You know you’re in a dive bar when…

[irul&ublo]

…the sign behind the bar says $5 minimum on credit cards

Montana’s Place Portland

[MakersTeleMark]

Cash only. You are going fancy. And the egg from the jar better be denominated in quarters.

And there better be a trough in the closet and every black plastic ashtray looks like swiss cheese.

[Peruvian]

Black and tan (was white but cigarette smoke has tinged them) asbestos tiles on the floor, wood panel walls, the bartender pours a shot for himself when you order one, and the two guys down the bar and arguing if the third shift is worth the extra pay.

[SKIP IN7RO]

Powers, step into my office. Let's do some blow.

[halliday]

There is a really fucking good juke box and a couple pac man table top games. And a ply wood floor.

[Buster Highmen]

sticky floor
big hair
eyes maplike from too much turquoise shadow.

[bennymac]

It opens at 9am 365 days of the year.

[californiagrown]

Dark/minimal lighting. The distinctly sweet smell of urinal cakes. At least one, but not more than two pool tables. Operates as usual when there is a power outage.

[Cisco Kid]

Dive Bar - A bar that people in the neighborhood say good girls shouldn't go into.

[RShea]

Has a reputation for being a shot and a beer type of place. But the shot could be in a glass with the beer chaser or a 9mm or some similar concealed and carry popular gun pulled out in a fight. Barf on the always sticky floor regularly also...

[irul&ublo]

It opens at 9am 365 days of the year.

9 am???? WTF. Cheaters, Sacramento open at 6/365.

[irul&ublo]

Cash only. You are going fancy. And the egg from the jar better be denominated in quarters.

And there better be a trough in the closet and every black plastic ashtray looks like swiss cheese.

And cigarettes sold individually

[XXX-er]

It opens at 9am 365 days of the year.

I met a woman who owned " The Croft " in downtown Prince George which openned at 9am and closed at 11, she said it was a good business model cuz you got the serious drinkers first thing and you got rid of them at 11pm before they became a problem

i was once in the Sunrise hotel on skid row in the downtown east side generally considered the worst bar in vancover, it had all weather carpet on the walls, I sat with my back to the wall and in the event of trouble I had picked out which tables I would walk on to get out

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

They've bolted the bar stools to the floor.

[schindlerpiste]

PBR on tap and in cans is the beverage of choice. Dingy. Low light. Pool table, shuffleboard. Hookers giving head in bathroom for a saw buck.

[MagnificentUnicorn]

9 am???? WTF. Cheaters, Sacramento open at 6/365.

Hilltop!


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[skaredshtles]

Jar of pickled bologna. Extra points if it's Koegels.

[PB]

Bologna's upscale. Vienna sausages or cubed spam is more divey.

[ticketchecker]

Pic taken in the men’s room, shockingly I can’t remember the name of the joint. It was one of the most spectacular dives I had the pleasure of drinking in.

Circa 2010, Collinsville, CT




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[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

I was bartending at a scuzzy place in West Hollywood in the late 80's, and we had those generic matchbooks on the bar for the customers. I asked the manager why we didn't have matchbooks made with the name of the bar. He said the owner didn't want to be tracked down when one of the drunks killed themselves (and others) on the drive home.

[HannibalChew]

The single woman at the bar has nicotine stains on on her oxygen mask

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

Bars opening at 7 am wasn't always a sign of dive. In a 3 shift factory town, when the graveyard clocked out the workers needed a place to drink, who gives a fuck it was 8 o'clock in the morning.

[Soups]

Carpet and vinyl booths

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[Core Shot]

Shake of the day?
Common in ski town skid bars.

[east or bust]

… you’re in Butte City Idaho.


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