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Scorpion
Joined: 15 Apr 2012
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 Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2014 11:04 pm Post subject: Nashvilles (Itaewon). I miss that old dump. |
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I can't be alone in missing Nashvilles. Yeah, it was nothing special, but it filled a niche. It was a nice quiet place to begin your Friday or Saturday night, then move on to another pub. For a few years it was part of routine to drop in, shoot pool or read the newspaper, while slowly getting my drinking hat on. It helped me ease into my evening, and there was usually an interesting crowd there. Christ, the place had been there since the 1970s. Now it's replaced by a rib restaurant. 
Itaewon's changing too much for my liking. |
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Old Painless
Joined: 01 Jan 2014
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| Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2014 3:49 am Post subject: |
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| The owners have grown kids and he's in his mid 70's. He started that place after he finished his Vietnam TOD and they first married. They live up in the NW on a mtn. acreage. Very nice people. |
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Ralph Winfield
Joined: 23 Apr 2013
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Some of my worst and best memories of Korea are from Nashille's! The owner was quick to remember me years after I met him. Good tunes were found on his jukebox! The burgers were alright as wll, and it was too bad the racist crap that was done to him when his business was closed for about 6 weeks for having some cinnamon he bought in the U.S.. That was sort of big news at that time. It was the epitome of a Kimberley pulling a notorious Korea Sparkling move on a white guy.  |
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Joe Boxer
Joined: 25 Dec 2007
Location: Bundang, South Korea
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| Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2014 9:56 am Post subject: |
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| Haha, hadn't heard "Kimberly" in a while. |
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radcon
Joined: 23 May 2011
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| Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2014 2:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Back in the day Nashville was one of the few places to get a taste of home. However, I eventually just refused to go there any longer. Making customers pay for water with their meal was bad. And the waitresses aggressively and rudely pandering for tips was just too much. The owner always seemed gruff and unconcerned with the shit service his place offered. |
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hogwonguy1979
Joined: 22 Dec 2003
Location: the racoon den
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| Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2014 4:21 pm Post subject: |
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Some great memories of that place for me, at the time (mid 90's) it had the best steaks etc in Korea. Part of the old Itaewon (Red Door, Burger King at main corner etc) I really missed
He also got a ton of crap for posting a "No Koreans Allowed sign" apparently the locals would come in and pick fights with the mostly USFK people that hung out there.
Think it's been 6-7 years since he closed the place |
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Scorpion
Joined: 15 Apr 2012
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| Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2014 7:23 pm Post subject: |
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| hogwonguy1979 wrote: |
| Think it's been 6-7 years since he closed the place |
I think you're talking about the Nashville's basement. Yeah, that went like eight years ago. I'm talking about the place on the second floor (with the patio on the roof). I kinda forgot about the basement place, but that was just a food joint. Not a pub so much. |
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I'm With You
Joined: 01 Sep 2011
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| Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2014 12:51 am Post subject: |
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Nashvilles - have a cold budweiser pint while talking to a guy with the U.S. Army Rangers and the Harley he just brough over and then find out form some Englishs "Professor" what's going on at HongDae or Yonsei.
Low-bow. But I like it. |
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catman
Joined: 18 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2014 3:41 am Post subject: |
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| You got to pick your own movie! |
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Smithington
Joined: 14 Dec 2011
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| After reading this thread I decided to pop into the new pub/restaurant at the old Nashvilles location. I walked in and did a quick u-turn and walked right out again. The place stinks of meat. They have an 'open kitchen' concept but apparently little or no ventilation. The smell was overwhelming and I knew that if I stayed for even one beer I'd stink of meat all evening. (Pleased as I am with the smoking ban, I am no more enthused about my clothes stinking of meat than I was of them stinking of cigarettes.) I had briefly popped in a couple of times in the Autumn soon after it opened, and there was no problem, given that they have a lot of windows that they open for a cross-breeze. So I'd pop in again when the weather improves, and they get the windows open, but not before then. |
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stoned
Joined: 03 Nov 2009
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| Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2014 8:03 pm Post subject: |
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F**k nashvilles. They did not allow me for not being Asian/American.
Good riddance. |
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byrddogs
Joined: 19 Jun 2009
Location: Shanghai
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| Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2014 8:22 pm Post subject: |
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| stoned wrote: |
F**k nashvilles. They did not allow me for not being Asian/American.
Good riddance. |
They only allowed Asians and Americans or Asian Americans entrance? |
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Smithington
Joined: 14 Dec 2011
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| Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2014 8:26 pm Post subject: |
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| F**k nashvilles. They did not allow me for not being Asian/American.Good riddance. |
I know there was a while when he didn't allow Nigerians. I was shocked to hear that, and I'm certain he lost customers because of that policy. A friend of mine had a stern talk with him about it and he changed the policy. I know Nigerians sometimes tend to loiter and nurse a beer for two hours (not unlike those old Korean guys at McDonalds with their coffee)just to play pool. But banning an entire ethnic group from entering your premises is just inexcusable. And it's not as if the place was busy or anything, and the Nigerians were taking up space that could be used by other customers with more disposable income. The place was always quiet...which was part of its appeal actually.
But yeah, his policy was pretty racist. Sadly that kind of thing is acceptable in Korea. |
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hiamnotcool
Joined: 06 Feb 2012
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| stoned wrote: |
F**k nashvilles. They did not allow me for not being Asian/American.
Good riddance. |
I don't understand what you are saying here...they didn't allow you because you were Asian American? Or because you weren't Asian or American? What? |
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hogwonguy1979
Joined: 22 Dec 2003
Location: the racoon den
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| Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 1:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Smithington wrote: |
| stoned wrote: |
| F**k nashvilles. They did not allow me for not being Asian/American.Good riddance. |
I know there was a while when he didn't allow Nigerians. I was shocked to hear that, and I'm certain he lost customers because of that policy. A friend of mine had a stern talk with him about it and he changed the policy. I know Nigerians sometimes tend to loiter and nurse a beer for two hours (not unlike those old Korean guys at McDonalds with their coffee)just to play pool. But banning an entire ethnic group from entering your premises is just inexcusable. And it's not as if the place was busy or anything, and the Nigerians were taking up space that could be used by other customers with more disposable income. The place was always quiet...which was part of its appeal actually.
But yeah, his policy was pretty racist. Sadly that kind of thing is acceptable in Korea. |
He had a long standing policy of keeping anybody Asian looking out of the place, he had problems with locals getting into fights with the mainly USFK people that hung out there. It made the local news on several occasions but of course those reports never had the other side of the issue
In reality it's no different than the Korean owned places keeping foreigners out and its still going on. |
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