This one is for travelers only. The Green Door in Park Hall, Maryland just 1.6 miles North of St. Mary's College Campus is a classic. Woodstove that burns drunks who lean on it, check. Townie and College student tensions on a daily basis, check. Cheap, cheap, cheap beer, check. 10oz Budweisers to go at 2am, check. Smallish pool table too close to the wall, so you have to shoot like Kramer and Mr. Costanza, check. 37.5% chance of catching an STD from the bathroom alone, check. Flip for Foster's, where a Fosters draft is 50 cents but if you call the quarter in the air correctly, its free, check. Thin walls easily breakable, check. Good sand/gravel combination in the parking lot for quality landings when "excused", check. Good memories(fuzzy), check.
I too had many fun, yet blurry evenings at the Door. Rumor has it that up until the late 80s it had sawdust floors.
Even though I no longer live within stumbling distance, I will always have a special place in my heart (or possibly my liver) for the Raven.
There is also the Quarry House tavern in downtown Silver Spring, an interesting subterranean place underneath Bombay Gaylord. I haven't been in a while, but if it is still around, Mickey's Patio Bar on 8th St SE in Capitol Hill was a pretty divey place. I remember having to wait for the Bartender to finish her poker hand before getting served on more than one occasion.
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I too had many fun, yet blurry evenings at the Door. Rumor has it that up until the late 80s it had sawdust floors.
Even though I no longer live within stumbling distance, I will always have a special place in my heart (or possibly my liver) for the Raven.
There is also the Quarry House tavern in downtown Silver Spring, an interesting subterranean place underneath Bombay Gaylord. I haven't been in a while, but if it is still around, Mickey's Patio Bar on 8th St SE in Capitol Hill was a pretty divey place. I remember having to wait for the Bartender to finish her poker hand before getting served on more than one occasion.