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Gaining Ground: The New Georgia

A Perfect Storm | 2

Gaining Ground: The New Georgia

Tenderfoot TV & Crooked Media

Government, Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.4901 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

With the global pandemic, multiple murders of Black Americans, and the GOP playing politics, the country reaches a boiling point. How does this play into an already tumultuous election year? For a transcript of this episode, please visit gaininggroundpodcast.com.

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0:00.0

We've been in the bar business in Atlanta since I guess

0:09.8

1917 going back to my grandfather.

0:14.0

He had a bar across the street from the capital

0:20.0

called the tip-top billiard parlor.

0:23.0

He was a Lebanese immigrant,

0:25.0

spoke Arabic and broken English.

0:28.0

When the state legislature was in session,

0:31.0

the closest place to get a drink was the Tiptop.

0:35.0

The Tiptop was the family-owned predecessor of Manuel's Tavern, which is located on North

0:39.9

Highland Avenue.

0:41.1

For more than six decades, the bar and restaurant has been a consistent hub for reporters, politicians, and fans of a good hang.

0:49.0

This is Manuel's owner Brian Maloof. My co-host, Jewel Wicker, sat down with him last week.

0:55.0

Tell me how manuals became a restaurant connected to local politics.

1:01.0

We've always had a relationship with the political community.

1:07.0

So that bar that's out there is from the tip-top.

1:11.0

And so it's continued to this day.

1:15.0

Manuals is one of many Georgia restaurants that have been significantly impacted

1:20.0

by the COVID-19 pandemic.

1:24.0

We've had a significant downturn in business overnight,

1:28.0

just a dramatic drop in business.

1:30.0

We've been losing on average about $25,000 a month.

1:33.0

That's how we've been operating in the red.

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