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.
Last updated on 19 March 2020 by Jim Grey
How did I manage to never get there?
It was a pretty quiet, tucked-away bar. You probably walked by it 100 times and never saw it!
Be careful with that Yachica model. Negatives are so sharp they could cut your eyes. 😎
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.
Sorry for your loss!
Hah! Thank you!
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 :)
I’ll look you up if ever I’m in Colorado!
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.
It’s surprising how much it can throw off a certain kind of routine!