Are there bars like the one in this movie and Cheers, where the bar tender and lots of the clientele know each other and interact with each other?
I haven't been to many bars in my life, maybe a couple dozen, and every bar that I've ever been to, there was absolutely no such kind of open, friendly group dynamic as depicted in this movie or Cheers.
So I'm curious whether such places really exist?
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I've been in a few bars where this happens. Especially I've seen that in airport bars the bartenders seem to make conversations more. When it's not busy of course. It might help that the people there come and go so frequent so you can easily chat something while serving.
But sometimes it happens also in other places. There is one bar in my town that I always go when I have time and the bartenders are there always super nice. Were not friends or anything, but at least to me it seems that care of what I think and we have chats about current events when I'm there and it's not that busy.
I grew up in small town in NW PA worked as a bartender till I was 25, Most all bars have a crowd of regulars People that show up everyday, all day, some there when they open, or come by for lunch after 3;30 4 o'clock you get the afterwork crowd
This is true of the Dive Bars right up to the private clubs
At 25 I got into construction 1st as a carpenter building a Nuclear Power Plant in TX, then 30 years of construction as a boomer--- Went where the work was--- Became a Project superintendent that last 15 years and I can tell you it is the same everywhere At least Local Bars --- Some hotel and motel bars don't get the regulars but get the business thru food