Downtown Archive

#1523: Deschutes Public House – Portland

Posted on April 2022 | No Comments
(Downtown, Portland, OR) Scooter’s 1523rd bar, first visited in 2022. I was tasked with with us finding lunch somewhere along the way to the coast, still in Portland, and only...
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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
- Mary’s Place
  10 April 2015
  (Emporia, KS) Scooter’s 1082nd bar, first visited in 2015. One of the ratings I sometimes give when visiting bars in new city is, “This is the Zoo Bar of ____.”...
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- Li Po Cocktail Lounge
  14 July 2021
  (Chinatown, San Francisco, CA) Scooter’s 1489th bar, first visited in 2021. We arrived in Chinatown a little after 8pm and were disappointed to find pretty much everything closed and no...
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- Holler House
  07 April 2019
  (Forest Home Hills, Milwaukee, WI) Scooter’s 1327th bar, first visited in 2019. I have been to a ton of dive bars. Up to the point of this writing, I had...
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