Scooter’s 1719th bar, first visited in 2023.

The Sociable is a bit, uh, unusual. A very interesting décor. Honestly, it’s easier to just say “look at the pictures” rather than try to describe it.

I had a Bud bottle.

When we left here it was brewery time again. We decided that the next stop was too far to try to walk so we got the second worst Uber driver I’ve ever had to take us. I’m honestly not sure how she didn’t crash the car getting us there.

4917 S 136th St
Omaha, NE 68137
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Scooter’s 1718th bar, first visited in 2023.

Unfortunately we were not getting a good vibe here. I don’t know if he was doing it consciously or not, but the bartender was talking trash about where we were from and made a few racist remarks, so we finished our beer quickly and left.

I had either a Bud bottle or a Coors draft, this place was not on unTappd so I was unable to do a check-in to record it.

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Omaha, NE 68137
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Scooter’s 1717th bar, first visited in 2023.

This place is a lot bigger than it looks, with a separate half containing pool tables and other games — plus an actual phone booth.

We had a lot more fun here than we were expecting too, chatting it up with the bartender and other customers while blowing most of our cash on pull tabs.

I had a Budweiser bottle.

One great unanswered question: If this us the Duck Inn, then why is it on Millard instead of Mallard?

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Omaha, NE 68137
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Scooter’s 1716th bar, first visited in 2023.

The building is a former firehouse, converted to a massive brewery/restaurant. Apart from the large rectangular central bar there are massive seating levels on two levels, plus outdoor seating both on the sidewalk and on a rooftop deck.

My flight consisted of the Steel Cut Stout, the Dundee Export 90 Scotch Ale, Pursuit of Juiciness (NEIPA), and the Capitol (with Simcoe Cask Conditioned) — a pale ale that was a last-moment substitution after the keg blew of whatever I originally wanted in that spot was.

Unfortunately that last second substitution ended up being one of the worst craft beers I’ve ever had. Definitely among bottom ten out of the over 2,700 distinct craft beers I’d had up until then. So unfortunately that’s the memory I was left with. I should have STARTED with that one because any of the other three beers would have ended this visit on a good note!

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Omaha, NE 68102
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Scooter’s 1715th bar, first visited in 2023.

When we first arrived a tour was getting ready to start so it was a bit hectic, but once the tour group moved to the back it became much calmer.

I was faced with a dilemma. This was the start of the day, so the best strategy would be a few samplings of lower alcohol beers that I was only mildly interested in. But what I really wanted was the Barrel-Aged Epic Blackout Stout, a delicious beast with a powerful 17% ABV but was NOT available in flights. I’d had it before, but never from the source. I really wanted it from the source. So that’s what I chose. And, guess what? The rest of the day would still work out just fine.

At one point I went to use the restroom. Inside the men’s room was a door labeled “employees only”. It was the employee access to the same restroom. That door was also ajar. And I could plainly hear that the tour group was currently gathered right on the other side of that door. I briefly considered the entertainment value of a nice loud fart. Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately) I just didn’t have it in me.

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Omaha, NE 68102
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Scooter’s 1714th bar, first visited in 2023.

We both had ourselves a bunch of breakfast food. I had coffee boozed up in various ways, my friend stuck to Bloody Marys.

After we left here we went to a nearby convenience store to get some Ibuprofen, where we both got in trouble for failing to notice the “no backpacks” sign among the sea of signs on the front of the building.

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Omaha, NE 68102
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Scooter’s 1713th bar, first visited in 2023.

While at The Elbow Room we made the decision to return to out hotel for dinner. But then we had second thoughts, fearing that once we got to the hotel we might not go back out again. So we decided to find someplace to eat along the way. That led to us Crescent Moon Ale House, which I had previous visited in October 2009 but my friend had not visited, where we both had rather good food and met a Lupulin Brewing rep who gave us swag and bough me a beer.

FINALLY, after that, we returned to our hotel (the Magnolia) and made out first visit to the hotel bar.

There was some confusion as to the name of this place as the hotel web site called it “Olive & Ira’s”. But the sign in front said “The District” so that’s what we went with.

We had decided upon our arrival that we would have one drink here, then head back out to visit one or two more nearby bars before calling it a night.

I had an Old Fashioned while my friend had a bourbon. Then I had an espresso martini while my friend had more bourbon. The bartenders were great (both with drink making and with being fun), and we enjoyed ourselves so much here that we ended up staying until nearly close and then just headed back to our room. We would end up visiting this bar two more times during our stay — Saturday night where we closed it, and Sunday morning for a boozy brunch. In the end between all the visits I had 1-2 old fashioneds, 3-4 espresso martinis, an AKRS Cream Ale by Zipline Brewing, two Irish coffees, and one more cocktail that I can’t remember.

Overall, this proved to be my favorite hotel bar so far.

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Omaha, NE 68102
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Scooter’s 1712th bar, first visited in 2023.

Our next stop was Homy Inn, which I had visited in August 2009 but my friend had never been to. We both had the on-tap champagne. (I had the sweet version, I don’t remember what he had.)

After that we made our way over to The Neighber’s [sic], which we had both visited in August 2014 but were under a time crunch. This time we were able to give it a proper visit.

We were debating walking from here to our next place, but then I noticed that a block in the other direction was a bar I’d been meaning to visit for years but kept missing. So that’s how we wound up with an unplanned stop at Leavenworth Bar.

We didn’t stay super long since we had one more stop we wanted to make before dinner, but we had a nice time in our short visit. I had a Ruthie (pale lager) by Exile Brewing Company, which I thought was a new beer for me but it turned out I’d had it at the actual brewery when we both visited it in July 2019.

Once we finished here we decided that the one block in the other direction we went to come here made our original next stop now just a hair too far to walk, so we got an Uber.

4556 Leavenworth St
Omaha, NE 68106
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Scooter’s 1711th bar, first visited in 2023.

We played Tetris here, and I had a Shake Chocolate Porter by Boulder Beer.

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Omaha, NE 68104
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Scooter’s 1710th bar, first visited in 2023.

Once we finished there, more places were open and we were able to continue on to some more new places.

Beercade is an arcade bar, mainly focused on pinball. We spent a good amount of time here trying out most of not all of the machines.

I had a Gigantic Nitro Stout by Gigantic Brewing Company.

Attached to and affiliated with Beercade is St. Andrew’s Pub, which is naturally where we went next. Though both bars share the same POS (so you can open or close your tab in either bar), the tap lists and it appears even the hours differ.

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Omaha, NE 68104
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Scooter’s 1709th bar, first visited in 2023.

The menu is primarily German food & beer, but when it came to the food we both got nervous and went with “safe” picks. My friend got kebobs (which turned out to me more like wraps instead of the skewers he was expecting) while I went safer still with chicken strips. Beer-wise I had a Hofbräu Dunkel / Dunkel Gold by Staatliches Hofbräuhaus München.

It was too cold to enjoy the beer garden itself so we stayed inside. But it’s a pretty impressive patio.

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Omaha, NE 68104
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Scooter’s 1708th bar, first visited in 2023.

Looking back at what all we had passed, we decided Havana Garage looked the most interesting so we backtracked to there.

As it is a cigar bar, it was a bit too smoky inside for our comfort. So we decided to take our drinks to the headed/covered patio out back.

The patio is surrounded with vegetation and included a large tree that passed through one of the tables. The patio has a back alley entrance that we had already passed twice before while walking around today. I thought it looked enticing, my friend thought it look creepy.

I had an Omaha Stylee IPA by Brickway Brewery & Distillery.
As we were leaving I had stopped to use the restroom (which honestly I had to do at least once at every single bar we went to), and I remember something was odd about it but I can’t remember what. I remember it was in the basement, but it was something else. I’ll have to pee there again someday to try to figure out what it was.

Google Street View images of the alley entrance that I thought looked cool but gave my friend the creeps…

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Omaha, NE 68102
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Scooter’s 1707th bar, first visited in 2023.

There was a well dressed group having a good time at the next table and we bantered back and forth a couple of times. When we were about halfway finished with our drinks they paid their tab and left. A few minutes later they returned and ordered another round.

“Change your mind?” my friend asked them.

“YES!” they said. “It’s POURING out there!”

The weather forecast up to this point (which we had been monitoring frequently) had always insisted on only periods of sprinkles to very light rain. So we assumed they were exaggerating. After we finished our drinks and closed our tab we decided to brave the walk back to the hotel.

NOPE! It was a full-on monsoon outside. Torrents of rain. We stood under the canopy for a minute debating whether to also go back inside. But we were tired, so we decided to awning-hop our way back to the hotel.

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Omaha, NE 68102
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Scooter’s 1706th bar, first visited in 2023.

Our original plan was to visit both bars in this venue, and we would have accomplished that had we not stopped next door to eat first. But while we were eating, Moe & Curly’s went from nearly-empty to absolutely packed as karaoke was fully underway.

After several minutes of being unable to get the bartender’s attention, we decided to skip a drink at Moe & Curly’s (as well as skip asking her where the speakeasy was) and went to look for it ourselves. We found it back past the restrooms. Unlike the main bar, there was almost nobody in here so it worked out perfectly for us.

The only available beer was Lone Star (technically, Original by Lone Star Brewing), so I started off with a bottle of that. My friend ordered the same, but then he noticed they had Dewars so he switched to that and he gave me the rest of his beer to finish. After finishing those I am pretty sure I also had a gin & tonic.

We had a lot of fun here, the bartender was very friendly and made good conversation.

At $8 for the bottle, this is almost certainly the most expensive Lone Star I’ll ever have.

The bar area of Moe & Curly’s, where we did NOT have a drink.

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Omaha, NE 68102
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Scooter’s 1705th bar, first visited in 2023.

I had a chicken tenders platter, but I completely forgot to check in my beer on UnTappd so I have no idea what I had to drink. I am pretty sure I did not have Guinness. I had something local, either an IPA or a brown ale. It annoys me that I didn’t keep track. The only thing I am certain of is that it was NOT a Fairy Nectar IPA by Kros Strain Brewing because that’s what my friend ordered.

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Omaha, NE 68102
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Scooter’s 1704th bar, first visited in 2023.

The most prominent feature of this bar is the stage at the front end. There was some early prep underway for what I assume was an act scheduled for later i the evening.

I had a Guinness.

After we left here we decided to go across the street to T. Henery’s since my friend had never been there. (This was my third visit and second this year.) It was my first visit where it wasn’t packed.

1215 Harney St.
Omaha, NE 68102
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Scooter’s 1703rd bar, first visited in 2023.

This is a basement bar on a block with (at least) three basement bars. It was all decked out for Halloween when we visited. There are video gambling machines, and they have live music on the weekends.

I had a Guinness.

1205 Harney St, Omaha, NE 68102
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Scooter’s 1642nd bar, first visited in 2023.

In addition to our breakfasts my wife had a bloody Mary while I had a poinsettia.

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Omaha, NE 68102
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Scooter’s 1641st bar, first visited in 2023.

This tiki bar is located in the basement. There were at least two large rooms, packed with people, we sat at a table shared with two other groups. We both had island themed cocktails, I don’t remember what my wife had but mine was a rum-based take on an Old Fashioned.

We were pretty buzzed by this point so these pictures aren’t my best work.

1204 Howard St
Omaha, NE 68102
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Scooter’s 1640th bar, first visited in 2023.

1212 Harney St.
Omaha, NE 68102
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Scooter’s 1639th bar, first visited in 2023.

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Omaha, NE 68105
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Scooter’s 1044th bar, first visited in 2014.

This was the second stop on our 9-states-in-1-day pub crawl, picked because it opens at 6am. Unfortunately our GPS had the location wrong and we got here a lot later than planned so had to make up the time by having only a round of shots instead of getting to stay for a while.

The Neighber’s sits towards the west end of the Leavenworth dive bar district. The bar features a pool table, darts, video games, a claw machine, and a new beer garden.

4689 Leavenworth St
Omaha, NE 68106
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Scooter’s 1042nd bar, first visited in 2014.

Apart from the fact that I was sitting directly beneath a condensation drip from the ceiling, this was a great spot to end the night, with a lot of great beers to try.

6115 Maple Street
Omaha, NE 68104
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Scooter’s 1041st bar, first visited in 2014.

6059 Maple Street
Omaha, NE 68104
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Scooter’s 1040th bar, first visited in 2014.

Don’t bother trying to go in the front door, that door doesn’t work. You enter through the nondescript door in the back.

There’ pool tables, several video games, and lots of seating. A separate room to the side has a pool table.

Upon finding out we were from out of town, they gave us free shirts and koozies.

4973 Center St
Omaha, NE 68106
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Scooter’s 1039th bar, first visited in 2014.

Inside the long skinny building the bar takes up most of the space, though in the front is a small library and a barber chair. This is the second barber chair I have seen in a bar out of 1,039 bars so far — and both have been here in Omaha.

The elevated back room with the pool table is the most interesting feature of the bar What I dubbed the Georges Seurat Memorial Billiard Hall, the walls are painted with a representation of his master work, Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.

3207 Leavenworth St
Omaha, NE 68105
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Scooter’s 1038th bar, first visited in 2014.

We had all agreed from how it looked on the outside (much like a house) that this was a bar we wanted to visit. Stepping inside the door, we were surprised to find that instead of being in a bar, we were in a tiled foyer with a turn towards a set of stairs leading to the basement. At the bottom of the stairs, past the anachronistic payphone, the bartender stood behind a jail door. Turning right, we found the entrance to the lounge in the basement of this house.

This is a bar that developed its personality in the 1950s thru 1970s, then stopped changing. The entire atmosphere remains frozen in that era.

The bartender is a very friendly guy who enjoyed talking to us about Omaha and his bar. Drinks are cheap, the patrons are quiet and friendly. This is a very relaxing place to hang out away from the crowds.

There’s a pool table, an old jukebox, and lots of quirky decor.

This is now one of my favorite bars and I’ll definitely be visiting every time I return to Omaha.

2201 Pierce St
Omaha, NE 68108
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Scooter’s 1037th bar, first visited in 2014.

Fast forward five years, and I found myself in downtown Omaha with two friends the night before we would begin a question to barhop 9 states in a single day. I decided I needed to take care of unfinished business and visit Happy Bar.

It’s a dive, don’t get me wrong, but there’s nothing at all scary about it. This is a fun little bar with friendly regulars and a friendly bartender.

On tap is an extensive selection of choices ranging from Bud to Bud Light, with an even wider variety available in cans. There’s a pool table in the back.

We really enjoyed our visit here and also enjoyed the free gifts the bartender gave us to prepare us for the next day’s adventure.

601 N 16th St
Omaha, NE 68102
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Scooter’s 669th bar, first visited in 2009.

Crescent Moon is the main bar where you first walk in. It has more of a sports bar feel. This was what we visited.

Huber-Haus is a German beer hall in the basement. We tried to go here but it was packed. This section features beer in boots.

Max & Joe’s is off to the site of the main level, it’s a more quiet, laid-back restaurant/lounge.

Beertopia is the liquor store portion. We didn’t see an entrance from the bar area but may have missed it.

3578 Farnam Street
Omaha, NE 68131
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Scooter’s 653rd bar, first visited in 2009.

Just as we were giving up, the light of this place appeared. We only had 10 minutes left until closing time but we managed to get served.

A band that I think was called “”Over The River”" was playing “”Night Moves”" when we arrived. The bar wasn’t very busy and only a few people were dancing. The band had time for a couple more songs. They did covers of other southern rock hits, and when the final song played, everyone in the bar was dancing.

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Omaha, NE 68102
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Scooter’s 652nd bar, first visited in 2009.

I can’t remember exactly what it was that B asked the bartender for when we sat down. But when the bartender said he didn’t have it, B jokingly replied “”You don’t have that? This is a pussy bar.”"

“”You’re the pussy who chose this place,”" replied the bartender.

As we drank our beers, a girl came by whose shoe had broken and asked for advice. The bartender didn’t have anything to help out, so we tried to rig something using toothpicks, a stir stick, and matches. Unfortunately we just couldn’t get the strap back through the sole in order to fasten it in place.

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Omaha, NE 68102
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Scooter’s 651st bar, first visited in 2009.

We were making circles throughout the neighborhood and sort of stumbled across this place when we saw people disappearing under the sidewalk. The allure of a basement bar drew us in so we headed on down. We later realized this was one of the bars the bartender back at Homy Inn had recommended to us.

We found a basement sports bar that looked like a frathouse rec room, but I actually mean that in a good way. There was a DEA dog present, as far as I could tell it was here only because its handler was in for a visit, it didn’t seem anyone was getting busted for anything.

UPDATE: Revisited on Friday, April 28, 2023. Just like in 2009, I was still the oldest person in here — but this time by a much wider margin. The pictures below are from this new visit.

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Omaha, NE 68102
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Scooter’s 650th bar, first visited in 2009.

This was more like it. It wasn’t super crowded like the other places had been. The front end of the bar was open air with a garage door style entrance. The bartenders were fun, as were the customers.

The restrooms were down a long corridor and were pretty disgusting — obviously a public restroom not associated with the bar.

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Omaha, NE 68102
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Scooter’s 649th bar, first visited in 2009.

Since Barry O’s blew, we were on a mission to find a nearby bar that didn’t blow. This was the least-blowy one we found on this street. We were able to get our drinks quickly, though there was no place to sit. B went outside and chatted with the bouncer, who was a nice guy, to get some advice from him as to where to find some less busy/upscale bars. We advises us to head further west and south.

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Omaha, NE 68102
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Scooter’s 648th bar, first visited in 2009.

We walked over here to grab one last been before in this area before calling a cab. Our cab showed up just as we finished, so that was good timing.

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Scooter’s 647th bar, first visited in 2009.

This place is rated as one of Omaha’s top dives. The bar area itself is nice, and it has a beautiful deck in the back. We had also read a review that told us we needed to check out the basement bathrooms that would remind one of Buffalo Bill’s basement in “”Silence of the Lambs”", but since neither of us had to go, we both forgot about doing so.

Update: On a later visit I did use the restroom. You go down a treacherous staircase with a very low ceiling into the very low ceilinged basement. At the bottom there are three small unmarked doors. Women’s has a nude woman on the door, Men’s has a Nebraska logo. I don’t know what’s behind the third door.

Many of my companions on the second trip thought this was a gay bar but I didn’t see it. Gay-friendly maybe but it wasn’t flaunted.

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Omaha, NE 68102
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Scooter’s 646th bar, first visited in 2009.

At long last! B had been searching for the new PowerPutt Golf game for a few months, and now he finally found one. So we took a break to enjoy a game of virtual mini golf.

4964 Dodge St
Omaha, NE 68132
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Scooter’s 645th bar, first visited in 2009.

Right across the street from Underwood. We had a very nice waitress who gave us 1/2 price, 1/2 pint draws so that we could continue on our mission quickly.

4949 Underwood Ave
Omaha, NE 68132
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Scooter’s 644th bar, first visited in 2009.

The parking lot was very small and very full. I had to parallel park inside the lot, and the lot had only one entrance — behind me. We ended up leaving the car here for the next couple of bars.

As I took the picture of the outside, a woman ducked away saying “”Oh, I can’t be in your photo!”" B jokingly informed her we were with the FBI.

Underwood was one of our top picks and we soon found out why, this bar bills itself as The Hub of the Universe.

The bar was pretty full, and as we started taking he indoor pictures, the women who had been outside asked what we were doing. B explained to her the trip we were on and how we had been out since Wednesday morning on a quest to have a drink at 100 bars.

She thought that sounded awesome, and immediately turned to her friends and told them what we were doing. “”Wow! That’s like one of those things people people talk about doing but never actually go and do,”" said one of them.

“”Are you guys talking about anal sex?”" asked another woman sitting catty-corner to the first group.

That end of the bar erupted in laughter and word about what we were doing spread throughout the bar.

4918 Underwood Ave
Omaha, NE 68132
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Scooter’s 643rd bar, first visited in 2009.

We have a winner! Normally it would be hard for me to pick a favorite bar of each day, but this was it. From the beeer trays on the ceiling, to the wall of cans, to our awesome bartender named Nikki, this place was perfect!

Oh, and did I mention that it serves champagne on tap?

That’s right! See for yourself in the photos. Naturally we passed on beer here in favor of a couple of glasses of the bubbly goodness.

We told Nikki about our trip and she gave us some great suggestions for places to hit up later when we reached downtown. (T Henery’s, Billy Frog’s if they hadn’t lost their license, The Dubliner, and The Maxx)

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Omaha, NE 68104
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Scooter’s 642nd bar, first visited in 2009.

We would end up going to 101 bars on this trip, yet this was the only one we went to where we were the only white people inside. Usually that should be the case at about at least 4 or 5 places. Oh well. It was still daytime so the handful of people in here were older.

It should be noted that of the 640+ bars I had been to as of this visit, this is absolutely the nicest smelling bar I have ever been in.

1604 N 47th St
Omaha, NE 68104
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Scooter’s 641st bar, first visited in 2009.

We picked this place because the online reviews we read talked about the rowdy crowd and that customers are constantly getting their cars towed.

Admittedly we did have trouble figuring out how to get to their parking lot, but once we did it wasn’t too hard at all to park legally. The crowd inside seemed pretty mellow, thought it was still early. We played Silver Strike. Starting at the 9th frame a little kid repeatedly asked us when we’d be done because he wanted to “”play”".

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Omaha, NE 68104
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Scooter’s 640th bar, first visited in 2009.

There was a cute little dog running around in here that loved to chase the ball and play fetch.

We noticed that this bar had more shuffleboard tables than most places. Turns out the owner is Shane Hagen, a champion shuffleboard player.

We asked the bartender about the name of the bar. He didn’t know the origin, just that it had had that name for nearly a hundred years and the current owner saw no reason to change it when he bought the place.

6020 Maple St
Omaha, NE 68104
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Scooter’s 639th bar, first visited in 2009.

This place looked like it’s probably a music venue or dance club by night. B and I had a discussion about Tourette Syndrome, Tourette camps, and some of the things that each of us are constantly thinking in various situations that we might accidentally blurt out if our internal filters were impaired.

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Omaha, NE 68104
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Scooter’s 638th bar, first visited in 2009.

The bartender offered us up some free hot dogs and popcorn. I declined, but B went ahead and dug into the corn. I enjoyed the barber chair inside the front door.

6117 Maple St
Omaha, NE 68104
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Scooter’s 637th bar, first visited in 2009.

We found a place to park the car and began a short walking adventure in the Benson neighborhood. We started out with this place, a little removed from the main strip.

After nearly four full days of taking pictures in bars, it took until #81 for someone to ask us what we were doing. They were cool about it though, the people here were friendly.

6135 Military Ave
Omaha, NE 68104
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Scooter’s 636th bar, first visited in 2009.

This was probably the dive-iest dive we went to today.

6913 Maple St
Omaha, NE 68104
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Scooter’s 635th bar, first visited in 2009.

Why did we have to eat breakfast????? This place was serving up a pizza that looked even better than the one we saw earlier in the day at The Fire Barn. Actually we were starting to get hungry, but we had plans of another sort for food coming up soon.

8503 Maple St
Omaha, NE 68134
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Scooter’s 634th bar, first visited in 2009.

This was one that barely made our list, primarily because we couldn’t find any information about it whatsoever. Instead it turned out to be one of our favorite stops.

At first it looked like a basic boring cookie-cutter joint in a run-down strip mall. But that was from the outside. Inside we found an honest-to-goodness neighborhood dive bar, the kind that people make their home away from home. This was a nice place and we enjoyed our visit.

8805 Maple St
Omaha, NE 68134
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(402) 391-2589

Scooter’s 633rd bar, first visited in 2009.

This was a place we had selected simply because of its name. If we had pulled up and found it was named anything else, we were going to move on. Thankfully we found that we could indeed go on inside for a drink.

We sat at the large rectangular bar. It was now lunchtime and a few tables were occupied with families sitting down for a meal. We watched an episode of “”The World’s Most Amazing Videos”" and drank the raspberry version of Mike’s Hard Lemonade. This would be the last of the girly drinks of the day, our stomachs were now ready for a return to beer.

3346 N 108th St
Omaha, NE 68164
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(402) 763-2800

Scooter’s 632nd bar, first visited in 2009.

An “”Animal House”" themed bar! The walls were covered with props, publicity photos, and posters from the movie. We were the only customers at this time of day but this place looks like it could be a pretty fun hangout in the evenings.

3121 N 108th St
Omaha, NE 68164
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(402) 934-4042

Scooter’s 631st bar, first visited in 2009.

We picked this location on name alone, and the fact that its advertising uses the phrase “”Why Soitenly!”" sealed the deal as this being a “”Three Stooges”" themed bar.

2946 N 108th St
Omaha, NE 68164
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(402) 493-9808

Scooter’s 630th bar, first visited in 2009.

This one came very close to not making the cut, but it was saved only because the very nondescript web site suggested that it was a dive even though the location suggested to us otherwise. We were intrigued enough to check it out.

The Lighthouse was very tricky to get to from Maple. It was only barely visible — we’d never have spotted had we not plotted its location in advance. Two congested left turns, then a parking lot maze that took us around the back of a strip mall in order to get us around to the far side where the entrance was.

It was still early so we were the only customers. We watched part of the movie “”Cocktail”" with the bartender and learned about the heroics of a local legend, illustrated in one of the photos above.

15676 W Maple Rd
Omaha, NE 68116
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