New concept coming to Whiskey Row

According to Business First's website:


A new restaurant and bar has signed on to be a tenant in the Whiskey Row Lofts development downtown at Second and Main streets, near the KFC Yum! Center.

Troll’s Pub Under the Bridge will operate on the Second and Washington street corner of the building, according to Bill Weyland, one of the partners in the mixed-use project. The restaurant will be located in a 4,500-square-foot space one level below Washington Street and will be accessed by an exterior staircase or an elevator in the Washington Street lobby of the building,



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It just keeps getting better, folks!

http://www.whas11.com/news/local/Louisv ... 12764.html

Very cool.

I found this funny -
"But the real mystery, just discovered, came below the building.
No one knew the real depth until now. It is deep below Main Street, in fact two floors underground.

The space has not been seen for 75 years, all because of another historic Louisville tragedy.
“We discovered an area that had been filled in after the 1937 flood,” said Weyland.

The owner in 1937 loaded concrete into it, filling it up and sealing it off to the world.

When they hauled out the concrete a few months ago, there were two major discoveries. First, an artists’ colony from the 1970's, with their artwork still intact on the walls. The building’s owner Val Jones points out, “in that sort of hippy, groovy era, Louisville was participating fully in that culture; this building became fully occupied by artists.”

I guess that is what happened to the lost hippy tribe of Louisville...

OK, I give up. If it's been sealed for 75 years how did the hippies use it in the 70s?

OK, I give up. If it's been sealed for 75 years how did the hippies use it in the 70s?

Yeah, this. I remember The Great Midwestern being in that space in the '70's, but don't remember any subterranean activity.

Great Midwestern was down from the corner. It was directly under Time Piece which was at 119 W Main.

OK, I give up. If it's been sealed for 75 years how did the hippies use it in the 70s?

Space time continuum... man. self inflicted warp of the mind, put them back in 37 and then, when they were coming down the dude sealed up the only entrance to the portal back to the present ....or was that past in 1970.

Great Midwestern was down from the corner. It was directly under Time Piece which was at 119 W Main.

That's right. I always hung at the other end of the block @ Eddie Donaldson's.

OK, I give up. If it's been sealed for 75 years how did the hippies use it in the 70s?

Would that have been where the Kaleidoscope or Changes Unlimited was? Those places were before my time in the city but I was told years ago that's where counterculture folk congregated.

OK, I give up. If it's been sealed for 75 years how did the hippies use it in the 70s?

I emailed Doug Proffitt and asked this, as well as how they could have been unaware of a courtyard that went all the way up. Here's his response:

Hi jeff…sorry it didn’t come across clearer. They never knew the space was as deep and large as they just recently discovered.

It had been filled it most of the way to the street level by the owner after the 1937 flood.

There was still some floor space (really street level) that allowed people to stand in that basement, , and that’s why you see the artists drawings. In person right now they are way up the wall , compared to where you would have stood before the excavation. You now have to point up at the pictures.

They aren’t level with you.

As they explained it to me, they didn’t know the space was actually a full two floors below main street because of the 1937 fill-in. They didn’t realize the courtyard was as deep as it is. yes the courtyard existed, but now it is really grand, and very unusual.


Does that help? Let me know if you need anything else. Thanks for your interest in the story.