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pbiflyer

A follow up question to a previous "What bar have you drank the most at?"

I was sitting at a local restaurant when another patron mused aloud to the bar tender that he thought the place started out somewhere else. The bartender said, no as far as she knew it had always been there. At this point, I had to chime in and say, yes, it had actually been across the intra-coastal in Palm Beach and moved almost overnight. And I suddenly realized that happened before the bartender was even born. And since I had drank at the original, it made me realize I had been drinking there for longer than she had been alive. I suddenly felt very old.
I started going to E.R. Bradley's in 1985 and frequented it throughout the years, including last week, so 40 years?
So that brings up  the question of where have you drank the longest on the regular? And yes, regular can be subject to interpretation. I spent 3.5 years in Hawaii and only got back to Florida once in that time. But almost every time I was home, I would stop in.
Are there places I have drank at longer? Yeah, but not frequented.
When I first got to Marquette, our GDL took us to the Safe House (in 1980) and I was there with my daughter earlier this year. So if you just count start and last time, that likely would be the longest, but I have probably been to the Safe House maybe a couple dozen times, so really wouldn't count that.
Or maybe two questions:
1. What bar have you frequented the longest and how long?
2. What bar bar you have gone to with the longest period of time between your first drink there and your last and how long?

1. ER Bradley's - West Palm Beach. 40 years
2. Safe House - Milwaukee, 45 years.

Spaniel with a Short Tail

Laschet's in Chicago. Started drinking there in 1976. Have gone there for drinks or dinner at least once a year since, usually more often. It's a great old German bar that expanded to a restaurant a couple of decades ago. Opened by a WW2 German submariner. It took me awhile to discern that the warship models he had on display were all from the Kriegsmarine.




MU Fan in Connecticut

Quote from: Spaniel with a Short Tail on June 27, 2025, 08:44:30 AMLaschet's in Chicago. Started drinking there in 1976. Have gone there for drinks or dinner at least once a year since, usually more often. It's a great old German bar that expanded to a restaurant a couple of decades ago. Opened by a WW2 German submariner. It took me awhile to discern that the warship models he had on display were all from the Kriegsmarine.





My kind of bar!

Just missing Augustiner on tap.

MuggsyB

Quote from: Spaniel with a Short Tail on June 27, 2025, 08:44:30 AMLaschet's in Chicago. Started drinking there in 1976. Have gone there for drinks or dinner at least once a year since, usually more often. It's a great old German bar that expanded to a restaurant a couple of decades ago. Opened by a WW2 German submariner. It took me awhile to discern that the warship models he had on display were all from the Kriegsmarine.





This place looks freaking badass!  What's that tap in tbe middle with the crown?

Billy Hoyle

I've moved so much that I don't have a place like that. The bar I frequented the most of any in my life, (during my grad school years) is now a dispensary.
"Kevin thinks 'mother' is half a word." - Mike Deane

pbiflyer

#5
Quote from: MU Fan in Connecticut on June 27, 2025, 09:10:18 AMMy kind of bar!

Just missing Augustiner on tap.
My favorite place to visit in Munich!

The Sultan

Quote from: Spaniel with a Short Tail on June 27, 2025, 08:44:30 AMLaschet's in Chicago. Started drinking there in 1976. Have gone there for drinks or dinner at least once a year since, usually more often. It's a great old German bar that expanded to a restaurant a couple of decades ago. Opened by a WW2 German submariner. It took me awhile to discern that the warship models he had on display were all from the Kriegsmarine.





Looks cool but too many German beers.
"I am one of those who think the best friend of a nation is he who most faithfully rebukes her for her sins—and he her worst enemy, who, under the specious and popular garb of patriotism, seeks to excuse, palliate, and defend them" - Frederick Douglass

Uncle Rico

Quote from: The Sultan on June 29, 2025, 05:59:06 AMLooks cool but too many German beers.

No kidding.  Last I checked, we won WWII
"Well, we're all going to die."

18thandWells

#8
In my early 20's we would pass around the boot at Laschet's. I guess my answer to this question could also be Lachet's, Schullen's across the street, or Toons at Byron and Sheffield.

MU Fan in Connecticut


MU Fan in Connecticut

I never gave my own answer in this thread.

Favorite places go back to the early 90's post-Marquette.
 
Christopher Martin's, New Haven, CT - It's next door to Modern Apizza, one of the famous New Haven pizzerias. I had a half dozen friends from high school grow up in the neighborhood so it became the "Notre Dame HS bar".  I still make an appearance at least once year because they hold a Christmas charity 5K for toy donations.  It becomes a street party with the open bar post-race. 
http://www.christophermartins.com/

The Anchor, New Haven, CT - This place used to be grungy.  Yale U. got a hold of the lease and it closed and reopened refined.  Not as cool as before but when my brother is home from Minnesota it's visited.
https://www.anchorspa.com/

The Hops Company, Derby, CT - An old rental hall reopened in 2017 as a beer garden.  It was my go to place often especially since I could walk to from my house.  They closed Jan 1 of this year, remodeled and reopened as a rental hall again and left a lot people upset (except for maybe the neighbors.)  The family built a rental tent behind the garden, that did great business.  So they decided to reopen the garden as rental hall so they operate two rental areas and apparently running a beer garden and rental hall at the same time was difficult and time consuming. 

Archie Moore's (used to be Ye Olde Fibbers) in Milford, CT - The deck was great for partying in the summertime.  I do still visit occasionally for Pub food and chicken wings.

Captain Quette

Briny Pub in pompano Beach. Been a patron for over 30 years. Food, music, on ocean, great time.

MU1in77

Bar I've frequented the longest - Ray & Dots in Greendale. When I graduated high school 14oz Pabsts were 20 cents. After my junior year at MU (1976) they raised the price to 25 cents. So we only got 8 beers for our $2 instead on 10!

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