Thank you to everyone one that came out to this first ever joint G.H.O.U.L.A/ SoCal L.O.W.F.I super acronym mash-up event. As with last month, although this bar is known to be haunted, getting the specific story was difficult to obtain by press time. However, on the night of our gathering, the Footsie staff did not disappoint. The bartender shared her personal ghost story with our group. Her story is...
While the bar is empty, and she has her back to the room, she sees a man (in the reflection of the mirror on the wall behind the bar) walk in from the entrance and take a seat at the bar. When, she turns around to talk to the man, there is no one in the room. She said that this has happened to her three times (so far), and each time it is the same man, and he is dressed the same way (in a blue plaid shirt).
It is any one's guess as to the true identity of the plaid-wearing ghost. It has been suggested that maybe it is a former local hipster, or a gang-member, or maybe "he" goes back further. Newspaper articles of the 1940's suggest that even then, this was an edgy part of town, and the bar itself was subject to many robberies.
It should also be noted, since it was brought up that evening, with regard to the centennial lightbulb, which was thrown in the trash by a well-meaning worker, who was unaware of it's significance, that it's longevity may have more to do with economics than anything super-natural. There is a theory that all light bulbs back then were made to last forever. However, the companies that produced them realized they could make more money if the bulbs burnt out and needed to be replaced.
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