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The rumors are true: Pharmacy Bar, the long-standing Adams Morgan watering hole, is for sale.

Pharmacy Bar owner Kristaps Kreslins tells DCist via email that he’s looking to sell the bar. “Why?” he says. “Because I have been living in Latvia for the past five years and I just haven’t been around.”

Kreslins, who opened Pharmacy Bar 15 years ago on a stretch of 18th Street NW now filled with popular nightlife destinations, doesn’t have any prospective buyers yet, but he’s looking. Pharmacy has garnered quite a reputation for being one of the few dives in the midst of a sea of overcrowded, bass-thumping dance clubs and bars that have cropped up in Adams Morgan over the past several years.

No, you won’t find any top 40 jams playing in the small bar. The jukebox proudly boasts classic alt/indie/metal/punk albums like Slint’s Spiderland and Bob Log III’s Log Bomb. The tables and chairs are basic (the bar’s signature tables are adorned with various pills), and the bar only recently started accepting credit cards.

So does this mean whoever buys Pharmacy Bar will turn it into every other bar on 18th Street? “It’s really up to the buyer,” Kreslins says. “I have no problem with them keeping it as the Pharmacy. It’s a brand with quite a good [reputation] in D.C.”