Revere Beach dive bar closes to make way for mixed-use condo building
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The seaside bar’s final day of operation was Oct. 31, according to the post. Management could not be reached for comment on Wednesday.
Bill Ash’s Lounge, the longtime, low-key staple of Revere Beach Boulevard, closed last month, the bar announced in a social media post.
The seaside bar’s final day of operation was Oct. 31, according to the post. Management could not be reached for comment on Wednesday.
The low-slung beachfront establishment, just a stone’s throw away from the Revere Beach MBTA station, is set to be replaced by a mixed-use housing development, according to city assessing records.
In March, city officials approved the construction of a condominium building with 80 residential units and one commercial space, records show.
On its final night of operation, the bar hosted a special Halloween Party show, according to social media. Michael Firicano, a member of local rock band MSF/The Radio, said it was bittersweet to take the stage for the last time at “what I consider a legendary venue.”
Firicano, in a social media post, thanked the bar’s staff as well as “salut[ing] all the bands that have ever performed there.”
“It’s yet another great live music venue gone, but the music and memories live on,” he wrote on social media.
The curators of HomeTown Rocks, a music-focused exhibit of the Revere History Museum, also posted a memorial to the establishment that many referred to fondly as “the Ashcan.”
“We walked past Bill Ash’s bar hundreds of times in the early 1970s and never dared to go inside,” read the post. “Firstly because we were under the drinking age, and secondly, we were more interested in that next-door 25 cent slice of pizza and the jukebox. ... Who would have thought, that 10 or so years later, a Zeppelin song would be blasting out of the “lounge” door, covered live by a top Revere band."
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