happy super bowl sunday...stop by and watch the game with me and all my friends at the signal lounge...kick off is at 3:30 but i start at 4pm...we got free food thanks to debby and tari...free pool til closing...alot of good friends/people...and me....lets go patriots...i mean 49ers...lol...p.s....no music during the game sorry....its the law of the bar...lol
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The Bar: Located in Orange, on Chapman Avenue across from the local high school. In a strip mall, with a Del Taco within walking distance which is especially nice when wasted. Approaching the bar, there is a single door into a dark room. The bar itself is oddly shaped, sorta like a boomerang. First thing ya notice walking in, is the liquor, conveniently placed near the door to attract the consumer.
The Crowd: Well, this night, it was pretty dead inside. We ran into another bartender from Marty's Cocktails out partying with her friends, so we decided to kick it at that end of the bar. As for the rest of the crowd... there were a couple of old dudes at the bar, and a couple on the pool tables.. that was about it.
Service: Prompt, but the bar was empty.
Prices: From what I can remember, I believe it was $2.75 a bottle for domestic, and $5.50 a shot for Jameson.
Entertainment: 2 pool tables, bar top video game, dart board, a few TV's.
Restroom: I almost don't need to write about this disgusting area. Look at the picture below. It smelled worse that in looks, if that's even possible. Â
Bartender: Poison pusher for the night was Teri. From what we've heard, she is legen....wait for it....dary. Would not disagree with that statement. Made for a great time.
Closing statement: Besides being on a major street with lots of Cops, not too bad. Had a great time, with great people and certainly plan on making a return trip in the near future.
Well, what can I say, at some point in time each review is right. Â However, recently there was a new beer tap added and a host of hot new bartenders. Â Signals is a dive however it's a blast if you are looking for some cheap cocktails east of the 55. Â Bring a small group and you won't have to wait 15 mins in line in a packed bar for a drink. Â I love it there.
Review Source:For years my friends have had a misplaced, undying, loyalty to this depressing dive for many years, and no one knows why. Â Their nickname for Signal Lounge is "Siggy Sorrows", because of all the sad, dilapidated, souls that dwell within this sarcophagus of shame. Â The funny thing is that this nickname does not do justice to actual locations that give you sorrow, like the DMV or your mother-in-law's house. Â Signal Lounge is the bottom of the barrel of all dive bars, and not in that good way. Â Everyone loves their local dumpy, dive bar...but this raises the bar on depression. Â If your looking for local girls to meet, than the most you can look forward to is a few biker mommas yelling the words to songs through their three teeth. Â Look forward to your choice from the hall of shame specimens of the opposite sex if that's your goal. Â They got a 1970's 12" T.V., and a narrow selection of $5 beers from the cooler. Â Tap beer...please. Â If you can grab a pool table and abstain from the sad souls wallowing at the bar, there is a nice breeze of cigarette smoke and chinese food diarrhea that burn your nose hairs off while you contemplate suicide. Â The juke box has awesome songs from Lady Gaga and Toby Keith that make you want to tear your ears off Van Gogh style with a broken beer bottle. Â Even after your ears have been removed, you will still be able to hear the meth addict, grandma shrieking at the bar "P-p-p-poker face, p-p-p-poker face". Â Awesome time, right! Â Go to Blondie's, the Fling, O'hara's or Paul's if you want a cool dive in Orange. Â
There are two redeeming factors that make Signal a decent place. Â If you and your friends have been feeling good about yourselves, it's a place you can all celebrate your comradeship in sweet sadness together. Â If you see Mark, James or Chad there...get them a drink. Â They're cool. Â The other good thing about Signal is that when you leave, you feel the filth of shame peel off your skin, in which you are born anew and swear to never subjugate yourself to the sorrows of Signal Lounge again. Â After you peel off the last dead skin, go to DK doughnuts next door for an epic doughnut.
If you need to feel a level of depression not felt since your last trip to Aushwitz....the Signal Lounge is the place for you!
I can't even give this place one star. I like dive bars, but I might as well been in TJ the bartendress was rude, although I have been known to swear, listening to her and the only other patron, another bartendress, talk was highly disgusting. They burped outloud, I think to impress to me what progressive women they are, to talking about that night's special drink. It just so happened to be the Blowjob. The shill at the bar, some Hispanic chick, made a comment that for an extra five bucks she would go out back to perform the real thing. She may have been kidding around, but by the looks of her I'm not so sure. I'll never step foot in this disgusting place again. There are dive bars and then there are places like this that make you want to slink out the back hoping no one saw you go in our out! Â I had to give one star didn't want to.
Review Source:Really? Tell me your not doing "research" on this place. I am amazed 2 people have reviewed this place before me. I did not know people actually went into this place. The one time I went there I simply assumed that the people in the bar were some backwoods family and I accidentally walked into their hovel.
This is one of those places that can do a real number on your liver and soul. I honestly don't remember the bar much. I simply remembered that undeniable urge to run. I ran alright, all the way to the Olive Pit...now that is class!