Norseman Lounge

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  Came here with some friends during our first annual "Rancho Cordova Light Rail Pub Crawl" and this place is a DIVE!!!!!! And not in the way a hot 20-something says, "oh, I love going to dive bars", this place is a straight up pit!!!  
  
  The place reaks of cigarette smoke (which is a plus 1-star in my book) and the clientele looks like they havent seen a sober day since carter was in office.  The pool area doubles as storage, humongous safe included.  What the fuck is in that safe?  I'm afraid i'll never know.

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  Posted on 12.07.11 Phil K.

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  I know that it is kind of far fetched to give this place a 5 tar but it WAS open on Christmas Day.
  
  This place is OLD school. I don't know what happened here long ago to be the kind of spot that only serves beer. I can only imagine. But don't let that stop you.
  
  The first thing I noticed upon entering was that EVERYONE was smoking. I think that gets 4 stars alone. I mean in this day and age of the fear of second hand smoke and laws forbiding smoking in bars that one STILL exists is a rare thing indeed.
  
  I also loved that my girlfriend and I were the only people in the bar that didn't have a ful head of grey hair. I think that there were 11 old men and one Calamity Jane looking woman sitting at the end of the bar that supposedly was from Iceland. Only at a place called the Norseman.

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  Posted on 12.26.07 Mike F.

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  I lived in the apartments across the street from the Norseman for a while and I went in there one time on a weeknight at about 11pm with a friend.
  
  There was one other customer in there and he was chatting with the person behind the bar, we ordered a beer each and after about five minutes we asked if the TV could be put on ESPN to catch a score we were looking for. Nobody was watching the TV but the person behind the bar said "this is not a sports bar" and continued his conversation.
  
  So we slammed the rest of our beer and went to the old Don Juan Club around the corner.

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  Posted on 07.15.07 Ben D.

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  This arguably the ultimate dive bar in the Sacto  Region. This dirty ,dingy place  has  Budweiser on tap , oly in a can and they serve Sparks!!!
  It is a owner -operated bar allows smoking , has two pool tables and pumps the soothing sounds of the Eagle over their Fisher Stereo System circa 1979. As a dive bar this place is the best.
  
  part of the lightrail Pubcrawl

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  Posted on 04.23.07 Scott C.

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  This place puts the dive in Dive Bar, and I love that about it.  During the summer, it did not appear to have functioning air conditioning, but there were fans going all over the place.  This is pretty much a small two-room establishment with the minimally necessary elements to make it a watering hole for local alcoholics.  I remember a pool table but I'm not certain about a juke box.
  
  The bartenders and the regulars were absolutely friendly and not at all opposed to a gang of random pubcrawlers in all sorts of silly attire storming their otherwise tranquil hangout.  Another highlight of the Light Rail Pub Crawl!

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  Posted on 01.15.07 Chris B.

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