Indian Mound Archive

#191: Tom’s Bigger Jigger

Posted on September 2006 | No Comments
(Indian Mound, Kansas City, MO) Scooter’s 191st bar, first visited in 2006. A well-worn place with a large sqaure-shaped bar and about a dozen patrons. Our bartender, Norma, was a...
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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
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  24 August 2013
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- Beer Kitchen
  29 August 2015
  (Westport, Kansas City, MO) Scooter’s 1119th bar, first visited in 2015. We met here for brunch with my family. We almost didn’t go — parking was difficult and once we...
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- It’ll Do
  15 November 2010
  (Arcola, IL) Scooter’s 826th bar, first visited in 2010. There we’re two bars (that we know of) in Arcola, about a block apart, but we had time for only one....
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