Comments on: The Attic and Clooney's: San Francisco's Best Dives

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By: jimbeam

jimbeam — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:38:51 +0000

I think Alan got a real job.

By: emamd

emamd — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:21:56 +0000

Clooney’s – there’s no better place to hit up at 11:00am on a Sunday.

By: Neo Displacer

Neo Displacer — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:34:49 +0000

Has missionmission declined? I thought so, I attributed it to less Alan and summer (you know last century on TV things got slower in summer) So now that fall is nearly here we’ll see about my summer theory. As far as Alan goes, so goes missionmission. Sorry to the other writers but was it not his vision in the first place or did I miss something

Clooney’s! this is the only bar that I’ve seen someone passed out with his head on the bar and the bartender did nothing. Most bars, passing out, that’s an ass whupin’, Clooney’s couldn’t have been more blasé. Oh and the barfly was real interested in my friend. Within 15 minutes she was sitting on his lap running her fingers through his hair. He was skeeved but not enough to make her stop. I had a good chuckle

By: olu

olu — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:52:54 +0000

i didn’t know one could slum their way into a threesome! what have I been doing w/ my life?

By: dave

dave — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:26:27 +0000

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By: Juan

Juan — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:44:54 +0000

Clooney’s is terrifying (at least that was almost my impression when I lived on the block). But I’m glad places like that exist in SF, a defiant middle finger to the hip and gentrifying people and businesses around it. O’Greenberg’s in outer Noe is another example of this. Locals rarely drink there nowadays, it’s the guys (and yes, it’s mostly guys: roofers, cops, tradesmen) that grew up in the neighborhood but now live in places like Alamo and Antioch. But they still come back to their roots.

In re: this blog’s decline. I have noticed a bit more of the blurry pic/one liner type-of-post lately, and I do enjoy the longer/neighborhood issues pieces more, but the last time I looked, I pay nothing for the pleasure of reading this blog, and I suspect the writers/editors make nothing off of it, except a bit of narrow fame and the occasional comped vegan disaster.

Oh, and the Dovre is an excellent bar, dive or not. Just a good bar.

By: dookiestain

dookiestain — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:39:56 +0000

I used to live near Clooney’s. There were always Marina types slummin for coke or 3-ways on the weekend mornings. What a strange mix of people.

By: tk

tk — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:37:51 +0000

Of course! It’s more fun than arguing about abortion or whether Babe Ruth or Willie Mays is the best baseball player of all time.

For one, if people go there because it’s a dive bar, then it’s not a dive bar.

By: friscolex

friscolex — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:16:59 +0000

Of course, then I was rocking the pager, too. Worth a gander: http://www.beloit.edu/mindset/2012.php

By: Lapidgeon

Lapidgeon — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:05:18 +0000

no they do not.

By: friscolex

friscolex — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:50:39 +0000

I went into Clooney’s when I was 16 to use their payphone. They were very nice. I wonder if 16-year-old kids now know what a payphone is?

By: jimbeam

jimbeam — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:34:20 +0000

Here we go with the semantic arguments about what is or is not a dive bar.

By: Lurker Spaz

Lurker Spaz — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:51:54 +0000

As with any blog, lurker spaz common-taters could bring it down at any time. Running a blog about hip stuff is a suicide gambit…hip people and their friends slurp it up and move on. MM should just continue the downward spiral rather than trying to appease the high-brows with Issue Talk as eddo seems to suggest. Let it crash and burn and maybe keep a couple friends you made along the way.listen to these entitled whiners complaining…..this blog doesn’t owe you shit, little bitches!!. Free Blogs will always eat themselves eventually.

By: olu

olu — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:55:35 +0000

I agree with Tk that The Attic is not a dive bar – and i agree felixincognito about the Dovre.

Clooney’s is the real thing though. I went for first call once and the bartender’s hand was shaking so hard he couldn’t pour my shot without spilling it.

The actual review is pretty confused about the meaning of dive bars referencing Cheers (from the TV show) but it does give love to Li Po which is an all-time great.