What: Late-night drinking and entertainment
When: Late Thursday night
Where: Scuzzy dive-bar off the beaten track
Warnings: Nope?
( Bars came in many forms: coolly elegant where the clientele talked in low tones, music rippled in the background and the soft chink of glass and ice was the loudest sound in the place -- to the raucous, where smoke and sweat and music spilled onto the street when the doors opened and the pool table was a battleground, crumpled dollar-bill bets thrown down like gauntlets )