Back in 2005 we realized that we had extreme amounts of fun hanging out at dive bars. One key problem was that we had no real way to remember exactly what happened the night before. Strangebars was born. We started to take photos and document our good times, but then realized that we had a real opportunity to show people world wide what our favorite dive bars were like.

In this process we became pundits. Not pundits of booze, but rather pundits of the public house, seekers of saloons, as if to challenge the call that our livers somehow had a cosmic axe to grind against us.

Before the days of online social networks, we had the idea that we could take inebriated photography, and also post those along with sometimes lengthily observations that only a true taste for whiskey can provide. We didn’t have the resources nor the technical means to create our own social network for such important social discourse. Unfortunately, the trend caught on elsewhere, and we soon learned that there was another place where people were lining up to have drunken discussions and post photos of themselves doing it. That place is became known as MySpace.

Though we managed to do some significant community organizing around alcoholism, our ability to launch into the online stratosphere of other drunk communities proved to be too little, too late.
Dejected, we allowed our mission to fade away. 5 years later, with requests from as far west as the South Pacific, and as far east as Bavaria, we were encouraged by our brethren, who in a need to enrich their lives with satire and the tales of others’ sheer desperation, appealed to us to restart our community and our mission.

Our mission is the same as it always has been, and it is the same mission as yours, and: Your mission is to hang with drunks.

What drives them to drink in a hole-in-the wall dive bar?

Do these booze inspired antics go unknown, all to be forgotten the next day?

What is your philosophy on quality, vs. quantity of exlir?
Are you so money, you don’t even know it?
These are the questions we wish to explore, and answer with Strangebars.com…

So begins the renewed quest.

In the spirit of Hunter S. Thompson’s Gonzo journalism, Strangebars.com was established in order to bring you only the weirdest of watering holes.

A critical piece of our mission is to examine the carbon dating of humanity that collects in these non-prolific pubs.
Strangebars research takes place in every dingy tavern, saloon, club and pub worldwide.
Legions of strangebarflys are poised to canvas every area where hangovers are cultivated.

Legions
As A strangebarfly, simply don the armor of strangebars research (our t-shirts) and find yourself quickly elevated to become the King Clang King of the Rim Ram Room

In vino veritas