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I just kept shaking my head looking at the crowd, how can they close this place?
I had a Preds t-shirt on and I saw a few game-day regulars, we all said we feel like free agents looking for a new home.
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I had a Preds t-shirt on and I saw a few game-day regulars, we all said we feel like free agents looking for a new home.
Yeah, I'm really going to miss it.
I still miss Wolfy's, too. Both of them. Had some good times.
I still miss Wolfy's, too. Both of them. Had some good times.
I’m more of a Robert’s fan but did enjoy going to PP if I ever audibled. Frankly though almost all of those places are difficult for me to enjoy anymore because downtown is always so tourist packed. Have started branching out to other side of the are na but on weekends we may go to Fleet Street. That would be the best place if they’d ban smoking.
Anyway, I have a bad feeling PP will become generic country music bar stop #82 on the bachelorette party circuit a year from now.
Yeah, but we'll LOVE it. (Grumble)
What purveyors may not quite understand is that there has always been a disconnect between tourists and locals. Tourists want show, we want real. That was one place that catered to us and not to our visitors. Nothing wrong with either type, but I kind of like having both available on game day. We went to some place that had an upstairs bar one time and it was pretty fun. Had an old school vibe. I thought it was Crazy Town but the guy I went with said it was called something else (I think I'm right, though.)
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Really just depends on how far you’re willing to go. I like Fleet Street but kind of far for pre game plus can be smoky. Martins is good but pulls lots of tourists. The taco place next to country music is ok and so is Bakersfield. Not sure about local/tourist ratio at diner or new bar across from Bakersfield.
Honestly I’d say you have to go a pretty good ways from downtown to escape at this point. We’re finally experiencing what losing a downtown to tourists looks like. Then again, in the late 90s and early 00s it’s not like most locals really wanted to be there anyway, albeit for different reasons.
The times I've been to Bakersfield it has been mostly Preds fans, same with City Tap, Southern and The Diner. But those aren't exactly bars. Different vibe.
I like going to Tavern 96. Wish it was a little bit bigger. Outside of downtown I like Sam's pretty well, but again, it's a different vibe than what it "used to be" My daughter likes Santa's (I think that's the name) for the old time feel. I've never been there.
What we need is a place like Dan & Gracie's in Knoxville (circa 1979). Just a dive bar about a block off Cumberland but boy was it fun!
I like going to Tavern 96. Wish it was a little bit bigger. Outside of downtown I like Sam's pretty well, but again, it's a different vibe than what it "used to be" My daughter likes Santa's (I think that's the name) for the old time feel. I've never been there.
What we need is a place like Dan & Gracie's in Knoxville (circa 1979). Just a dive bar about a block off Cumberland but boy was it fun!
Bakersfield is pretty cool but nothing will ever top the nostalgia of the Park. On rare occasions my friends and I used to go to Broadway Brewhouse but not often. When it would be a weeknight game if I was waiting on people and by myself for a bit I'd honestly just go to Hooters on 2nd because there's rarely any "big" tourist crowd and you can actually watch sports and hang out in peace.
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PP was an absolute gross **** hole (good riddance) ... the final nail with me was the squishy carpet that never seemed to be cleaned, my g/f was like this place sucks. Haven't been back since.
I don't really remember that place. 1979 was a bit before my time to frequent dive bars (though I was alive and living in South Knox at the time!) Would something like Beer Sellar come close to that?
One I forgot to mention that is a bit off the beaten path is Alley Taps. I can't imagine a tourist ever finding that place. Then again, it might be a secret to locals as well.
BigFatCat999
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I've never heard of Alley Taps and I really need to go to the Beer Sellar sometime. I saw it when I was taking my friend to work last summer. Looked sufficiently dive-y.
Even though I haven't been to those places I'd say it probably comes closer to Roberts or Tootsie's during the 80's. This was a REAL dive--wood floors, dark, lots of beer signs because they take up space, smoky room. No food to speak of, just cold beer and whiskey. I only went the last year or so that I was there--learned about it during a summer when I stayed at UT. Only ones who came there were some guys in a motorcycle gang who weren't too sure about us and my boyfriend's crew, who liked it because it played southern rock, Jimmy Buffet, Hank Williams Jr. and various drinking songs. We went a LOT, usually after baseball games. I can remember one time when we all got on the tables (okay, maybe it was just Craig, his twin brother, my cousin and me) and belted out "Family Tradition" at the top of our lungs. Ah, those were the days. I was just as much at home in other venues. But that was down home and fun and worked well with that particular group of people.
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I'm not the type of person that cares too much about celebrity encounters or one who ohhs and ahhs over stuff like that. That being said my only real encounter with any type of "celebrity" was Shea Weber and that was one of the greatest nights in my life. From a hockey perspective I am very happy with the PK for Weber trade. From a personal standpoint I hated it. Shea is seriously an awesome dude. It's not just the way he portrays himself to the media. He really is as down to earth and humble as he comes off as.
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