Besides a Church, Every Town Needs a Good Watering Hole - Show us Your Layout Bars!

That's a great looking bar. I have been to some pretty small bars in my day, but none quite that small. Must be one of those "Standup beer bars" that have nowhere to sit.

Matt - Great looking bar, it looks so real that it makes you think "I have seen that somewhere."  Good thread.

Art

Some say every town needs a bar. Where I grew up it was more like every blocked had one. This where by state law every bar has to have a kitchen and serve food so they were also places where families went to eat.

Pete

Matt,

LOL!!!!

I don't have one on my layout yet, BUT after a Midnight, to 8 A.M. tour..........!!!

Ralph

I grew up, Wilkes-Barre, PA, where there was a lot of coal mining; back in the day, it was common to have churches and bars on street corners. I also remember the "lockies" the locomotives of the narrow gauge railroad that one mine near my house

used to haul coal. I vividly remember plumes of steam rising in the cold air, always at the same point, where, apparently, the engineer turned up the throttle. Today, that right of way is a drug store and supermarket.

Yip-eee

Here's one I missed.  Should not have advertised before purchase.

@ Bob: I thought Sam Malones' place was called "Cheers"

Here's mine, waiting on other downtown buildings and scenery. 

barrister2u,

Counselor, when I was first introduced to my wife's Maternal Grandmother and her family, in Nanticoke, Penna., there were a good five active bars, within a block of each other, within walking distance, in the summer of 1970.

My wife's Maternal Grandfather, who was deceased, when I met the family, was a coal miner for the Susquehanna Coal Company in Nanticoke, so here too, were coal mines, which by the '70's were closed and a lot of bars.

Ralph

Matt,

A fantastic place, have you ever been downstairs in the basement?

I haven't been in the basement...but rumor has it that old Donnie McCuaig has a Milwaukee Road layout down there.  Matt

When I see some of these bars I am reminded of what my mom called them..."beer holes."  That may have been because my dad was known to frequent them at times, usually at the most importune times. 

When you look at the smallest of towns in the Midwest, they all have at least one bar and usually more.

Art

My relatives, with heads held high, referred to the roadhouses as "beer joints",

and one of them was run by a "colorful" character suspected of operating a still on

his very dilapidated small farm, populated with many odd small buildings,  outside of town.  There is now a church!! on that farm property, that once abutted my grandfather's farm, and was across a road and creek from the Southern Railway.