Scooter's Bar Journal » Council Bluffs

Hog Stop BBQ

scooterj — Sat, 30 Aug 2014 17:10:00 +0000

(Council Bluffs, IA)

Scooter’s 1043rd bar, first visited in 2014.

Stop 1 in an attempt to pub crawl every state bordering Missouri in a single day. The three of us and one other customer arrived upon opening and sat down at the U-shaped bar in the center of the room. We had breakfast, bloody Marys, and beer.

There’s a pool table, darts, and lots of current and vintage license plates. Of course there’s also BBQ, but not during the 6am hour.

3621 9th Ave
Council Bluffs, IA 51501
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Caddy Shack

scooterj — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 17:13:00 +0000

(Council Bluffs, IA)

Scooter’s 657th bar, first visited in 2009.

We were the first customers of the day, and the bartender was still cleaning up from previous night’s RAGBRAI crowd that had kept him extremely busy Saturday night.

This was a spacious roadhouse type bar with some pretty entertaining graffiti in the men’s room. We played our final game of Golden Tee for the trip before hitting the highway for real.

1426 4th Ave
Council Bluffs, IA 51501
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Quarthouse Bar

scooterj — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 17:12:00 +0000

(Downtown, Council Bluffs, IA)

Scooter’s 656th bar, first visited in 2009.

We headed over to Main Street and drove up and down both sides trying to decide what our next bar would be. We were looking specifically for a place called Uncle Charlie’s Boston Boozers at 519 S. Main because that name is just awesome. But it either does not exist anymore or is very well hidden because we could not find it. But we did find the Quarthouse, and it was open.

This was a nice, quiet old-timer dive with canned beer. There we a few other guys in here. I believe everyone was watching golf.

Update: There is a pool table in the back room, and they have karaoke on the weekend.

107 Pearl St
Council Bluffs, IA 51503
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(712) 322-9830

Glory Days

scooterj — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 17:11:00 +0000

(Downtown, Council Bluffs, IA)

Scooter’s 655th bar, first visited in 2009.

This was a pretty nice sports bar. We discussed our plans for the day — would we stop when we reached 100, or was 100 just a goal and we’d hit up a few more until we were ready to go home? We decided we would stop at 100 since it was a nice round number.

106 W Broadway
Council Bluffs, IA 51503
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(712) 256-5922

Barley’s

scooterj — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 17:10:00 +0000

(Downtown, Council Bluffs, IA)

Scooter’s 654th bar, first visited in 2009.

This was a really nice looking old bar. However, the bartender was MIA. We sat there for about 10 minutes before she appeared from a back room, surprised to see us.

After she served us she disappeared again. A few minutes later a woman came in who had left her card here the previous night. She looked around, checked the other room, then came back. “”Is anyone working here?”" she asked us. “”Nope, we had to serve ourselves,”" B joked. She finally managed to find the bartender and got her card.

114 W Broadway
Council Bluffs, IA 51503
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(712) 322-0306
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