Steel Bender Brewyard – Albuquerque, New Mexico
“Sometimes you want to go Where everybody knows your name And they’re always glad you came You want to be where you can see The troubles are all the same You want to be where everybody knows your name.” ~Theme Song From Cheers Just another banal, meaningless television show jingle? Think again. Urban sociologist Ray Oldenburg might even argue that the Cheers theme song exemplifies his concept of “third place.” In 1989, Oldenburg published That Good Place in which he introduced the concept of third place into the lexicon. Third place refers to places where people spend time between home (‘first’ place) and work (‘second’ place). Third places are, according to Oldenburg, locations where we, as social beings, exchange…