Gin Mills and Dive Bars

Union Place used to boast not one, but two, dive bars, one at each end; Summit House to the west and Blue Door to the east. Caves, with dim lights and worn linoleum and 35-cent, 6-7-ounce drafts. Today? Never. The liquor licenses have always been scarce as hen's teeth in towns like Summit, which fixed their number since Prohibition was repealed. So the licenses were always valuable. But especially after 1982 there was a ready supply of buyers prepared to snap them up at unheard of multiples and invest, hope, pray, speculate, launder, who knows? See, passim, The Summit House, The Blue Door Tavern, Uncle Mike's.