You know you’re in a dive bar when…

[Buzzworthy]

This is the truth. I'd include all of western PA.

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A Morgantown Icon. Complete with feisty Irish bartender Lucy, day drunks, college students, and the Gene's special - a chili dog served using a pepperoni roll as a bun.

Started my beer career in there and many other proper dives in Motown. It was chock full of em. Fucking great memories. Or not, at Mutts, where the nitrous hits while bellied up to the bar will do to ya. That was a fucking trip. Could also buy a 4 foot bong in the back to take home.

[BC13]

Back around 1990 my wife and I were coming back from TSV and stopped in Abe's in Arroyo Seco for a couple of beers. I don't know what it's like now, but back then it was kinda low. Not long after we sat down some guy came in the door wanting to use the phone. Obviously not local, he started complaining about his rental breaking down. Bartender rolled his eyes and asked what beer he wanted while he was waiting for the tow truck. Touron declined the beer and asked for a mineral water. Holy shit you'd think he asked to fuck the bartender's mom.

Abe's, and Abe himself, will always be fond memories for me.

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[AK47bp]

Started my beer career in there and many other proper dives in Motown. It was chock full of em. Fucking great memories. Or not, at Mutts, where the nitrous hits while bellied up to the bar will do to ya. That was a fucking trip. Could also buy a 4 foot bong in the back to take home.

Nitros in bars was a unique Morgantown feature. Never saw that anywhere else. What a fucking ridiculous good time that place was.

[Buzzworthy]

Nitros in bars was a unique Morgantown feature. Never saw that anywhere else. What a fucking ridiculous good time that place was.

Haha you aren’t kidding.
That’s why most of us decided we needed an extra year for that 4 year bachelors.

[Buzzworthy]

My strip club career started there too.
I’m thinking I was scarred for life from those girls as I never really got into strip clubs throughout my life.

[Core Shot]

I was politely putting the peanut shells in a bowl and the bartender slapped both bowls off the bar and yelled “THE FUCKIN SHELLS GO ON THE FLOOR”. Good times and happy to be sober

True dive bar tell.

The peanut shells clean the floor from spilled beer piss and vomit.

[whipski]

Lake City Saloon long before Texans for Jesus took over a 4th of July night peanut shells floating in beer on the floor and a drunk rancher rides his horse into the bar and orders drinks

[MagnificentUnicorn]

I can’t even remember the name but the bar in Sandpoint on Unga Island in the Aleutians. Snorting rails on the bar waiting for the windowpane to kick in. What a shithole.


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[romeo tango]

I can’t even remember the name but the bar in Sandpoint on Unga Island in the Aleutians. Snorting rails on the bar waiting for the windowpane to kick in. What a shithole.

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"out here on the perimeter there are no stars...."

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[Self Jupiter]

If the name of the bar has "Inn" in the name, chances are you can sit on plastic lawn furniture around a folding table while drinking a Bud heavy and a shot of Jager that cost $5 with tip.

Drove by this Upstate as fuck place on my drives to Ithaca but never had the courage to go inside.

[Pow4Brains]

They've bolted the bar stools to the floor.

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I know that place! The one in Brockton is good too.


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[Mudfoot]

The sink in the men's room is really high so drunks that don't want to wait in line won't piss in it.

[BmillsSkier]

Drove by this Upstate as fuck place on my drives to Ithaca but never had the courage to go inside.

That place looks legit. You just know the bartender rolled out of bed upstairs there before their shift. And by bed I mean mattress on the floor covered in cat piss and cigarette butts.

Looks like some of the places you'd see on the way to E'ville once you got off the Southern Tier Expressway.

[AK47bp]

The sink in the men's room is really high so drunks that don't want to wait in line won't piss in it.

The best dives leave’em low

[californiagrown]

You know youre in a dive bar when well liquor is assumed unless stated otherwise.
... being shitfaced isnt making a scene.
... getting to know the other person bellied up to the bar makes your current problems seem trivial.

[muted reborn]

They've bolted the bar stools to the floor.

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A college buddy use to steal a bar stool from the Upstairs Zebra (now Bar 317) frequently and walk a block to his apartment with it. The closing scene at that place was a bit chaotic and understaffed so it was really easy. The funny part was when he got focused and wide-eyed as they were kicking everyone out, he was kinda excited to make it happen.

I would guess they bolted the stools in Wolfpoint so you couldn't throw them, right?

[MontuckyFried]

A college buddy use to steal a bar stool from the Upstairs Zebra (now Bar 317) frequently and walk a block to his apartment with it. The closing scene at that place was a bit chaotic and understaffed so it was really easy. The funny part was when he got focused and wide-eyed as they were kicking everyone out, he was kinda excited to make it happen.

I would guess they bolted the stools in Wolfpoint so you couldn't throw them, right?

Hanging out at that Wolfpoint bar a bit something like this?

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

A college buddy use to steal a bar stool from the Upstairs Zebra (now Bar 317) frequently and walk a block to his apartment with it. The closing scene at that place was a bit chaotic and understaffed so it was really easy. The funny part was when he got focused and wide-eyed as they were kicking everyone out, he was kinda excited to make it happen.

I would guess they bolted the stools in Wolfpoint so you couldn't throw them, right?

You would be correct. But it seems like getting stabbed has now taken the place of getting knocked out by a bar stool.

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

Hanging out at that Wolfpoint bar a bit something like this?

No. It would be more like this.

https://www.krtv.com/news/crime-and-...stabbing-a-man

[Peruvian]

Drove by this Upstate as fuck place on my drives to Ithaca but never had the courage to go inside.

That ‘85 Chrysler Reliant K car with the Landau roof parked out front is what really ties the argument that it’s a dive bar down.

[BmillsSkier]

That ‘85 Chrysler Reliant K car with the Landau roof parked out front is what really ties the argument that it’s a dive bar down.

Upstate as fuck.

[Ted Striker]

Name that bar.

Was it in the location where Targy's is now?

[BmillsSkier]

If the number of windows on the bar is greater than the number of people freezing their assess off outside to smoke then I don't think it qualifies as a dive.

[AK47bp]

A little Seattle trivia for current or ex Seattlites.

About 25 years ago, I would go to this little dive on Queen Anne, which is usually an oxymoron based on the area..


Name that bar.


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Blue Oyster

[oftpiste]

The Brick Tavern in Roslyn, WA was a dive bar once, now a gentrified tourist spot faux-dive unfortunately. But I think they still have the running-water spittoon trough below your feet at the base of the bar. I got thrown out of there on Halloween of 1979 (?) for snorting coke off the bar. I mean, everyone was doing it!