When I was a teenager my friend and I got hold of some mannequins from a closing dept store. We spent a weekend throwing hand axes at them and got pretty good at it, before disposing of them.
Oh yeah, conservative "not scared of cities bro" guys have been commuting into downtown Seattle every weekend to chug pitchers of Manny's and badly throw axes at a wall for like a decade now
axe throwing bar is like peak 2017-2018 "they made an arcade bar in the warehouse district" stuff along with those adult daycare "experience" pop up museums/selfie areas
Oh yeah it's almost at the level of a hackneyed joke about a certain type of bar that also has those old filament light bulbs and burgers for $22 and serves fries in a metal cup
somehow shit completely passed me by but i guess as there were less and less actual clubs with an actual dance floor i stopped bothering going out for drinks
Yeah, no idea why but axe-throwing is just the New Thing. I live in a dinky Midwestern town where nothing ever happens and we still got an axe-throwing place recently.
My best guess is it's trying to fill the "trendy, rustic machismo" niche that craft beer did in the '10s.
i really wish instead of 'bar you can throw axes at' would have less investment going to it than 'place that has an actual dance floor' but i do live in the whitest state per capita and i was an extreme outlier in wanting to actually dance while going out even back in 2012
Same! I used to go there when I could from 2008-2010, back when I was at USM and then when I moved to the area after leaving college. I was really sad when it closed down, but I remember going shortly before that and it felt like a ghost of what it once was.
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I think you can rent the stuff and set it up at like a picnic or whatever, in addition to doing it on-site
My best guess is it's trying to fill the "trendy, rustic machismo" niche that craft beer did in the '10s.