My ex used to call this place a "cut'n'shoot" kind of bar.
February 1, 2016 10:30 AM Subscribe
The last local honky tonk (slCreativeLoafingAtlanta)
Ah, Manuel's. Right across from where I used to do my laundry. I was never a regular there despite it not being far from my last apartment in Poncey-Highlands. My haunt at the time was the Righteous Room. I'd go to Manuel's when hanging out with my friend Will as he preferred it at that end of Highland.
posted by Kitteh at 10:46 AM on February 1, 2016
posted by Kitteh at 10:46 AM on February 1, 2016
I love the fact that my home city Cut and Shoot is mentioned (even in passing) here!
Bubba's Bar will always be the Cut'n'Shoot Bar to me
Some history of how Cut and Shoot got's it's name.
Kitteh - was your ex a local of Conroe?
posted by aggienfo at 10:53 AM on February 1, 2016 [1 favorite]
Bubba's Bar will always be the Cut'n'Shoot Bar to me
Some history of how Cut and Shoot got's it's name.
Kitteh - was your ex a local of Conroe?
posted by aggienfo at 10:53 AM on February 1, 2016 [1 favorite]
Really, all you have to do is drive over to Cobb County and there are still plenty of similar places.
posted by dortmunder at 10:54 AM on February 1, 2016
posted by dortmunder at 10:54 AM on February 1, 2016
Manuel's was my Dad's drinking hole and I remember well going there for hot dogs and Coke. I think I saw my first video game - Pong - there.
posted by thelonius at 10:55 AM on February 1, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by thelonius at 10:55 AM on February 1, 2016 [1 favorite]
Go to any city and you will find a dive bar, or bars, and you will find that many are fast vanishing, so that fancy places can replace them. Then, too, there are cop bars, where the police hang out and also in some cities mob bars, where, well you can figure that one out. And in many cities there used to be--perhaps still are--gay bars, attracting like minded; and in the Village, N.Y., used to be a lesbian bar. Any transgender ones yet?
posted by Postroad at 10:58 AM on February 1, 2016
posted by Postroad at 10:58 AM on February 1, 2016
aggienfo --
Nah, he was one of the biker guys that flooded places like the Vortex, the Gravity Pub, the Earl, etc on week nights. Again, I went to all these bars way too many times back in those days. Yeesh.
posted by Kitteh at 11:00 AM on February 1, 2016
Nah, he was one of the biker guys that flooded places like the Vortex, the Gravity Pub, the Earl, etc on week nights. Again, I went to all these bars way too many times back in those days. Yeesh.
posted by Kitteh at 11:00 AM on February 1, 2016
Postroad: "Go to any city and you will find a dive bar, or bars, and you will find that many are fast vanishing, so that fancy places can replace them. Then, too, there are cop bars, where the police hang out and also in some cities mob bars, where, well you can figure that one out. And in many cities there used to be--perhaps still are--gay bars, attracting like minded; and in the Village, N.Y., used to be a lesbian bar. Any transgender ones yet?"
Not sure if serious.
posted by Splunge at 11:03 AM on February 1, 2016 [3 favorites]
Not sure if serious.
posted by Splunge at 11:03 AM on February 1, 2016 [3 favorites]
Go to any city and you will find a dive bar, or bars, and you will find that many are fast vanishing, so that fancy places can replace them.
Not just fancy bars, but replaced by fake dive bars that exist to serve $12-15 silly cocktails to yuppies. Made with silly shit like tang, or just where half the drinks are in slurpee machines(or just premixed and on tap), or every drink is a beer/cider + shot combo with silly bobs burgers names.
Sometimes they even keep the name and sign from the actual dive bar that used to exist in the same location.
Oh man, all the rage trapped in a cage the first time i walked by the "reopened" comet tavern on capitol hill and they were blasting top 40 hip hop and the stage was gone...
posted by emptythought at 11:36 AM on February 1, 2016 [1 favorite]
Not just fancy bars, but replaced by fake dive bars that exist to serve $12-15 silly cocktails to yuppies. Made with silly shit like tang, or just where half the drinks are in slurpee machines(or just premixed and on tap), or every drink is a beer/cider + shot combo with silly bobs burgers names.
Sometimes they even keep the name and sign from the actual dive bar that used to exist in the same location.
Oh man, all the rage trapped in a cage the first time i walked by the "reopened" comet tavern on capitol hill and they were blasting top 40 hip hop and the stage was gone...
posted by emptythought at 11:36 AM on February 1, 2016 [1 favorite]
In the most quickly gentrifying neighborhood here, there's actually a bar called "Dive Bar & Grill" that's so not a dive bar. Personally I love the idea of supporting the few remaining dive bars here but the cigarette smoke keeps me away.
posted by octothorpe at 12:26 PM on February 1, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by octothorpe at 12:26 PM on February 1, 2016 [2 favorites]
Shit, I drive past this place everyday on the way to work. I certainly thought to myself on more than one occasion that it might be worth checking out, but it was just a little too out of the way I guess and I just never got around to it.
Go to any city and you will find a dive bar, or bars, and you will find that many are fast vanishing, so that fancy places can replace them.
It's starting to happen in East Atlanta with the Argosy being the "safe place" for Buckhead types to Uber down to on Friday nights, and have a fancy cocktail or $10 beer before going to the Graveyard and the Basement to get sweaty with the rabble. It's fun to sit at the Earl and watch people walk by and pick out who's coming and going from the Argosy. It's like the scene in The Departed where Fitz and Delahunt are standing outside the bar and picking out who the cops are, except more drunk and judgemental.
posted by dudemanlives at 12:37 PM on February 1, 2016 [2 favorites]
Go to any city and you will find a dive bar, or bars, and you will find that many are fast vanishing, so that fancy places can replace them.
It's starting to happen in East Atlanta with the Argosy being the "safe place" for Buckhead types to Uber down to on Friday nights, and have a fancy cocktail or $10 beer before going to the Graveyard and the Basement to get sweaty with the rabble. It's fun to sit at the Earl and watch people walk by and pick out who's coming and going from the Argosy. It's like the scene in The Departed where Fitz and Delahunt are standing outside the bar and picking out who the cops are, except more drunk and judgemental.
posted by dudemanlives at 12:37 PM on February 1, 2016 [2 favorites]
The Earl has my favourite grilled cheese of all time. ALL TIME.
I was dating myself a few weeks ago when I remembering all the shows I saw at the Echo Lounge (RIP) to another Atlantan. Good lord, how I miss my city sometimes.
posted by Kitteh at 12:41 PM on February 1, 2016 [1 favorite]
I was dating myself a few weeks ago when I remembering all the shows I saw at the Echo Lounge (RIP) to another Atlantan. Good lord, how I miss my city sometimes.
posted by Kitteh at 12:41 PM on February 1, 2016 [1 favorite]
This makes me wonder how much longer Northside Tavern is going to be around now that the Westside is a yuppie playground. I remember my first college party on the roof of the old Uhaul lofts and looking out toward the Midtown and over the junkyards and industrial detritus that used to surround that area and thinking to myself how grown up and cool I felt in that moment. Now if I stood in that same spot I could look down at a JCrew, a Lululemon, half a dozen fine dining establishments, and still the Northside Fucking Tavern. It was the bar that got me through 5 years at Georgia Tech and it's amazing that it's still there, and basically in the same state of disrepair. The $4.50 they charge for a High Life these days is a bit much, but I can't blame them for pricing to their new market, though. Long may she live.
posted by dudemanlives at 2:03 PM on February 1, 2016
posted by dudemanlives at 2:03 PM on February 1, 2016
Kitteh: “Right across from where I used to do my laundry.”Ha! I think I know the guy who owned that place 20 years ago.
posted by ob1quixote at 2:32 PM on February 1, 2016
Loved this comment: "You look at the pictures and I know what many of you are thinking but you can not always judge the book by its cover, believe it or not, the local chapter of Black Lives Matter has started meeting at SoCo every Monday night."
posted by Lyme Drop at 4:52 PM on February 1, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by Lyme Drop at 4:52 PM on February 1, 2016 [1 favorite]
The Honkiest, Tonkiest Beer Joint
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