Paint the Carpet Red!
One of my favorite places to get my drunk on was a bar called McCormicks in New Brunswick, New Jersey. McCormicks was known for its large selection of beers on tap and one of the better jukeboxes in North America. Time moves on, and I stopped hanging out there. Over the past half decade or so the place has gone downhill. I’d heard rumors that patrons were bringing in and selling their own beer, and that the owner had painted the carpet red in a sad attempt to spruce up the place. Well, local “dinosaur blog” The Star Ledger has confirmed that the painted carpet rumor is in fact true:
Wallpaper? How about the flattened six-pack cartons at McCormick’s in New Brunswick, where owner Jack Schobert painted the carpet instead of installing a new floor. Saved him $12,000.
about Paint the Carpet Red!
At least it’s still there! A lot of classic New Brunswick bars have have gone the way of the Dodo as the hospital slowly but surely consumes the city little by little. I believe I was once kicked out of McCormick’s for sneaking in underaged. As anyone who knows me knows, I don’t drink at all (except for a few notable exceptions) but I was hanging out with a friend on St. Patrick’s Day 1989, and when the owner/manager(?) (who denied me access by the front door) spied me drinking my Diet Coke in his establishment…boy did he lose it.
Comment by The J-Man — December 14, 2007 @ 7:13 am