Wilkes-Barre Hardware Bar

The Wilkes-Barre Hardware Bar is a nightmare. One of the scariest and ugliest nights I have ever experienced took place here and across the street at its affiliated fake-pub Mulligans. The bouncers are as creepy and violent as the customers. The music is top 40 dregs. The fights are constant and ugly as the trashy female bartenders straddling frat boys for $10 tips. Not a step up from a strip club, it's a staircase down into the depths of hell.

Oh, God. The Wilkes-Barre Hardware Bar. What an awful place with almost no redeeming qualities. Besides $1 drink specials and the opportunity to people watch and realize how much worse your life could truly be, there is little to no reason to go here. The music can be good one moment, then awful the next, the drinks are of course made with the cheapest alcohol known to man (thus the very cheap price), and the vast majority of the people are awful and dirty people.

Really I'm ashamed I've even been to this place as I avoided it for a couple years. Then my friend Sparky wouldn't shut up about going so we finally gave in so he didn't  have to be a one man wolf pack. He is forever indebted to me.

I can see why the college crowd wants to go here as it is cheap and there is a lot of room to dance, but expect to be hit on by homeless men and white kids who think they grew up in the ghetto, although I guess the WB is well on its way to that status. And if you're looking to pick up a girl here you probably can pretty easily, along with a few STDs if you don't play it safe!

I was there twice and both times I was not impressed. The first time there was urine all over the men's room floor, which is so absolutely disgusting that i threw my sneakers out when I got home.  Then girls were dancing on the bar while lifting up their shirts exposing their breasts to the guys who were cheering them on as the girls degraded themselves for whatever reason.  After that I was done.  The second time was a total waste.  While urine was not on the men's room floor and there weren't any girls degrading themselves on the bar, meeting and talking to people could not be done.  Too many guys are there hitting on anything that moves, it makes it difficult to meet any decent women without being constantly interrupted.  In the end, after hearing about the vibrator races, I truly think this is where herpes is born.