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The Hole in the Wall on Guadalupe once let you nurse a $2.50 Lone Star while Alejandro Escovedo tested new material ten feet away; after the refresh the cover is $15, the beer's $8, and the only thing they preserved is the faded sign outside that now hangs over a QR code for their new membership tier.
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The new sign outside 2538 Guadalupe promises "elevated honky-tonk vibes" and a $9 cover "to support the arts"; last time I stood in that same doorway in 2004 there was no cover, no QR code, and the only thing elevated was the volume on a Tuesday night set from a band that drove up from Houston in a van with no brakes.
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