The Wellington
Yashica Electro 35 GSN
Kodak Tri-X 400
2018
I was there the night The Wellington closed for good. It was just a couple weeks ago. And it was packed, just packed.
This was assuredly the smallest bar in Indianapolis’s Broad Ripple neighborhood, and perhaps in all of Indianapolis. I never measured, of course, but I bet it was no larger than my home’s kitchen and family room, combined.
A group of co-workers from three companies ago have met there the first Wednesday of the month for something like ten years. I’ve always been invited, but I usually had my sons on those Wednesdays and couldn’t go. Now that the parenting-time years are over I was starting to make it most Welly Wednesdays. And now it’s closed.
The gang will find some other Broad Ripple bar. But it won’t be the same.
How did I manage to never get there?
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It was a pretty quiet, tucked-away bar. You probably walked by it 100 times and never saw it!
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Be careful with that Yachica model. Negatives are so sharp they could cut your eyes. 😎
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As you’ll see in tomorrow’s post, the Electro and I didn’t exactly get on. But I did get a few really good photos from it, like this one.
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Sorry for your loss!
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Hah! Thank you!
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There was a great pub across from OSU campus called Larry’s, went out of business a few years back. Thankfully there are plenty of options where I’m living now. If you ever come out to Colorado Springs I’d be happy to take you to one :)
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I’ll look you up if ever I’m in Colorado!
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I’m not much of a bar person, but I’ve had a number of favorite restaurants close down.
Certainly not the worst sort of loss, but unsettling just the same.
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It’s surprising how much it can throw off a certain kind of routine!
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