Downtown Archive

#975: Legends of Country Music

Posted on April 2013 | No Comments
(Downtown, Easton, KS) Scooter’s 975th bar, first visited in 2013. I guess they mustn’t get very many out-of-town visitors, because we were all carded despite being in our 30s and...
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Welcome!
Some people collect autographs, some collect antiques, others collect stamps. My hobby is a little different, I collect bars. This site represents my collection, documenting each bar I visit.

This is not a review site, there's plenty of those already. Most posts in this bar diary are slice-of-life recaps of the half hour or so I spent having a beer. I hope you enjoy browsing through my collection!

--ScooterJ
A Few Random Favorites
- Velvet Dog
  06 May 2003
  (Union Hill, Kansas City, MO) Scooter’s 12th bar, first visited in 2003. This is one of the trendier bars, a genre I typically am not a fan of. But of...
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- Flight Deck
  21 November 2025
  (Pensacola, FL) Scooter’s 1858th bar, first visited in 2025. “Oh, this is PERFECT!” I exclaimed as we pulled into the parking lot. What a majestic thing of beauty. The absolute...
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- Tasting Room at J. Reiger & Co.
  08 January 2022
  (East Bottoms, Kansas City, MO) Scooter’s 1511th bar, first visited in 2022. We found out about this distillery complex less than a week before COVID lockdowns started in early 2020...
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