Goodnight Raleigh Documents the Last Days of Jackpot
photo by Goodnight, Raleigh
Some people hated the place, others considered it a second home. I used to stop in almost nightly a few years ago when I lived a few blocks away and would arrive at 9pm when the bar opened to have a few beers in a dark booth and get some work done on my laptop before everyone arrived. It was a bar that opened quietly and closed at very high decibels each night.
Many of us have our own stories of late night romps at Jackpot that start by dancing around a stuffed chicken named Cotton and ended with an end of night run down Hillsborough to Snoopy’s. Or some variation of that. Jackpot wasn’t for everyone, but for those who did frequent the bar, they will have fond memories for a long time. A Raleigh institution is gone (well, almost) and John Morris and crew over at Goodnight, Raleigh have documented the weekend’s antics for archive on the whole wide web. This is a very subtle, yet nice documentation of the end of an era in Raleigh.
The Last Days of Jackpot as documented by Goodnight, Raleigh.
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mattycakes
04/13 11:29 AM
not closed until friday. second time this has been wrongly reported on this site. time to re-evaluate your sources.
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Amos
04/13 11:37 AM
Well he did say “almost”, Matt. And what the hell are you doing up at 9:30?
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Amos
04/13 11:38 AM
Oh, shit. Dey clock’s wrong.
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mattycakes
04/13 11:59 AM
fair enough.
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Gene
04/13 01:54 PM
That place is a dump, I’m glad its gone…
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CHA
04/13 05:43 PM
I wish it was still Bourbon St.
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Johnny Come Lately
05/09 11:38 AM
I heard a rumor that the Jackpot was just hurting for business, so they made up a story that they were closing. Still open! Pathetic.
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