What is a Dive Bar?

In 1964 a Supreme Court Justice, named Potter Stewart, tried to determine the threshold for obscenity by saying, “I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description [“hard-core pornography”], and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it.”

Almost 60 years later, dive bars, just like porn have yet to have a true definition but one thing is for certain, you know it when you see it. Whether it’s the local bar, a place for cheap drinks, or must have neon signs and ‘friends in low…