OT - Top Bars in NJ
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Nice response, considering I taught you most of what you know about craft beer on this board.
Have another Natty Light, gopher, ha !
been there several times golfer! In fact that area used to have several great dives. Johnnys Island Park, Gunnars Landing, Red Wolf Inn and the Wedgewood come to mind.
The Shephard and the Knucklehead in North Haledon is a great bar. PS- IMO, if the joint has more bar stools than tables, then it's a bar, if it has more tables than barstools than it's a restaurant that happens to have a bar.
The Shepherd and the Knucklehead:
http://www.theshepnj.com/
celebrating the duality of man
The Shepherd and the Knucklehead:
http://www.theshepnj.com/
celebrating the duality of man
This x 100. The Boathouse made the top 5 in Pete Genovese's list. Not being in the top 87 here makes this list invalid. The dive bar Hudson House being top 5 is a joke
Properly known as South Belmar and a reminder of when Bar A wasn't even the best bar in that town.
I remember still a friend calling in sick from the pay phone in the bathroom yelling "sick" as loud as he could because his boss at the New Brunswick sheriffs office couldn't hear him as the turtle races raged outside.
Not every year, but most, there's a midnight Christmas Eve ceremony/mass/reading/whatever -you-want-it-to-be here by a local reverend and awesome guy with regulars walking over from the bar, or just anyone who wants to, to read pre-selected Christmas stories or bible passages that is not to be missed. The best is the guy who curses whenever he screws up a word. Amen. It's pure entertainment and fun, even for this atheist.
In the 80s-90s they required a collared shirt to get in, which did not come with the shorts and t-shirt my friend and I were wearing when we got there as our 4th bar that day/night. After being turned away, we got a newspaper, used it to make collars, returned, and walked straight in passed a laughing bouncer.
I know what SOMEONE's doing at 4:30AM Christmas morning (unless you have kids!). Merry Christmas!
A little confusing wording but funny and a good story-bar, bible and beer. You may be onto something (PS arriving a church and being stick with once a years who don't want to be there I was almost driven to drink tonight!
Not a drinker-may have been tipsy twice (once on campus on Cook on Ag Field Day night). However, despite missing a day on the beach I liked to go (no more Thank God)
Bar A on WFAN day with everyone in their (including RU) team's garb and hear Southside Johnny and the Jukes. On that note my other bar would be "The Stone Pony" due to the live music. In Chapel Hill (not so sure many were there when we played) I frequented Bubo Malley's ("BUBs") as it wasn't a wine and cheese crowd bar-just great 70s and 80s music from the juke box.
The Lighthouse in Lake Hopatcong was one of my favorites growing up, along with every bar in Belmar.
Back in the 90s if you left the Parker House having one to many and dared get into your car and drive...you could save a lot of time by driving directly to the police station and turning yourself in.
The odds of getting to wherever you were staying without being pulled over were low.
The odds of getting to wherever you were staying without being pulled over were low.
Did you happen to know George, who was a regular, but passed away from cancer a couple years ago?
Loved the Bluffs! As for the Pool Bar, I got a job there bar tending back in my college days. Waitresses were hot! I lasted 2 weeks, got mono that summer. No luck, whatsoever.
Later bartender at the Royal Manor for a few years.
We used to spend the night at the Osprey or Leggetts then around 1:30 pile in a car to drive to Jimmy Byrnes because it was open till 3:00. You'd never think about doing that now.
In the mid 70's I had a room upstairs at the Parker House and worked a few fill in shifts behind the bar downstairs. Fun times.
I had a house near Manasquan and one summer rented rooms to a wayward group that included an Osprey bartender, bouncer and DJ. Good summer.
We used to close the Torn Hat and go to Wallaces across from Star.
We knew the bartender, he'd lock the place up for us and we'd stay till daylight, no need to tell you what was going on there...
I wasn't living in the WO area back during the heyday of Wallaces. Even when I was I was a Dodds and Dodd's Crest guy as we've discussed before. My sister and friends used to go to Wallaces as they're close to your age. I'll have to ask her later today about the place if she'll admit to it lol.
A couple of guys from Montclair worked at Dodds and later owned the Parker House for many years which is how I ended up there.
If the list was strictly for out of staters visiting one time then Harvest Moon would have been in the top 5.
I asked my sister about Wallaces. She had a friend who played in a band who performed there so she and her other friends went often. Said it was a great hangout.
These days you could Uber to River Rock or Headliners. Outside Parker House at 11:45 it's Uber central with everyone going to Belmar and Squan.
The shore bar scene is variable. There are people who will literally ONLY go to Osprey, Legetts, or Djais. Many a shore house night I have had where the mere suggestion of going to Asbury or Bar A would get a look like I said to go to Mars.
I think Djais has begun to attract a less stereotypical crowd which has taken some from Bar A. I thought the crowd at Bar A had been dwindling until this past summer, when it was packed regularly...Jenks seemed to attract smaller crowds this past summer for whatever reason.
Spent many a night at both the Osprey and Jimmy Byrnes. Sometimes it would feel like the floor was going to cave in at Byrnes.
I didn't know George, but there are many regulars there almost every night now. Tough to get a parking spot.
You my friend R so right.........I go there a lot in the summer time and they have like just one IPA on tap.....are you freaking kidding me !!
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Under Flood if you wanted to see our football team all you had to do was go to osprey at night or djais for happy hour
I remember George. I think they still have a photo of him on the wall behind the bar.
Just know George was well known there. Apparently when he died, the owners of the place paid for a big 'party' in his honor. I've never been there, just know him & his family from summers down the shore. Not many people frequent a bar & have a big event thrown in honor of them by the owners.
Everyone knew him. In fact, you guys inspired me to have lunch there today. And his photos are still up behind the bar. RIP George.
A former Osprey bartender from the 70's stops in where I work once in a while. We were talking about Chuck Wepner, his white Panama hat, and that damn whistle he'd always be blowing.
This must explain the presence of the Wellmont Theater. The bar there is adequate, but is nothing special at all.
The amount of people crammed into Jimmy Byrnes was just crazy. A fire in that place would have been catastrophic- not that it ever entered my mind when I used to go there.
