Needless Tragedy of the Day:Â Fremont’s Buckaroo Tavern will close in September. The venerable, beloved dive lost its lease after 72 years.
The building’s owners (a pair of brothers) want to put up their own restaurant and pub in the space. What little we know about these two brothers isn’t promising. One of them is apparently part of a Seattle artists’ collective that ONLY shows its work at fuckin’ Burning Man and the fuckin’ Coachella festival, never to us undeserving hicks up here.
The Buckaroo’s management hopes to put up its classic neon sign over a new location, should one be findable. There are many vacant storefronts in north-central Seattle these days, as in the rest of America. But will there be one available at the right price, with the right ambience, convenient for the Buck’s current regulars?
