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Landmark bars are far less useful meeting places these days because development tends to destroy or co-opt whatever dives most preoccupied writers can afford. People are always having to find new places to meet because the old ones either close down or become tourist sites (cf. The Cedar Bar in NYC and its former history of attracting writers and artists, including east coast beats and most of the abstract expressionists).
Then again, that might be why the virtual Flying Monkeys Saloon seems so inviting.
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