More Popular Detroit Area Bars

Our second post during the first week of December includes more popular Detroit area bars. The bars on this list fit the category of hipster, dive bars. In our fathers’ era he would have called them shot-and-a-beer bars. Nancy Whiskey – 2644 Harrison Street, Detroit You’ll see many original building front facades that […]

Listing of Popular Dive Bars

Here is the start of a list, with brief backgrounds, of the Detroit Metro Airport area hipster, dive bars. The criteria are local neighborhood, family owned, and establishment age. These fall into the category of Mid-Century pedigree; shot-and-a-beer, and no fancy drinks. Bar stools abound. In fact sitting at these bars IS the […]

Birth of the Terms: Dive Bar & Hipster

Between the years 1946-1970 the local bars of Metro Detroit matured alongside the baby boom generation. Not many years ago the term “hipster,” as we now use it, did not exist. Most people before the new millennium would have interpreted hipster as a reference to the 1960’s term “hip.” During […]

The Journey Begins

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