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Note waiting regular and signage from days past
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Quincy Center watering hole dries up?
Tully’s Cafe, a longtime Quincy Center purveyor of adults libations and which often had regulars waiting outside before its early morning opening to down an eyeopener or three appears to be yet another longtime Quincy Center business to have bit the dust.
Given the closed signs and locked door, it was impossible for the Quincy Quarry News staffer who was out and about looking for news on the increasing mean streets of the Q.
Tully’s signage is now MIA
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Even so, the removal of signage for Tully’s would suggest that either it or its landlord is actually duly complying with a local ordinance to remove business signage upon the event of a business closing up shop.
That and so also complying with the ongoing state closure order for bars and taverns given the COVID-19 pandemic.
The demise of Tully’s was greatly exaggerated – went by it last week and it was open again.
Jay,
Thanks for the update!!! A year ago when QQ published this story things were locked up tight and looking gone for good. Now, however, the Quarry staff has a place to go for monthly early meeting “bored” meetings!
Oh but if you were only serious about holding your bored meetings at Tully’s as I would most definitely enjoy being there for them!
Tully’s is about all that’s left of the old blue-collar Quincy that I miss so very much. its re-emergence is especially satisfying what with all the overpriced apartments full of over-caffeinated millenniums that surround it.
Maybe Sully’s is next? Perhaps not but one can dream can’t one?
Jay,
I hope that you can appreciate that QQ meetings are only open to QQ peeps unless you want to pick up the bar tab and trust me: you don’t want to pick up a meeting bar tab. Plus, when and where has to be keep Top Secret so as to avoid hits by the La Kocha Nostra.
Seriously, if anyone in the QQ newsroom hits a lottery jackpot as well as in time to do so, Sully’s sign will be bought, restored, and then recycled at a new venue for regular folk — simple but tasty fare, only one IPA on tap, perhaps a proper pool table if space permits, a quiet old phone booth to use to call the other half, maybe a jukebox, etc.
What other blue-collar bars are still around?
Paddy Barry’s and The Presidential Pub are the only other ones in Quincy Center that come to mind.
Jay,
No argument about Paddy Barry’s as a proper locals bar but the Presidential Pub is an even harder core dive than is Tully’s. For example, Quincy Quarry regularly spotted a former City Clerk and now Norfolk County Commissioner ducking into the PP midafternoons on Fridays. A really slick juke and surprising speed when ducking inside btw — so quick that not even the Quarry’s renowned Photo Recon Team Six could score a useable photo.
Quincy Quarry readers — offer up your favs!!!
Malachy’s which is just off the Center is a shabby chic dive bar that’s still in business.
Callahan’s, which in my opinion held the title for best (or worse depending on your point of view) dive bar in Quincy or maybe even the country, sadly burned down a few months ago. I mean Callahan’s had it — all rickety chairs and tables, sticky floors and walls as well as the smell of stale beer that could be detected a block away.
Jay,
From only a block away? Do you have allergies or what?
Is the Washington Tap still there?
Closed — they ran out of Narcan.
Sly Fox is a great dive bar.
A West Quincy neighborhood Cheers! Even better: no Diane.