Dismantling the Iron Horse

About three years ago Ted and I made a bet that we would never ever go to the Ironhorse Saloon. I don’t know why we made that bet maybe it was because I was so anti-country music at the time (*evil grin*). But we kept it, we never set foot in Kingston’s largest and only country bar in the last three years.

Now when I heard it was closing I had a little twinge in my heart. This establishment which I had actively avoided for years (I’ve been in K-town for 18 years and had never been there!), was going to be closing its doors. So, I asked Ted if he’d like to break the bet and go to the Ironhorse on its last night. He was into it baby!

So last night we trucked over there… just to spend a short time there since it’s a school night (haha!) Doors opened at 7:30… we were there by 8:30pm. The place was impressively large and impressively full for the early hour. Half-full! It was amazing. The diversity of people that were there was impressive: people of all ages, all body types, all dressed differently, and all with varying quality of teeth (HAHAHA!) Also, there was a surprisingly high number of people wearing cowboy hats. Who knew?!

Angela popped by for a few minutes to say “hi” and I saw a few SLC students that were in my class last semester.

By 9:15pm the band hit the stage: Ambush. And despite them playing country tunes, they rocked and the mountain of girls dancing on the stage with them didn’t hurt their sound either! By this point the bar is PACKED!!! Jam packed and there’s a line up to get in the door. So fans of the IronHorse were certainly seeing it out with style!!!

So, 10pm rolled around and Ted and I shook hands and packed it in as agreed. We’d been to the IronHorse and as we left we felt kind of sad. I felt sad because we weren’t sure where these people would go in the future to have fun. Fun was definitely being had inside that place … that’s for sure and some people will miss the IronHorse a great deal I bet. Where will they go now? Whiskey Willy’s? Yikes!!!