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PostJun 24, 2009#26

dweebe wrote:
-the parking situation was horrible. No parking lot and street options were limited.


I went on a Saturday night when they had a show upstairs and a full house downstairs that was eating/drinking. I was able to park literally across the street on Compton. At worst, you'd have to park a block away.



Is this really a problem?
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PostJun 24, 2009#27

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dweebe wrote:my wife and I were the only ones in the place at 9pm on a Saturday night . . . the place was very smoky


So stop smoking!


I don't know why it was smoky in there.

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PostJun 24, 2009#28

http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/atoz/2 ... _hours.php
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PostJun 24, 2009#29



The comment section is interesting.
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PostJun 25, 2009#30

dweebe wrote:I knew they were on their last legs when a few weeks ago my wife and I were the only ones in the place at 9pm on a Saturday night. Some thoughts:



-the parking situation was horrible. No parking lot and street options were limited.

-having only a single unisex bathroom for a bar that size is stupid.

-the place was very smoky, but that was a given. Most South city hipsters love to smoke like fiends when they are out drinking. Just look at places like Mangia, CBGB, Way Out Club, Cat's Meow: quite possibly some of the smokiest bars around.


After referencing your list and the comments section at RFT, it sounds like The Wedge was doomed from the very beginning. I must confess that I live just a few blocks away, but I never made it to The Wedge. Feedback on the place was great initially, then just weeks after it opened I started hearing that a visit wasn't worth my trouble. I also noticed while driving by that the parking situation seemed to fix itself, i.e., the place was empty and there was plenty of parking to be found behind the place.



I'm not convinced parking was a major problem as there is some on-street parking on Virginia and Compton avenues between The Wedge and Iron Barley, but this is St. Louis, and Joe Suburb cannot be troubled to look for on-street parking. Clearly it's not the most ideal situation, but it's also clear that there was a whole host of problems with this place besides parking.
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PostJun 25, 2009#31

And wasn't this place pretty small? How much parking could they have needed?
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PostJun 25, 2009#32

^ I don't know what the capacity of the place was, but yes, it's very small.



Even if parking was a problem, based on what I read on the RFT website, it seems like a relative drop in the bucket.
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PostJun 25, 2009#33

ThreeOneFour wrote:
dweebe wrote:I knew they were on their last legs when a few weeks ago my wife and I were the only ones in the place at 9pm on a Saturday night. Some thoughts:



-the parking situation was horrible. No parking lot and street options were limited.

-having only a single unisex bathroom for a bar that size is stupid.

-the place was very smoky, but that was a given. Most South city hipsters love to smoke like fiends when they are out drinking. Just look at places like Mangia, CBGB, Way Out Club, Cat's Meow: quite possibly some of the smokiest bars around.


After referencing your list and the comments section at RFT, it sounds like The Wedge was doomed from the very beginning. I must confess that I live just a few blocks away, but I never made it to The Wedge. Feedback on the place was great initially, then just weeks after it opened I started hearing that a visit wasn't worth my trouble. I also noticed while driving by that the parking situation seemed to fix itself, i.e., the place was empty and there was plenty of parking to be found behind the place.



I'm not convinced parking was a major problem as there is some on-street parking on Virginia and Compton avenues between The Wedge and Iron Barley, but this is St. Louis, and Joe Suburb cannot be troubled to look for on-street parking. Clearly it's not the most ideal situation, but it's also clear that there was a whole host of problems with this place besides parking.


Joe Suburb isn't really the market they were going for...
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PostJun 25, 2009#34

Jeff707 wrote:Joe Suburb isn't really the market they were going for...


I know, but I just love it every time the lack of parking comes up as a reason for an establishment's demise in this town.



And maybe it did have an impact. I just wish sometimes that parking was more of a problem here. :wink:



Besides, after reading the entertaining comments on the RFT website, it sounds like The Wedge didn't entirely get the market it was going for anyway.
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PostJun 25, 2009#35

The problem with The Wedge was that it became so popular that no one went there anymore.
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PostJun 25, 2009#36

that place was an awesome comedy show venue. Saw the Non-prophets there twice.
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PostJun 25, 2009#37

I loved the pizza. Hated the smoke.
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PostJun 26, 2009#38

Aughh-



I had hoped for so much from this place, the punk and post punk theme, music venue, and food. My first visit there in November was OK, my second in January was a disappointment. I had hoped it was an off night.



I got the feel that they had someone give them the theme idea and then left them to their own devices.



Well anyway, the Deacon is a pretty good fit and does a better job at capturing what the Wedge wanted to be.



I just hope it does not turn into a hoosier joint.
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PostJun 26, 2009#39

Do any of you regularly hang out at other smoky, bad parking kind of bars in town? Such as the Way Out, Mangia, CBGB, and the others previously posted? You might check it out on occasion, but the smoke would have chased you out from becoming a regular. They were in the wrong location for their clientel...that was the only thing wrong with them. sad.
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PostJun 26, 2009#40

I live just a couple blocks from it, parking should not have been an "issue" unless the crowd were people from Oakville or Chesterfield. Anyone who lives in the city should have no problem walking a block, and there was plenty of parking on Compton or Fassen available. I thought the pizza was good too, I'm a little surprised at how rapidly the place closed, and it seems a shame seeing as how much money it seems to have gone into the place to make it look like it does.

It is an odd-shaped space though and not very big, I will be interested to see what goes in there. Just think though, if it only made it until the North-South MetroLink extension, there would have been a station right next door... :wink:
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