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Sue Kidd is the Lifestyle Editor at The News Tribune and the ringleader for the Food and Home&Garden sections. She has worked as a food journalist at Northwest newspapers since 1993, most recently as a food writer, editor and restaurant reviewer in King County before joining The News Tribune in 2004. Her food obsessions at the moment are honey, cheese and oysters.

Craig Sailor is the Arts&Entertainment editor at The News Tribune. He grew up on a garlic farm near Gilroy, Calif. and now farms oysters in his spare time at Willapa Bay. He’s traveled the world from Kyoto/Kuala Lumpur/Hong Kong to Zanzibar in search of great food.

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Good eats and drinks around Tacoma, Pierce County and South Puget Sound
Thursday, December 4th, 2008
Posted by Craig Sailor @ 10:11:18 pm

Members of the Pierce County dry squad examine confiscated stills at the county courthouse on January 19, 1924. (Tacoma Public Library photograph)

Columnist Peter Callaghan stopped by my desk tonight to tell me that tomorrow is the 75th anniversary of the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment - the repeal of prohibition.

Pop music critic Ernest Jasmin and I mused about how many Tacoma bars have been in business that long. The only ones we could think of are Bob's Java Jive and (maybe) The Spar.

Any historians out there know of any long time bars, speakeasies or hooch halls we're forgetting?

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