Scooter's Bar Journal » Garden City

Friendly Tavern

scooterj — Sat, 15 Nov 2014 18:19:00 +0000

(Downtown, Garden City, MO)

Scooter’s 1066th bar, first visited in 2014.

Since this was our last stop of the night I don’t remember much here except that it was a nice small town dive bar.

303 Main
Garden City, MO 64747
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Eric’s Rockin C Bar & Grill

scooterj — Sat, 15 Nov 2014 18:18:00 +0000

(Downtown, Garden City, MO)

Scooter’s 1065th bar, first visited in 2014.

For only about the third time in my entire barhopping history, a member of my group nearly wound up in a bar fight. An older bar patron was repeatedly groping a female member of our group, so we decided to leave to defuse the situation. I had already finished my beer first, so I can still count this as a stop, but there wasn’t time for me to look around a lot here.

217 Main
Garden City, MO 64747
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(816) 773-2099
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Fat Boyz

scooterj — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 17:10:00 +0000

(Garden City, MO)

Scooter’s 983rd bar, first visited in 2013.

For years I’ve been curious about this bar that’s attached to a gun shop and indoor shooting range, but every time I have been in the area I didn’t have time to make a stop. Today, however, I found myself in the area and had time to kill, so stopped in.

It was around 4:00 on a Saturday afternoon so needless to say I was the only patron. That makes it hard to get a feel for what a place is really like. I had a couple of Guinness while watching “Dazed and Confused” on TV.

On the inside, you’d never guess this is a butler building. They did a good job on the finish, creating a dive bar feel worthy of a more stately structure. It’s dark like it should be, with a nice long bar and lots of woodwork. There’s a jukebox, darts, and a few other games I didn’t really pay much attention to.

The more brightly-lit back room — technically in a separate butler building connected by a narrow enclosed walkway — contains three pool tables and is monitored by a video feed behind the bar.

There also seems to be a fenced in patio area outside, though I didn’t notice how this is accessed.

In my years of wondering about this place I always imagined it as one big long room with booze at one end, guns at the other. But in real life I didn’t see any direct connection between the bar and the gun shop / shooting range — which is probably for the best.

28503 Missouri 7
Garden City, MO 64747
US
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(816) 862-8006