When your hearing starts to go, you just want a place to sit, sip and have a talk: namely, a hotel bar. By John Cotter I’m sipping a bitters and soda in an empty hotel bar — empty but for the ...
Since the COVID-induced shutdowns of March 2020, Smitty’s Cocktails in Oakland has sat empty and dark, gathering dust. The bar, which has been open since at least the 1940s, is located at 3339 Grand ...