Best people watching in the entire city! My fiance would be crushed if he knew I only gave "the Beav" 3 stars, but it only has canned beer and we usually have to stand the entire time we're in there so I just can't rate it any higher.
Complaints aside, the Beaver has the most amazing cross-section of humanity darken its door. I'm talking anywhere from truck drivers to corporate executives are in there chatting it up. One night while we were enjoying the beav, (we go way too often) a gentleman walked through the door and placed his hand on the door jam -not realizing a longhorn skull full of bras and panties was directly above the door jam. After grazing the longhorn skull with his hand, the skull came crashing to the ground and bras and panties started flying across the floor -it was a truly amazing experience. During our first Beaver experience, an elder gent at the end of the bar told us about how he spent the first 70 years of his life en route to and from Mars. He told us that the government had been sending infants to Mars for space exploration since the 1940s and that the feds were withholding this information from the general public.
In addition to hilarious people patronizing the bar, there's a pretty clutch juke box with classic country, Heehaw plays on the tv 24/7 and there are several country/bluegrass bands the frequently play at the joint.
I really do enjoy the Thirsty Beaver, it's the best place in town to "enjoy" a Schlitz, listen to country music, gaze at a velvet Elvis and watch Charlotte's finest parade about.