I used to go to Jerome’s after working in another bar. I’d get there at midnight and have one hour to play catch-up and get up to speed with the rest of the rowdy crew. One of the bar guys used to make me a drink, I think it was usually double vodka and double gin in one hit. It was always a spectacular start to the night, and from what I recall it was only $2.50. Awesome.
Flip told us we were the only girls he ever saw in that place (in the early days at least) wearing heels with handbags on our arms. Looking back I lost many a good pair of heels to the floor scum and dodgy construction site type layout of the place. I’d wake up the next morning and have to turf them, but it was probably well worth it.
There was another time that Jarrod convinced us Jerome had a pool on the roof. I don’t know if someone had convinced Jarrod but he really sold it to us. Either he’s as gullible as us or he’s a really good liar. We were in the laneway drinking longnecks for four hours looking at the roof and trying to work out how there could possibly be a pool up there, until we slowly came to the realisation that we were idiots and went inside to drown our sorrows — ‘One double vodka double gin please.’