Whats the best bar/saloon you've been in?

[Cyrano]

This one. Although I didn't try that particular beer.

 

[lonejacklarry]

The old (now closed) joints in Kansas City. The Night After Night, The Tender Trap, and Spivey's Black Hawk come to mind. There must have been 30 or 40 bars downtown in the early 70's and a hundred more out a little bit. A little something for everybody.

 

[j38]

I also would say the Mint Bar in Sheridan, Wyoming is among the top spots I've spent some time in. Good drinks, interesting decor, and great people watching.

Jerry

 

[Ole Wild]

Not the "best" one I've been to, but my favorite one is the Under The Hill Saloon in Natchez, MS.

 

[rwsmith]

Um???

Depends on how you define best.

But I got to say that Jason's in Windsor Ontario had the best talent I've seen in a bar.

Talent? What variety of talent???

 

[handejector]

The last one I was in?

 

[handejector]

Lips that touch booze and wine will never touch these lips of mine.

uhhhhhhhhh........................

I wasn't countin' on it anyway!

 

[delta-419]

bar

The Salty Dawg on the "Spit" in Homer, AK towards Lands End. Last time I was there it still had a dirt floor. Great place in the summer, but a bit rusty in Feb when its 30 below!

 

[Vir]

I spent many a weekend in the White Elephant in the Ft. Worth Stockyards. Most of the time with my family (Dad, Mom, Aunts, Uncles and so on) Met a few musicians before and after the performed at Billy Bobs. Back then it was good music, good people and pretty friendly. Not sure about now since I have been gone from Texas for so long.

 

[williamlayton]

The bars in E Texas that I grew up in were not bars nor clubs nor open fronts or joints.
They were kind of just places that sold beer to drink on premise and room to dance----or fight.
You could buy beer at almost any age but you had to be 21 to run a tab.
They were by and large not reputable places to be seen so everybody just did not recognize anyone else.
I started going when I was about 17--with some adults who were 18.
Heck fire you had to drive 30 miles to find a a wet spot to by beer anyway---who was looking for class.
Cut n shoot was another place that my older cousin lived in---aptly named---real town.
How in the hell did we survive ?
Blessings

 

[Boxhead]

The 219 in Sandpoint Idaho. We have a place up the Cabinet Mountains about 15 miles away. Great martinis fairly priced.

 

[CajunBass]

Never been in one myself. Oh, I've been in restraunts that had bars, but never an actual "bar."

Since I don't drink, I never had a reason to stop in.

 

[the ringo kid]

Arkey Blue's Silver Dollar Saloon in Bandera Texas. Had a great time there on a Saturday afternoon. Bunch of the locals come on Sat and just sit and play for a few beers. Sawdust on the floor relicts on the wall and bullet holes in the ceiling.

Wife and her sister had pictures taken with the musician's and they evan let the girls hold their guitars. Cold drinks (Lone Star) but cash only.

Would have stayed longer and drank more but was a hour away from my lodgeing. In all my years never have met a nicer bunch of Cowboys and Gals.

If you get anywhere near San Antonio be sure to stop in.

One more thing is the men's john. It is just a big old bathtub,what a honor to stand where some of the greatest country singers have stood.

Someone abve mentioned some other bar was the worlds longest. I digress--its actually in the Old Spanish Trail restaurant also in Bandera. Its the worlds largest continuous bar--meaning--all one piece and not pieced together. Its in the Guiness book of world records.

 

[the ringo kid]

I have had A lot of fun at Sloppy Joes in Key West Fla.I also have to agree with some previous posters.Crystal Palace in Tombstone is very cool place.And Jasons in Windsor Ontario had fantastic talent.

Ive heard of Sloppy Joes.Wasnt that the place that Hemingway used to hang out in?

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Broken Spoke Saloon, Sturgis, South Dakota. Only been there during motorcycle week, might be the dullest place in the state the other 51 weeks.

You mean these guys?
Apparently they hang out in Arizona the rest of the year.

 

[the ringo kid]

Lips that touch booze and wine will never touch these lips of mine.

Har har,whoever said you had to Drink when being at a bar? I never did when spending week after week at Crazy Horse. I was too busy drinking Roy Rogers, getting beat at pool by the dancers and also watching those dancers.

 

[the ringo kid]

Broken Spoke Saloon, Sturgis, South Dakota. Only been there during motorcycle week, might be the dullest place in the state the other 51 weeks.

We had a Broken Spoke in Kingsville--but the place eventually was shut down because of too many fights. It seemed as if vets who tossed back too many--would walk the block over to this one after leaving the Legion--and pick fights with the hispanic gents who were there--or the Bikers too.

 

[MK]

The Long Branch in Dodge City KS.

I was there once, but was way too young to drink any adult beverages..

 

[MK]

The "short" list from my travels...
Ft. Worth, TX - Gilly's

Didn't know they had a Gilly's in Fort Worth.. I thought Billy Bob's
was the big one there.. Never was at Billy Bob's..
I did go to Gilly's in Pasadena TX a few times.

 

[M E Morrison]

We were in The Crystal Palace in Tombstone one night and it was great partying with people in the vicinity of so much western history. Atlantic City, MT. is a town much smaller than it's name, just down a dirt road from South Pass City. There was a great saloon there. The Iron Door Saloon has the oldest still open saloon in California. It's touristy now but 30 yrs ago it was fun wild place in a mountain town packed with cute women. There was a great tiny rustic bar in Mokelumne Hill, Ca. where you could open the refrigerator and enter a secret pool hall with a full mounted buffalo in it. And my favorite being "Pappy & Harriet's in the Mojave Desert near Joshua Tree.
I'll think of others, but what great saloons have you encountered, sometimes in out of the way places?

"That place across the street from the international sports arena" in San Diego, CA.