Best or funny bar names in your area

[roccobass]

I don't think a thread like this has been initiated. If so, I'm sure someone will let me know. If you're still game, then offer up some of the more colorful or funny titles of your past or present local watering holes. I have three that were from my earlier years that are now history.

1. The Brick Shot House (West Sacramento)
2. The Sea Shanty (Oak Park/Sacramento)

3. The BEST for LAST: Mr. B's Lunar Lounge. (In Sac. Fruitridge Rd@ 28th St)
Replete with a neon sign of a moving spaceship circling Saturn along the rings. I loved that place just for that.
@FilterFunk

 

[Marko 1]

Best I've seen...

Long road, bar at one end.

One direction, the sign says "First Chance", other direction "Last Chance".

 

[devnulljp]

There's a bar in Glasgow, Scotland, called the Saracen Head, which is only funny when you realise it's known locally as the Sarry Heid

 

[Matt Liebenau]

There’s 2 or 3 places here, I’m pretty sure they’re all connected, called A Bar Named Sue.

 

[WI Short Scaler]

Best I've seen...

Long road, bar at one end.

One direction, the sign says "First Chance", other direction "Last Chance".

We have a bar near us with the same sign. Played there once, fun but pretty sketchy.

 

[NZBassman]

There is a bar in Rotorua NZ called the 'Pig and Whistle'... I've not been to it though
my old band used to play in a place called "Paddy Sweenys Good B@stards Bar' in Christchurch NZ, but it has long since changed names

 

[Killing Floor]

Hole in the Wall
Cactus Cafe
Scoot Inn
Armadillo World Headquarters(long gone)

 

[roccobass]

Love this for the sign! The wings go up and down.

 

[Milo Spleen]

I don't think a thread like this has been initiated. If so, I'm sure someone will let me know. If you're still game, then offer up some of the more colorful or funny titles of your past or present local watering holes. I have three that were from my earlier years that are now history.

1. The Brick Shot House (West Sacramento)
2. The Sea Shanty (Oak Park/Sacramento)

3. The BEST for LAST: Mr. B's Lunar Lounge. (In Sac. Fruitridge Rd@ 28th St)
Replete with a neon sign of a moving spaceship circling Saturn along the rings. I loved that place just for that.
@FilterFunk

Remember the 40 Grand that was in Sacramento?

 

[roccobass]

I think that was at the old El Rancho Hotel off of West Capitol in West Sac? Dunno. My memory is fuzzy on that.

 

[Milo Spleen]

Yes, I think that you're right. There was another good place to play too, but I'll never remember the name. Citrus Heights was the place made famous by the mysterious disappearance of the bell at the new Taco Bell that was under construction. Alcohol may have been involved, but we laughed for weeks. I played at the Detour Inn out in Elverta once. lol. Dave Dudley's ex-wife owned it.

 

[Gravedigger Dav]

In the late 60s, in Ocean View, Virginia, there were two bars next door to either other. One was Pete's Place. I don't remember the original name of the bar next door, but Pete bought them out and it became Pete's Other Place.

 

[JC BASS 91]

Bar in Springfield, MO called "Nowhere".

I always picture the husband and wife getting into it and him walking out the door:

Wife: "Where do you think you're going!?"
Husband: "NOWHERE!"

 

[Jefenator]

"The 13th Step" always cracked me up.

 

[dalkowski]

There is a bar in Rotorua NZ called the 'Pig and Whistle

Missed it when I visited Rotorua ca. 1990. But I'll never forget the steam escaping through cracks in the asphalt.

There used to be a "Pig & Whistle Diner" in Brighton MA (the westernmost neighborhood of Boston), just a couple block from our rehearsal space. Named, I'm told, because it was located near a former stockyard where the bacon of tomorrow would embark and disembark.

Back to the bars, I logged some hours at the El Phoenix Room, down the hill from my apt. off Comm Ave in Brighton. There's an establishment near the hospital in New London CT called "The Recovery Room." Excellent pizza. To the west in Old Saybrook, I remember a place called "The Library Lounge."

 

[roccobass]

One of first “real” paying gigs. It was called The Chicken Shack in south Sacramento. A classy place with a big hand painted sign out front that looked like it’s artist got interrupted about 10 times during its creation. Strictly a joint where getting drunk fast spares you from noticing it’s other sources of “quaintness”

 

[Johnny Fingers]

The Office.

 

[sb69coupe]

"He's Not Here" in Chapel Hill NC He's Not Here » Chapel Hill's Legendary Bar

 

[LiptonJigglers]

In a suburb called Rockingham we have the Swinging Pig.
Around Perth there's these pubs:
Durty Nelly's Irish Pub.
The Lucky Shag on Perth foreshore.
The Brass Monkey.
The Last Drop... an Elizabethan style pub. It used to have a picture of a hanging man outside above its front door but not sure that is there anymore.
The Gallway Hooker in Scarborough....

 

[MIMike]

I played “Tom’s Foolery” in downtown Mount Pleasant MI while in college.
Cool bar that welcomed all different kinds of music. We had tons of fun and musical experimentation there.