# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bars-ive-visited-that-dont-exist-in-this-world/433345/41 "2008-01-14T10:40:49Z")
Hotel California? ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bars-ive-visited-that-dont-exist-in-this-world/433345/42 "2008-01-14T10:54:19Z")
[QUOTE=Ronald C. Semone] 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. [/QUOTE] Sounds like it inspired a place I like–the House of Bamboo. It’s No. 54, the house with the bamboo door. Bamboo roof and bamboo walls, it’s even got a bamboo floor. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_Clock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Shot\_Clock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_Clock)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bars-ive-visited-that-dont-exist-in-this-world/433345/43 "2008-01-14T14:59:14Z")
Anyone up for a trip to **Bob’s Country Bunker** to see the “Good Ol’ Blues Brothers Boys Band”? ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bars-ive-visited-that-dont-exist-in-this-world/433345/44 "2008-01-14T15:00:14Z")
There really was a Texas Rose Cafe in Houston (as described by the Late Great Lowell George of Little Feat) > [@](#): > > Picked up on my phone in Houston > Everybody answered, everybody answered but they won’t say why > Then this dancer grabbed me down by the bus stop > And she said I’m takin’ you with me to the Texas Rose cafe (The Texas Rose had been The Maverick Camel, & then The Family Hand. For many years now, the bar/restaurant has been a gay western-themed hangout: The Brazos Bottom.) I think Eric Taylor referred to Houston’s Old Quarter in a song (something about an old bar “at Congress & Austin”). The club gave its name to Townes van Zandt’s [best album](http://www.lonestarwebstation.com/tvzrec/live.htm). The [ancient](http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m41/dahornburg/Old_Quarter.jpg) (by Houston standards) building is now a law office; there’s a [“new” Old Quarter](http://www.oldquarteracousticcafe.com/) in Galveston. Doug Sahm wrote “[Cowboy Peyton Place](http://www.rhapsody.com/dougsahm)” about Soap Creek, in Austin. Visited it once–wish I’d visited Austin more in The Old Days. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bars-ive-visited-that-dont-exist-in-this-world/433345/45 "2008-01-14T15:01:36Z")
I knew I wouldn’t be able to stay away from this thread… _At the Bama Breeze You can shoot some pool down there You can act the fool down there Or you can play it cool down there_ Jimmy Buffet’s tribute to some beach front bars such as the Flori-Bama, Nolan’s, the Pink Pony and Lulu’s that exist along a strip of Florida/Alabama gulf coast. ---
**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, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bars-ive-visited-that-dont-exist-in-this-world/433345/46 "2008-01-14T15:09:56Z")
And I’ve always wanted to go to that cabaret that the Pistol Packin’ Mama visited in the 40s. As the singer says “Drinking beer in a cabaret and was I having fun.” Sounds like my kind of place. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bars-ive-visited-that-dont-exist-in-this-world/433345/47 "2008-01-14T15:19:26Z")
There’s some bar in a harbor town where the barmaid’s name is Brandy. Port Charles, home to General Hospital, had The Bucket of Blood, definitely the coolest bar name ever. ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bars-ive-visited-that-dont-exist-in-this-world/433345/48 "2008-01-14T15:38:06Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] Port Charles, home to General Hospital, had The Bucket of Blood, definitely the coolest bar name ever. [/QUOTE] It could have been taken from the offices of the first publishers of the Denver Post, men named Tammen and Bonfils. In the 1880s they had their shared office painted red (floor, walls and ceiling) and it gained the nickname of “The Bucket of Blood”. Interesting to note a man weilding a gun and knife wounded both of the men in response to a campaign against him and it was relatively easy to clean up the office. My I suggest “Sugar Shack” and “The Zoo”. Although according to the song the Sugar Shack “was just a coffe house accros the tracks” and it is never really clear whether The Zoo is a club or more methophoric and really is a zoo. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bars-ive-visited-that-dont-exist-in-this-world/433345/49 "2008-01-14T15:48:16Z")
[QUOTE=Fiver] Do you mean Rick’s Cafe Americain? Because Sam didn’t own a bar. And Rick’s was mentioned upthread… [/QUOTE] And don’t forget the Blue Parrot, run by Sidney Greenstreet’s character, not far away. Then there’s Guinan’s domain, Ten Forward, aboard the USS _Enterprise_-D. ---
**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, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bars-ive-visited-that-dont-exist-in-this-world/433345/50 "2008-01-14T16:12:54Z")
Port Charles, home to General Hospital, had The Bucket of Blood, definitely the coolest bar name ever. [/QUOTE] There used to be, maybe still is, a bar by that name in Worcester, Mass. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bars-ive-visited-that-dont-exist-in-this-world/433345/51 "2008-01-14T19:23:01Z")
[Brannigan’s](http://www.heatherlands.com/seafire/lyrics/lyricdetails.php?RECORD_KEY(songs)=id&id(songs)=6). ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bars-ive-visited-that-dont-exist-in-this-world/433345/52 "2008-01-14T20:14:50Z")
[QUOTE=spoke] _Sunset Grill_ - Don Henley [/QUOTE] Sorry, that’s a real place, and it’s not even a bar. It’s a hole-in-the-wall [burger joint in Hollywood.](http://losangeles.citysearch.com/profile/32379020/los_angeles_ca/sunset_grill.html) Kip Adotta takes us to the Oyster Bar in _Wet Dream._ > [@](#): > > While they were doing that I walked over to a place called the Oyster Bar > A real dive, but I knew the owner > He used to play for the Dolphins > I said “Hi, Gil!” > You have to yell, he’s hard of herring Keeping with oysters, the Police Academy movies had a running gag of tricking people into going to the [Blue Oyster.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_Academy_(film_series)#Blue_Oyster_Bar) ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bars-ive-visited-that-dont-exist-in-this-world/433345/53 "2008-01-14T21:03:02Z")
Sometimes I run into sad-sack ex-high school jocks at this litle roadside bar. I used to know this great pitcher back then, and I saw him there just the other night. I was walking in, he was walking out. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bars-ive-visited-that-dont-exist-in-this-world/433345/54 "2008-01-14T21:11:03Z")
[QUOTE=Bayard] Sometimes I run into sad-sack ex-high school jocks at this litle roadside bar. I used to know this great pitcher back then, and I saw him there just the other night. I was walking in, he was walking out. [/QUOTE] I thought of that one briefly, but you know about thoughts like those: They’ll pass you by, in the wink of a young girl’s eye, and all you do is sit around talkin’ about… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bars-ive-visited-that-dont-exist-in-this-world/433345/55 "2008-01-14T23:30:42Z")
I hear you can get a really good Pangalactic Gargle Blaster either at Milliway’s, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, or at the Big Bang Burger Bar. Thank you, Douglas Adams. ---
**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 15, 2008, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bars-ive-visited-that-dont-exist-in-this-world/433345/56 "2008-01-15T02:08:55Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] Port Charles, home to General Hospital, had The Bucket of Blood, definitely the coolest bar name ever. [/QUOTE] I vote we go back to **The Slaughtered Lamb** ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bars-ive-visited-that-dont-exist-in-this-world/433345/57 "2008-01-15T04:27:54Z")
I’m goin’ to the Roadhouse, and I’m a gonna have a real… a good time, Yea! I’ve been to the bar in Toledo, across from the depot. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bars-ive-visited-that-dont-exist-in-this-world/433345/58 "2008-01-15T04:47:59Z")
_Top Hat Bar and Grill_ - Jim Croce ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bars-ive-visited-that-dont-exist-in-this-world/433345/59 "2008-01-15T04:56:37Z")
These are all fine places, I’m sure, but Garth Brooks would be asking how many were in the American Honky-Tonk Bar Association. ---
**Author:** ![papaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b77776/32.png) [@papaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/papaw)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bars-ive-visited-that-dont-exist-in-this-world/433345/60 "2008-01-15T04:58:55Z")
(The) Green Door - a tune from 1956 about a popular Dallas music club . I actually stood outside that very door in 1959 or so, but the door was yellow originally. I know I am dating myself here, but can’t deny my age! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bars-ive-visited-that-dont-exist-in-this-world/433345.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bars-ive-visited-that-dont-exist-in-this-world/433345.md?page=4)