Template:Did you know nominations/Thirsty Beaver

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The result was: promoted by Freedom4U talk 00:13, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

Thirsty Beaver

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The Thirsty Beaver in 2018

• ... that when the owners of the Thirsty Beaver (pictured) refused to sell, developers built an apartment complex in a horseshoe shape around the establishment? Source: The result, a horseshoe-shaped apartment building wrapped around the Beaver, illustrates the larger story of Plaza Midwood’s fight to retain its identity.
  • ALT1: ... that The Washington Post described a North Carolina dive bar (pictured) as "a middle finger to the development surrounding it"? Source: Sandwiched between two wings of an apartment building, this small dive bar is a middle finger to the development surrounding it.
  • ALT2: ... that Thirsty Beaver (pictured) has been described as "Charlotte's own version of the house from Up"? Source: The one-story dive bar in Plaza Midwood has been transformed into Charlotte’s own version of the house from “Up,”
  • ALT3: ... that In 2021 the Thirsty Beaver (pictured) received national attention when Mick Jagger of the The Rolling Stones posted an image on social media of himself drinking there? Source: On Thursday night, Jagger, 78, shared a photo of himself outside Thirsty Beaver Saloon, in a cap and sipping a beer, with the caption "Out and about last night in Charlotte, NC."
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/KVIE
  • Comment: Open to other hooks and hopeful that we can use the image to show the diminutive bar swallowed by the development

Moved to mainspace by Bruxton (talk). Self-nominated at 15:50, 10 November 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Thirsty Beaver; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

• New to mainspace, long enough, well sourced (though might want to replace WP:WASHINGTONTIMES with another source's publishing of the AP story). Gave it a copyedit for grammar and some close paraphrasing. Photo is good, CC0. Approve ALT0, ALT1, ALT2 (which I've c/e'd).