Scooter’s 796th bar, first visited in 2010.

While trying to decide what to gt to drink, B spied some miniature beer cans. They looked so ridiculous we just had to order them.

B dove into some peanuts and kept getting up to throw away the shells. This finally got on the bartender’s nerves, who told him to stop and just throw the shells on the floor “like everyone else will later tonight.”

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Scooter’s 795th bar, first visited in 2010.

We ended up ordering Yuengling’s Ale… a beer that’s extremely common in this part of the country, but virtually unheard of back home.

The layout consists of several distinct areas all wrapping around a central bar. There’s so much to see here, so I’ll just let the pictures do the talking…

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Scooter’s 794th bar, first visited in 2010.

We had picked this place weeks in advance of this trip after B googled “worst bar in Atlanta” and this bar came up. However we suspected that it means this was just an honest-to-goodness dive and that pretentious reviewers don’t like that sort of thing. That hunch was correct, this is a good bar.

There’s 3 rooms to the bar, plus a deck in the back.

We plopped down into wobbly barstools, where B chatted college sports with a guy from Liverpool who had moved here just for a change of scenery.

I popped in to use the men’s room and found that the toilet had no tank lid. This was a precursor to me then noticing there was also no soap or paper towels.

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Scooter’s 793rd bar, first visited in 2010.

As soon as we ordered our beers, an old Asian man tried to see me his watch for “five dollar”. When I declined, he then tried to sell me his shoes for the same price. I declined that offer as well, and he became upset.

The bartender told him to leave me alone, and he went outside to stand on the deck. Later he left altogether, only to return with a golf club. He did not try to sell that to me, however.

The man who tried to sell me the watch and shoes…

The bottom poster is a photo of one of the bartenders. As a prank he painted his roommate’s bedroom pink but got caught in the act, as revenge the roommate printed up these signs to display at bars around town.

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Scooter’s 792nd bar, first visited in 2010.

“Let me check one thing,” I said. “Wait here, I’m going to check something.”

I walked a block back up the hill and stood on the corner to survey my surroundings. My hunch paid off, I saw that two places that were dark when we walked by them earlier now had the lights on. I texted B to join me at the stop sign.

A few moments later he met me and we quickly made a decision to cross the busy street visit Kramer’s first.

Kramer’s had looked promising when we passed it earlier. It looks like a dive, and being attached to a placed called “Lollipop Adult Treats” certainly added to the appeal.

The bartender and a friend of his were the only other people in the bar. We got a couple of bottles of High Life and headed over to the Golden Tee machine.

As we played, we started to notice that the sticky floor was littered with broken glass and…… rubber bands. ??? We can only imagine what must have gone on there the night before.

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Scooter’s 791st bar, first visited in 2010.

However, there were banners in the parking lot advertising an Irish sports pub, so we went inside to have a look. All we found in the rotunda was a wine bar that did not appear to be open yet.

“Maybe it’s in the back?” I wondered.

B was about ready to give up, but I walked around the outside of the building regardless. Jackpot! A bar that was not only open, but also reasonably busy.

Stout Irish Sports Bar has a huge covered outdoor seating area. The inside is decorated with stonework and murals surrounding the L-shaped bar.

As we chatted with a guy whose accent we were trying to figure out, our bartender thought we were from Oklahoma. This was in part due to our own accents, but more because we pronounce the word “draught” as draw, whereas in this part of the country it’s pronounced draft. We had been “corrected” several times already on this trip, but we were having trouble adapting to the change.

One other interesting things to note here is that the men’s room uses waterless no-flush urinals. This is the first time I have ever seen them used anywhere other than remotely-located parks and roadside rests.

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Scooter’s 790th bar, first visited in 2010.

We had planned to visit only one bar in Atlanta (Five Paces Inn) and then hit the road, but when we entered Five Paces Inn we found they didn’t open for another 90 minutes. They directed us a couple of doors over to a little BBQ shack with a small bar inside.

Small bar is right, I believe it had 5 barstools. A kind older man who I believe worked there gave up his seat so the two of us could sit down. We ordered Lone Star bottles and talked about BBQ and barhopping with a guy in surgical scrubs and his girlfriend.

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