I had a bunch of personal stuff come up on Monday and didn’t have time to go to a bar. So I thought I’d put up a tribute to one of Peoria’s most beloved bars from the past, Sully’s Pub in downtown Peoria.
I went to Sully’s Pub on the original 365 bar crawl, back in 2010. Then in 2013, after I had moved back here to Peoria, I went out and had a Saturday night dinner at Sully’s Pub. About a month after that post, Sully’s lost their liquor license and then in December of 2013, it closed for good. In 2018 I went and took some photos of Sully’s Pub, which, while it’s been closed for over 13 years is still standing there, in all its aged glory.
And so here’s our tribute to Sully’s Pub courtesy of photos from blogs from the past
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Photos & Memories, A Tribute To Sully’s Pub
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April 27, 2010
Back on April 26, 2010, I was doing the orginal 365 bar crawl while living in New York City and came back to Peoria for my birthday. During this visit I went to Sully’s Pub and it became the 107th bar of the first 365 bar blog. I moved to New York in the summer of 1993 and hadn’t been to Sully’s for years.
Sully’s billed itself as, “Peoria’s Irish Embassy.”
I remember a wave of nostalgia hitting me as I walked inside of Sully’s. Back in the day I used to frequent this establishment on at least a weekly basis.
I met my friend Phil Luciano who was a writer and a columnist for the PJ Star back then. These days he has his own radio show on WMBD and you can listen to him by clicking here.
Check out this column Phil wrote about myself and the bar blog back then by clicking here.
The walls were always loaded with pictures, sports jerseys, deer heads and fun items in the pub.
This was an imitation of me back in the ‘80’s at Sully’s Pub at closing time!
Click here to see the original post from 16 years ago.
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August 5, 2013
I moved back to Peoria in October of 2012. On December 10, 2012, I launched this blog that you’re currently reading.
In August of 2013, I decided to have a Saturday night dinner at Sully’s Pub, which was still in operation and showed no signs of closing anytime soon.
The Irish Embassy sign was still hanging outside and the doors were adorned with the Sully’s logo.
Nothing ever changed in Sully’s Pub and it always kind of felt like going back in time when you entered this familiar pub in downtown Peoria.
As I took some photos that evening, I was pleased to see a framed photo of my old pal, Willie York hanging on one of the walls in there.
There’s an old menu from the past framed and hanging on the wall.
Sully’s lost their liquor license in October of 2013, just a couple months after this was posted on the blog and they closed for good in December of that same year.
Click here to see this post and some of the last photos taken while Sully’s Pub was still in operation.
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May 31, 2018
Five years after it closed, Sully’s Pub still had the sign and awining hanging on the building and I went and took photos of this once thriving bar in downtown Peoria.
I was always amazed no one has tried to revive this once classic Peoria pub.
Sully’s is CLOSED.
Oh well, I’ll always have my memories of this place and no one can shut those down. Cheers to the memories of good times in Sully’s Pub, a classic downtown Peoria pub.
Click here to see this post from eight years ago.
Have a wonderful Wednesday everyone and we’ll be back with another brand new bar post tomorrow!
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