# Bars I've visited that don't exist in this world **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 13, 2008, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bars-ive-visited-that-dont-exist-in-this-world/433345 "2008-01-13T02:08:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2008, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bars-ive-visited-that-dont-exist-in-this-world/433345/21 "2008-01-13T17:04:57Z")
[QUOTE=Student Driver] From the world of comics: [Munden’s Bar](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munden's_Bar). The White Horse in DC’s Sandman, where Hob Gadling decides to become immortal. From the world of dystopia: [Korova Milk Bar](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korova_Milk_Bar). [/QUOTE] Oh, well in that vein, if you’re ever in Japan you might want to check out [the Chatsubo](http://cs.leander.isd.tenet.edu/gibson/Neuromancer.html). You might also inquire about [The Western World](http://radawana.cg.tuwien.ac.at/~bez/books/gibson/idoru.html), but you kind of have to have the right connections to get in (or even find it!) and frankly it’s not everyone’s cup of tea. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2008, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bars-ive-visited-that-dont-exist-in-this-world/433345/22 "2008-01-13T17:09:28Z")
:smack: ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2008, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bars-ive-visited-that-dont-exist-in-this-world/433345/23 "2008-01-13T17:10:38Z")
Sams Bar in \* Casablanca\* ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2008, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bars-ive-visited-that-dont-exist-in-this-world/433345/24 "2008-01-13T17:26:43Z")
[QUOTE=chowder] Sams Bar in \* Casablanca\* [/QUOTE] Do you mean Rick’s Cafe Americain? Because Sam didn’t own a bar. And Rick’s was mentioned upthread. But in that vein, there’s La Belle Aurore, a charming little place in Paris whose owner shut it down and fled when the Germans occupied in World War II. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2008, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bars-ive-visited-that-dont-exist-in-this-world/433345/25 "2008-01-13T17:28:21Z")
[QUOTE=Fiver] Do you mean Rick’s Cafe Americain? Because Sam didn’t own a bar. And Rick’s was mentioned upthread. But in that vein, there’s La Belle Aurore, a charming little place in Paris whose owner shut it down and fled when the Germans occupied in World War II. [/QUOTE] :smack: :smack: ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2008, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bars-ive-visited-that-dont-exist-in-this-world/433345/26 "2008-01-13T17:31:08Z")
Well, let’s see - I’ve been a wedding in this place called Brigadoon that might as well have been in a bar. Then there’s that place where everybody knows your name. ETA: Which has now changed its name so more people can find it. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2008, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bars-ive-visited-that-dont-exist-in-this-world/433345/27 "2008-01-13T17:43:45Z")
_The House of Blue Lights_, Asleep at the Wheel ---
**Author:** ![Critical1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Critical1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical1)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2008, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bars-ive-visited-that-dont-exist-in-this-world/433345/28 "2008-01-13T19:42:48Z")
the Brick from Northern Exposure is a real bar sort of. on the outside it looks just like the tv show, on the inside its totally different. ---
**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2008, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bars-ive-visited-that-dont-exist-in-this-world/433345/29 "2008-01-13T20:08:16Z")
[QUOTE=spoke-] **Rosa’s Cantina** - _El Paso_ - Marty Robbins [/QUOTE] You might be interested to know that Rose’s Cantina did exist at one time. It was a beer bar, owned at least in part by Marty Robbins, that was on the outskirts of Murfreesboro, Tennessee. I think the sign is still there, though if it is, it has been painted over. ---
**Author:** ![Ronald\_C.Semone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cc9497/32.png) [@Ronald\_C.Semone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ronald_C.Semone)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2008, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bars-ive-visited-that-dont-exist-in-this-world/433345/30 "2008-01-13T20:59:00Z")
For those of you who remember the 50s, there was also Hernando’s Hideaway (where you had to knock three times so the bouncer would know that you were sent by Joe) and The Golden Fingerbowl. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2008, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bars-ive-visited-that-dont-exist-in-this-world/433345/31 "2008-01-13T21:10:35Z")
[Callahan’s Place](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callahan's_Crosstime_Saloon). ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2008, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bars-ive-visited-that-dont-exist-in-this-world/433345/32 "2008-01-13T21:19:34Z")
[QUOTE=Ronald C. Semone] For those of you who remember the 50s, there was also Hernando’s Hideaway [/QUOTE] _Ole!_ ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2008, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bars-ive-visited-that-dont-exist-in-this-world/433345/33 "2008-01-13T21:21:42Z")
I wish there was a place where everyones troubles are all the same. A place where everybody knows my name. ---
**Author:** ![Ronald\_C.Semone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cc9497/32.png) [@Ronald\_C.Semone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ronald_C.Semone)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bars-ive-visited-that-dont-exist-in-this-world/433345/34 "2008-01-14T00:09:04Z")
There’s always Archie Bunker’s Place. What about the bar in Dark Angel. Was its name “Crash?” And what was the name of the bar Ally McBeal and her friends used to wind up every day? ---
**Author:** ![Ronald\_C.Semone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cc9497/32.png) [@Ronald\_C.Semone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ronald_C.Semone)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bars-ive-visited-that-dont-exist-in-this-world/433345/35 "2008-01-14T00:12:49Z")
Geez, this is like a disease. I can’t stop. Peter Gunn used to end up almost every one of his TV shows in a bar called “Mother’s” It played the coolest jazz in town. ---
**Author:** ![ArizonaTeach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/45deac/32.png) [@ArizonaTeach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArizonaTeach)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bars-ive-visited-that-dont-exist-in-this-world/433345/36 "2008-01-14T00:46:19Z")
[QUOTE=RealityChuck] **Copacabana** [/QUOTE] Ah, my friend, [not quite!](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copacabana_night_club) ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bars-ive-visited-that-dont-exist-in-this-world/433345/37 "2008-01-14T02:49:35Z")
[QUOTE=NoCoolUserName] Alice’s Resturant isn’t the name of the resturant, it’s the name of the song. 🙂 [/QUOTE] So you can’t remember it either? Nuts. If we’re including tv, I wish I could visit “Frank’s Place”. ---
**Author:** ![opossum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/2bfe46/32.png) [@opossum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/opossum)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bars-ive-visited-that-dont-exist-in-this-world/433345/38 "2008-01-14T04:30:11Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] Jimmy Buffett has taken me to: **The Krystal** - “The Great Filling Station Holdup” I always thought it was referring to the fast food restaurant with the little burgers. In the song he’s sitting in “some [unnamed] honkey tonk” after serving time (“It cost me two good years”) for the hold up. But he was arrested drunk at Krystal, just like countless thousands of Americans every year. From the OP, the Jug was and is a real bar on Jacksonville’s westside, although there is some dispute about which. It’s either at San Juan and US 17 (currently a topless bar), a bar on Edgewood Avenue somewhere around the Murray Hill library, or it’s near Normandy Mall. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bars-ive-visited-that-dont-exist-in-this-world/433345/39 "2008-01-14T04:45:50Z")
I’ve been seen in both **The Titty twister** and **The Side Track Tap** albeit not on the same night ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bars-ive-visited-that-dont-exist-in-this-world/433345/40 "2008-01-14T06:28:01Z")
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