Eagles 34

Awesome dive bar. They have a lot of bellying up bar space and decent food. The bloody marry here is amazing and I’m defiantly coming back!

This place is really quite cool. It’s one of those places you’d never, ever know about unless you went out and actually explored the neighborhood to find it — which I did. I had no idea what the Eagle’s Aerie was until I stumbled upon this place with my boyfriend and had my interest piqued enough to walk in.
I will say, this is no place for beer snobs, foodies or trendy hipsters. Unless, of course, you’re the kind of hipster who enjoys going to the VFW to sing karaōke with vets, but that’s another story. This is more of a place for you to sit, chat, maybe meet some older folks who could tell you a whole lot about life, have a cheap drink and enjoy the game on television (or people watch). When I went in, there was a live band playing some sort of big band music and people young and old gathered into the dance hall to swing around and have a great time. I didn’t have the $ 5 to pay the admission fee, but if I’d had it, I would have gone right the heck in and danced my pants off.
It’s truly the local’s bar.

Ok, this place is great. And it is next to empty on a weekend. Which confuses and angers me. Honestly, I don’t know why this place isn’t packed. Maybe it has something to do with the sign out front never being illuminated, and looking nothing like a bar– which technically it isn’t. It’s a fraternal club and American Legion. Anyways…
Drinks are stiff and cheap, cheap, cheap. It’s like stepping back in time a decade. Prices and décor. No, actually for décor, it’s more like 3 or 4 decades. It’s gritty and decidedly down market. The place has pull tabs, wood paneling, barflies, and all the good stuff you might expect in an american legion.
There are some drawbacks– like live music. It’s usually of the 70’s blues rock variety, but the stage is sufficiently sequestered so if you don’t want to listen to music you can sit at the bar without being bothered. It’s not that I have anything against Allman Brothers covers specifically, as much as live music in general. Enough already.