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blackstarhero666 t1_iu0k59s wrote

Not sure of this one but there's another down in the run close to Greenfield in a house called zanos.

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matt_1060 t1_iu0l6fq wrote

Torley and friendship right? Edit: there used to be some great parties at the second floor apartment back in the day when Maggio’s what on Liberty

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konajinx t1_iu0lc5n wrote

Well, according to Lindsey Ninehouser via Foursquare they have “$2.75 drinks all the time”…back in 2010.

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NSlocal t1_iu0mctw wrote

The Lorigan Street bar was similar, looked like a house, had a bar inside.

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marco1989 t1_iu0p8rs wrote

I think they only open a few days a week. I’ve been in a handful of times for steeler games. Definitely an old man dive bar

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-Motor- t1_iu0pm40 wrote

Basement bars aren't uncommon. They just can't have direct access (inside stairs) to the living space.

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Zealousideal-Bug1967 t1_iu0pqgb wrote

I mean, there’s not much to tell you. It’s a dive bar In what looks like a house. Frequented by Bloomfield lifers, mostly old men. Dingy, dirty, cheap drinks by todays standards.

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pittbiomed t1_iu0sebc wrote

I lived next door to the right for 2 years in the early 90s . Crazy bar, .25 cent drafts , lots of locals . Other than puke over the sidewalk it was quiet til that guy killed his buddy in there a few years ago

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waddersandwich t1_iu0zvk6 wrote

I used to live nearby and have been a few times. It's a cop bar/old man bar, not interesting in the slightest. They had a camera out front so that you had to show your face before they'd unlock the door. Rumor was so that it would keep out a....certain clientele. Dunno if that's still the case.

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kidmuaddib3 t1_iu120co wrote

Me and my boy walked in there one time because we heard they had a pool table and before long we heard the phrase "You can see em when they smile" so chugged our beers and ran. We discussed going back to raise hell but we lived nearby and they did not seem like they'd let us get away with trouble.

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JamesKLOLk t1_iu163m0 wrote

Well if it gets shut down next week, then we know OP is a cop.

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livefast_dieawesome OP t1_iu17o3a wrote

Replying to JamesKLOLk (#266,203)

OP is most definitely not a cop. 🤣

honestly if a cop can get acquitted for shooting a "friend" six times at this place during a bar fight (see links up-thread), even if I were a cop, this place apparently wouldn't have anything to worry about

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SultanOfSwat0123 t1_iu18yqr wrote

Replying to livefast_dieawesome (#263,905)

“Deputy District Attorney Jan Necessary argued that the bartender couldn't verify any of Farnan's testimony.”

Hey, Jan is my neighbor! She just retired. Her and her husband are awesome.

What’s funny is one of my lawyer’s last names is Farnan. I texted him and asked him if he was related to this guy and he replied, “Not related to him. Never met him. After he killed someone in Bloomfield a few years ago, I was asked that question 1,000 times.” 😂😂😂clearly annoyed by it but I couldn’t help myself from asking.

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Gladhands t1_iu1blk7 wrote

Looks like the sort of place where the N-word flies freely.

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flippant_burgers t1_iu1c9d7 wrote

Replying to blackstarhero666 (#262,986)

I think it's closed now but Greenfield also had the Win Green: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.4261474,-79.9397529,3a,41.1y,26.3h,96.35t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sBWghJqCZBqn-YAbqFQARzw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

And I haven't been to any but the Slovak clubs capture the imagination.

Kollar Club: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.4214469,-79.9619143,3a,75y,174.55h,94.38t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sXJhwHEjAr_s2gqbg-QxyFA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

American Slovak Citizen's Club: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.4034106,-79.8941817,3a,75y,355.2h,91.07t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sUFQpseeja9FYcDTxyEkagA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

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SolderBoyWeldEm t1_iu1czmg wrote

I went to Condrin's on St. Patty's day a while back (great time, they have a giant free Irish buffet), and only had a drink or two bc I was already pretty tipsy, but spent $40 on the quarter pusher game. I still call it the most expensive bar in town.

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SystemOfADowneyJr t1_iu1dlt0 wrote

This place looks familiar. Didn’t this place always throw Halloween parties?

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Stasibasiphobic t1_iu1hu2x wrote

I've only been once, maybe five years ago? It was their christmas party and they invited my wife and I in to hang out and eat whatever. They also took time to explain all the photos on the wall for us. Pretty cool overall. No taps, just canned and bottled beer.

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Lovelostt t1_iu1i6o3 wrote

Wasn’t this called the Castle? They used to have after hours bar and shit got… interesting.

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kidmuaddib3 t1_iu1ipzr wrote

Replying to demon_stare7 (#266,349)

I'm not actually I think those jabronis continued their extremely racist conversation because there were only white people in the room and therefore assumed we thought it was cool

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MDCLXX t1_iu1lj9p wrote

I’ve been there a handful of times in the last decade, and every time I’ve left with a weird, uncomfortable, or crazy story. Some of my friends go regularly and they seem to like it. Your mileage may vary, I suppose.

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rambored89 t1_iu1oahv wrote

We call that the hole. I've only been in there once or twice, but from what I gathered most of its clientele live on Torley Street

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nnp1989 t1_iu1qgl2 wrote

This reminds me of Snake & Jake’s in New Orleans.

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gallanttalent t1_iu1s8oi wrote

My sister and I ended up at a place that looks like this like a decade or so ago. Does it have a painting of a a dude that looks like Christopher Walken with a gun aimed? It’s the only solid memory we have the inside of wherever we were and have been trying to figure it out for years. The outside was exactly like this from our hazy memory.

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mrkamikaze5 t1_iu1shso wrote

I LIVE DOWN THE ROAD FROM THERE!!! cash only, bartender rips cigs the whole time, no taps, they had 4 food options and one was called "entree" and they were all the same price. 10/10 I went there once, after I broke up with my ex, got blitzed on yuengling bottles and watched the pirates beat the Mets. I will never go back.

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scootertrash t1_iu1voc3 wrote

Reminds me of the Backdoor in Falston in Beaver County.

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Old_Science4946 t1_iu1w73s wrote

now THIS is the kind of content i’m in this subreddit for

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MeanderAndReturn t1_iu1xo2x wrote

hey i used to go there like 10 years ago! it's a hole in the wall. not much else to it.

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benny86 t1_iu1y2oi wrote

I went in there a couple times when I lived in Bloomfield like 15 years ago. Only bar I've ever been to with a screen door. Beer was cheap and I think for food I got like a microwaved Red Baron pizza or something. Didn't really feel welcome there even though I hung out at all the bars in the neighborhood. I went back to Pollack's.

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gilsilvai t1_iu1zb3q wrote

A dying breed of bars. There was a time where every bar in pittsburgh was like that....I can't say I miss it.

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dormontster t1_iu1zq62 wrote

I lived in Friendship for 6 months in 2016 and never knew the Condrin was there until I happened to pass it one night when the door was open and looking in where you would expect to see a house there was a bar. It’s a novel thing to someone who has never lived in a city as old and densely developed as Pittsburgh. When a buddy of mine visited a couple of years later and we were bar hopping we stopped in. It seemed like we were the only two people in the bar that didn’t know everyone else there. We were not treated poorly though it felt like we stood out for being two pretty average dudes in their early 40s. At any rate, we had a couple of domestic bottles and hung out until a younger patron put Kid Rock on the jukebox. On the inside it felt pretty much like a standard tavern with lower than average ceilings.

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HornlessUnicorn t1_iu28jaw wrote

I lived around the block, always saw folks there but never went in. It’s spooky!

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iShoot556 t1_iu29bmq wrote

Replying to livefast_dieawesome (#270,132)

I mean the article seems like it really couldn’t have gone any other way. All someone’s gotta say is “he was going for my gun” and that’s a pass to empty your gun into someone else in this country. Man’s a patriot. A hero even!

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Aggravating_Rub2898 t1_iu2bynd wrote

I lived a block from here, tried to go in once and basically felt like I had entered the downstairs basement bar of some old yinzers who didn’t understand how I had gotten in.

Guy basically didn’t serve me, just talked to the regulars while I sat at the bar waiting.

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lyssssuh t1_iu2d41p wrote

Correct me if I’m wrong but I heard it was a low key known white supremacist bar..?

Edit: After reading through the replies it appears it is not really low key…

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fcv215 t1_iu2ef7x wrote

I got stories about this place. Shawn was a friend and only went in there a couple times. 50 years ago I was hanging with the older guys and they decided they were taking me to the for my first drink at the hole. The bartender/owner said I can’t serve him he’s only 16…..I was 14. My friends locked the door and said either you serve him or we will. I had like 4-5 shots and apparently the took me to my house and threw me out on front lawn throwing up. My mother wasn’t happy. I know owner now nice guy….it’s paradoxical when I tell you everything I read sounds truthful 😂😂

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klimlover t1_iu2fiaj wrote

Replying to SteelCityIrish (#270,849)

Oh man, was it that basement/lower level place on the Mellinger's side of Mckee place? - between Bates and Zulema? If so, that place was something. I only went twice probably in 08 or 09. That about the same time period?

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SteelCityIrish t1_iu2fuw1 wrote

Replying to klimlover (#273,279)

Oh yeah… that’s the place. Shit was wild, like my man and I would roll in just for the scene.

You know what I’m talking about. 😏

I could swear it was opp side of Mellingers on McKee, but yeah, we’re talking about the same place.

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msantoni t1_iu2hdlu wrote

Replying to DannyLameJokes (#263,411)

Yep, I remember that trial — the guys had apparently been drinking buddies a long time, but the ex-cop got upset after the victim poked or hit him as he nodded off at the bar. They fought, broke up for a couple of minutes, then fought again, with the second round ending in the shooting. I don’t remember whether I was there for the verdict.

pre-trial arguments

The ex-cop’s testimony

More of the trial

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eisme t1_iu2hn9a wrote

Replying to NSlocal (#263,301)

I remember going into a house where they were serving drinks one time back in the early 1990s. I was hammered, but I remember going down an alley and some scary looking dude who let us in. Being inside, i don't remember seeing a single woman. I am wondering if there is any chance Lorigan Street bar or Condrin would have been around that long?

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NerdHerdtheThird t1_iu2mm1e wrote

I’ve been there once. I can confirm it’s dope and will never go back. 10/10

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miubu t1_iu2na97 wrote

The best place ever. Like jumping into the 80s knees down. Look.s like a private house. Legend wants it being a hole next to a garage. While your car was being fixed you got a beer. Two. Three.

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RiffRockFan t1_iu2ofso wrote

I kind of want to go there

Edit after some more reviews that’s a no

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ThePolishSensation t1_iu2qorp wrote

Waaay back in 2013, I was one of their beer reps. Owner was super nice, and it was the only keg of Natty I ever sold to a bar.

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milksteaklover_123 t1_iu311y5 wrote

I’ve been once or twice. Lived around the corner for a few years and was absolutely shit housed when I stumbled in. I believe it’s bottles and liquor. Smoking is definitely allowed

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Cryptic_Skies t1_iu330r2 wrote

Replying to milksteaklover_123 (#276,592)

the upstage was a bar, a club, and a clubhouse. punks & goths and everyone in between. 80s nights were thursdays; saturday was goth night. live band karaoke one night... free pool tables, dirt cheap drinks. i was so sad when it closed. james and dave were the best bartenders ever. i still rock my upstage tshirt from time to time.

It closed in 2006 and became an ija for a spell. the deli case was were the bar once stood.

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Effective_Flan4038 t1_iu33eoy wrote

The one time I went in the bartender was wearing a confederate flag t shirt.

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MDCLXX t1_iu430in wrote

Replying to livefast_dieawesome (#278,931)

There’s two that immediately come to mind. One time the bartender was trying to get me and my friend to invite other friends to the bar. Something about wanting some new blood in the bar. Which seemed harmless at first, but then he repeatedly kept offering to order food for us, to the point of being pushy, which is just fucking weird. Another time I watched two old men do lines of coke right off of the bar, and then get offended at people watching.

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jmarinara t1_iu46h5x wrote

True or false, Bloomfield is the most old school yinzer neighborhood in the entire city.

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StevInPitt t1_iu4xhdr wrote

Replying to MDCLXX (#284,110)

i was just poking fun a little.
That's definitely not a normal "local bar interaction"
No lies tho, one night in the 90s in Chiefs, as we hung out, a guy walked, looking disheveled as fuck, obvious blood spattered here and there on him, and looking like he had been in a fight.
walked up to the bar, People made room, he ordered a beer and downed it.
then the news came on with an interruption about an attempted homicide in Oakland and the suspect being at large, as he was drinking his second beer.

He just shrugged, downed the rest of his beer, slapped down a 20 and said:
"I guess I better get moving." and walked out.

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LockedOutOfElfland t1_iu56u3y wrote

Replying to jmarinara (#282,673)

Bloomfield is kind of like the baby in that story about King Solomon where two people are arguing over whose baby it is - on one end you've got the old school "yinzers", and on the other you've got younger transplants who are gradually hoping to reshape the Bloomfield/Friendship/Garfield nexus to be more contemporary in attitude.

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LockedOutOfElfland t1_iu5bv6m wrote

Replying to lyssssuh (#291,009)

The people in charge of Nico's come across as a lot more trustworthy than you'd expect from walking into your typical hyper-local corner bar with glass block tiles and dim lights. Their trivia nights are solid, and it's also a great brunch spot!

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