This well-preserved East Colfax dive is both a dim drinking haven and a top-notch stage

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Let me be the first to say that I miss The Bulldog. The exterior of the dive bar at 3602 E. Colfax Ave. once looked much as it does now, with cheap, faux-stone siding and a shallow concrete patio that invited excellent people-watching.

The inside, on the other hand, has changed a lot. When the one-story space — also occupied in the past by Monroe Tavern and Mr. Von’s Alamo — turned from The Bulldog into Lost Lake Lounge in 2010, I feared its diverse clientele and raucous karaoke nights would be replaced with something worse.

Improbably, it wasn’t. Matt LaBarge, who owned the Hi-Dive on South Broadway, transformed the well-preserved dive into a dim drinking haven patterned after throwback bars in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles. With plenty of wood and thrift-store pictures, the spot suddenly felt like a hidden gem.

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