Posted August 5, 200717 yr I'm up to roughly 230 bars so if anyone can beat this, let's hear it. Cincinnati: The Knotty Pine Riester's Tavern Chavelle's Donna V's The Wagon Wheel Crossroads White Oak Gator's (N College Hill) Big Kahunah's Heid's Lounge Vince's Other Place (my former bowling team sponsor) The Blue Wisp The Blue Note Eagle...(w 8th) Some place on Delhi Pike Mahtahkawah's (under the 8th St. Viaduct) Arnold's Yesterday's Mt. Adams Pavillion Alive One Bar Cincinnati Jefferson Hall City View Tavern Longworth's Blind Lemon The Mad Frog Murphy's Pub Jefferson Hall Fries Cafe Bogart's Daniel's Pub Sudsy's Ripley's 227 Tavern Bobby Mackie's Western World Martino's on Vine Grenwich(sp?) Tavern The Comet Northside Tavern O'Mally's in the Alley Bar Cincinnati The Southgate House The Gano Tavern Salamone's/Club Velocity Zavo's Teen Club Airport Ramada's bar Some place in Silverton Jillian's Complex Dave & Buster's Hammerhead Lounge (Western Bowl) Miamitown Lounge The Garage (Harrison Ave.) 3 or 4 bars in Mainstrasse Village a corner bar in Ludlow, KY featuring a Jethro Tull cover band York St. Cafe Fatfish Blue Sneaky Pete's Blue Ash Sneaky Pete's Milford Knoxville, TN: The Campus Pub Cool Beans McGhee's Irish Pub Charlie Pepper's Hannah's Hannah's Old City Patrick McGhee's Manhattan's the place across from Manhattan's The Neptune The Mercury Theater Barley's Union Jack's some place up Broadway that place next to Krystal The Tap Room Hawkeye's The Pilot Light The Carousel Lord Lindsay's Columbus, OH: The Nuthouse The Little Bar Hendoc's Ledo's Miani's Skully's Little Brother's Out-R-Inn Lucky's Stout House The Bier Stube McFadden's Skye Bar The Ugly Tuna Ruby Tuesday's Cafe Bourbon St. Carabar Andyman's Treehouse Bar Louie Park St. Tavern Brother's Gaswerks Frog, Bear, & Wild Boar Adobe Gila's Lodge Bar NYOH's The Rhumba Cafe Panini's Notal's Too Bento Go-Go Athens, OH The Smiling Skull The Cat's Den BW3's Skipper's The Union O'Hooley's Evolution Lucky's C.I. The Crystal Casino The Pub Paw-Purr's The Pigskin The Junction Tony's Tavern Casa Nueva The Blue Gator Courtside Pizza The Cat's Eye Zachary's some place in Nelsonville Nashville, TN The Corner Pub Church St. The Corner Pub Greenhills 909 Club (or something like that, it's gone now) Guido's Exit/Inn Robert's Wild Horse something Tootsie's The Red Door near Vanderbilt The Red Door in East Nashville some other place over there two other places by Vanderbilt another place on Church across from the Exit/Inn two or three in Hillsboro Village a place on 12th ave. The Bluebird cafe Christie's Cabaret a place in a Franklin strip mall 3 places on Demonbreun St. at least 3 on 2nd Ave. Boston, MA: Charlie's Kitchen Harvard Square The Cantab Lounge The Abbey Lounge some reggae place about 4 more in Cambridge about 3 in downtown Boston The Avalon T.T. The Bear's Place The Middle East New York City: Madame X Sin-e The Village Idiot (country bar) some place by Columbia some place on 125th St. some place in Gramercy(sp?) Park some place by the Met Life Building some frat place on Mott or Bleeker St. Small's jazz club bar on the first floor of The Gershwin youth hostel about 5 more in Manhattan about 5 more in Brooklyn & Queens Atlanta: The Masquerade 2 more Savannah, GA 4 or 5 Gainesville, FL 4 or 5 Miami, FL Nikki Beach The Clevelander 2 or 3 more Chicago, IL Gold Star some gay bar by accident downtown hotel bar about 3 more Pittsburgh, PA The Ruddy Duck Paducah, KY some place downtown The Silver Saddle another place in the Executive Inn Richmond, VA 1 place Houston, TX The Amazona Club Hooter's New Orleans, LA about 5 places on Bourbon St. before the hurricane Washington, DC McFadden's 2 more Montreal 2 or 3 places drove past the Molson plant I think that's it, not counting some concert venues and conservatively about ten more bars, maybe 20 I can't recall at all.
August 5, 200717 yr LOL I can't picture you being in Martinos. "Some gay bar by accident". LOL Im sure that happens to everybody checking out a new city.
August 5, 200717 yr It stands to reason that your ability to remember would diminish after all those! :wink:
August 5, 200717 yr I've got you beat, Jmeck. I'm not going to try to name them all, but I do have you beat (yes, even gay bars and the Knotty Pine too! lol). ;)
August 5, 200717 yr Well you don't really have me beat until you post them. Also Rob you jogged my memory and I remembered I have been to one in Ft. Wayne, it is across from the Greyhound Station downtown. I rode the Greyhound one time to Chicago and when we stopped in Ft. Wayne several people on the bus took immediate notice of the place and I think a few went over there during the layover. But I went there after a wedding reception a year or two later that was in the lobby of a nice old theater downtown. Karaoke got shut down I remember after a guy sang "Falling in Love" by Alicia Keyes, people starting breaking bottles and glasses it was so funny! It still stands as the single most uproarious karaoke performance I've seen, people were high-fiving and buying the guy drinks for the rest of the night.
August 5, 200717 yr Well you don't really have me beat until you post them. until then you're running around saying how cool you are to all of your friends for how many bars you've been to?
August 5, 200717 yr I don't have you beat, but, I'm kinda glad. I cannot believe all the names you remember, Meck ! Springfield Belmont Cafe The Ringside Cafe (old location) Ruby Tuesday The Regency Room biker bar on the SE corner of Fountain & High bar in the Springfield hotel Wittenberg Union Rathskeller weird little family place that served Donna's 14 yr old sister The Crying Cowboy Saloon Annies or whatever it was called The place that was slated to be torn down so some guy I knew ran it for aout 6 months because he wanted to run a bar but not as a career The little wedge shaped bar on E Main Every single bar on E Main (in one night) from the edge of town to the CBD - 7 ? The Elite Cafe The New Frolics Te place by the train tracks that had fights every single time I went there Yellow Springs The Olde Trail Tavern Some other bar on that kinda secondary street west of Xenia Ave Antioch Union Dayton Gilly's Walnit Hills Bar (in Walnut Hills) Sam's The She Club Columbus no idea of any names but about a half dozen THe Agora Cleveland The Agora Xenia breakfast beer, once, at some place on the south end of downtown near some train tracks Cincinnati Moorman's The Comet Bill's (before it became the Comet) Junker's Tavern Northside Bar The 5th Amendment Boswell Alley The hotel bar on Central Parkway just south of CTC Marty Waldeck's and the place it later became The Belmont The Phoenix Cafe Arnold's Chapter 11 Blind Lemon Animation's Habits Josie's Someplace Else pretty much every bar in Oakley (another one night challenge) - quite a few are not there anymore 8 ? Top Cat's Daniel's Bogarts Dollar Bill's Sudsy Malone's Hap's Irish Pub Arthur's Arlin's The place that was kinda behind Bogart's in 2 incarnations Some Irish place on the west side Madonna's and whatever it used to be back when it ws dedicated to Frank Sinatra The Dunlap Cafe Some place on Spring Grove Ave just north of the Wester Hills Viaduct that had a bartender about the size of a mountain Washington Platform Caddy's The Second St Saloon ? There were about 3 bars on 2nd street that were popular for a while That horrible disco hell on the corner of Vine and McMillan - Burgundy's ? it had several incarnations The Mad Frog Uncle Willies or whatever it is in Clifton A bar that was near Akropolis Chili that was slated to be a Hard Rock Cafe but the owner wound up getting swindled Some 2 story bar in Corryville off of short Vine The Blue Wisp in Obryonville and downtown Obryonville Tavern ? The Milner Cafe The New Orleans Cafe (now the Gypsy Hut) Some country bar up near Springdale The place on the corner of Eliza & McMicken, it had several names prior to becoming some sort of jazz club. I went to the redneck incarnations. A bar on McMicken just north of Marshall but south of the convenience store. It's apartments now, I think The Metro Some downtown bar that fancied itself an art gallery as well Stanley's Universal Grille Some place out east of town a bit past Newtown The Old Timber Inn The bar at the Vernon Manor NKY The Jockey Club Southgate House a couple other places in Newport A couple riverboats - one closed down and one moved away Chicago The Aragon Ballroom 3 or 4 other bars I cannot possibly name - One had playboy centerfolds as wallpaper The gay bar my friends and I unwittingly tried to enter would not let us in. PITA in late November Minneapolis 3 or 4 The place that was in Purple Rain San Diego A couple holes in the wall The biker bar across the street from my friend, George's apartment in Ocean Beach Some concert bar that was real popular about 25 years ago. Little bars scattered about little towns in Wisconsin, Minnesota, South Dakota, Wyoming and Oregon including the place in the middle of nowhere in SD that had a coffee can with a garden hose for a drain for a urinal and the place in Wisconsin where the bartender just got up and left, leaving me and my friends to run the bar for about an hour approx 12 in all Tiajuana one nameless stripclub that sold home made beer with sediment in the bottom of the bottle They had a hawker out front who literally grabbed people and tried steering them into the club Los Angeles 3 or 4 completely nameless places San Francisco 3 - 4 nameless places including an Irish place Boise 2 - 3 nameless places Las Vegas A hole in the wall in a strip mall some strip club Caesar's Palace Some little casino near the Hoover Dam Some ski Lodge outside of town A few other big casinos - I forget which ones Memphis 2 - 3 places The bar at the Drake Hotel Deadwood 3 casinos including the one that has the chair that Wild Bill Hicock was shot in hanging on the wall. I hadbeen to that place once before it was a casino Scenic, SD Some little hellhole with animal skulls all over the place and about 6" of sawdust on the floor Rapid City Some hotel bar Indianapolis Downtown Holiday Inn bar Urbana 2 - 3 nameless places that probably aren't there anymore
August 5, 200717 yr I thought traveling was suppose to be pointless?! Barhopping is the exception?! Don't you wanna go where everybody knows your name?!
August 5, 200717 yr I've been to an awful lot of bars, but I don't think I could remember the names or exact location of a quarter of them- almost none of the bars I hit while travelling. Do you write these things down? What's the rattiest dive bar anyone's ever been in?
August 5, 200717 yr Reminds me of the Jim Dine gallery I went to. He has a mural with the name of every person he's ever met, written on it. There's thousands. Some people thinks its genius. I thought it was lame, personally, (along with the rest of his work).
August 5, 200717 yr ... Rob you jogged my memory and I remembered I have been to one in Ft. Wayne, it is across from the Greyhound Station downtown ... Sounds like the 412, named for its location at 412 East Washington Street. From my earliest memory in the 50s up until the late 70s or early 80s, that building housed Krull's Hobby Shop, packed full of Lionel Trains and just about every other wonderful gadget a kid could drool over. For a few years the 412 had some of the best Mexican food in town until the cook left to start his own restaurant at Zulu, a crossroads on US 30 about halfway between Fort Wayne and the Ohio line. I don't think I've been in the 412 in the last 20 years.
August 5, 200717 yr From my earliest memory in the 50s up until the late 70s or early 80s, that building housed Krull's Hobby Shop, packed full of Lionel Trains and just about every other wonderful gadget a kid could drool over. Hobby shops were cool. There is really no modern equivalent.
August 5, 200717 yr I could never remember the name of every bar I was in. There are countless bars in places like Chicago where we'd go on a "Drink 'n Hike". I never knew the names of those places by the end of the night.
August 6, 200717 yr >The hotel bar on Central Parkway just south of CTC Wow. Can't imagine what occasion brought you to that place. >There were about 3 bars on 2nd street that were popular for a while Yeah I remember The Hurricane Surf Club which had that airplane sticking out of it, Caddy's, and I think a place called Flannigan's. >That horrible disco hell on the corner of Vine and McMillan - Burgundy's ? it had several incarnations I think it was Prime Time last and closed around 1989 and then rotted for 15 years. There was also a place in the University Plaza shopping center called "Vertigo's" which was like one of those small-town dance clubs but was in a city strip mall. >The Blue Wisp in Obryonville and downtown I never went to the one in O'Bryonville. The basement location in Piatt Park was a fantastic bar, I don't think anyone likes the new location better. It's funny how they replaced the old Blue Wisp with an ATM machine. >A bar on McMicken just north of Marshall but south of the convenience store. It's apartments now, I think I think it's completely vacant, actually. I never went in there but they had the building looking pretty nice for awhile but now it's fading and looking rough. Seems like a really bad location for a bar though, I don't know who they were expecting to show up. The view wasn't very good and the neighborhood is pretty thinly populated. >Top Cat's I've seen some bands there and I played there two times. There was another bar in the basement called Fat Cat's. >Some little casino near the Hoover Dam Somebody told me recently they got pulled over ON the Hoover Dam. >Reminds me of the Jim Dine gallery I went to. He has a mural with the name of every person he's ever met, written on it. There's thousands. Some people thinks its genius. I thought it was lame, personally, (along with the rest of his work). Yeah Jim Dine is pretty tough. He's one of those guys that a handful of obscure critics really like and then literally nobody else gets it because he was one of the first people like Jasper Johns to reject Modernism right when it was at full power. More recently there was a video artist from England named Jillian Wearing who made a totally brilliant video piece called "Broad St. 2001" where she had all this totally hilarious bar footage and showed it in all directions with the sound overlapping so it became a lot like actually being in a crowd and if you choose to watch someone you would tune out the video and sound from all the others. Video art usually stinks but this thing was fantastic because the basic idea was great and the individual video clips were totally spot-on. Here is a link to some stills: http://www.artonfilm.co.uk/gillian.html >Sounds like the 412, named for its location at 412 East Washington Street. Seems familiar. I think it was at least two and maybe three combined storefronts and there might have been a second building because there was a one or two foot step between two sections of the place.
August 6, 200717 yr I could never remember the name of every bar I was in. There are countless bars in places like Chicago where we'd go on a "Drink 'n Hike". I never knew the names of those places by the end of the night. Exactly, but it has to be more than 230 for me. I usually have this weird thing for wanting to try new spots out ... at least more-so than my friends.
August 6, 200717 yr I've been to Red Brick many times, i just forgot to write it. I also forgot to mention The Oak Room or whatever that place is down in that weird strip mall where the railroad yard used to be. I also missed going to the West End Tavern before it closed suddenly. The landlord came in in late 2002 or early 2003 and literally boarded over the whole place at about 5am one night because the bar hadn't paid rent in 4 or 5 months. There's also a bar in the OU Inn I never went to (although I heard rumors that some girls actually would go over there to meet professors, etc.) and some place called The Maplewood or something like that over by Wal-Mart, but nobody ever went out there. Comparing and contrasting the C.I. and the Red Brick, they're sort of flipped in that the upstairs of the Red Brick is casual but the downstairs is oddly seedy, but meanwhile the upstairs of the C.I. is a combat zone whereas the basement is quite relaxed. I really think there's something about the actual layout of the Athens bars that contributes to the mood of the town, because none of the spaces in the bars are very big. Some of these newer chain bars in the cities are so big, there are hundreds and hundreds of people at them and it creates a much different mood. I think there's a certain sense of trust that people get in the Athens bars because the individual rooms are small. Also Evolution used to be called Night Court (it's right next to the couthouse, and below a law office) and there used to be a bar in the Bromley tower next to the barbershop called The Nickelodeon, which preceded OU buying that building. I forgot too that I've been to a bar under the front steps of the chemistry building at Rice University. They had 50 cent 8oz drafts and it was not just on campus but in a building where real stuff happens. I think it closed at midnight but nevertheless OU and many other universities have kicked bars completely off their campuses while some top universities keep going with it unscathed.
August 6, 200717 yr Dayton Gilly's Walnit Hills Bar (in Walnut Hills) Sam's The She Club The She? Damn dude that brings back some old memories.
August 6, 200717 yr >>The hotel bar on Central Parkway just south of CTC >Wow. Can't imagine what occasion brought you to that place. Decided to do a pub crawl home after work one Friday. The place was packed and the middle aged waitress in support everything and Tammy faye makeup was actually kinda hot. >The She? Damn dude that brings back some old memories. Was that a gay bar ? I went there because the punk/new wave bands started playing there.
August 6, 200717 yr This list isn't comprehensive, so I'll keep updating as I remember: Cleveland Metro Smart Bar U4ia Trilogy/Metropolis Club 1148 Aqua Moda Shooters Legends The Basement Cloud 9 Van Gogh Cafe D'Vine Jillians in the Flats 5 Cent Decision Leather Stallion Flat Iron Cafe Twist The Hawk Deco Bounce/Union Station The Cage Rockies Oasis (on W. 29th) Visions The Grid (W. 9th) The Grid (St. Clair) Numbers Atlantis Hamiltons 9 of Clubs Mercury Lounge Eve Liquid/Fusion Spy Bar ABC Tavern Argos/Longevity Mans World/Shed South Side Hotz Boneyard Domino Lounge Apex BOY Diamondback Brewery Rock Bottom Brewery Thirsty Parrot Edisons Flannerys House of Cues Hooples Velvet Tango Room Lava Lounge The Garage Bier Markt Great Lakes Brewing Company Market Avenue Wine Bar Touch Supper Club Bottoms Up/Abasso House of Blues Velvet Dog Sunset Lounge V Lounge View 2527 Prosperity Social Club Ritz-Carlton Lounge Old Angle Parkview Sinergy Winking Lizard (downtown) McGintys (Lakewood) McCarthys (Lakewood) Around the Corner (Lakewood) Rush Inn (Lakewood) Martinis (Lakewood) Sullivans (Lakewood) McNultys (Cleveland Heights) Rhythm Room (Cleveland Heights) Pub on Lee (Cleveland Heights) Varietals (Cleveland Heights) Fairmount Martini Bar (Cleveland Heights) Winking Lizard (Cleveland Heights) Bar Louie (Lyndhurst) Akron Metro Interbelt Babylon Club 358 Tear-Ez Adams Street Jillians Annabelles Thursdays The Attic Cocktails Bedrocks Status Lydias Kepners (Hudson) Brubakers (Hudson) Winking Lizard (Peninsula) Scorchers (Cuyahoga Falls) Rays (Kent) Town Tavern (Kent) Shark Club (Kent) Palomino (Kent) The Loft (Kent) Canton The Boardwalk 540 Walnut BB McClains Youngstown Cedars Penguin Pub Joshua II The Exchange Jillians Salem BB Rooners Penn Grille Side Door Hickory Rib Timberlanes Lounge Rickys Pub Columbus Axis Havana Wall Street Brewery in the Nationwide District Some awful after-hours west of downtown Cincinnati York St. Cafe Sudsys Mt. Adams Pavillion The Dock Top Cats The Comet Hamburger Marys DV8 Northside Tavern Clau Havana Martini Club Bar at the Orchid at Palm Court Chicago Cocktail Circuit Hydrate Roscoe's Sidetrack New York City Limelight Roxy Tunnel USA Plaid Robots Le Bar Bat Hiro XL SBNY Lipps Therapy East of 8th G Lounge Barracuda Gyms Heartland Brewery (Rockefeller Ctr.) CBGBs Webster Hall B Bar Viceroy Balthazar Russian Tea Room Pittsburgh Eagle Images Pegasus (possibly the most horrific gay club I've ever set foot in) Washington DC Traxx Fifth Colvmn Baltimore Orpheus Las Vegas Tao Buddha Bar at the Palms Krave Phoenix Amsterdam BS West Charlies Red Bar Sky Bar Puerto Penasco, Mexico JJs Margaritavilla The Point clevelandskyscrapers.com Cleveland Skyscrapers on Instagram
August 6, 200717 yr Hell, I not only can't remember all the bars I've been in, I can't remember all the bars I went to in one night, when we set the "record" of nine (my brother's 21st birthday). We used to have a nickname of "novena" when we'd hit three or more bars in a night. It came from the Catholic practice of sometimes traveling to several different churches and praying the rosary in each. I know....tempation of lightning. :evil: Of couse I've probably been going to bars since some here have been alive. I carded a woman last Friday night who was born on my 21st birthday. :-o
August 6, 200717 yr "Some gay bar by accident". LOL Im sure that happens to everybody checking out a new city. I've only been to one gay bar, Casa Nueva in Athens, and it wasn't by accident. I was completely out of money and figured if I talked to a gay dude, he'd buy me a drink. It worked, I chugged the drink, and then headed to Crystal. I felt like an asshole, but then I thought "Hey, chicks do this kind of stuff all the time." It was one of those desperate situations. I had lost my friends, didn't have my cell phone, and wasn't drunk enough for the Crystal. Casa Nueva was right there in front of me. Normally, I'd just go to the Crystal, find a sorority friend, and have her spot me for a drink. I had been doing that the entire week, and had exhausted my resources. The gay bar was my last resort. That boy who bought you a cocktail should have gay card revolked!
August 6, 200717 yr "Some gay bar by accident". LOL Im sure that happens to everybody checking out a new city. My one straight guy friend would always get offended if we went to the gay bar (usually Shooters in Cincinnati) and he did NOT get hit on or his butt pinched, etc.
August 6, 200717 yr Earlier this summer I went to the short north to fill out applications at restaurants for a part time job (I'm in Columbus just for the summer) and went into a few where applications had questions like "Are you a member of any GLBT sports teams?" I didn't realize how gay the neighborhood is.
August 6, 200717 yr I've only been to one gay bar, Casa Nueva in Athens, and it wasn't by accident. I was completely out of money and figured if I talked to a gay dude, he'd buy me a drink. It worked, I chugged the drink, and then headed to Crystal. I felt like an asshole, but then I thought "Hey, chicks do this kind of stuff all the time." One thing worse than a slut is a tease, and paybacks are hell. One of these days you'll be selling your a$$ on the street corner for booze or drugs. Dirty old men will use you and abuse you and then refuse you your $20. :-D
August 6, 200717 yr I've only been to one gay bar, Casa Nueva in Athens, and it wasn't by accident. I was completely out of money and figured if I talked to a gay dude, he'd buy me a drink. It worked, I chugged the drink, and then headed to Crystal. I felt like an asshole, but then I thought "Hey, chicks do this kind of stuff all the time." Chicks get away with it because guys are usually reluctant to pop a girl in the nose.
August 6, 200717 yr ^I have a few hot female friends that I go to places like Martinos with and have them get free beer for me (I'm not even 21 until October..) What they do is go up guys at the bar and ask them to buy pitchers of beer for them and offer them money for it, then of course the guys insist on giving it to them free, not knowing the beer wasn't even for them in the first place. The plan is genius.
August 6, 200717 yr ^ brilliant! i was jokingly accused in hs by one of my teachers of going around and grabbing the half drunk pitchers of beers off the tables while people were dancing. he was on to me.
August 6, 200717 yr One thing worse than a slut is a tease, and paybacks are hell. One of these days you'll be selling your a$$ on the street corner for booze or drugs. Dirty old men will use you and abuse you and then refuse you your $20. :-D Rob, your sweet and innocent and all, but do you really think C-Dawg Njaim can get $20 for services rendered?
August 6, 200717 yr >Sounds like the 412, named for its location at 412 East Washington Street. Seems familiar. I think it was at least two and maybe three combined storefronts and there might have been a second building because there was a one or two foot step between two sections of the place. Yep, that would have been this place. It's a triple storefront; the hobby shop was in the two single-story storefronts on the left:
August 6, 200717 yr Dayton Gilly's Walnit Hills Bar (in Walnut Hills) Sam's The She Club You must go way back here. I heard that the Walnut Hills was really in Walnut Hills at one time. Sam's also sounds vaguely familiar.
August 6, 200717 yr "I have a few hot female friends that I go to places like Martinos with and have them get free beer for me (I'm not even 21 until October..) What they do is go up guys at the bar and ask them to buy pitchers of beer for them and offer them money for it, then of course the guys insist on giving it to them free, not knowing the beer wasn't even for them in the first place. The plan is genius. " Until one of two things happens...the guys spot it and start a fight or the bar figures out underagers are getting snuck drinks and set a "21 and over" policy. Or the first leads to the second. A succesful bar can't afford two things: underage drinking or a reputation as a punch palace.
August 6, 200717 yr Martino's on Thirsty Thursday is ridiculously crowded, especially upstairs by the dancefloor, so if a girl runs off with a pitcher of beer, no one is going to notice. In fact, underage girls drive sales like no other. Its not like it looks like a scam, they ask the dudes to buy it with their own money. But guys will do anything when the PROSPECT of vagina is there. Martinos did go to 21+. I think they're back down to 18 now.
August 6, 200717 yr You must go way back here. I heard that the Walnut Hills was really in Walnut Hills at one time. Sam's also sounds vaguely familiar. Sam's was downtown - sw of the center. A folk/bluegrass/blues place that made 10 times more money booking the punk & new wave bands. There was an old hippie bartender there who made it clear he hated the music and the customers. We had a lot of fun with him. The Walnut Hills was the embodiment of hell in a refurbished old house on a corner of Wayne Ave at #2033. Their specialty was Stroh's by the quart. (This was back when they still made the stuff in Detroit)
August 7, 200717 yr This was a challenge. Yes, I was quite a party boy: Cleveland Euclid Tavern Aquilon Agora Peabody’s Down Under The Mining Company Beach Club Fagan’s Playdium River’s Edge Rumrunners D'Poos Noisemakers Shooters U4ia Jillians Flat Iron Cafe Legends Keys Twist The Hawk The Grid Numbers Great Lakes Brewing Company Akron Interbelt Youngstown Cedars The New Music Station The Exchange Jillians The Mixx Marco Polo Hollywood Tavern Gabriel’s Evergreens The Act II Agora The Cave The Fireplace Moose Club The Flat Iron Coconut Grove Bill’s Place The Bowery The Mansion Mickey’s Columbus Axis Havana Union Station Eagle Tradewinds Chicago Circuit Sidetrack Crobar North End New York City Limelight Roxy G Twilo Playdium Tunnel Washington DC Traxx Apex 30 Degrees Las Vegas New York New York Casino Bars Angles Krave Los Angles Area Factory Mickey’s Revolver O-Bar Fubar Rage Palm Springs Oasis Street Bar San Francisco Badlands Twin Peaks The End Up Dallas JR’s Hideaway S4 Sue Ellen’s Pittsburgh Pegasus Images Eagle Charleston, SC Pantheon Dudley’s Savannah, GA Club One Boston Avalon Axis Eagle Rise Provincetown A-House Boatslip Alibi Florida Keys Key Deer Bar & Grill The Last Resort Key West Sloppy Joe’s 801 La Te Da Aqua Margeritaville Atlantic Shores Diva's Miami Uncle Charlie’s Cactus Space Miami Beach Mansion Salvation Pump The Clevelander Loading Zone Twist Billboard Live Score Club Deep Liquid Wet Willies The Front Porch Club Crystal Cameo The Delano The Fountain Blue Nikki Beach Opium Garden Crobar Mango’s The Laundry Bar Touch Level Vivid Club Zen Warsaw Fort Lauderdale Baja Beach Club Club Caribbean Backstreet Marlin Beach Copa Rosebuds Shooters Bushes End Up Everglades Paradise The Loft Cathode Ray The Candy Store Penrod’s The Elbow Room Voodoo Lounge Bootleggers The Hideaway Bimini Boat Yard Bone Fish Tunnel Bar The Coliseum Parrot Lounge Archie’s Place Cheers Aruba Beach Café Boardwalk Seawatch Pat’s Place Alibi Boom Phoenix Club Steel Bada Bing Port Hole Pub M.J’s Sports Bar Elements Banana Boat Lounge The Cove The Stud The Saint Arena Saigon Tropics Tampa Parthenon Traxx The Jungle Metropolis Garage Pleasuredome Club Matrix Boca Raton Choices West Palm Beach Enigma Heartbreakers HG Rooster's Kashmir Krome Orlando Firestone Full Moon Saloon Southern Nights Pulse Cactus Club Phoenix Fort Myers TBL Philadelphia Woody’s Atlanta Backstreet New Orleans In Exile Oz Parade London Trade Paradise Island Bahamas Bars at Atlantis Toronto, Hamilton, and Niagara Falls Canada Several bars but I can’t remember their names. I was old enough to drink there but not of legal age in the US.
August 7, 200717 yr Florida Guy I saw the interbelt, Sue Ellens, Backstreet & woody's. Oh laaaaaaaaaaaaaawd!
August 7, 200717 yr Personally, I think the drinking age should be 18, or at least up to the states. IMO it's bullmodell that a 20 year old can be considered old enough to use automatic weapons to guard nuclear weapons, but not old enough to drink a clintoning beer. But...the consequences are pretty harsh for the bartenders (personally) and the business if they get busted. And while ODLC isn't nearly as aggressive as Texas, they will occasionally investigate a place that's rumored to be serving underage, especially if they think the municpality is looking the other way.
August 7, 200717 yr Honey I've been to Sue Ellen's and JR's. Too many things....'nuff said! However, nothing is worse than watching a drunk queen be thrown out of of OZ by a bouncer with pink nail polish. Then listen to the drunk call the bouncer low country white trash!
August 7, 200717 yr LOL! The thing is, 99% of the time someone mouths off while getting kicked out, one of two pop culture quotes will apply: "It's a job, nothing personal" -Patrick Swayze in "Roadhouse". (translation: he doesn't really care what you have to say). "I don't know know how many bouncers it would take to kick my ass, but I know how many they were gunna use." -Ron White
August 7, 200717 yr Florida Guy, when do you have time to do anything else? That's a lot of drinking and socializing! And Twin Peaks in SF? Do don't seem nearly old enough! Even I'm not that old!!
August 7, 200717 yr This was a challenge. Yes, I was a quite a party boy: I think you missed a key word here. The last time I was in SF (2000) it was open.
August 7, 200717 yr Oh, the Twin Peaks is still there, but the average age of the clientele is quite advanced. I'm in my mid-fifties but even I feel quite youthful when looking in the windows. :evil: In my day I hit a pub or two, but now walk past and just sigh, living vicarously, knowing that a new generation should enjoy life's pleasures. That and the fact that my liver is shot.
August 7, 200717 yr Yes I understood you were referring to the clientele. I didn't want to offend anyone by calling it an old troll bar. It is a historic site none the less.
August 7, 200717 yr I think Florida Guy is in the lead for named bars at roughly 225 which means he's probably been to quite a few more. Rob, yes that is the place in Ft. Wayne. I think your photo illustrates perfectly how that place could tempt anyone stuck in a layover at that tiny Greyhound station. Like I said I was there with a group from a wedding, and being dressed up seems to give wedding groups permission to crash any neighborhood bar. C-Dawg, your "gaybardar" is a bit off with regards to Casa Cantina. They have dance nights a few times per month but otherwise that place is simply an alternative to everything else in town. That said I don't particularly like the place because the live music is always too loud and I don't think it has a very comfortable layout. Then again the music is too loud pretty much everywhere.
August 7, 200717 yr Can we ever not turn any thread into something perverted? I'm sorry! I'll try harder to be nice. :oops: He started it, though.
August 7, 200717 yr Can we ever not turn any thread into something perverted? I'm sorry! I'll try harder to be nice. :oops: He started it, though. You didn't answer my question! LOL
August 8, 200717 yr Personally, I think the drinking age should be 18, or at least up to the states. IMO it's bullmodell that a 20 year old can be considered old enough to use automatic weapons to guard nuclear weapons, but not old enough to drink a clintoning beer. Amen, Brother!
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