this rather infamous hotel recently went up for sale after closing as a bar/hotel in 2017, and unsuccessfully relaunching as a bbq restaurant.
i have exactly two memories of this place:
Saturday nights were "Gerbil Race" nights. I wish I had a photo to prove it - but for over a decade in the 90s and early 2000s you could build a gerbil racing team and race your rodent against other teams, and bet on the winners, chocobo-style. performance-enhancing mimett greens not allowed.
(CW: barf) I lived in an apartment one-half block away from "The Transit" in the late 2000s. i learned to keep a wide berth from it, because there were always sketchy people loitering around the entrance. one time I was forced to walk along its south-facing sidewalk, and while I looked up, a man slid open a third-storey window, and vomited a massive pile of instant noodles onto the sidewalk, 25 feet below and about ten feet in front of me. i never walked past that side of the building ever again.
please: let some kind, filthy rich soul buy this place and bring back our beloved gerbil races so i might finally breed my gold rodent and learn knights of the round 🙏
