Nortonville Archive

#971: The Hop

Posted on April 2013 | No Comments
(Downtown, Nortonville, KS) Scooter’s 971st bar, first visited in 2013. This is the kind of place I love to find — a dive bar in a far-flung small town located...
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Welcome!
Some people collect autographs, some collect antiques, others collect stamps. My hobby is a little different, I collect bars. This site represents my collection, documenting each bar I visit.

This is not a review site, there's plenty of those already. Most posts in this bar diary are slice-of-life recaps of the half hour or so I spent having a beer. I hope you enjoy browsing through my collection!

--ScooterJ
A Few Random Favorites
- Vine Street Brewing Company
  19 August 2023
  (Downtown, Kansas City, MO) Scooter’s 1688th bar, first visited in 2023. After an hour delay to go inside caused by them changing their hours in the week since I checked...
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- Marge’s Bar
  22 August 2024
  (Downtown, Fargo, ND) Scooter’s 1779th bar, first visited in 2024. I had tried to come to this basement alley cocktail bar the night before but it was unexpectedly closed —...
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- Tin Mill Brewing
  13 August 2023
  (Downtown, Hermann, MO) Scooter’s 1685th bar, first visited in 2023. After we revisited Stone Creek to finish what we ran out of time for yesterday, the rest of the gang...
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