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What are some of your favorites?
I like the Crying Towel, Beefy's Cabin is great, the Smogcutter, the Strawberry Hill..........
I like the Crying Towel, Beefy's Cabin is great, the Smogcutter, the Strawberry Hill..........
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Mon, December 8, 2003 - 1:57 PMI used to live up the hill, great to go to...hard to get home! -
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Mon, December 8, 2003 - 2:00 PMI actually have a dive near my house that just says "Lounge" on the outside. I used to go to a chinese restaurant called "Chinese Restaurant" so why not go to a lounge called "Lounge'?
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Mon, December 8, 2003 - 2:00 PMIt was named after the owner's daughter, Sadie. -
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Mon, December 8, 2003 - 2:06 PMI met the owner while he worked at the Albion, great dive, not so great name. I made the lights that hang over the bar at Sadies. -
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Mon, December 8, 2003 - 2:14 PMRight on! I used to frequent the Albion myself, from about 98 to 2000. I originally went there for the free drinks from my buddy Eric. I also would go to hang out wit my fave bartendress Ana......and to look at Jules' pretty face, even tho she was a mental wreck. I think I was the only one there who didn't do coke. That bar sold as much coke as it did beer and liquor.
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Mon, December 8, 2003 - 2:11 PMI've always liked the cleverness of the Dew Drop Inn.
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Mon, December 8, 2003 - 2:18 PMYou know.. I didn't get that until you just made me stop and think. I must be slipping... I usually get shit like that... the perils of marijauna use.
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Mon, December 8, 2003 - 2:18 PMlol, one of two people not doing coke. I was the other one. I gave it up a long time ago. sometimes the bathroom was more crowded than the bar. I probably would recognize you, but your pictures come up a little too small. -
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Mon, December 8, 2003 - 2:24 PMtwo bars in Tucson AZ that were dives when I went there. The Green Dolphin and the Stumble Inn. I liked the Stumble Inn because it had a big threshold to trip over, so if you were drunk or had never been there, you would "stumble In"
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Mon, December 8, 2003 - 2:25 PMThe Dew Drop Inn sounds familiar. Is that in SF? -
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Mon, December 8, 2003 - 2:42 PMThe one I saw was when I was a kid staring out the back seat window of the rental car my family was driving on one of our travel adventures. I wish I could remember where I was when I saw it. I think it was somewhere on the East Coast. But I think there are many bars named that all over the country. I don't know if there is one in SF though.
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Tue, December 9, 2003 - 2:35 PMThere are many bars called "Dew Drop Inn". It is one of my favorite bar names, too. Every time I see it, it cracks me up.
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Mon, July 16, 2007 - 11:19 AM"There are many bars called "Dew Drop Inn". It is one of my favorite bar names, too. Every time I see it, it cracks me up."
There was one called the "Come Back Inn" in the suburbs of Chicago. Great burgers and a huge fireplace. On one side was the head of a moose mounted above the fireplace. On the other side of the wall the back end of the moos was mounted.
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Mon, December 8, 2003 - 2:42 PMIt's not a dive but one of my favorite bars here is Club Foot. -
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Mon, December 15, 2003 - 4:04 PMThat's just because of the cute bartender...
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Mon, December 8, 2003 - 9:48 PMThe Dew Drop Inn is in Texas near Houston.
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Mon, December 8, 2003 - 10:10 PMOkay, these aren't dive bars, but they are (or were) actually bars in Honolulu: Club Shit Ache, Club 88 Fat Fat, and Club New Office (I think it was actually Club New Office II. Wherer or not there was an original Club New Office I is debatable). -
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Tue, December 9, 2003 - 2:42 PMOmigawd....I can't believe I just stumbled across this. Granted it's not a dive bar, but what a name!
www.creepo.net/gallery/al...ortNameEver -
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Tue, December 9, 2003 - 2:52 PMRight on!! Wish I had a nickel for everytime I said that!! hahaha
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Tue, December 9, 2003 - 10:29 PMThese are between Lansing, MI and Detroit: The Bloated Goat Saloon, and the Shady Lady Saloon, were always my favorite names.
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Fri, December 26, 2003 - 9:13 PMawesome name. Where is it? -
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Tue, December 30, 2003 - 6:28 PMit's on the way to russian river in northern california. i've never been in there, but i can assure you, it's a dive bar. i have heard tell!! and i believe EVERYTHING i hear from my fellow drunks...
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Wed, December 10, 2003 - 7:26 PMHMS Bounty - I always wonder if there's going to be a mutiny when I go there and it just strikes me as an odd name for a bar. -
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Sun, December 14, 2003 - 6:25 PMThere is a sketchy looking bar in New Orleans called the ROCK BOTTOM LOUNGE. I always imagine that someday I'll finally hit rock bottom, and, when that day comes, I will have to start drinking there. As of yet, I've never been inside, but my friend Luke who was then a paramedic told me went there once on a call. There was this old lady inside who looked like she was 100 sitting alone at a table, smoking, with a huge ashtray in front of her filled with a pile of over 80 extinguished butts. It looked like she had been sitting there forever. When Luke asked her what was wrong, she complained that she was having chest pains. He was like "uh... then maybe you shouldn't smoke so much." She answered "really? you think that could be what's giving me chest pains?" This fits in perfectly with the idea of the place I had formed in my mind.
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Mon, December 15, 2003 - 1:39 PM"Hotsy Totsy" in Albany, CA
Also, I grew up in Kentucky where we have "wet" and "dry" counties...counties that can sell alcohol and those that can't. As you pass from a wet county into a dry one there is a bar called "Last Chance" but coming the other way it's "First Chance". And in the same area there is a bar called "Dead Horse Tavern" that is in the town called Dead Horse Holler. and yes I know that this will only perpetuate Kentucky stereotypes, but hell y'all know better. ;)
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Mon, December 15, 2003 - 4:11 PMThere is a place in the Mission, SF, at like 22nd Street that is just called "Bar". Good bar, too. -
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Mon, December 15, 2003 - 5:53 PMI used to go to 'BAR'. Would usually run into Mickey and Tommy there. Good guys, good bar. -
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Mon, December 15, 2003 - 7:42 PMI drove by this one in Kissame Florida, Harry Ramsbottoms. My kids couldn't stop giggling.
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Tue, December 16, 2003 - 4:33 AMOne of my favorite dives is in Tucson called "The Shelter." Great bar and atmosphere, almost had me wanting to move there to just hang out!
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Tue, December 16, 2003 - 7:26 AMThere are a few of these about but I can't remember where I saw this but at some point I recall passing by The Horny Toad and it's neighbor bar a few doors down, The Satisfied Frog. -
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Tue, December 16, 2003 - 2:55 PMMustn't forget 'Who's Your Daddy?' in SF. -
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Tue, December 16, 2003 - 2:57 PMYikes! I forgot about Who's Your Daddy. Only ever walked past, didn't go in, but I have a pic of their front sign somewhere at home. If I find it, I'll put it in the album.
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Fri, January 9, 2004 - 10:23 AMWhere in SF is Who's Your Daddy?
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Wed, December 24, 2003 - 10:16 PMCarry Nation, 21st Amendment -
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Fri, December 26, 2003 - 7:41 PMI'm partial to The Copper Rocket and my favorite dive bar that is no more Skinny's(R.I.P.)
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Tue, December 30, 2003 - 4:32 PMBest gay bar names (in SF):
The White Swallow
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Tue, December 30, 2003 - 5:15 PMThere used to be a bar in the Castro in SF called Dicks and it was the only straight bar in the neighborhood! It closed in the mid-90s
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Mon, January 5, 2004 - 12:27 AMThe Golden Gopher, in downtown LA...old Bukowski hangout. -
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Mon, January 5, 2004 - 6:02 AMLucinda: where is the Golden Gohper located? In the film "Barfly," they used the Golden Horn, on Main St., but I heard that entire block was torn down, shortly after the filming was completed. -
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Fri, January 9, 2004 - 9:41 AMI like the "neurolux" in Boise Idaho... But just because everyone calls it the "neurolush" -
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Fri, January 9, 2004 - 10:34 AMBucksnort Tavern in Bucksnort Tennesee -
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Fri, January 9, 2004 - 12:59 PMI might have to seek this place out when I'm in Tennessee!
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Fri, January 9, 2004 - 11:52 PMspeaking of bar names, there used to be a Drunk Tank on Market street in SF. They had a great happy hour, i think it was two for one shots or something. THat was back in '94/'95, don't know when they closed. -
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Sat, January 10, 2004 - 2:38 AMdrunk tank...I remember that place. I don't remember when they closed either - next thing you know, they were gone.
There's a place that isn't too much of a dive but since it's in my hood in SF (and it's been there since I was a kid) - "Would You Believe Cocktails." They've change owners a few times and always kept the name.
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Mon, July 9, 2007 - 7:56 PMI would just like to point out that if anyone thinks that the "Dew Drop Inn" is familiar and is a fan of 80's movies, it was the name of that bar that Demi Moore sang at in the awesome movie "One Crazy Summer". Just a bit of trivia...
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Mon, July 9, 2007 - 11:06 PMTwo more in the Bay Area:
The Mucky Duck in San Francisco (good juke, good beers, and/but pro-indoor-smoking)
The Pub, in South San Francisco, literally in the back half of a bank! -
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Tue, July 10, 2007 - 8:19 AMand another:
Retox - also in Potrero Hill, SF -
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Wed, July 11, 2007 - 2:08 AMRed's Recovery Room
in Sonoma County about an 45 min north of SF. -
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Wed, July 11, 2007 - 3:35 PMi've always liked The Philosopher's Club, in West Portal, because it pretty aptly describes the kind of folks you'll find propping up the bar
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Fri, July 13, 2007 - 7:18 PMPink Elephant in Monte Rio....................................
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Mon, July 16, 2007 - 12:47 PMLooks like someone went dumpster diving to find this old thread... -
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Tue, July 24, 2007 - 3:32 AMThe Mallard in EL Cerrito
Giligins' in Scottsdale AZ. (Complete withe cheesy tropical island theme, and Chuy, the foul mouthed midget!) -
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Mon, September 10, 2007 - 9:29 PMThere's a bar called "It'll Do" in Bossier City, LA. Down the block they opened "It'll Do Too". -
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Fri, May 16, 2008 - 12:49 PMIn Windsor ontario on the same block there are three bars;
1.Big Dicks
2.The Liquor Box
3.Twig and Berries
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Mon, May 19, 2008 - 11:26 AMPickle-U Pub, long gone now from the Cumberland Avenue strip in Knoxville TN, next to the University of Tennessee campus. I spent a lot of time there, probably way too much, but they had about 30 pinball machines (remember those?) and on Monday nights 12oz beer refills were 30 cents. Real hole in the wall, sorta dark, never too clean, but a great place to blow an evening, and for under $10 on a Monday I could drink too much and play pinball all night. Also, as a bonus, you never had to deal with all the frat puppies because they wouldn't be caught dead there. -
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Thu, May 22, 2008 - 10:07 AMyes, 'locals only' nitpicking but... i'd call that location [408 Clement St (between 5th Ave & 6th Ave)] inner richmond and not lower haight. -
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Tue, May 27, 2008 - 2:14 PM...or alternately call that bar mad dog in the fog... -
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Fri, December 5, 2008 - 2:10 AMa friend of mine wanted to open a bar called "dogpatch" where you'd sit on hay bales and all drinks would be served in mason jars.
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Sat, December 20, 2008 - 5:14 PMThere's a Dew Drop Inn in Grass Valley, CA. I just read where Pink's ex husband has a bar in Vegas called Wasted Space...wish I'd thought of that, it's too good.
I don't suppose anyone here ever went to the Shanghai in Auburn? Truly a loss when it shut down. They cleaned it up and shot that John Travolta movie Phenomenon there. I miss the Shang. It's motto: Liquor in the front, Poker in the rear, Good eatin' on the side. -
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Sat, December 20, 2008 - 5:32 PMbwahaha! that's awesome.
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Wed, April 29, 2009 - 11:08 AMDicks Last Resort in San Diego and Tipsy McStaggers in Rochester, NY...
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Wed, April 29, 2009 - 11:01 PMThis one is in Vegas, and I think Pink's husband owns it:
Wasted Space
Too perfect.
