Dive Bar Shirt Club: Billy Ray's Neighborhood Dive

Onto June's Dive Bar Shirt Club t-shirt, and this month we visit Portland, Oregon. And as it happens, it's navy blue! I will say, this program does a nice job of mixing up the color scheme. Anyway, here's everything you need to know about this establishment! And hey, it's about time we get a haunted bar!

The sign on the front says Tavern so if you're looking for Billy Ray's you might get confused. They started selling burgers downstairs sometime in the first half of the last century. Then it became the neighborhood watering hole, and over the years it's seen major misadventures. A car crashed through the front of the building, and a few decades back a death upstairs started stories that it was haunted. Those stories survive. Just ask the people who work here. They say it's creepy. Almost a dozen years ago Billy Ray came along and wanted to make a grown-up place to play. He stripped out the upstairs residence and filled it with pool and pinball. The walls are an altered state of paint that goes great with giant mugs of beer and flipper frenzy. If you're hungry or just run out of quarters, they have homey options on the menu....Banquet TV dinners. You can take your feast out on the patio where Pacific breezes make cool promises, and ping pong offers another challenge. The regulars wanted still more action, so they started a softball team, the Dive Bombers. Portland is full of players and this place is a home run for truly spirited competition.

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