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Toasting in Memoriam at McBride's Pub

Here's to Last Call

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McBride’s Pub in Wayland Square isn’t your ordinary bar. Now, you may think that this is because it’s next door to a funeral home. Or, the fact that the bar itself is built out of the old garage that belongs to said funeral home. What makes this bar special is their last call. Typically when you think of a last call you think of drunken nights with friends and getting those “one more can’t hurt” drinks in at the bar. First of all, McBride’s Pub has its last call at 10pm. (Or as close to it as they can.) Second, their last call has nothing to do with alcohol.

McBride’s last call is a toast to someone who has passed away. It could be someone that a patron has lost and wants to remember or even a famous person who has died. At ten they take out a beautiful bell to ring and as they do the once rowdy bar falls silent. All the patrons look to the bartender who says a few simple words and then raises his glass. The entire bar follows suit, raising their glasses and toasting to those friends of ours who have passed on. After the ceremony, the person’s name is recorded in a leather-bound book of last calls where the person who nominated the deceased writes a few words of memory. The bar quickly goes back to its busy ways, but for those few moments at McBride’s someone who has passed away was remembered, immortalized and missed. Cheers.

McBride's Pub

161 Wayland Square.
751-3000
McBrides-Pub.com

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