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Boo! Franklin Wine Bar closes

Not that I ate there often but I always liked FSWB.

Every part of Oakland seems quite “tapped out” to me as far as drinking establishments… no matter what neighborhood you are in.  Liquor stores and sports bars (Dorsey’s Locker) for the lower class.  Pricier bars and lounges (Mimosa Champagne, Pican) for the languishing “upper-middle” and true upper classes.  Maybe it’s always been this way? (Some people argue there has never been a “Golden Era”, while every society and each generation thinks its past definitely was a Golden Era.)  Drinking is for everyone poor or not.  And undoubtedly, drinking is worse for you than marijuana, but to each his own.

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