(Northeast Minneapolis, Minneapolis, MN)
Formerly First Chance, Last Chance
Revisited 17 years later in 2023, scroll down for more.
Scooter’s 165th bar, first visited in 2006.
This place used to be called “First Chance, Last Chance” because it was the first chance for a drink if you were coming in to town and the last chance for a drink while leaving town. We were left alone for half an hour while the bartender stayed out on the patio (which featured a waterfall). We played several games of shuffleboard and attempted to play some pool but in our semi-stupor we could not get any balls to sink, so we gave that up. A drunk woman tried to dance with us and then later when we went to see the patio a guy out there told us a few choice things about that woman. Clearly they had been fighting.
The patio…
UPDATE! I re-visited on April 1, 2023. Everything below is from that visit.
The biggest change I noticed was all the flatscreens everywhere, including four behind the bar configured into one giant screen. The other change I noticed is that the pool table we offended in 2006 was nowhere to be found. I was worried I had remembered the pool table story wrong all these years (like attributing it to the wrong bar), but one of the regulars assured me there used to be a pool table and showed me where it was. I joked that after how badly my friend and I played on it in 2006 they probably took it out back and shot it.
Where this standalone counter is now is where the pool table was that we defiled 17 years earlier: 
For most of my visit the “4 panels as 1″ screen was being glitchy, but a few minutes before I left someone worked on the settings and got the upper left screen back in synch. 
2500 4th St NE
Minneapolis, MN 55418
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