I'm trying to think of a reason I would have gone to T Eddie's Bar and Grill other than for a Saturday night birthday/karaoke celebration...
While I've only been the one time, here are a few other reasons I picked up on throughout the night that seem to be why people choose T Eddie's as their local watering hole:
-Familiar crowd. There was a definite "everybody knows your name" feel to the place amongst the older men who seemed to be regulars hanging around the bar. The bartender was new and working alone on a super busy night and we saw a few of these guys call up other bartenders who worked there to help her find out where certain things were behind the bar.
-Apparently to fight? From what I heard...
-Saturday night karaoke with a wiiiiide range of songs (slanted mostly towards country music though), but with a few breakout line dancing favorites interjected into the mix! How crazy awesome and random is that!?
-This definitely struck me as a domestic beer type of establishment. There's not a huge liquor selection. Drink prices were average.
-Playing a serious game of pool. A few people had been playing all night and apparently do so regularly I learned. After moving from Texas where it was all horseshoes and corn hole, they decided to take up pool. My friend and I challenged them to a game and surprisingly won, on a technicality - these guys were super friendly though and I think that's saying a lot about a place if regular pool players there are friendly.
Nothing about T Eddies screams welcoming or a guaranteed fun time by the looks of the place or the location or anything, but either it's a place that's so random that it's always an awesome time or it's just a straight up wildcard of a bar and I lucked out on my first experience here.