Deadline Detroit | 'Ode to a dive bar:' Jimmy Doom salutes K

Deadline Detroit | 'Ode to a dive bar:' Jimmy Doom salutes Kelly's in Hamtramck, recently sold


Kelley's has adapted nimbly to post-industrial depressions and shifting musical landscapes.
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"Here is your chance to own a piece of history," touts a real estate listing for Kelly's Bar, a Hamtramck survivor that opened in 1917 and still serves $1.50 PBRs.
Its two-story Holbrook Avenue building is listed at $380,000, including the liquor license. To loyalists such as Detroit actor-author-rocker Jimmy Doom, the place seems priceless in a sense -- and not just because he was a bartender there last decade.  
Crude Society System, Swedish hardcore punk pioneers, played at Kelly's in April 2019.
(Photo: Instagram/Timothy Jenkins)
"The funky, somewhat dilapidated shack in the shadow of the maroon [Kowalski] sausage, is the real deal," he writes Thursday at Eater Detroit in an "Ode to a Dive Bar in Transition."

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