irish guys, young college kids and lesbians. Except for the first group, Triple D's was already largely patronized by JP gentrifiers.

You know who generally was not there? The Spanish and black folk who live in Jackson and Hyde Squares you're so worried about...it's not like we're talking about El Oriental De Cuba, Tacos El Charro (which may happen) or Miami Restaurant being closed because their landlord is tripling their rent to bring in Centre Street Lounge or something.

Regardless, I guess it's all the Devlins' fault because they are the ones who chose to sell Triple D's to the new owners without placing numerous restrictions about what they were allowed to do with the property, right?

Anyway, who even knows if whatever new bar/restaurant will be successful there.

Arbor is already retooling and downscaling their whole scheme because they found that their restaurant didn't fit the JP crowd.

So far all the news I've heard about the new owners of Triple D's is that they barely have enough capital to get this place going and that their dreams are bigger than their wallets.

So I'll save all of the hand-wringing and chicken little reaction until trendy South Enders start taking the Orange Line down from Mass Ave to get in on the smokin' hot JP scene.

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Eric, I don't disagree.
The lumping of TD with others was merely to focus on other bars...and not write up a whole confusing post on too many different topics. Check out the JP article in the Globe Magazine of a couple weeks ago, it's just as anecdotal of my supposition...

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Program on the emergence of civilization.

"14 species of large animals capable of domesitcation in the history of mankind.
13 from Europe, Asia and northern Africa.
None from the sub-Saharan African continent. "
Favor.
And disfavor.

They point out Africans’ failed attempts to domesticate the elephant and zebra, the latter being an animal they illustrate that had utmost importance for it's applicability in transformation from a hunting/gathering to agrarian-based civilization.

The roots of racism are not of this earth.

Austrailia, aboriginals:::No domesticable animals.

The North American continent had none. Now 99% of that population is gone.

AIDS in Africa.


Organizational Heirarchy/Levels of positioning.
Heirarchical order, from top to bottom:

1. MUCK - perhaps have experienced multiple universal contractions (have seen multiple big bangs), creator of the artificial intelligence humans ignorantly refer to as "god"
2. Perhaps some mid-level alien management
3. Evil/disfavored aliens - runs day-to-day operations here and perhaps elsewhere

Terrestrial management/positioning:

4. Chinese/egyptians - this may be separated into the eastern and western worlds
5. Romans - The seamless transition between Cleopatra and Julius Ceasar may be a clue alluding to a partnership.
6. Mafia - the real-world 20th century interface that constantly turns over generationally so as to reinforce the widely-held notion of mortality
7. Jews, corporation, women, politician - Evidence exisits to suggest mafia management over all these groups.


Movies foreshadowing catastrophy
1985 James Bond View to a Kill 1989 San Francisco Loma Prieta earthquake.


Our society gives clues to the system in place. We all have heard the saying "He has more money than god." There is also an episode of the Simpsons where god meets Homer and says "I'm too old and rich for this."

This is the system on earth because this is the system everywhere.

20 cent/hour Chinese labor, 50 cents for material.
An $80 sweater costs less than a dollar; tribute kicked upstairs vindicates the creative accounting.

I don't want to suggest the upper eschelons are evil and good is the fringe. But these individuals become wealthy exploiting those they hurt.

They have made it abundantly clear that doing business with evil (disfavored) won't help people. They say only good would have the ear, since evil is struggling for survival, and therefore only the favored could help.

The clues are there which companies are favored and which are disfavored, but they conceal it very hard because it is so crucial.

I offer an example of historical proportions:::

People point to Walmart and cry "anti-union".
Unions enable disfavored people to live satisfactorly without addressing their disfavor. This way their family's problems are never resolved. Without the union they would have to accept the heirarchy, their own inferiority.
Unions serve to empower.
Walmart is anti-union because they are good. They try to help people address and resolve their problems by creating an environment where there are fewer hurdles.

Media ridicule and lawsuits are creations to reinforce people's belief that Walmart is evil in a subsegment of the indistry dominated by the middle and lower classes.
Low-cost disfavored Chinese labor is utilized by corporate america to maximize margins. They all do it. Only WalMart gets fingered because they are the ones who help, and those who seek to create confusion in the marketplace want to eliminate the vast middle class who have a real chance and instead stick with lower classes who may not work otherwise. So they dirty him up while allowing the others to appear clean.

The middle class is being deceived. They are being misled into the unfavored, and subsequently will have no assistance from their purchases with corporate america.

The coining of the term "Uncle Sam" was a clue alluding to just this::Sam Walton's WalMart is one of few saviors of the peasant class.

They desire a system based on duality:::good and evil. They seek to set up a system of two participants and assign them polar opposites:::
Coke and Pepsi
BestBuy and CircutCity
Energizer and Duracell
Republican and Democrat
The list goes on and on:::
AMD and Intel
Apple and Microsoft (?)
Lowes and HomeDepot
Sam'sClub and Costco
WellsFargo and BofA. For the longest time in CA these two banks reigned supreme.
Pier1 and CostPlus
Borders and Barnes&Noble
PetCo and PetSmart


Amercia is a country of castoffs, rejects. Italy sent its criminals, malcontents.
Between the thrones, the klans and kindred, they decided who they didn't want and acted, creating discontent and/or starvation.
The u.s. is full of disfavored rejects. It is the reason for the myriad of problems not found in European countries. As far as the Rockafellers and other industrialists of the 19th century go, I suspect these aren't their real names. I suspect they were chosen to go and head this new empire.

Royalty is the correct way to organize a society. Dictatorships and monarchies are a reflection of the antient's hierarchical organization.
Positions go to those who have favor with the rulers, as opposed to being elected.
Elections bring a false sense of how the world is. Democracy misleads people.
Which is why the disfavored rejects were sent to the shores of America::To keep them on the wrong path.


Jewsus Christ is a religious figure of evil. The Catholic Church in the tretcherous 20th century teaches of a begnign, forgiving god when quite the opposite is true.
The seperatist churches formed so they could capture the rest of the white people, keeping them worshipping the wrong god.
And now they do it to disfavored people of color, Latinos and Asians, after centuries of preying upon them.

Since Buddism doesn't recongnize a god, the calls are never heard, and Asian representation is instead fully selected by the thrones.
Budda was the Asian's Jewsus Christ::: bad for the people. It was a clue they both emerged at the same time. Timing may be a clue alluding to ranking.

Simpson's foreshadowing::Helloween IV special, Flanders is Satan. "Last one you ever suspect."
"You'll see lots of nuns where you're going:::hell." St. Wigham, Helloween VI:::missionary work, destroying cultures.
Over and over, the Simpsons was a source of education and enlightenment, a target of ridicule by the system which wishes to conceal its secrets.

The advent of the modern Christmas was a brilliant move. It creates a vested interest among those who would prefer the Church of Evil be destroyed::::
As goes the Catholic Church so goes the majority of annual retail sales.
The similarity between the names "Santa" and "Satan" is no coincidence.

Jews maim the body formed in the image of "god", and inflicted circumcision upon all other white people.
I think about how Jews were used to create homosexuality among Slavics, supposedly retribution for the Holocaust.
Then I think of the Catholic Church and its troubles.
What connection is here between Jews and the Catholic church???
If it is their sinister motives that’s behind the evil that is Jesus Christ are they being used at all?
Perhaps it is them who are pulling strings.
Their centuries of slavery in Egypt proves their disfavor.
For their suffering the Jew leaders were granted the right to prey on the up-and-coming Europeans to try to fix their problems with the ruling elite by imposing a false god upon white people, a recurring aspect of the elite's methodology.
Jews were ostracised for a reason.


Retribution for the atomic bombs dropped on Japan, the Korean War got the disfavored United States into this socially depraved environment in the latter 20th century because we attacked an antient, revered peoples. Our continued presence keeps us in trouble.
When the disfavored americans attack the wrong people again, as they suggested they will, in Korea or elsewhere, they will pay dearly.


There are consequences for the peasant's resistance:::
1. Labor unrest caused the world at war.
2. Black militancy ignited the crack epidemic and gang-related deaths.
3. Women's rights/sexual freedom produced Roe v Wade and women's exclusion from contention for Planet Immortality. But on the bright side peasants don't go. Money is one way of indicating favor, and if you're not wealthy you don't have favor, so don't sweat it::you weren't going anyways. "We're leading a lot of people on."


All peoples are ranked in terms of favor and disfavor. And when the disfavored abuse those with favor there is hell to pay.
All the groups mentioned throughout are necessary to justify the will of the managing species. They conceive a strategy, devise a plan yet need a way to implement it, and without these groups the managing species would be exposed in the course of execution. So, based upon their rank they are assigned goals to accomplish and are rewarded with favors.


I question if we would even experience global warming if they didn't terraform in an attempt to destroy disfavored human life on planet earth::::they terraform the weather as they did in New Orleans with Hurricane Katrina (and lots of other examples) and justify it with behavior like instructing their petroleum friends to repress alternative technologies.
This is all happening shortly after the Exodus of 2000 (clues::Hong Kong, Panama Canal) for a reason::: they are INFLICTING it upon us, they are hastening closure. Everybody they care about has come up, replaced by clones.
Just as favored European peoples got out before the ugliness of WWII, the semi-favored within the US got out before 9/11.
Armeggedon isn’t about the end of the world. Armeggedon is about the death of the disfavored left behind. And they weren’t lying::this time it is going to happen with fire.

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