The Institute
The corner bar on 12th & Green Street, unofficially dubbed "the 40 spot," has been bought out and turned into The Institute, equipped with bike racks to appeal to the local hipsters. Only the racks are always empty. Why does this place suck? Strike 1: No Lionshead. This is Pennsylvania, damnit! If I can't sample local brews at a bar of my choosing, then I'll have to take my two dollars elsewhere. Strike 2: Bad business calls for cutbacks. Like an air conditioning system. Strike 3: They enlisted the help of some shitty deejay who didn't make the cut at Samba nightclub. Strike 4: They ran out of Yuengling. Now I could understand if this place was poppin' but there were about fifty people in and out during the course of the night and probably ten of them were drinking Yuengling. Due to the fact that I had a lot of "let's try to make this fun" ale-ixers my vision could've been a little blurred, but as I looked at a picture of the old bar hanging on the wall, I could've sworn I saw its patrons looking back at me mouthing the words, "I told you so"
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