Flint Quotes: Brawling From Tavern to Tavern

“The bearded lumberman with their coonskin caps, red sashes, and hobnailed boots brawled from tavern to tavern,” explains Carl Crow in a sometimes flamboyantly written history of Flint commissioned by General Motors in 1945. “Lumbering was rough business and lumberman were rough men. They worked hard, played hard, and usually drank quantities of hard liquor. There was a story throughout the logging camps that some of the lumberjacks would cheerfully eat pine chips or sawdust if generously moistened with whiskey.”

The Ultimate List of Bars, Lounges, and Taverns

Damn, I mention the Mikatam and the comment section turns into a bar free for all. Even my mom joined in by hearkening back to a place called The Yellow Jacket. I'm all for bars, but I feel the need to impose some order. And I love lists. So how about we try to come up with a compendium of Flint bars, past and present. I'll pull the bars out of the comment section and add to the list below.

UPDATE: Okay, I couldn't keep up, so you'll need to check the comments for even more bars, lounges, and taverns not mentioned in the list below.

1. Ad-Lib Lounge
2. Al and Donna's
3. Aladdin
4. Ali Baba's
5. Ambassador
6. Andy's
7. Aquarius Lounge
8. Argonaut
9. Arlene's
10. Art's (Lewis Street?)
11. Autumn
12. Back Room (The Loft)
13. Bailiwick
14. Bar Bucks Bar
15. Beaver Trap
16. Bernie’s Lounge
17. Bill’s Still (Begat LL-T Show Bar)
18. Billy's Pub
19. Blarney’s (Saginaw Street)
20. Body Shop
21. Brass Rail
22. Caboose
23. Camaro
24. Camaro Lounge/Beaver Trap/Trap Door/50 Grand
25. Churchills
26. Civic Park Lounge
27. Cloud Nine
28. Club Reggae
29. Clubhouse
30. College Inn
31. Contos/Triangle
32. Copa (Hot Rock)
33. Corner Bar
34. Crankin' Rankin
35. Déjà vu (No Alcohol)
36. Deno's
37. Dominic's (at the Galaxy Center)
38. Doobie's
39. Duffys
40. Dugout
41. El Matador
42. El Rancho
43. El Toro
44. Embers
45. Farm
46. Fenton Road Tavern
47. Fifty Grand
48. Firehouse
49. Golden Leaf (Technically a private club, but still a bar)
50. Good Times
51. Good Times
52. Happy Hour Lounge
53. Hat’s Pub
54. Hob Knob Lounge (Center Road)
55. Hot Rock (Formerly The Copa)
56. Interlude
57. Ivanhoe
58. Ivor's Place
59. Jack Gilbert's Wayside Inn
60. Jake the Snake's
61. Jesters
62. Jimmy Lum's Aloha Lounge
63. Jim's Garage (burned and re-built)
64. Jolly Olive
65. Julie’s
66. Junk Yard Bar
67. Kelush's
68. Kimberly's
69. King's Armor
70. Lace
71. Lafferty's (begat Point After begat Bikini Bar begat Neighbors)
72. Lamplighter ( Tramplighter )
73. Light
74. Little Ceasar's Pizza Bar in South Flint Plaza
75. LL-T Show Bar (Formerly Bill’s Still)
76. Loft (aka Back Room)
77. Lone Pine
78. Lounge at Bishop Airport before remodel
79. Luge
80. Mark's Lounge
81. Merry Inn
82. Metropolis
83. Mikatam
84. Mr. Gibby's
85. Mr.G's
86. Nathan J's Cocktails
87. New Deville
88. Northgate Bar (N. Saginaw near Beecher)
89. Oddysey
90. Old Frank’s (Diviest dive that ever dove.)
91. Old Franklin
92. Pachyderm
93. Paddy McGee's
94. Palace Gardens
95. Pappy's (or some such name. Was it a private club? It was in the building where Putnam's TV used to be on Flushing and Stevenson. The former Soar And Dippity Kite Shop?)
96. Patio
97. Payne's
98. Payne's (The name says it all.)
99. Peppermill
100. Peppermint
101. Peter's Pub
102. Pink Garter (really a restaurant, but a Clio Road institution near O’Toole’s)
103. Point
104. Point After
105. Raincheck
106. Ray's
107. Red Ribbon
108. Reese Jones
109. Remington's
110. RP's
111. Rusty Nail
112. Sherman's Lounge
113. Shorthorn
114. Skips
115. Snotty's
116. Sports Bar
117. Sports Coupe (Former Sports Bar of Brush Alley moved to Dort Hwy)
118. Sunset Lounge (on Franklin appeared to be closed for years but was actually open)
119. Teddy Bear (now " Zoo")
120. Tender Trap
121. The Bank
122. Thrift City
123. Thunderbird or Fleetwood (just off Dort on Lippincott)
124. Timoothy's
125. Titty City
126. Torch
127. Track
128. Trapper Joe's
129. Treasure Chest
130. Tropicana
131. University Club (Private Club)
132. Vasco's
133. Vasco's (Teasers)
134. Vechells,
135. Viking Lounge
136. Villa Capri
137. Wagon Wheel
138. West Side
139. What's Next?
140. Whisper
141. White Horse
142. Wild Bill’s
143. Yellow Jacket