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A few more bar photos before we leave lovely Cape Town. Here's the owner of the Biker Bar in Observatory. This cap he got from his girlfriend, who had visited Vietnam.

The female bartender at Observatory knocked down shots with us. In Philly, I knew many bartenders who drank on the job. One would run over to our side, so that he was not technically "drinking behind the bar."

A bartender in Kensington drank so much, she fell down once and had to be taken away in an ambulance. Within minutes, she was back serving customers. Arriving at the hospital, she hopped out of the ambulance and weaved her way back.

Kengsington is notorious for its number of heroin overdoses. This bartender said to me that if she hadn't seen a regular for a while, she just assumed he was dead. When a long absent man walked in one afternoon, the startled bartender thought he was a ghost!


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