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Also the owner of the popular craft beer haven The Daily Growler, Blakely is letting his hair down at The Daily Bar. “The Daily Growler is a family business and established brand; that isn't always the right place for my eccentricities and my love of vintage and my tendency toward non sequiturs,” he said. These eccentricities are most apparent in what Blakely refers to as the bar’s “wall of denim.” This several-foot width of wall is coated in seemingly endless layers of the fabric, torn into strips and roughly patched back together.
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