Check Point Charlie, the 24-hour New Orleans dive bar, music venue and laundromat that raised a mighty racket at the corner of Esplanade Avenue and Decatur Street for decades, is no more.
The venue abruptly closed this week after owner Darren Brooks sold the building.
He was on-site Tuesday afternoon as employees under the red lights cleared out bottles of liquor and the bar’s hodgepodge décor, as if evacuating for a hurricane…