3636 Club

Great service… Great vibes! You haven’t partied in Long Beach unless you’ve closed the 36. Bar tenders are great… Especially the one with Pink hair! Great service, great times!

Fun place to hang out with TV for watching sport and a pool table

It’s a dive bar. Strong cheap drinks (cash only), pool tables, jukebox, friendly service, and a mix of all sorts of different blends of people.

OK space. Shitty drinks but they were cheap. Friendly enough people. I am not a bar person so not the best judge.

Clean nice dive bar. Chill vibe. Neighborhood peeps. Cheap drinks. Good jukebox. Very nice and pretty bartender, Andy. We’ve been looking for a new neighborhood bar since moving. I think we’ve found it. The bathroom is clean AND they have a cigarette machine!

Divey bar, cash only, no draft beer, not a wide selection of liquor.
There’s still something charming about this bar. It’s nice to know that since you are spending cash the prices stay low. It’s a simple bar for folks who want a simple night out and maybe to be able to actually hear their friends and have a conversation while drinking or playing pool.
Bartender with the purple hair is SUPER attentive.

It’s a little hole in the wall dive bar without the feeling of locals owning the joint. I stopped by on a Saturday night and had a decent experience. The only reason why I’m giving –2 stars is because of the door guy. He was extremely rude to my boyfriend and guy friend! The guys at the door are the first impression! It did kind of put a damper on the night, but luckily the bartender rocked! I tried to get her name, but she was busy! She was a younger Hispanic girl with brown hair. Drinks are suuuuuuuper cheap and the bartenders are efficient. I’ll probably be back to give this place a second try. Hopefully the guy working the door has a better attitude.

Since it’s not within super-​convenient walking distance, I’ve only been to the 3636 a few times – always on the way to or from somewhere, so I only stay for a couple of drinks, but I’ve always had a good time here. It’s a no-​frills local dive that serves ‘em cheap and strong. They have pool tables and a juke box but all the «action» is at the bar, where people just park it and shoot the shit with other people like they should. A chill local joint – worth a stop.
STEPH JUDGEMENT: Great neighborhood bar with cheap stiff drinks where the staff and patrons are uniformly chill and friendly.

Cash only. Blerg.
Fun place to bring a bunch of peeps and shoot pool.
Bartenders are no nonsense but still nice. My drinks were appropriately strong ;)
I’d go here more if I lived closer.

Chill bar with friendly crowds and staff. Dive bar feel with pool tables. $ 3.50 beers every day. Awesome retro sign out front.

Just want to say perl is a great bartender so whoever wrote «fuck pearl“in the bathroom is a fuckin jealous skank that obviously doesn’t know her. And she would know how to spell her
take your skank ass to some ghetto bar in your own neighborhood cause it’s obvious you’re not from around here, skank ! And kelley g, get your own WiFi bitch! It’s not the bars responsibility to supply you with WiFi! Skank!

Local dive. But not bad. Crowd is there to have fun and drink. Not the youngest crowd but mixed. Not to wild. Its an out of the way place from the most pipular places. Sometimes you need a place like that.

Upon entering this establishment I felt like I had just stepped into a sad 90s metal dive.
Maybe it was because I’m from out of town (north and much smaller than long beach), but this just seemed like a sad cliché oldies bar that may or may not cater to the gay crowd. I mean their logo is an upside down pink triangle, right?!!
Anyways, there are two pool tables, a juke box, and the bar tender was not really memorable or note worthy. The drinks were average both is price and pour so nothing special there.
I wouldn’t return, the crowd was very «clicked» in and oblivious to everyone, and the CASH prices weren’t that great either.
If you’re looking for a fun time, SKIP!

We ended up here at the end of the night and it seemed kind of sad.
A bit empty and the locals were playing country music. The best thing about the bar was the bartender. She was easy on the eyes and had an easy manner about her.
I’m sure this place is a lot more fun on other nights so I’ll check it out again next time I’m down.

Great bar. Super friendly bartenders. Kinda divey but has a real friendly atmosphere. I don’t think I’ve had a night here where I haven’t had an interesting conversation. Weekends can get a little busy. People tend to roll in and out in waves. There will be times when you notice that it seems pretty dead, and before you know it it’ll be packed. Then it’ll die down again.
The bar is cash-​only, but that usually translates to cheap drinks. If you need cash there is an ATM inside. Most well drinks will cost about $ 3.50 to $ 4 or so.
As far as entertainment go there’s the standard bar stuff. There’s a magictouch machine, touchscreen jukebox, two pool tables, Golden Tee, and Buck Hunter.
Cons: None really… Some may think that it’s bit small, but it really is the perfect size for the type of place that it is.

Real dive bars are hard to find these days!
Always a colorful group at the 36/​36, stiff drinks and good times !

This place is found on Unilocal under the category of «Dive Bars», and it certainly fits that category without a doubt.
1. It is a cash bar
2. Definitely a Locals Bar
3. Pool Tables
4. Great Juke Box
5. Shady characters lurking about
6. Stiff Drinks
It is a Dive Bar so don’t expect anything better than what it is.

So it had been a while since I had been to the 36/​36, and since my last review I have become more and more of a craft beer fan. Well coming in here the other night and ordering up a drink proved to be a bit tougher than my last time. No beer on tap and limited choice of bottles. So while I do still like this place for its divy feel, I must say that if you want more choices for beer, head down to the Reno Room or EJ’s.

For many decades Broadway Boulevard in Long Beach has been the staple of many bar haunts for the US Navy and Port of LA/​LB personnel. The ³⁶⁄₃₆ Club located on Broadway and Euclid has catered to the Navy crowd until the Navy left Long Beach in early 1990’s (thank you Barbara Boxer for your local support???). Recently, the ³⁶⁄₃₆ caters to the residents who live on the east side of Long Beach. These patrons tend to be a more affluent than who live in different parts of the city. With that said here are the Pro and Cons of the 36/​36,
The Pros. 1) Plenty of room in the club; 2) Nice store front windows that let in daylight; 3) nice clean bar, bathroom and 4) well maintained game area that provides Darts, Pool and Pinball machines.
The Cons: 1) The beer price is about 1 dollar more per serving than what is offered at any of the spots on 4^th street or on Broadway closer to downtown. 2) The pool table cost 75 cents per game with the cue ball measuring 2 ¼ inch in diameter. Competition pool cue ball is 2 ¹⁄₈ inch diameter and has magnetic core for ball return. Most other clubs on 4^th and Broadway charge 50 cents per game and have competition size cue balls; 3) Parking is on street so easy access to parking a car while enjoying the Belmont Shores area is seldom possible, 4) No happy hour drink specials or specialty pricing to attract customers. 5) No happy hour or special occasion finger food is ever offered, 6) Limited TV access for multiple events and, 7) the upscale cliental that the club wishes caters too, does not frequent the place.
To the ³⁶⁄₃₆ benefit, there are plenty of good quality restaurants to frequent within a short walk. Such notable places as Café Piccolo, EJ Malloy’s, and The Attic (formerly Lashers). However, these places are price for their fine quality of food offered. Low cost chain restaurants such as Taco Bell, Domino’s Pizza and Hole Mole are close by but there is no food establishment that would offer quality value fare for the residents nearby. This perplexes me. For the relative high cost of libation and the lack of value priced quality food sources nearby, the ³⁶⁄₃₆ has a serious problem. Maybe they could contract a food truck to come by the club on a regular basis to solve the issue … but then there is the parking problem!
My recommendation … Go elsewhere; there are many better priced alternatives close by.

Such a great dive it should be in a Speedo.
My wife and I went for our second time in two weeks, having moved a few blocks away. Never been here before though I’ve lived in LBC for 12 yrs. That’s kind of like being in LBC for 12 yrs and not ever seeing a bulldog in a wagon.
My opinion:
1. Servers. We met Pearl and Jason and they’re both cool– good people. And if you’re way into music, I recommend conversing with Jason if it’s not a busy night.
2. Jukebox. Lame! $ 2 buys you 2 songs, or 1 if you’re drunk and you press the wrong buttons. And the songs are limited. I hate TouchTunes. We need to get a petition going.
3. Pool Table. 2 tables. 75 cents. Not bad. (plus a pinball game)
4. Drinks. Stiff. People complain about Cash Only, but typically cash only places have stiffer drinks. I don’t need to explain why or how. Oh I do? Well I don’t wanna.
5. The people. We’ve only been there twice but the people I’ve met are friendly. I mean, they haven’t yelled NORM when I entered, but that’s not my name and I’d probably be insulted if they did.
6. Prices. Not horrible.
7. Size. I always thought it was double the size, but it’s small. Not as tiny as Crow’s, but it’d be hard to do the whole Thriller dance in there if it broke out. That is, if somebody had the two dollars to spend!
[UPDATE: October 2012
named Club 36 as one of the Top 5 Dive Bars of Long Beach]
[UPDATE: June 2013. Jason is now my friend. Not help me move a fridge friend, but like invite to parties and go play trivia friends. My wife and I also love Pearl and Misty and Drew and Richard and Mandy: all awesome people. The pinball game is pretty generous, meaning even Def Leppard’s drummer would get multi-​ball. And the bathroom smells like you’re inside an urethra. Again.]