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Images => People, Portraits, Street, PJ & Cityscapes => Topic started by: Rick Waldroup on December 06, 2015, 10:02:54
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The Basement Bar - Fort Worth, Texas - December 5, 2015
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What a place!
I hope the TV screen doesn't ruin the atmosphere.
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What an intriguing place. Love the way you include all the necessary and interesting elements, especially the signs and messages.
I wonder if the free punch in the face can be ordered along with bloody mary as a set...
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Great atmospheric detailed shot. A typical US-bar, I presume?
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Thanks for the comments.
This place would be so much better without the TV, as this bar has been in existence since the early 1930's. It was a speakeasy at one point during Prohibition. It is my favorite bar. It is located in what has now become a tourist area, but few tourists visit it. Most of the patrons are locals. It is dark, sometimes it gets a little rowdy, lots of bikers, fast women every now and then, and cheap booze. The place is perfect.
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Sounds all tastes are catered for, then :D
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it looks like a take from a David Lynch movie.
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One would think that fithing booze in such a place can prove being a very much Sysiphusian predicament 8)
Intriguing image like a scene from a 'film noire' movie.
The TV seems to be about the only concession to modern times.
I like it a lot.
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When in Texas ... That's the typical place my Texan friends would take me to when I visit. My California dress would never fit the occassion.
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I'm not going to ask...nice shot.
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Thanks for all of the comments.
Gary, if you ever make it down my way, let me know. There are a few dives I can take you to for a drink or two..... 8)
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I like this...been to some of those bars while I lived in OK. Travelled a lot to Houston/San Antone/DFW area.
Have you been to the allegedly oldest saloon in Gruene, TX? Has the swing doors, a stove and a massive bar desk.
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I like this...been to some of those bars while I lived in OK. Travelled a lot to Houston/San Antone/DFW area.
Have you been to the allegedly oldest saloon in Gruene, TX? Has the swing doors, a stove and a massive bar desk.
Yes, that is Gruene Hall, the oldest dance hall/bar in Texas. I was there once. Great place. Unfortunately, it was one of the few times that I did not have a camera with me. This was years ago and a friend took me there on an impromptu visit.
Another one of my favorite bars is in Tulsa, OK. The Mercury Lounge. I love that place. I am planning a trip back to Tulsa sometime in the summer of next year. Tulsa reminds me a lot of Austin.
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Sorry abut the double post.
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Yes, that is Gruene Hall, the oldest dance hall/bar in Texas. I was there once. Great place. Unfortunately, it was one of the few times that I did not have a camera with me. This was years ago and a friend took me there on an impromptu visit.
Another one of my favorite bars is in Tulsa, OK. The Mercury Lounge. I love that place. I am planning a trip back to Tulsa sometime in the summer of next year. Tulsa reminds me a lot of Austin.
We didn't go to Mercury Lounge but another one on S. Peoria Ave.....not far from where I lived (across the street from Southern Hills Country Club)
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Thanks for all of the comments.
Gary, if you ever make it down my way, let me know. There are a few dives I can take you to for a drink or two..... 8)
That would be grand!
(You know the same when you make it to SoCal. My favorite bar is the patio, service sucks, the owner's a jackass, but the beverages are top notch.)
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(You know the same when you make it to SoCal. My favorite bar is the patio, service sucks, the owner's a jackass, but the beverages are top notch.)
Pappy & Harriet's is my favorite bar, its out in Pioneer Town (Joshua Tree). I highly recommend a visit if you've never been, and the ribs.
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I need to check out that place next time I am in Ft. Worth.
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I need to check out that place next time I am in Ft. Worth.
Ron, it is in The Stockyards, as you know. The Star Cafe sits on top of it.
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So many bar photos I've seen. But, this one I will probably remember for a very long time.
Couple of days back I was in a local bar at a rusty small town in northern India. I was afraid to take any pictures exactly because I didn't want any free punch on my face.
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Nice shot. My kind of place.
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Pappy & Harriet's is my favorite bar, its out in Pioneer Town (Joshua Tree). I highly recommend a visit if you've never been, and the ribs.
Thanks Charlie. Now I have to make a trip to Joshua Tree.
(A couple of days ago, either Sunday or Saturday ... the LA Times ran a very lengthy and interesting article on Joshua Tree.)