Oakland's dives are the soul of the town — a 1933 sing-along piano bar, the birthplace of West Coast blues, and the country's oldest LGBTQ bar. Cheap, historic, and unpretentious to the core.
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A dimly lit 1933 piano bar where regulars belt out standards beneath walls papered with decades of business cards. Cash-friendly, boozy, and unapologetically old-school — the most iconic dive in Oakland.
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