The Library

(Downtown, Cape Girardeau, MO)

Scooter’s 1726th bar, first visited in 2023.

The Library, Cape Girardeau

This is a place I’d been wanting to check out for quite some time (close to a decade) but never have been able to catch it open since it opens late in the day. But lucky for me, it was right across the street from my previous stop and had been open for about half an hour by the time I left that place.

This is a large, dark-finished, multi-room establishment with a bar that pokes through a wall to serve the two main rooms. There’s an outdoor courtyard with a stage and lots of tables, and through the back is a separate (but attached) building with the main indoor stage where a band was getting set up.

For the gentlemen: the restroom in the main bar is for micturition (aka #1) only. You walk down a hall lined with dictionary definitions for various states of inebriation, then enter an elegantly-decorated room with a single wall-length outside trough. “If you need to make use of a cubicle” as the bartender so delicately put it (aka “make poopies”), THAT men’s room is in the back building where the main stage is.

From looking at the web site, it seems I visited fewer than half of the various rooms and buildings that make up this venue.

I had a Guinness and then warmed/yellowed the ice before I left.

The Library, Cape Girardeau

The Library, Cape Girardeau

The Library, Cape Girardeau

The Library, Cape Girardeau

The Library, Cape Girardeau

The Library, Cape Girardeau


10 S Spanish St
Cape Girardeau, MO 63703
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+15733352806

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