Bars Shorts
Description: Grab that Guinness and drink it down. This Irish drinking shirt was designed by artist Retro Review. A lover of the original Dark Side of the Moon album and the black Irish stout he decided to mash the two together. Perfect for St. Patrick's day and all year round. Enjoy that pint with your new tee!
Description: You could say that Jimmy & Andy's Bar & Grill ( J & A's) was a dive as it was smoky, low-key, and highly affordable. You could also call it a sports bat as the TVs are always tuned to the game, and if a St. Louis team is playing, pitchers were just $5. Just don't call it your typical Central West End nightspot, because J & A's was most certainly not that. This was a place for drinkers who like to drink and sports fans who like to watch the Cards and there's nothing wrong with that. While there's a full menu, it's more a convenience than the reason why people came here. J & A's was the neighborhood's most welcoming watering hole, filled with amicable bartenders and animated patrons. J & A's claimed to be the city's oldest bar...
Description: Nye’s Polonaise Room stood unmarked by time as Minneapolis ebbed and flowed around it. The glittering booths, the world’s most dangerous polka band, the piano bar that would invite anyone interested to sing a song and the many levels of Mid Century Modern drinking all weathered over six decades of changing tastes. That is, until last year, after a long goodbye, the restaurant closed, most of the fixtures were auctioned off and the block was demolished for redevelopment.
Description: Powder River, Wyoming is little more than a ghost town these days, but it used to have two restaurants, a motel, and a gas station, supporting not just locals and travelers along the U.S. 20 highway, but also the Standard Oil refinery. Now all that remains is an elementary school, a post office and a handful of very rural residences. One of those restaurants was the Tumble Inn, a roadhouse in every sense of the word. The log cabin housing the Tumble Inn was moved to Powder River from Ten Sleep, Wyoming, in 1923 and operated as several businesses before the Tumble Inn took up residence in 1942. With a full bar and kitchen, the Inn kept passersby happy for decades, but after the refinery closed, things slowed and topless dancers were added.
Description: Denver's Colorado Mine Company was one of those places that wasn’t what it seemed. It was a dive bar of sorts, but slightly classier and wrapped in a unique style of western kitsch with a menu to match. It was the kind of place your mother had warned you about, but that only made it that much more fun to hang out there. The restaurant lives on in America's collective consciousness as the creator of the "Fool's Gold" sandwich, one of Elvis Presley's all-time favorites, so much so that he would fly his private jet from Graceland to Denver just to get his fix.
Description: Taking cues from other NYC roadhouse-style bars, this Financial District saloon opened its doors in 2009 and made its bartenders the main event. The Horse's all-female cast of booze slingers was known for entertaining feats including bar-top dancing, fire-blowing, and hula-hooping, all while serving cheap drinks. The Iron Horse had a full menu that included your typical bar fare, and if you went on a Sunday, burgers and hot dogs were on the house when you bought a drink.
Description: A tiki bar is a themed drinking establishment that serves elaborate cocktails, especially rum-based mixed drinks such as the Mai Tai and Zombie cocktails. Tiki bars are aesthetically defined by their tiki culture décor which is based upon a romanticized conception of tropical cultures, most commonly Polynesian. Some bars also incorporate general nautical themes or retro elements from the early atomic age
Description: Although the first tobacco plantations were set up in Virginia in 1612, tobacco was smoked only in pipes in the colonies. The cigar itself is thought not to have arrived until after 1762, when Israel Putnam, an American general in the Revolutionary War, returned to his home in Connecticut from Cuba with a selection of Havana cigars, and large amounts of Cuban tobacco. Before long, cigar makers were popping up in cities everywhere and American-made cigars using both import and domestic tobacco were in high demand. One such maker hailed from Philidelphia, Pennsylvania in 1908. Going by the name Binding Tie and leveraging artwork filled with Masonic symbolism and imagery, this particular maker remains shrouded in mystery...
