GLENS FALLS | The neighborhood bar where bootlegged booze was smuggled during Prohibition, where soldiers returning from war would stop for a beer and mill workers would drink off the day’s stresses is now the hub of the city’s music scene.

Gug’s, an unassuming structure at 18 Haskell Ave., has become a mecca for original music, attracting bands — and fans — from throughout the region.

“Over the past two or three years, it became the epicenter of good music,” said Paul Guay of Let’s Be Leonard.

The Glens Falls native remembers seeing Facebook posts about friends from high school going to Gug’s.

“I went to high school with a guy called Gug and I thought, ‘What the heck? Are they throwing a party at this kid’s house?’ “

When he finally figured out what everyone was talking about, he was surprised.

“It’s a hole in the wall on some street I never go, in a part of town I never find myself in, full of everyone I want to hang out with,” Guay said.

Gug’s first opened 101 years ago as Haskell Avenue Grocery & Supply, said owner Mike Rios. His great-grandfather, Vincenzo Gugielmi, ran it through the 1920s, bootlegging out of the root cellar in back.