Seattle's Greatest Dive Bar?
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The Duchess
As a guysm who is 1/8 Scots, let me tell you this: Scottish ale is some thick, syruppy, undrinkable sludge.TurdBomber said:
Delicious Scotch Ale, brewed near Gorst. Unbeatable.
Perfect for Dive bars hovering along at 9.2% ABV.
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The Blue Moonwent with the Blue Moon but...
The Central Tavern? many a night spent in that hell hole
Teddy's Off Roosevelt? another place that ruined relationships - women can be so picky about where they drink
Being from the lovely Rainier Beach area (and Skyway) I could include all the local places that started my life of debauchery if I hadn't burned out so many brain cells
Edit: Dollar pitchers at Dante's was another special treat -
Uh-Huh. Takes a Man to drink it versus a glass of flower milk.YellowSnow said:
As a guysm who is 1/8 Scots, let me tell you this: Scottish ale is some thick, syruppy, undrinkable sludge.TurdBomber said:
Delicious Scotch Ale, brewed near Gorst. Unbeatable.
Perfect for Dive bars hovering along at 9.2% ABV. -
The Duchess
I drink the smokiest of Islay whisky that puts hair on your ballz. Ask @PurpleBaze - he can confirm.TurdBomber said:
Uh-Huh. Takes a Man to drink it versus a glass of flower milk.YellowSnow said:
As a guysm who is 1/8 Scots, let me tell you this: Scottish ale is some thick, syruppy, undrinkable sludge.TurdBomber said:
Delicious Scotch Ale, brewed near Gorst. Unbeatable.
Perfect for Dive bars hovering along at 9.2% ABV.
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These were some of the dive bars of the day... my faves were the old Red Robin in the 60's and early 70's before the remodel and the sell out to the franchise developers... [Check out the pic ~ this was a cool ass dive bar with a great view of the water]... and during the same period before the remodels, the Attic and the Red Onion in Madison Park were hole in wall [high school and up] dive bar paradises... these were standing room only hell holes that were a lot of fun.. The RO bathroom was epically bad and featured the legendary quote "Jill blows goats" sign along the disgusting toilet cubical wall.
The most violently interesting dive bar where you had the feeling that a punch-out might take place at any minute was at the fabled Place Pigalle Tavern in the Pike Place Market.. a really edgy late night place where as a special bonus the patrons would stick a leg out the window and climb up a rickety steel ladder [with no landing beneath and that was 5 floors above a descending concrete stairway below] in order to get more stoned on the roof. The roof also had a guy wire strung across it that you could trip on to go over the edge to add to the excitement.
Besides the Doghouse hockey bar which might have been the spookiest place in town,
in the early 70's the most striking dive bar experiences were to be had at Mother's bar on Capital Hill.
At that point, the guy that owned it [George] was a charming and generous drug connection overlord and the place was swimming with drugs, druggies, and a wild assortment of locals including beaten up girl friends that were sporting black eyes.
My friend was a bartender there and he invited me in for a beer so I went... After I sat down George comes out and introduces himself and says that my friend [the bartender] says that you like speed, and puts a giant salad bowl on the bar in front of me which has about 1,000 black beauties in it.
This is like 4 in the afternoon and there are maybe 10 people in the bar at this point. So i laughed at the unexpected offering and said yah... i do, and took one. No no, he says, take a big handful, no charge ~ and then disappears into his office behind the bar leaving the bowl behind.
As the afternoon blended into the early evening the actors were straight out of Carrol's Through the Looking Glass and if you were lucky like I was and hung around and participated in the action, fish were jumping into the boat and later you were going to hook up with a wild looking girl and get invited to an exclusive heroin get together, and all of the excitement that follows ~ including death threats to dealers that were cutting drugs that got dragged in after the burn and at gun point, had to beg for their life.
As a bystander that had simply gone along for the ride with a super hot but absolutely weird girl this was an interesting experience but according to my friend that worked at the bar was just another night at Mothers. -
The Dog House. Tyfys. Thats the one I was trying to remember
Big favorite of ours
I was walking in drunk on my ass as this old guy walks out
Hey its Spiro Agnew! He wasn't amused
Csb
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The Duchess
I still loved the 90s version of Red Robbin. It was still the OG location and felt way cooler than the shopping mall Red Robbin I grew up frequenting at North County Fair Mall close to @RaceBannon 's house.DawgsCanDance said:These were some of the dive bars of the day... my faves were the old Red Robin in the 60's and early 70's before the remodel and the sell out to the franchise developers... [Check out the pic ~ this was a cool ass dive bar with a great view of the water]... and during the same period before the remodels, the Attic and the Red Onion in Madison Park were hole in wall [high school and up] dive bar paradises... these were standing room only hell holes that were a lot of fun.. The RO bathroom was epically bad and featured the legendary quote "Jill blows goats" sign along the disgusting toilet cubical wall.
The most violently interesting dive bar where you had the feeling that a punch-out might take place at any minute was at the fabled Place Pigalle Tavern in the Pike Place Market.. a really edgy late night place where as a special bonus the patrons would stick a leg out the window and climb up a rickety steel ladder [with no landing beneath and that was 5 floors above a descending concrete stairway below] in order to get more stoned on the roof. The roof also had a guy wire strung across it that you could trip on to go over the edge to add to the excitement.
Besides the Doghouse hockey bar which might have been the spookiest place in town,
in the early 70's the most striking dive bar experiences were to be had at Mother's bar on Capital Hill.
At that point, the guy that owned it [George] was a charming and generous drug connection overlord and the place was swimming with drugs, druggies, and a wild assortment of locals including beaten up girl friends that were sporting black eyes.
My friend was a bartender there and he invited me in for a beer so I went... After I sat down George comes out and introduces himself and says that my friend [the bartender] says that you like speed, and puts a giant salad bowl on the bar in front of me which has about 1,000 black beauties in it.
This is like 4 in the afternoon and there are maybe 10 people in the bar at this point. So i laughed at the unexpected offering and said yah... i do, and took one. No no, he says, take a big handful, no charge ~ and then disappears into his office behind the bar leaving the bowl behind.
As the afternoon blended into the early evening the actors were straight out of Carrol's Through the Looking Glass and if you were lucky like I was and hung around and participated in the action, fish were jumping into the boat and later you were going to hook up with a wild looking girl and get invited to an exclusive heroin get together, and all of the excitement that follows ~ including death threats to dealers that were cutting drugs that got dragged in after the burn and at gun point, had to beg for their life.
As a bystander that had simply gone along for the ride with a super hot but absolutely weird girl this was an interesting experience but according to my friend that worked at the bar was just another night at Mothers. -
Sure, at that point it was a pretty nice high tone place with a great deck and good food
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Lack of Earls tells me everything I need to know about you.
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The Duchess
SF, J. I’ve had some nights at Earl’s where you would have died of alcohol poisoning.coronabruin said:Lack of Earls tells me everything I need to know about you.
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This kind of post tells me even more. Wow, just wow.YellowSnow said:
SF, J. I’ve had some nights at Earl’s where you would have died of alcohol poisoning.coronabruin said:Lack of Earls tells me everything I need to know about you.
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Where did the pumpster haunt
Because that's where I want to be -
I forget. I'm either 1/4 or 1/8 Scottish. There's some blurring of the lines back in the 12th-14th centuries.YellowSnow said:
As a guysm who is 1/8 Scots, let me tell you this: Scottish ale is some thick, syruppy, undrinkable sludge.TurdBomber said:
Delicious Scotch Ale, brewed near Gorst. Unbeatable.
Perfect for Dive bars hovering along at 9.2% ABV.
Anyways, both Scotch and Scottish ales are pure swill. My brother loves them. He loves what he faggily refers to as "big beers". Gawd what a homo. That shit ain't beer. At least "flower milk", aka IPA or regular pale ale I suppose, is actual beer. -
F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off....I like a good Scotch Ale when done right. Not a ton that I've ever gotten in to. The oak-aged version of that Silver City is much better than the Magnificent Bastard, IMO.
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chuck said:
I forget. I'm either 1/4 or 1/8 Scottish. There's some blurring of the lines back in the 12th-14th centuries.YellowSnow said:
As a guysm who is 1/8 Scots, let me tell you this: Scottish ale is some thick, syruppy, undrinkable sludge.TurdBomber said:
Delicious Scotch Ale, brewed near Gorst. Unbeatable.
Perfect for Dive bars hovering along at 9.2% ABV.
Anyways, both Scotch and Scottish ales are pure swill. My brother loves them. He loves what he faggily refers to as "big beers". Gawd what a homo. That shit ain't beer. At least "flower milk", aka IPA or regular pale ale I suppose, is actual beer.
Bert Grant Wearing a Tartan Kilt says Fuck Off, IPA Faggots. -
The Duchess
I can’t wait for the first C.O. hardcore husky meetup at the Tumalo Feed Company with @TurdBomber @dflea @BendDawg24 and @Tequilla in attendance.TurdBomber said:chuck said:
I forget. I'm either 1/4 or 1/8 Scottish. There's some blurring of the lines back in the 12th-14th centuries.YellowSnow said:
As a guysm who is 1/8 Scots, let me tell you this: Scottish ale is some thick, syruppy, undrinkable sludge.TurdBomber said:
Delicious Scotch Ale, brewed near Gorst. Unbeatable.
Perfect for Dive bars hovering along at 9.2% ABV.
Anyways, both Scotch and Scottish ales are pure swill. My brother loves them. He loves what he faggily refers to as "big beers". Gawd what a homo. That shit ain't beer. At least "flower milk", aka IPA or regular pale ale I suppose, is actual beer.
Bert Grant Wearing a Tartan Kilt says Fuck Off, IPA Faggots.
Gonna be lit. -
The Blue Moon
This is exactly my vote - Blue Moon.LebamDawg said:went with the Blue Moon but...
The Central Tavern? many a night spent in that hell hole
Teddy's Off Roosevelt? another place that ruined relationships - women can be so picky about where they drink
Being from the lovely Rainier Beach area (and Skyway) I could include all the local places that started my life of debauchery if I hadn't burned out so many brain cells
Edit: Dollar pitchers at Dante's was another special treat
But leaving Teddy's off is an EC-like miss. I used to live a block from there and stumbled home many many times black-out drunk. Gawd I loved that place. -
The Blue Moon
The 90s version? My two dads talk about the 60s version where it was known as just The Red.YellowSnow said:
I still loved the 90s version of Red Robbin. It was still the OG location and felt way cooler than the shopping mall Red Robbin I grew up frequenting at North County Fair Mall close to @RaceBannon 's house.DawgsCanDance said:These were some of the dive bars of the day... my faves were the old Red Robin in the 60's and early 70's before the remodel and the sell out to the franchise developers... [Check out the pic ~ this was a cool ass dive bar with a great view of the water]... and during the same period before the remodels, the Attic and the Red Onion in Madison Park were hole in wall [high school and up] dive bar paradises... these were standing room only hell holes that were a lot of fun.. The RO bathroom was epically bad and featured the legendary quote "Jill blows goats" sign along the disgusting toilet cubical wall.
The most violently interesting dive bar where you had the feeling that a punch-out might take place at any minute was at the fabled Place Pigalle Tavern in the Pike Place Market.. a really edgy late night place where as a special bonus the patrons would stick a leg out the window and climb up a rickety steel ladder [with no landing beneath and that was 5 floors above a descending concrete stairway below] in order to get more stoned on the roof. The roof also had a guy wire strung across it that you could trip on to go over the edge to add to the excitement.
Besides the Doghouse hockey bar which might have been the spookiest place in town,
in the early 70's the most striking dive bar experiences were to be had at Mother's bar on Capital Hill.
At that point, the guy that owned it [George] was a charming and generous drug connection overlord and the place was swimming with drugs, druggies, and a wild assortment of locals including beaten up girl friends that were sporting black eyes.
My friend was a bartender there and he invited me in for a beer so I went... After I sat down George comes out and introduces himself and says that my friend [the bartender] says that you like speed, and puts a giant salad bowl on the bar in front of me which has about 1,000 black beauties in it.
This is like 4 in the afternoon and there are maybe 10 people in the bar at this point. So i laughed at the unexpected offering and said yah... i do, and took one. No no, he says, take a big handful, no charge ~ and then disappears into his office behind the bar leaving the bowl behind.
As the afternoon blended into the early evening the actors were straight out of Carrol's Through the Looking Glass and if you were lucky like I was and hung around and participated in the action, fish were jumping into the boat and later you were going to hook up with a wild looking girl and get invited to an exclusive heroin get together, and all of the excitement that follows ~ including death threats to dealers that were cutting drugs that got dragged in after the burn and at gun point, had to beg for their life.
As a bystander that had simply gone along for the ride with a super hot but absolutely weird girl this was an interesting experience but according to my friend that worked at the bar was just another night at Mothers. -
I didn’t read the whole thread, but if the Tug Inn wasn’t mentioned you should be ashamed. I know it’s closed, but still.
If you’re ever near the Portland airport I defy you to find a divier dive than the Glass House.
https://katu.com/news/local/police-investigate-shooting-at-glass-house-tavern-in-northeast-portland
https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2018/10/one_dead_one_injured_in_shooti.html -
Then how would you classify Guiness, Scottie?chuck said:
I forget. I'm either 1/4 or 1/8 Scottish. There's some blurring of the lines back in the 12th-14th centuries.YellowSnow said:
As a guysm who is 1/8 Scots, let me tell you this: Scottish ale is some thick, syruppy, undrinkable sludge.TurdBomber said:
Delicious Scotch Ale, brewed near Gorst. Unbeatable.
Perfect for Dive bars hovering along at 9.2% ABV.
Anyways, both Scotch and Scottish ales are pure swill. My brother loves them. He loves what he faggily refers to as "big beers". Gawd what a homo. That shit ain't beer. At least "flower milk", aka IPA or regular pale ale I suppose, is actual beer.
I know "if it's not Scottish, It's Crap!" But still. -
I think the best ever was Grant's. But Bridgeport brewed a goddamn'd fine and delicious Scotch Ale for awhile, before they shut down. And Silver City does a decent job with their recipes, but I've drank some really shitty Scotch ales over the years, too.BleachedAnusDawg said:I like a good Scotch Ale when done right. Not a ton that I've ever gotten in to. The oak-aged version of that Silver City is much better than the Magnificent Bastard, IMO.
Bert Grant had that shit dialed in, and obviously had his own guys in there. But that's all gone now, thanks to posthumous family squabbles. Fuck. -
I don't think the Tug closed for Covid.MikeDamone said:I didn’t read the whole thread, but if the Tug Inn wasn’t mentioned you should be ashamed. I know it’s closed, but still.
If you’re ever near the Portland airport I defy you to find a divier dive than the Glass House.
https://katu.com/news/local/police-investigate-shooting-at-glass-house-tavern-in-northeast-portland
https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2018/10/one_dead_one_injured_in_shooti.html
More likely hepatitis or crabs. -
Sloop TavernThe Viking(RIP) and Sloop are my neck of the woods. Great spots on a Friday or Saturday night.
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Mike's Chili Parlor
I used to live in Greenhood out of college. I went in there once. I left after 30 seconds. There was another place across the street that was alight, but I forgot the name of it.YellowSnow said:
Earl's was kinda dumpy but always felt more upscale than some other close to UW spots.BleachedAnusDawg said:Earl's. Might not be divey enough versus the field here, but great spot to be overpoured and it was a block from my apartment during college.
Major ommission on my part with the Baranoff in Greenwood. That place is ruff. I once got put in a headlock by a 250 lb black lady there once. Good times. -
Mike's Chili ParlorI only went to Dante's a couple times, but this little shit bartender kicked us out over nothing because this chick (wood, sort of tried) was being semi loud. Faggot.
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I can't believe the Shipwreck in the Tacoma/Fife Tideflats isn't on the list. Moreover, if you never got drunk at the Java Jive in the Nalley Valley, you missed a truly Twin Peaks-like dive bar experience. The Rolling Log and the H&H Saloon deserve Honorable mentions, too, btw.
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F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off....
It's a stout.TurdBomber said:
Then how would you classify Guiness, Scottie?chuck said:
I forget. I'm either 1/4 or 1/8 Scottish. There's some blurring of the lines back in the 12th-14th centuries.YellowSnow said:
As a guysm who is 1/8 Scots, let me tell you this: Scottish ale is some thick, syruppy, undrinkable sludge.TurdBomber said:
Delicious Scotch Ale, brewed near Gorst. Unbeatable.
Perfect for Dive bars hovering along at 9.2% ABV.
Anyways, both Scotch and Scottish ales are pure swill. My brother loves them. He loves what he faggily refers to as "big beers". Gawd what a homo. That shit ain't beer. At least "flower milk", aka IPA or regular pale ale I suppose, is actual beer.
I know "if it's not Scottish, It's Crap!" But still. -
The Duchess
"Seattle's Greatest Dive Bar". @RaceBannon can handle the South Sound. I think the only bar I've been to in Tacoma was the Katie Down's for date.TurdBomber said:I can't believe the Shipwreck in the Tacoma/Fife Tideflats isn't on the list. Moreover, if you never got drunk at the Java Jive in the Nalley Valley, you missed a truly Twin Peaks-like dive bar experience. The Rolling Log and the H&H Saloon deserve Honorable mentions, too, btw.
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F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off....
Katie Down's sucks. Nice location, though.YellowSnow said:
"Seattle's Greatest Dive Bar". @RaceBannon can handle the South Sound. I think the only bar I've been to in Tacoma was the Katie Down's for date.TurdBomber said:I can't believe the Shipwreck in the Tacoma/Fife Tideflats isn't on the list. Moreover, if you never got drunk at the Java Jive in the Nalley Valley, you missed a truly Twin Peaks-like dive bar experience. The Rolling Log and the H&H Saloon deserve Honorable mentions, too, btw.
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Back before the "Camp Bar" appeared in Tacoma, there was a bar in the same place called Acme Tavern and it also said "Acme Grub Cage". That place was divey. Favorite Dive Bar in tacoma, currently, is a neighborhood tavern called Terry's Office Tavern. Best fries in Tacoma.
This place on Sprague in Tacoma seems to fit dive bar status as well, but I have not gone yet. https://www.yelp.com/biz/home-plate-tavern-tacoma
