Small Town Bars

[JJ-65]

Originally Posted by pintailslammer

The Bear's Den in Gronlid Sask. The picture's above the men's ****er says it all!




Pin

That place really goes Native during the rut.

[greylynx]

The Watermelon Patch in Egremont Alberta.

A lot of guys drive right by it.

The biker bar in Redwater. Not too bad.

[Wolf Medicine]

Some favourites.... Robb... Drank there, stayed there... Still laugh that had to go down to the bar from my room up stairs and change the tv channel as the whole joint watches the same channel. Good food and people. Lodgepole.... Stop there routinely for a lodgepole burger... Now that's good eating.. Tomahawk.... Thursdays for the dancers... Ride your snowmobile into town in the winter, Or bike in the summer. The old hotel in Black Diamond... name slips me, but that's nothin new. Great atmosphere....

WM.

[TUFFBUFF]

Originally Posted by TBark

Anyone drink in the Eaglesham hotel before it was condemned ?
This was back in the early to mid 90's, should have been condemned back a few years prior too ha. We were asked to leave more than once.
One of the biggest moose heads in AB hung on the wall.
After the tore it down the only place left to drink there was the Gathering Place, nice place and pretty good grub too.


TBark

LOL! I've probably had a few beers with ya then, used to hang there a fair bit when we hunted up there lots around that time.
don't think anyone ever got cut off there!
X2 on the moose

[drake]

I avoid small town bars.....to many unruley townies

[Tatonka]

If anyone happens to pass through Chinook (Montana), check out the Pastime Bar and Lounge....it's our local watering hole. Beers and mixed drinks are $2.25 (unless you order something fancy). All bars here in Chinook charge the same..... All 4 of them. We like to make folks feel welcome.

[bb356]

Originally Posted by kodiakken

That working the rigs definetly got a fella to a lot of the out of the way places.
A lot of them are probably gone now and the names have faded from my mind.
The old Hotel in Claresholm that burnt down was that the Jolly Roger?
The Beaverlodge one with the taxi work it burnt.
Granum Bar it Burnt.
Empress the Border it Burnt.
Wasn't there one in Acadia Valley Burn't.
Oyen Burn't.
Then there are the little ones Clive.................
Cadogan was a good bar.
Stavely was fun.
Chauvin man I had a ton of fun there! Wonder if the old grey mare is still there?
Carmengay Red felt on the pool table.
Vauxhaul Blue felt on the pool table.
Burstall one for the Saskatchewan Side.
I am trying to remember if there was one in Spirit River but my mind isn't sure.

Memories Ken.

YUP !!! ......... Spooky Creek has the same hotel from the 50's

[wiserfool]

It's the only place I've ever been where you could have Black Label 'on tap'

Best line!

I'm decades past my "Bar" years, but this thread brought back a few memories. God bless beer and Alberta Oil's tendency to haemorrhage money.

[ww2269]

Originally Posted by Tatonka

If anyone happens to pass through Chinook (Montana), check out the Pastime Bar and Lounge....it's our local watering hole. Beers and mixed drinks are $2.25 (unless you order something fancy). All bars here in Chinook charge the same..... All 4 of them. We like to make folks feel welcome.

Myself and a few buddies went there about 12 years ago when we were working in Milk River and had a day off, seemed like a good place. If i recall the only rye we could get was Crown oc CC. Some of my other interesting favorites over the years are:
Vilna
Dorintosh Sask
Bassano
Wandering River
Patricia
Dutchess
Wilingdon
Fox Creek-Griz
Glendon
Just had great times in all these small places.....most the stories I will take to the grave

[trigger7mm]

Originally Posted by Rod1960

Doesn't some bar in Viking have a steak night? I'm fairly certain I've heard it advertised on Edmonton radio....complete with limo packages.

That's the Bruce Hotel. Been there lots of times. Friday nights are steak night, all home made and unreal food. It's a great time!

[trigger7mm]

Had some great times in the Oasis Hotel in Edgerton, and the Red Lion in Cadogan. Patricia has an awesome steak pit....good times!

[Badgoodguy]

Hey what about the Gleichen Hotel They used to close the bar I think from 4 to 6 to clean it out LOL Not 1 window in the whole bar. Not sure if it is still there

[canadianhunter]

Lancer, SK at the hotel. Dorintosh, SK for steak night. Loon lake, SK bar. The beaver hotel, in north Battleford, SK. The wheatie, in kitscoty. Red earth creek hotel. Some of the most entertaining and rougher bars I've had the pleasure of drinking in. I know there are more but the memory is foggy on some of those nights.

[S-in-Cochrane]

Just got back from the Rockyview hotel here in town. Cochrane isn't as small as it used to be but I still like the hotel.

[roger]

it dont get any smaller than in

1996 neilburg, SK. neilburg hotel.
chasing monster whitetails by day, wickedly huge 30oz steaks, softball sized baked potatoes, 8" diameter burgers with 8" by 3/8" peice of cheeze and ceaser salads that comes on a platter with 3" thick slab of garlic toast, wobbly pops by nights. enjoyed watching locals in a talent contest of sticking quarters to there faces.
no loud music, no strippers, no fights in fact, you could hear the bartender snoring between rounds (His name was Colin Bolin...dont know why i remember that)

nothing has come close to that since.

[IR_mike]

Originally Posted by S-in-Cochrane

Just got back from the Rockyview hotel here in town. Cochrane isn't as small as it used to be but I still like the hotel.

Forgot about that one...great place was in there a few times this fall.

PS. Schooners has the best fish and chips I think I ever had.

[roger]

Originally Posted by trigger7mm

That's the Bruce Hotel. Been there lots of times. Friday nights are steak night, all home made and unreal food. It's a great time!

my wife is from the area and figgers her and I should make it a date nite to go there...maybe a AO get together is in order!
id take time off work for that...

[ww2269]

Originally Posted by roger

it dont get any smaller than in

1996 neilburg, SK. neilburg hotel.
chasing monster whitetails by day, wickedly huge 30oz steaks, softball sized baked potatoes, 8" diameter burgers with 8" by 3/8" peice of cheeze and ceaser salads that comes on a platter with 3" thick slab of garlic toast, wobbly pops by nights. enjoyed watching locals in a talent contest of sticking quarters to there faces.
no loud music, no strippers, no fights in fact, you could hear the bartender snoring between rounds (His name was Colin Bolin...dont know why i remember that)

nothing has come close to that since.

I spent a few months there in +-93. Just out of high school in the patch. I remember a sweet little coug in that bar then.......it was the winter Russia played team Canada in Unity Sask.

[pickrel pat]

bumping my favorite thread for some new guys favorite little watering holes.

[Flyfisher87]

Originally Posted by trigger7mm

Had some great times in the Oasis Hotel in Edgerton, and the Red Lion in Cadogan. Patricia has an awesome steak pit....good times!

x2 on the Oasis and Red Lion. The Red Lion used to serve a great Buffalo burger.

Some of my small town favorites:

Luseland Hotel- Couldn't have a beer when I was working, but ample tractor-trailer parking across the street and a decent sandwich.

The Irish Pub ( Caliedeighs?) in Camrose. Great atmosphere and was probably very busy last night lol.

There was this one bar in St. Walburg SK. Can't remember the name, but a great place to top off a day of fishing.

Nicks in Vermilion- Small size, good steak and friendly people.

[plinker]

The bar in the Black Diamond hotel. We used to jump on our bikes in the 70's and do the route. Longview, Black Diamond, Cochrane. Then after we would get ice cream at Cochrane.

We were having fun at the Black Diamond one Saturday, when this old Russian lady (and I mean old) come unglued at the waitress cause she'd been cut off. She was screaming Russian obscenities and every so often some English would come out. VISKY I VANT VISKY. Then she took a step forward and face planted onto that nasty wood floor. Had to be there, funniest thing.

[BBT]

Texas Gate in Cochrane is a gooder.

[lippy]

The Redcliff Hylton ... a historic 100 year old hotel with very good food and a beautifully landscaped beer gardens to sit outside in during the summer complete with bbqs, bocchi pit and fireplace. You can eat some pub grub and for dessert .. cross the street for some eye candy..the only stripper joint in southeastern Alberta!

[pickrel pat]

bumping my fave thread for the new guys. by the way.... gonna be spending alot of time in laclabiche and want to know of a good bar in llb or surrounding area for a single guy?....

[addictedfisherman]

Dino's in Donalda, has fantastic Pizza and cheap beer!!

[IR_mike]

Originally Posted by pickrel pat

bumping my fave thread for the new guys. by the way.... gonna be spending alot of time in laclabiche and want to know of a good bar in llb or surrounding area for a single guy?....

The LLB inn or the almac.

Chaseing white russian chicks in Plamondin can be hazardous to your health.

[pickrel pat]

Originally Posted by IR_mike

The LLB inn or the almac.

Chaseing white russian chicks in Plamondin can be hazardous to your health.

plamondin is a russian settlement?

[IR_mike]

Originally Posted by pickrel pat

plamondin is a russian settlement?

Sort of, white russians emigrated there after the commies took over if my info is correct.

Very possesive of there women and property......no hunting allowed if not one of them.

[jaylow?]

Originally Posted by IR_mike

Sort of, white russians emigrated there after the commies took over if my info is correct.

Very possesive of there women and property......no hunting allowed if not one of them.

pretty much , we got property less than 5 min from the pelican inn . a lot of the white russian chicks are hot as hell, dressed in colourful full length dresses and cover their hair if they're married but they like to drink and can be flirty or even pretty straight forward. most white russian boys dont like you talking to them and they usually only hang with other russians and in pretty big packs sometimes. went to a house party one night after the bar closed and it was intresting to say the least.

[Duk Dog]

Any suggestions in Athabasca for a good bite to eat and a beer?