| FOOD Dive bars - cool story about one in NY's East Village. (Homewood, AL spot is featured.)

[It Takes Eleven]

@It Takes Eleven Hotel Indigo, Mount Pleasant. Had a Tito's vodka cucumber lime...

#NOTadivebar

@TerryP Courtyard Oyster Bar & Grill, Cropwell. Had a Bud Light. Killin' Time in Pell City...had a Bud Light. Roadhouse 78 Lounge, PC...had a Bud Light. Bootleggers Lounge, Riverside...you get the idea.

Bootleggers is not a dive bar. The water's too shallow. Better to wade in.

 

[TerryP]

@It Takes Eleven this is a wife place.

 

[RollllTide!]

Ha! Been there a couple times (for lunch), never knew about the fig leaf buzzer entrapment machine... that's awesome. At one time, several years back, wasn't there a rumor that Callaghan's was going to open up a 2nd spot there?

Yea they bought Mancis. Manci's daddy and grandaddy drank all the liquor in those decanters. They had two jack Russells that would greet you. Gwen made a great burger and there was always some crazies at the bar

 

[It Takes Eleven]

@It Takes Eleven this is a wife place.

I had no idea. A belated congratulations to you, my friend. When did this happen?

 

[TerryP]

I had no idea. A belated congratulations to you, my friend. When did this happen?

oh, that didn't happen. I was thinking of you and yours. Great weekend get away.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

oh, that didn't happen. I was thinking of you and yours. Great weekend get away.

Okay, thanks.

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

Yea they bought Mancis. Manci's daddy and grandaddy drank all the liquor in those decanters. They had two jack Russells that would greet you. Gwen made a great burger and there was always some crazies at the bar

Ok, I was thinking it was something like that. I'll have to try and make time to stop in for a burger when I'm down there one of these times.

 

[TerryP]

 

[RollllTide!]

I grew up in this section of GA. I remember this place with no sign. Lewis Grizzard made it famous. Willacoochee GA

 

[TerryP]

 

[TerryP]

 

[TerryP]

Look at the neighborhood this one is in...

 

[Rolltide24]

Not labeled on that map at the corner of 3rd Ave and 7th St. is McSorley’s. My favorite bar in NY. Talk about some history and character. Still have a chandelier with wishbones hooked to it from soldiers heading out on deployment to WWI battles.

 

[footballer]

There used to be three places near where I live that I used to frequent often in my younger, darker days and nights. I would not classify either of them as a dive, we called them beer joints. Neither joint did not serve food, though you could purchase a pickled egg or maybe a pigs ear or trotter. The Dixie Cafe was usually full of drunks and nonsense. Dicks Place was full of this, that and the other, and no, it was not a gay bar.
The Rendezvous Bar was about a quarter mile from the City Hall and the jail, but anything you can imagine could and did happen there. I'm not sure if Dicks Place is still open, might be, but the other two are long gone.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

Look at the neighborhood this one is in...



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That's hilarious right around the corner from Please Don't Tell, one of my favorite speakeasy experiences. You enter through a phone booth at a hot dog place.

 

[PurlJam]

 

[Rolltide24]

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That’s my kind of trap!

 

[PurlJam]

That’s my kind of trap!

They give you a block of wood to pound on the table to get the dancers to come dance on your table…..not that I would know anything about that. Ask @UAgrad93 …he’s from that area. (Sorry man, don’t mean to throw you under the bus….buuuuut).