Last Call at Coogan's The Life and Death of a Neighborhood Bar by Jon Michaud

Last Call at Coogan's The Life and Death of a Neighborhood Bar by Jon Michaud was received directly from the publisher and I chose to review it. I have never knowingly been to Coogans but I have drank a few beers in New York City Irish pubs, so I may have been there. Neighborhood bars from yesteryear are true community meeting places where more got done than ever got done at the work sites or in political places. As I read this, I imagined the characters and I imagined all of this taking place at neighborhood bars in St Louis, San Antonio, Berlin, Germany, or wherever I was located at the time. Then to read the COVID over reaction is what killed this particular bar was kind of heartbreaking. If you like interesting stories of people and events that took place since the 1980's, certainly give this book a read.

4 Stars