RIP Coventry Arabica It wasn't just a coffee house; it was a way of life. Now the only thing left at coffee houses.. ... is coffee. (so i'm not filling out your poll) The closest thing I've ever experienced to to a full-on July night at Coventry is... A Buckeye Lakes Dead Show parking lot Reed College's (in Portland, OR) End of year party Rennfair Harvard square in Boston had a lot of it's elements also, but I was only in Boston for, like, 20 minutes. but all of these are on a much grander scale than Coventry Arabica
Although the café in Berlin whose name translates as "Any given August saturday afternoon" is pretty close but doesn't have the critical courtyard.
A story? You want a story. umm gosh what's safe.. ooh the very first time I went to coventry with out planning to meet anyone there I ending up drinking a case Cobra (cheap beer) with a bunch of seriously Punk Rock kids in the back of some beat up big green car parked in the school lot across the street in a snowstorm. Once they all decided to leave to go wherever they were going I hoofed it down the block to crash at the middle-aged crazy lady on SSI's apartment. You laways met the most interesting people...
whoa! hey! that's coventry aRABica as in the type of coffee that isn't robusta. Although we awlays mis pronounced it a-rå-bi-ca (2nd syl. stressed) when referring to the coffee shop and note the bean.
Anyway, corner of Euclid hts and Coventry, cleveland Hts. OH 44106
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Date: 2007-05-11 04:17 pm (UTC)It wasn't just a coffee house; it was a way of life.
Now the only thing left at coffee houses..
... is coffee. (so i'm not filling out your poll)
The closest thing I've ever experienced to to a full-on July night at Coventry is...
A Buckeye Lakes Dead Show parking lot
Reed College's (in Portland, OR) End of year party Rennfair
Harvard square in Boston had a lot of it's elements also, but I was only in Boston for, like, 20 minutes.
but all of these are on a much grander scale than Coventry Arabica
Although the café in Berlin whose name translates as "Any given August saturday afternoon" is pretty close but doesn't have the critical courtyard.
A story? You want a story. umm gosh what's safe.. ooh the very first time I went to coventry with out planning to meet anyone there I ending up drinking a case Cobra (cheap beer) with a bunch of seriously Punk Rock kids in the back of some beat up big green car parked in the school lot across the street in a snowstorm. Once they all decided to leave to go wherever they were going I hoofed it down the block to crash at the middle-aged crazy lady on SSI's apartment. You laways met the most interesting people...
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Date: 2007-05-11 06:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-11 07:16 pm (UTC)Although we awlays mis pronounced it a-rå-bi-ca (2nd syl. stressed) when referring to the coffee shop and note the bean.
Anyway, corner of Euclid hts and Coventry, cleveland Hts. OH 44106
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Date: 2007-05-11 07:58 pm (UTC)