Pull-tabs aren’t as popular as they used to be at the Sloop, but owner Patrick Files says they are still part of the bar’s culture.
When Patrick Files’s dad bought the Sloop Tavern in 1999, the Ballard bar earned enough money selling pull-tabs to pay its rent every month. That’s no longer the case. But even now, decades later, when you walk up to the bar at the Sloop, you can still buy some pull-tabs with your beer.
What are pull-tabs? This is a question that many a transplant has asked upon their first visit to a dive bar in Washington. It’s one that Files says he
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