RIP Davey's Uptown [KC music venue/dive bar]

[KCUnited]

Destroyed by fire this morning

https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article241196401.html

Davey's Uptown bar destroyed by fire Saturday morning
BY SHELLY YANG MARCH 14, 2020 11:03 AM
A fire Saturday morning destroyed Davey’s Uptown Rambler’s Club at 3402 Main St. The cause is still under investigation.

[Donger]

Destroyed by fire this morning

https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article241196401.html

I'm going out on a limb and stating that fire was the cause.

[Mennonite]

I'm going out on a limb and stating that fire was the cause.


People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, and guys in trees shouldn't snitch on fire.

[gblowfish]

I've had friends who have seen shows there. Somehow I never made it into the joint.

[Pablo]

Yet Buzzard Beach lives...

[suzzer99]

That was our bar. I probably saw Sin City Disciples at Davey's 20 times. My idiot friend started the biggest brawl they ever had. We were rolling around in the middle of Main St. Good times.

The amazing thing is that was my stepdad's bar a generation before us.

Convenient timing on the fire too.

Btw I know for a fact Lucille's was deliberate. I can say that now because the owner killed himself.

[Third Eye]

Oh wow, classic place.

[KCUnited]

Hung out there often, from day drinking to shooting pool to epic shows. Was last there with friends in Oct 2018 while in town for a Chiefs game.

https://i.imgur.com/gEYoDTl.jpg?1

[KCUnited]

Fucking hell

https://i.imgur.com/oLMox5b.jpg?1

https://i.imgur.com/oDMQmUb.jpg?1

[scho63]

I like the new renovations.....:p

Fucking hell

https://i.imgur.com/oLMox5b.jpg?1

https://i.imgur.com/oDMQmUb.jpg?1

[KCUnited]

Davey's charged the same for a cup of water as they did for Old Style cans. No free rides.

[SAUTO]

Man that sucks. Great place

[rabblerouser]

Played there many times over the past 15 years, Michelle and her crew always took care of us.

Such a shame.

[KCrockaholic]

I always hated that venue, but hope they can recover

[SupDock]

They need a Servpro montage.
Wow. Hope no one was hurt.

[Demonpenz]

crossing broadway when st joe drunk/high was recipe for me to get hit by a car so I never went over there. I just put on a Mizzou jersey to drink at harpos and then took off the mizzou jersey to reveal my massive cutting habbit and talking heads shirt and went to buzzard

[sedated]

Hereford House part 2?

[ChiliConCarnage]

Convenient timing on the fire too.


Very

[Valiant]

Loss of profits from Patty's day made them burn it down for insurance?

I have a feeling might happen in northtown also.

[alpha_omega]

It was a textbook dive from what I recall.

[rabblerouser]

crossing broadway when st joe drunk/high was recipe for me to get hit by a car so I never went over there. I just put on a Mizzou jersey to drink at harpos and then took off the mizzou jersey to reveal my massive cutting habbit and talking heads shirt and went to buzzard

Are you drunk right now??

Harpo's (aka Herpe's) is in CoMo

[rabblerouser]

It was a textbook dive from what I recall.

You are correct.

[Bearcat]

Me: Do you make a good Long Island Iced Tea.
Davey's bartender: Two will knock you on your ass.
Me (having been fooled before): Ok, we'll see...

Yeah, got a ride home that night and didn't finish the 2nd one.... LMAO

Only went there a time or three, but it was a great dive bar.

[Demonpenz]

Are you drunk right now??

Harpo's (aka Herpe's) is in CoMo

https://www.harposkc.com/ there is a harpo's in westport. Popcorn big back yard pop-a-shot below average food and college kids.

[Pablo]

https://www.harposkc.com/ there is a harpo's in westport. Popcorn big back yard pop-a-shot below average food and college kids.

I spent an unhealthy amount of time there a decade ago fresh outta college. I wouldn't step foot in there unless I was outrageously fucked up now. Coincidentally I celebrated the SB win in Westport....at Buzzard and some other random places. Found a dirty, cool trucker hat under the table and watched a drunk dude get his melon split by cops from the deck shortly after.

[Chris Meck]

Loss of profits from Patty's day made them burn it down for insurance?

I have a feeling might happen in northtown also.

really? Fuck you.

Davey's didn't give a fuck about the fucking amateur parade.

and it was not on purpose.


When I wasn't touring I worked there for ten years. It's what I did to pay the bills when I was home. It was my living room. I met my late wife there.

Think before you spew shit.

[Chris Meck]

In case anyone actually cares and just doesn't want to spout a bunch of bullshit rumors-

no, nobody was hurt.

I sifted through the wreckage this morning with the owners and former co-workers. I haven't worked there in almost a decade but I did for ten plus years.

The culprit appears to be a motor that was installed on the beer cooler yesterday afternoon. Shorted out, caught fire after close.

Nobody set the fire on purpose, and if the building itself is deemed stable, they'll clean it all up and reopen.

Some of you guys need to think before you start running your mouths. Sometimes shit is fucking personal.

[suzzer99]

I hope the bathroom didn't burn. Davey's wouldn't be the same without that disgusting hole.

[Chris Meck]

I hope the bathroom didn't burn. Davey's wouldn't be the same without that disgusting hole.

oh, it'll need ripped out to the studs if the building is stable.

and if you fuckers would actually hit the urinal instead of all the walls, it wouldn't have been so nasty. :)

[srvy]

Will probably amount to how hot those old brick walls got. The first pictures I saw of the bar area man it looked bad. Those other pictures away from that area gave me some hope.

[DJJasonp]

Somebody call John Taffer, stat!

He'll get that place up and running within an hour!