Peculiar Archive

#1058: The Frog Pond

Posted on November 2014 | No Comments
(Peculiar, MO) Scooter’s 1058th bar, first visited in 2014. Smoky but pleasant dive bar in the heart of Peculiar. It opens early in the morning, we stopped in for breakfast...
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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
- Katy O’Ferrell’s Publick House
  24 November 2023
  (Downtown, Cape Girardeau, MO) Scooter’s 1723rd bar, first visited in 2023. I needed to kill about 30 minutes waiting for my net planned stop to open, and I had noticed...
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- Berts Pub & Grub
  09 August 2006
  (Afton, IA) Scooter’s 109th bar, first visited in 2006. Afton, Iowa is the former county seat of Union County, and has a nice town square to prove it. While people...
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- Black Apple Crossing
  13 October 2019
  (Downtown, Springdale, AR) Scooter’s 1405th bar, first visited in 2019. So remember how in the previous entry I said I wasn’t in the mood for cider? Well here’s what happened...
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