'Even more than small talk, I long for a lost afternoon spent hearing the unsolicited, meandering life story of someone sitting two stools down.' allie_conti writes on the loss of 'third places'
Conversation among strangers. Photo: New York Daily News Archive/Getty Images It was six weeks into lockdown when I stumbled upon a bar I’d never seen before. Ostensibly, I was on a trip to buy beer. I’d never really considered drinking at home to be fun in the past, though I’d also previously assumed that I’d make it through at least two-thirds of my natural life span before society collapsed. Considering I’d just been proven wrong once, reassessing other long-held claims seemed wise.
All city dwellers inherently understand the concept of “third places,” even if they’ve never read Ray Oldenburg’s famous sociology book about their importance. Just as the beer gardens of Germany or the coffeehouses of France served as affordable places for regulars to stop in and chat with their neighbors between work and sleep, anything featured on Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives could arguably serve the same function today.
When I called up Oldenburg, it became clear that the answer to that question is “yes.” His first experience “hanging out” was at a small-town Minnesota warming hut when he was 5, which led him to a career extolling the virtues of joyous association with strangers. He’s lived in suburban Florida for decades and long had a hard time getting his third-place fix among the strip malls and sprawl, so he converted his family’s two-car garage into a dive bar.
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