We did a road trip to visit our graduating niece, Meagan in Savannah. She is graduating from the prestigious Savannah College of Art Design (SCAD) in cloth manufacturing, design and implementation. The colleges buildings have been reclaimed in the old downtown district to become additional revamped college buildings. Clever maneuvering in getting and restoring an old Holiday Inn Hotel, an old Jewish Synagogue, 2 very large downtown department stores, an old hi-rise nursing home, an historic towering brick church, large abandoned movie theaters and giving them all to new life as classrooms, work stations, students centers and libraries. The buildings are all scattered about throughout the downtown area.
Wow who knew of this landmark historic building recovery. A city’s great history lesson in saving our nations sultry architectural past.
Of course we had to do what the locals do and ate at some super notable places including the Best Rueben in Savannah- Six Pence Pub, Pirate House for great fresh caught fish and Two Sisters Southern Soul. We did a night bar crawl ghost tour visiting museums, parks and entered some adult beverage locations along the historic Savannah riverfront area. Alleys were our tour guides best places to go and tell tales!
Our niece took us to some notable gay hideaway drinkeries. Ones she knew would want to visit and write about in “Dishing” she said.. So our last stops were ones that our niece and boyfriend Chris knew of.
So we ventured into Chuck’s Bar on the River and all we thought of was well…very historic, Club One where famed Lady Chablis performs with the large Rainbow flag flying on the third floor building and then an off beat gay SCAD students headquarters that was the greatest neuvo surprise, SEED! Very artsy and
contemporary modern feel.
Savannah a great place to visit and to revisit!
