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| - I was set a bit aback when I first saw the sign for Divebar hoisted up in ye olde Wal-Mart shopping center on Tropicana between Pecos and McLeod. In my estimation, you couldn't just create a bar called 'Divebar.' Dive bars create themselves in time, I thought. There's some intrinsic quality - a little bit of time, a measure of grit, some je ne sais quoi - to turn a bar into a true dive. You can't just inject that culture. I was wrong - ish.
When the bands started to get booked, the clientele was established, and Divebar was a dive bar almost from the moment it opened. The happy hour specials are great, some fabulous bands have graced the tiny stage, and once a wily dart landed in my fro and stuck there. It's a bit small and can get uncomfortably crowded when popular bands are playing, but, hey, that goes along with being a dive bar.
It's still a little too pretty for my tastes to live up to the name quite yet. You can bring in as many punk bands as you want, but that measure of grit I mentioned earlier can't be faked.
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