Scooter’s 1454th bar, first visited in 2021.

6000 N Terminal Pkwy
Atlanta, GA 30349
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Scooter’s 889th bar, first visited in 2011.

We got a pizza to-go to take back to our hotel, and had a couple of beers at the far end of the bar while we waited.

317 West Bryan Street
Savannah, GA 31401
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Scooter’s 888th bar, first visited in 2011.

This bar has at least 3 levels. The main level is the pub, with a good menu and a nice mix of both familiar and interesting imported beer on tap.

Downstairs in the same corridor as the restrooms there’s an additional room that’s more sports-bar styles, with pool tables and so forth. I didn’t go in there so I don’t know if there’s a secondary bar down there but I assume there likely is.

There were also stairs leading up from the main bar. I didn’t investigate the upstairs, so I am unsure if these led to an upper-level lounge or to a rooftop deck. (Aerial photos do seem to show a rooftop patio off the second level and what appears to be an outdoor bar.)

13 West Bay Street
Savannah, GA 31401
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Scooter’s 887th bar, first visited in 2011.

201 East River Street
Savannah, GA 31401
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Scooter’s 886th bar, first visited in 2011.

317 East River Street
Savannah, GA 31401
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Scooter’s 885th bar, first visited in 2011.

We grabbed seats at the large rectangular bar and had a couple of beers alonmg with several other patrons. Around the corner in the restaurant side of the establishment, live acoustic Irish music was being played.

117 West River Street
Savannah, GA 31401
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Scooter’s 884th bar, first visited in 2011.

303 West River Street
Savannah, GA 31401
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Scooter’s 883rd bar, first visited in 2011.

The front room, with the main bar, has a stage at the far back and a projection TV screen next to the bar. Parallel to that in the next room is a secondary bar in a more intimate lounge-type setting.

307 West River St.
Savannah, GA 31401
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Scooter’s 882nd bar, first visited in 2011.

Our bartender was fun and friendly, and whipped us up some bonus shots to go with our beer.

There’s a pool table in the back, a lounge area with plush chairs in the front, and the restrooms are just as run down and dirty as you’d hope for in a place like this.

Lookup up info about this bar later I found it classified under “gay bars”. Personally, I didn’t see it. However I see no problem with calling it “gay-friendly”, since it seems like the kind of place where anyone is welcome and can feel free to be themselves.

305 West River Street
Savannah, GA 31401
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Scooter’s 881st bar, first visited in 2011.

125 W Congress St
Savannah, GA 31401
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(912) 544-0371

Scooter’s 880th bar, first visited in 2011.

This location is in Savannah’s City Market.

27 Barnard Street
Savannah, GA 31401
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Scooter’s 879th bar, first visited in 2011.

311 West Congress Street
Savannah, GA 31401
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(912) 239-9600
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Scooter’s 878th bar, first visited in 2011.

11 West Bay Street
Savannah, GA 31401
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(912) 944-4343
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Scooter’s 877th bar, first visited in 2011.

Originally an inn for seafarers, pirates and sailors from around the world have been here and the place is referenced in Treasure Island. See the web site for the full history.

The bar area is somewhat modernized, but the restaurant areas retain more of the original appearance. Seafood is, naturally, the focus of the menu.

20 East Broad Street
Savannah, GA 31401
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Scooter’s 876th bar, first visited in 2011.

1401 Strand Avenue
Tybee Island, GA 31328
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Scooter’s 875th bar, first visited in 2011.

Indoors is a full bar and an enclosed dining area. Outdoors are two seating areas — one fully open-air and one covered. Live music was being played on the front deck.

A stop here is a must if you visit Tybee Island.

1403 Butler Avenue
Tybee Island, GA 31328
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Scooter’s 874th bar, first visited in 2011.

We chatted with a couple of tourists visiting from inland Georgia and got lost in conversation with them. Our bartender also turned out to have been one of the customers we met at another bar earlier in the day.

1603 Strand
Tybee Island, GA 31328
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Scooter’s 873rd bar, first visited in 2011.

1605 Strand
Tybee Island, GA 31328
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Scooter’s 872nd bar, first visited in 2011.

It’s really more of a restaurant/diner than a bar, and is very food-oriented. However there’s about a half dozen stools at a very small bar. The barstools are actually prety cool, they are what appear to me motorcycle seats mounted on pistons that gently sink into position when you sit on them.

The decor here is pretty entertaining and was cracking me up.

1613 Strand Avenue
Tybee Island, GA 31328
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Scooter’s 871st bar, first visited in 2011.

Drinks here were slightly more expensive than at the other bars but still reasonably priced.

Panorama of the front room. Use the slider below the photo to view.

1512 Butler Avenue
Tybee Island, GA 31328
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Scooter’s 870th bar, first visited in 2011.

There were two very intoxicated men in their late 40s/early 50s who were arguing about some work that one of them took and the other didn’t get. It got to the point that they were literally bumping chests together. But it defused before it became truly entertaining.

It appeared there might be a beer garden in the back, past the pool table, but I didn’t go back there to confirm.

Panorama of the tavern area. Use the slider below the photo to view.

1513 Butler Ave.
Tybee Island, GA 31328
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Scooter’s 869th bar, first visited in 2011.

Our bartender was a friendly gal who whipped up some tasty drinks for us when we couldn’t decide what we wanted.

1518 Butler Avenue
Tybee Island, GA 31328
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Scooter’s 868th bar, first visited in 2011.

The place was pretty busy when we stepped inside, but we found a couple of empty stools at the far end of the bar.

Suddenly, a moment after we got our beers, the entire place cleared out. I mean, every single person in the place got up and filed out all at once, including the bartender! For a few minutes we were completely alone in there, dumbfounded. Finally, the bartender returned. We theorized later that everyone had gone out to check out somebody’s new ride.

Now, this place is also a cafe and does serve food, but we didn’t look at the menu.

19 Tybrisa Street
Tybee Island, GA 31328
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Scooter’s 867th bar, first visited in 2011.

We had some good and entertaining conversation with the bartender and a couple of the regulars.

There appeared to be a deck or patio out back but I didn’t go out the back door to confirm.

It was here that we learned that the bars here can server you drinks “to-go” and that you can drink them openly out on the street. So we got another round to take with us while we went to do some sidewalk shopping.

13 Tybrisa Street
Tybee Island, GA 31328
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Scooter’s 866th bar, first visited in 2011.

There’s video poker, a snooker table, and Guinness on tap. Among the patron was a large black cat who we learned comes and goes as he pleases.

Despite what it says on the outside, they did not have any food here.

10 16Th St
Tybee Island, GA 31328
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Scooter’s 865th bar, first visited in 2011.

The TVs were on the Food Network and the bartender told us about a fish sandwich he wants to invent in order to get Man vs. Food to visit. Don’t worry, Mr. Bartender, the name of the sandwich and the ingredients will remain secret!

1517 Butler Ave
Tybee Island, GA 31328
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Scooter’s 864th bar, first visited in 2011.

Tybee Island, GA 31328
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Scooter’s 798th bar, first visited in 2010.

The place was busy but not packed. Despite this, we could not get the attention of the bartender. After about 5 minutes we gave up at the bar and moved to a table.

It took another 5 minutes for a server to notice us. She was really nice, just didn’t notice us.

By then we decided to do just one quick shot and get the hell out. We asked for whatever was on special, which turned out to be some sort of black cherry shot.

Several minutes later they finally arrived. They tasted like cough medicine. We left our money on the table and got out of there.

65 Outlet Center Dr
Calhoun, GA 30701
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Scooter’s 797th bar, first visited in 2010.

This is a big tiki themed place with a U-shaped bar at one end. There’s a nonsmoking lounge area and a covered patio.

The bar was full so we grabbed our beers and headed to the back to play some Golden Tee.

When we left, I opened the driver’s side door of the SUV and climbed in. B did not get in, however, instead walking on up to the passenger side door of his van and climbing in. Holy crap, I was in the wrong vehicle!

I quietly slipped out and entered the correct vehicle, while B could only shake his head and laugh.

3655 Cherokee St NW
Kennesaw, GA 30144
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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.”

30 Irby Ave NW
Atlanta, GA 30305
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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…

Panorama of the bar. Use the slider below the photo to view.

Another panorama of the bar. Use the slider below the photo to view.

3223 Cains Hill Place NW
Atlanta, GA 30305
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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.

41 Irby Ave NW
Atlanta, GA 30305
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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.

3180 Roswell Road NW
Atlanta, GA 30305
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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.

Panorama of the bar. Use the slider below the photo to view.

3167 Roswell Rd NE
Atlanta, GA 30305
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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.

Panorama of the bar. Use the slider below the photo to view.

56 E Andrews Dr NW, #16
Atlanta, GA 30305
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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.

25 Irby Ave NW
Atlanta, GA 30305
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Scooter’s 789th bar, first visited in 2010.

We started out at the Back Porch Lounge, which turned out to be attached to the motel that was our second choice on our list of places to stay.

The front room with the bar is very small and intimate. There was no place to sit, so we took our drinks into the adjoining front room.

This room was completely dark, except for a giant screen where a group of people were playing Rock Band. We sat in a booth in the back and watched them play through several songs.

As our eyes adjusted we saw that this was a relaxing lounge room, with a lot of stonework and a large fireplace. A stripper pole in the corner seemed a little out of place in this room.

Behind the bar was another room, brightly lit, that was an elegant-looking billiard room.

Before we left we noticed that a grizzly old man who was lurking in the corner was air-drumming wildly to the Rock Band songs.

Unfortunately, B’s illness returned, so we had to call it a night after this bar. We held out hope that he’d feel better tomorrow so we could resume our mission.

2400 Riverside Drive
Macon, GA 31204
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Scooter’s 788th bar, first visited in 2010.

Sitting near us at the bar was a woman who kept falling out of her sweater. B and I kept watching her and quietly joking about it.

Suddenly, from the back, a guy resembling Lafayette from True Blood came sashaying in and bounced from lap to lap of several of the guys at the bar. As we watched his antics we soon noticed that “he” had breasts.

Looking around the room, we noticed that another woman had an adams apple. Then we noticed that some of the women kinda looked like men.

I noticed B furiously pressing keys on his phone, then he turned it and held the screen in front of my face to show me his search results. “Macon’s premier crossdressing night club”, “Hottest gay bar”, “Great alternative lifestyle scene”…

We didn’t realize it at the time, but what we saw turned out to be only a small part of the overall place. We had no idea there was a bigger room that is more of a night club format, or that there’s an outdoor bar as well.

425 Cherry Street
Macon, GA 31201
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Scooter’s 787th bar, first visited in 2010.

We started out at The Rookery, as we had heard repeatedly it’s one of the most popular spots downtown.

The Rookery is more of a restaurant, but there’s a rectangular bar island in the back. We settled in back there and had some Guinness.

543 Cherry Stree
Macon, GA 31201
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