There are dives and there are dives. What separates the two (beyond font choice)? If you ever went to Hells Kitchen bar Siberia when it was still open, we wouldn’t need to answer that question. Holes in the floor, unspeakable things going on in the basement, cheap shots of whiskey served in little plastic cups – it had all the things that make a dive bar truly special. For a bar like this, the letters in dive aren’t just italicized. They’re drunk off their asses.
Grub Street has news that a documentary about Siberia has been shopping itself around on the film festival circuit. We hope that the movie sees the light of day soon. Word has it that bar owner Tracey Westmoreland (pictured, via Grub Street) is looking to re-open in a new location. It would be fun if we could get a nostalgic glimpse of divey smut in a darkened theater before heading to the grimy new bar.
Firsthand accounts of the flick show that it’s sure to leave you with a hangover:
The scenes are filled with close-up rants, dirty dancing, beer-bottle bowling, mysterious fires, and a guy swinging from the toilet chained to the ceiling.
Could the film live up to the original locale? Well, maybe. They’d have to release a case of rats into the theater and have a free keg, but we still think it would lack a bit of divey magic. Yes, even if there were drugs in the bathroom and pickpockets roaming the crowd. That true dive sparkle is just impossible to recreate.
The best thing about Siberia was that there were no locks on the bathroom doors downstairs. They were impossible to hold closed unless you had go-go gadget arms. You'd be doing your business and all of a sudden the door would fly open and there you were in all your glory with a room full of drunks and probably a band staring at you and your bare ass.
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Dive bars generally have a relaxed and informal atmosphere — they are often referred to by local residents as "neighborhood bars," where people in the neighborhood gather to drink and socialize. Individual bars may be considered to be disreputable, sinister, or even a detriment to the community
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