Last year, a new owner purchased the building where a storied Coronado dive bar had done business for more than a half-century, prompting a buzz of speculation in the community: Would The Little Club close forever?
A few days ago, Tim Turner, one of the current owners, put a definitive – and, to some, unfortunate– end to the rumors: 54 years after it began, The Little Club will shut its doors on Orange Avenue for the final time at the end of March.
The upscale dive bar, already a historic icon on the island, now represents the fading of a classic Americana, an era when the bartenders knew your order and charm trumped money. As the rest of Coronado leaned into tourist-focused commercialization, The Little Club remained a defiant bastion of neighborliness…