Hank Dietle's

tsmith1499 · Feb 14, 2018

My dad used to take me there when I was a toddler and sit me on the bar. The family was always very nice over the years. I can't see them rebuilding though. They could retire forever on what they piece of ground is worth. The townhouses next door have been trying to get them shut down for years. Sorry to see this piece of county history go. Maybe they will rebuild but it won't be the same.

MaxVO2 · Feb 14, 2018

swinokur said:
The one in Montgomery Hills was owned by another Dietle. I lived across from the owners daughter for several years in Derwood.

*****I live in Derwood now and have for some time and know or have known many Dietle's... Bummer about the bar!!!! That was such an iconic place!!!

outrider58 · Feb 14, 2018

I think 'Diets' is an historic site. If the building is still viable, it could be rebuilt?

Klunatic · Feb 14, 2018

Jewish lightning?

aklax11 · Feb 14, 2018

Last time I went in 2016, they only sold chips and the food truck outside served bbq. No one drank the tap water either...just sold bottled water for a reasonable price haha

Cochise · Feb 14, 2018

I was (am) a regular there. Last time there was Saturday. Great live music - rockabilly, classic country, garage bands. This sucks. I talked to Tony (the owner) this morning. He wants to rebuild, there will be a go fund me, check back on his facebook page for Hank Dietles for info....

StantonCree · Feb 14, 2018

Klunatic said:
Jewish lightning?

My boy said the same thing. If in the next year to Lord and Taylor goes up in flames you may be onto something

CypherPunk · Feb 14, 2018

My dad used to stop there for lunch sometimes when I would go to work with him.

He met a carpenter/construction superintendent there named Harry Hanky (no lie) that helped my dad mount his Rockwell radial arm saw and make garage custom workbenches out of old kitchen cabinets.

Those workbenches are still rock solid 40 years later.

I wish the article would have explained who the bar was named after and give Some biographical info.

Jimbob2.0 · Feb 14, 2018

That's a lot of real estate, that will sadly become something else, too much money in play. I hope not but that could very well be the outcome.

Sad I never got there, it was on my list for a while to check out. Just too busy.

outrider58 · Feb 15, 2018

Jimbob2.0 said:
That's a lot of real estate, that will sadly become something else, too much money in play. I hope not but that could very well be the outcome.

Sad I never got there, it was on my list for a while to check out. Just too busy.

Only if the county pulls some shenanigans(and they're well known for that. Just ask the Kings). :sad20:

JBinDC · Feb 15, 2018

outrider58 said:
Only if the county pulls some shenanigans(and they're well known for that. Just ask the Kings).

The King's, ala King Farm? What's was the story there? I always figured they just sold out, no? --JB

JBinDC · Feb 15, 2018

AlanInSilverSpring said:
What happened to the kitchen ? It's been a lonnnnng time since I was there but they used to make a killer chili and the occasional pork brisket. That was sheer torture sitting in there at night smelling the pork cooking and couldn't get any because it wouldn't be ready until the next day

Oh I had only been goin there on and off since the late 90's and early 2000's when I moved back into the area, but until the recent food trucks - like Corned Beef King - the only food I had there was delivery pizza eaten on the porch or off someone's tailgate there in the parking lot. --JB

outrider58 · Feb 15, 2018

JBinDC said:
The King's, ala King Farm? What's was the story there? I always figured they just sold out, no? --JB

From what I was told, the county kept jacking up the property taxes.

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Schipperke · Feb 15, 2018

Klunatic said:
Jewish lightning?

.. because it's too hard to start a flood.

JBinDC · Feb 15, 2018

outrider58 said:
From what I was told, the county kept jacking up the property taxes.

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Ahhh, effectively squeezing them out, and forcing them to sell... Shocker. :sad20:

outrider58 · Feb 15, 2018

JBinDC said:
Ahhh, effectively squeezing them out, and forcing them to sell... Shocker.

Yeah. Basically raise the taxes to the point you have to start selling parcels off to pay the taxes so you can still farm. Eventually, you end up with less and less land to farm and pay your taxes and you are forced to sell out. I have no direct knowledge of this in this case. Just what the 'word around town' was. I'm sure, in the end, they made some money in the deal, but they lost the farm and their heritage. :sad20:

BerettaTMC · Feb 18, 2018

outrider58 said:
Yeah. Basically raise the taxes to the point you have to start selling parcels off to pay the taxes so you can still farm. Eventually, you end up with less and less land to farm and pay your taxes and you are forced to sell out. I have no direct knowledge of this in this case. Just what the 'word around town' was. I'm sure, in the end, they made some money in the deal, but they lost the farm and their heritage.

They did that exact same thing to a co-worker years ago. Except they said the land wasn't able to be effectively developed, they were limited in what farming they could do (took away farming status which subjected them to higher property taxes) and the County was there to offer them next to nothing to get rid of the former farm land that was going to bury them in taxes.

outrider58 · Feb 18, 2018

BerettaTMC said:
They did that exact same thing to a co-worker years ago. Except they said the land wasn't able to be effectively developed, they were limited in what farming they could do (took away farming status which subjected them to higher property taxes) and the County was there to offer them next to nothing to get rid of the former farm land that was going to bury them in taxes.

Yup, standard squeeze play. Then the county makes millions on permits, etc. Shysters!

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echo6mike · Feb 18, 2018

County plus Gaithersburg did the same routine to the last farm in Gaithersburg, Belward. Squeezed the Banks family until the grandma who was the last sole owner gave up. JHU got the rights to develop a “research campus” there and now just look at the crap going in next to all that Rio sprawl. Big $$ for the tax men, all the paid-for politicians, and the damned developers. I hate what’s happened to my county.

Echo6mike, going mobile...

K-43 · Feb 19, 2018

Reminds me of the Olney Inn fire. "Bushy haired teenagers" did it.

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