Post a pic of a dive bar.

[7wo7rees]

McSorley's in Manhattan, back in the day.
Got down there in 94, still had sawdust on the floor. Beers are sold in 8 oz. mugs, 2 for $4.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

1. Court's Lounge, Campbell, CA: Home of the ruthless and the toothless.

http://www.courtslounge.com/

[7wo7rees]

2. I like it.

I knew I could count on SOMEONE in the Lounge to produce pics. (You were my #2. Where's Taverner?)
So I assume you know the bartender? You've partially passed out here? You may have fondled some wares? Talk to me.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

3. It's a textbook dive bar

It's a mix of San Quentin parolees, toothless meth addicts, senior citizens...the only way this is a "pick up bar" is if you want to pick up some form of disease.

The bar itself is cool, as you can see from the photo. They usually have two flat screen TVs with the sound down, one playing ESPN (and sometimes Turner Movie Classics), the other playing The Food Network. The sound is down because they have a jukebox...classic rock & blues, don't think I've heard any songs past the mid-80s.

I go there occasionally during happy hour and stay long enough to drive home without getting a DUI. My poison is a Miller Genuine Draft with a shot of Jack, followed by a second MGD, followed by my hanging out long enough to have an acceptable blood alcohol level for the drive home.

No "attractive" people in this bar at all. They all look like dropouts from the local 12-step programs.

:grouphug:

[7wo7rees]

4. They're called "regulars". It's not derogatory, but it is descriptive.

You've sailed way past where you should be driving home from here, I suspect. Maybe even been propositioned by one of the methheads to try something in the bathroom.
THIS is a dive bar. Thx AV.

[KamaAina]

34. If you're going to post a pic of a South Bay dive bar, it might as well be the Dive Bar.

[Ohio Joe]

5. A dump out in Hilliard, Ohio

Bankshot Billiards. I worked with the owner, Don, for a while at Nationwide and a few of us went there one year for Halloween.

[mcctatas]

8. My grandma lives in Hilliard...

it's always weird to see it mentioned by someone in the real world :P

[Ohio Joe]

10. I spent about ten years right next to it in Dublin

I am happier then ever to be out of Ohio with all the crap going on there now.

[JVS]

6. I've been there. It's not a dive. It's too nice to be a dive.

[JVS]

7. Now this place is a fucking dive.

[mcctatas]

9. My favorite dive, used to be called the Lizard Lounge but the new owners

changed it to the "Reptile Palace" (not nearly as sleazy sounding IMHO)



the interior


the bathroom with some of the most offensive graffiti in the world (my friend and I not being offended)

[PassingFair]

11. The Post, Detroit

Place would be SO packed, you could be impregnated
between the bar and the bathrooms and never know that
it happened, let alone who did it!

[polly7]

12. This is our bar.

A small, badly-needing work building, but crammed full of old musical memorabilia and with the best local rock band every Saturday night, a stage with every kind of instrument so whoever wants to play and sing can go at it. A fun place. There's no such thing as a stranger, here.

[OriginalGeek]

13. you can't really see the bar or the stage

but here is inside the Club Sonar in Baltimore...I forget which year this was but it was during one of the last 3 Maryland Death Fests

And here is a feller sleeping it off outside the club

[PassingFair]

14. You win!

THAT looks like a real dive.

[OriginalGeek]

17. lol it sure is

but I wouldn't want it to be any other way. Metal was made to be played in a place like that.

[hunter]

19. Yeah, I thought I was dancing...

... until someone stepped on my face.

[LynneSin]

31. That's not a dive bar it's club

If there is a dance floor and people are dancing then it's a club, not a bar.

A dive bar is defined having the following things:
* A beat up bar that takes up the length of the building
* A menu listing food of absolutely no nutritional values whatsoever that can be made via a deep fryer that the same oil from 3 years ago. Salad consists of iceberg lettuce and ranch dressing that expired 6 months ago.
* A juke box, preferably still using vinyl 45s. It could have CDs but none of thos modern stuff with 8 trillion albums available. Dancing only occurs close to last call when everyone is totally soused and wherever one can find empty space near the bar. But there is no dance floor or live bands.
* Crappy beer on tap - usually an upscale beer is either Yuengling or Heinikin.
* A few heavy smokers huddled at the one end and that's even with bars affected by smoking bans. These are dive bars, screw the rules.

[av8rdave]

15. The smallest (and diviest) bar in Amsterdam

Cafe De Dam:

[tk2kewl]

16. Rudy's (Hell's Kitchen)

http://www.rudysbarnyc.com/home.html

[LynneSin]

20. We had a DU party there - great place

:D

[tk2kewl]

22. maybe there should be another one...

I used to live right around the corner

[KamaAina]

35. Kamikazes, baby!!!

:loveya:

[rug]

18. Subway Inn

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_r1dFyemAxmA/SPimMLUqvbI/AAAAAAAABOY/plz03580ICs/s400/carm+subway+inn+062.JPG

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_r1dFyemAxmA/SPioBvllD4I/AAAAAAAABOw/QtXRXGpv6ww/s640/carm+subway+inn+057.jpg

60th and Lex, Manhattan

[av8rdave]

28. Been there several times

[rug]

36. I fell out of it a few times myself.

[LynneSin]

21. Oh the Dive Bars I have known

Haven't been here in ages but I loved the Cork Bar in OCMD. Mostly locals which makes it a fun place. We started hanging out here after our old favorite OCMD dive bar closed - Tavern by the Sea. That one was great because it was 3 blocks from our house so we could stumble home instead of taking the bus.

[siligut]

23. The Blue Moon Tavern, in the university district of Seattle

A dive bar thread is not complete without it. Live music, local beers, peanut shells on the floor and interesting, sometimes scary regulars. Haven't been back for years, but when I did visit, some old guy came up and sniffed me like a dog, no, not my crotch, but my hair and neck. I am not sure what his assessment was, but then he just wandered off, to my considerable relief and amusement.

[geardaddy]

24. The C. C. Club in Minneapolis

[Rambis]

25. 2nd that- honorouble mention the Space Room Lounge Portland OR

Booze and beans in Denver CO the bums wouldn't even go there but of course we did.

[geardaddy]

26. Palmer's Bar - Minneapolis

This place is over 100 years old.

[Brother Buzz]

27. The Duce

Yes, that's a genuine Charlie Deal guitar hanging on the wall. The 2AM club reputation as a first-tier dive bar waned after Goose sold the joint, but it still maintains some of the critical elements.

[AngryAmish]

29. Late, lamented Liquor Avalanche, Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA

[AngryAmish]

30. The Mutiny, chicago

About a year ago someone was trying to get me to buy this dump. Although there are memories some of them I'd rather forget. Besides I would hate to inquire about the condition of their liquor license.

[Avalux]

32. Tacoland, San Antonio Texas. RIP.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113892215

[Silver Swan]

33. Google this place, and it's called a dive bar

but my son-in-law works there, so I have to say it's really not bad. The Irish Mill Inn:

[hifiguy]

37. The Terminal Bar

just north of downtown Minneapolis - couldn't find any pic in which the link worked.

Local wino hangout during the day, oddball rock on the weekends. Played there a number of times. If you need to change into stage clothes you do so in the restrooms, which were last fumigated in the Truman administration. Stage so small I once nearly brained a singer with my bass by moving six inches. And we were three pieces - bass, acoustic guitar and girl singer.

An upholstered men's room that got three stars from the International Hellhole Society.

[geardaddy]

42. Yes, the Terminal is great.

And Whitey's across the street.

[Bucky]

38. 2

1. a bar you would literally dive into


2. The seedy place I actually hang out in

[bluedigger]

39. I'm in a quandry (and New Orleans)...could you narrow down your request?

:shrug:



eta: Oh, hell, just pick one...

[Seedersandleechers]

40. Vintage 1920's speakeasy

It's what I call home.

[Rhythm]

41. Gibbie's Pub -- Morgantown WV

Just off campus of West Virginia University (couch-burning capital of the world!).
I've worked in the kitchen there for about 1 1/2 yrs.

[xchrom]

43. love. this. thread. nt