Bars vs. Grocery Stores Map

Re:Beer Map (badbyron722)

Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:11:41 GMT

Im Moving.

Re:Beer Map (joerogo)

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:14:23 GMT

I think this map makes if official, North Dakota has more bars than people.

Re:Beer Map (ken8038)

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:17:51 GMT

I notice thre's a red splotch over my old home town of Brooklyn (NY) too. When I was in my early 20's (early 1970's) a friend and I got into a friendly barroom argument in Bay Ridge Brooklyn about whether 5th avenue or 3rd avenue had more bars.

We decided that the only way to settle the argument was to spend a Friday night doing a walking pub crawl of 5th Avenue and the next night doing 3rd Avenue. The commercial district runs from about 65th Street to 95th street on both blocks.

I actually do not remember which won, but the final score was something like 24 bars to 23 bars (we stopped in a good many of them..). We didn't count grocery stores, but there couldn't have been more than 5 of each on that stretch.

In 2010 it's still a bar hoppers heaven, but instead of lots of what we used to call Old Man Bars and some singles spots, it's mostly more upscale and restuarant-y than 40 years ago.

Re:Beer Map (ScreamingChicken)

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:21:01 GMT

I don't think there's such a thing as a Wisconsin town or city that has more grocery stores than bars.

Brad

Re:Beer Map (joerogo)

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:49:34 GMT

Well knock me over with a feather.

Although that red bloch in NEPA is right over my neighborhood

Bars vs. Grocery Stores Map (1bbqboy)

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:37:20 GMT

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/16/the-beer-belly-of-america/