(West Peoria, IL)
Scooter’s 1738th bar, first visited in 2023.
The town of West Peoria has a cluster of neighborhood dive bars, and we decided to explore a couple of them. West Peoria has no open container law so you can swap out your drinks into plastic cups and take them with you from bar to bar, but we didn’t take advantage of that since it was too cold to be walking around outside.
The oldest continuously-operating bar in West Peoria, eons ago it was believed to be the garage for the house on the other side of what is now the patio. But it has also been an ice house and a barber shop. It was converted into a neighborhood bar in 1933 and quickly became West Peoria’s largest customer for Budweiser. For decades is operated as a stag bar, but today all are welcome.
I had Guinness, and we all gathered in the game room to play slots while the rest of the bar cheered on a football game us visitors had no stake in and didn’t care about. This was where I learned that there are so-called “penny slots” that have a 50-credit minimum bet. Excuse me, casino gaming manufacturers, but if the minimum bet is 50 cents that’s not a penny slot.
626 N Cedar Ave
West Peoria, IL 61604
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