Downtown Archive

#1045: 5th Street Bar & Grill

Posted on August 2014 | No Comments
(Downtown, Pittsburg, KS) Scooter’s 1045th bar, first visited in 2014. The third stop in our 9-states-in-1-day pub crawl, representing Kansas. We hadn’t taken into account that some of these small...
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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
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