A dive bar on West Dravus Street across the street from the QFC has closed. The scene of multiple shootings, numerous bloody fights and drunken rowdiness over the years, according to police reports, the bar didn't close because it lost its liquor license, said Susan Reams from the Liquor Control Board.
Some say that the Soundtrack was closed to make room for a new, possibly mixed-use building that would also take out the Starbucks next door.
Word on the street was that Star-bucks would return to the new building, but the coffee giant has no plans for the area "as of right now," according to Nicole Phelan from the Frause public-relations firm.
"It's good that it's going," Chuck Dagg said of the bar. Dagg runs a State Farm Insurance branch across the street on 16th Avenue West from the Soundtrack and has heard many disturbances coming from the bar - even in the middle of the day, he said.
Dagg is also a member of the Interbay Neighborhood Association, which has been pushing for new growth in the area. But he hadn't heard of any plans for a new building going in where an empty Soundtrack now sits.
"I know there are some rumors about the houses," Dagg said of buildings the scuttled Monorail Project bought for a planned station on 16th Avenue West.
The Soundtrack closed with a bang on Sunday, Aug. 19. Unfortunately, the bang was the sound of a Queen Anne woman's head hitting a table after another woman pushed her off a barstool, according to a police report.
The woman - who suffered a 1-inch cut above one eye - told police she ran into her attacker in the women's restroom, where words were exchanged and where the attacker allegedly slammed her into the wall.
The two then returned to the bar, where the suspect "yelled at the victim and called her bad names," according to the police report, which notes that more words were exchanged between the two women. It was shortly afterward that the victim injured her head on the table after getting pushed off her barstool.
"The victim said the suspect came at her and she defended herself by kicking and hitting the suspect while yelling for people in [the bar] to call police," according to the report. No one did.
But the victim went home and called police from there. The police report notes that the victim's son and husband returned to the bar to find the other woman. But the Soundtrack was already closed.
