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I miss the Great American Dive. I created this little barstool for you to saddle up to and enjoy vignettes on roadhouses and watering holes that once populated this country (and some that still do!) from Bangor, Maine to Chula Vista, California. These are the little joints that were owned by guys from the neighborhood. Places that allowed tattered and frayed citizens access to their favorite bottled intoxicant. Places aglow with the buzz of neon and more often than not, settings a bit seedy and worn.
My favorite dive, Freddie’s, is here — and which just happens to still be in operation down in the great state of Kentucky. Oh the blissful hours I spent there on a bar stool, engaging the street savvy sages who have held America and gazed at her from twisted angles and in jade-colored light.
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FROM WIKIPEDIA
A dive bar, or simply a dive, is a downmarket drinking establishment serving a working class (or poorer) clientele.
The term “dive” dates from the London of the 19th century when younger men wanted somewhere slightly more risqué to spend their afternoons than the great clubs frequented by their fathers. They formed more informal clubs where they smoked and drank coffee.[citation needed]
The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary indicates that in the U.S in the 1880s, it referred to an illegal drinking den or place of low repute, especially in a cellar or similar place. It has also been used to refer to opium dens. More recently, in Canada at least, it is associated with cheap and dirty accommodation (such as fleabag motels and run-down rooming), as well as with prostitution and other disreputable or illegal activities.[citation needed]
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