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17 Dive Bar Pics That Trigger Some Very Specific Nostalgia

If your parents were anything like mine, they spent most of your childhood in a bar. There's nothing wrong with it. I turned out fine, I just write for eBaum's World.

Jokes aside, I was raised that way. Taco Tuesdays at 'Bachelor's' down the road. Wing nights at 'All Stars.' Learning who Tom Petty was by flipping through albums on the jukebox. It wasn't always pretty, but that was my childhood.

There's a special sort of nostalgia that comes from thinking about dive bars. As a kid there's no reason I should've been there. But my sister and I made the best of it. Whether it was asking for quarters to play games, or asking waitresses for crayons and drawing on the back of menus.

This was back when you could smoke in bars, and nobody gave sh*t. It also didn't help that our town had more bars than churches. Anyway, this one's for all the misfits who remembered every bartender's name and knew what a poker run was by the time you turned 10 years old.

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Barely being able to reach the dart board.

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Playing pull tab lotto tickets.

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Asking for crayons and coloring on menus.

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Somehow we were allowed to play Photo Hunt on the Megatouch screen.

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Listening to the loudest, and worst cover bands imaginable.

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Running to this machine for some stranger's cigarettes.

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Leaving the bar smelling like smoke.

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Flipping through albums on the jukebox.

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You knew the bar was awesome if they had shuffleboard.

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The roller-golf game that every bar had.

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Every weird old dude knew your mom.

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Growing up your favorite color was neon.

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"Can I just have a Sprite, please?"

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Poker runs every summer.

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This exact menu.

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Asking your parents for quarters every 10 minutes.

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Every Wednesday, the entire family would go have wings.

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