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I dig this place.
The bowling alley it resides in is pretty dumpy. (For some odd reason O.C. has an inordinate amount of gross ass bowling alleys...WTH? I was surprised by how nice the bar is.....thought it was going to be nastier.
Anyway, I have never been there for karaoke, just Wings games.
Clean, cheap, big tv's, no frat aholes, no douche bags, great beer specials. ($2 Molsons.....NICE.)
I guess I can agree that you won't run into people you know if you're from California. But this place had that I never left Berkley and now I'm old enough to go to this bar feeling.
There's a great karaoke system set up there, unfortunately there was way too much 90s/2000s country being sung. Enough so to make me want to stab myself in the ears and remember why I left Michigan in the first place. If you can deal with country on the karaoke I guess it's not that bad.
Reasons to return:
Super long shuffle board table. They give you the pucks for free and you can just keep score on the chalkboard. No need for quarters. Played for about 3 hours drinking $7 pitchers of bud light. This thing was like 25 feet long.
Karaoke and a good chance of seeing a 120 lbs black man preform the Who's, "Who are You?" This was seriously the best karaoke performance I have seen to date. Spot on.
Sometimes when you come home for the holidays the last thing you want to do is go to the hip bar and run into a bunch of assholes you'd rather not see.
So what do you do? Â I used to go sit in Sunrise donuts and drink coffee all night, but then it turned into a Subway and Kamlesh quit to work at Dunkin Donuts down the street.
Now I go to The Hat Trick Pub. Â It's crappy, unassuming, attached to both a bowling alley and a motel. Â It has pool, shuffle board, a video game that simulates hunting, and an internet juke box. Â It has drink specials on crappy domestic beers, and a machine to regulate the liquor pours.
In short, I will never run into anyone I know here, unless I invite them.