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good bye to the international bar on 1st avenue. i remember the international at its original location on the north side of st marks btwn 1st and a. the landscape wall murals obliterated with burnt orange patina of steeping in a century of nicotine tea. years of yellow to brown nyc tabloids inexplicably stacked in tied bundles in the corner. three almost dead dogs everpresent. a little dog more almost dead than the rest on a cushion right on the bar in front of the tender - the bar short enough that she didnt have to pry off her stool to serve. the almost dead owner or twos would sleep in there after they shood everyone off at closing time. it smelled heavily of almost death too but the drinks were cheep and the company elegiac. then it moved around the corner to 1st ave next to mcdonalds with the next generation of heirs to title catching a brief decade or so of second *cough* ...wind. alec morton used to work there ill ask him wus up next time i see him.