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David Raynor sat at the copper-topped bar of the Glue Pot Pub on a recent afternoon, reading a book and nursing a beer, one of the last he’ll have there. A retired university professor, Raynor only rediscovered the bar a few months ago, after a long absence, and he now comes six days a week, making the half-hour bus ride from his home in Blackburn Hamlet.

“It’s not upscale,” he says. “A lot of people don’t like upscale. People like this … I don’t know what you call this: downtrodden, old-fashioned, quiet. You meet really interesting people, from construction workers to retirees to politicians. People come here to relax, and the prices are great.

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“This is a good place.”

Two stools down sits Don, a LeBreton Flats resident who also rediscovered the bar, in his case about a year ago. He had his first beer here close to 25 years ago, when he was 18, (not quite) the legal drinking age.

“It’s a nice dive,” he says. “A nice, easy place to come to where you can have a drink and watch the game.”