Downtown 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
- At Random
  06 April 2019
  (Bay View, Milwaukee, WI) Scooter’s 1325th bar, first visited in 2019. This was another recommendation from a bartender earlier in the day. And we almost missed it, because what looked...
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- The Depot Pub & Grille
  03 July 2024
  (Downtown, Mitchell, SD) Scooter’s 1748th bar, first visited in 2024. We stopped in here for dinner after setting up camp, after checking online menus and determining this looked like our...
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- Ozark Beer Company
  12 October 2019
  (Downtown, Rogers, AR) Scooter’s 1394th bar, first visited in 2019. Route-wise this should not have been my next brewery, but because it was still early in the day I had...
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