Remembering Steeltown

Having read today’s totally amazing blogoentry by Sam Sessa featuring a promo video for the defunct Hammerjack’s, I find my brainstrings stretching far and wide enough to remember another club that was sadly not long for this world: Steeltown. Steeltown was a gargantuan, 32,000 square foot bar/restaurant/concert venue with an industrial theme, presumably an homage to Bethlehem Steel, Sparrow’s Point, that sort of thing. I remember eating there once after playing Laser Tag – er, sorry – PHOTON at a shopping center in Dundalk. It was bizarre, since the actual restaurant portion of the place was called The Bomber Cafe, and it had airplanes hanging from the ceiling. Even as a child I asked “What does this have to do with steel?” Then there’s the stage area, known as THE BLAST FURNACE. Awwwww yeah you just KNOW shit’s gonna get awesome in there!! 98 Rock would plug the ever loving crap out of the place constantly – I swear I must have heard at least a thousand times on the way to school how Great Train Robbery or Laughing Colors were playing there pretty much every week. At any rate, Steeltown didn’t make the long haul and shuttered a few years later, and today I’m pretty sure it’s a Walmart or something.

I couldn’t find anything nearly as awesome as Hammerjack’s video, but here’s a video featuring the Funk Junkies at Steeltown, with bonus guy-playing-a-guitar-with-a-chicken goodness!

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