Club Foot closed some time ago in another disappearing act for a bar in the Ukrainian village Wicker Park bar area. The bar, located at 1824 W. Augusta Blvd., is known for its dance parties and collection of retro toys filling the walls was popular to the rich yuppies who lived within walking distance in this urban center and spent hundreds of dollars. Tis money would over otherwise been spent on car loans but with their ability to be able to afford and hold a high paying job within distance of the el the discretionary income on shots is more manageable. how this bar could close down is amazing ut it appears that skyrocketing rent in this sought after trendy neighborhood is the culprit. Club foot was the victim of this neighborhoods own revitalization and success.Club Foot owners Lauree Rohrig and her husband Chuck Uchida opened the bar in January 1995 and closed it just two months shy of what would have been the bar's 20th anniversary.
Dive bars are becoming an endangers species and with the hipsters and punker and artists gone in this neighborhood yuppies seemed to be enthroned with big screen TVs and huge outdoor windows for the bars of their choice. It appeared that Yuppies have given the foot to this bar because it resembled their grandfathers bar and reminded them too much of an eighties small punk bar.the Beachwood Inn was the last no frills dive bar on the stretch of Milwaukee Avenue where you could walk into a bar and not hear heavy beats or bad pop or rap music these twenty something fools seem to embrace. the death of this bar was truly upsetting to me because it was a rare Chicago bar that looked like the Itasca Inn where I bartend in suburban Itasca. I recall this bar had something cool maybe an old arcade or skeeball .These two bars were created and run as bars are suppose to look like and it is a shame these fucks couldn't support them more.
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