Intro
I moved to the Quad Cities area part-time in December 1996 and full-time in April 1998, and one thing I noticed very quickly was, for an area of this size and population, there seemed to be a very large number of bars. Since spending time in bars is one of my favorite pastimes, I was abundantly pleased. Fast forward to February of 2009, and, as I was sitting in a tavern called the Meat Market on Washington St. in Davenport, it occurred to me that I had been to a great many of the bars, pubs, tavern, and clubs (as well as restaurants where I’ve bellied up) in the Quad City area. I didn’t start counting them at the time, but I estimated I’d been to at least a hundred. A couple of months go by, and I started thinking about this again – and this time, I did start counting. I also started writing them down (I’m a ‘list’ guy – no, worse than that, I’m the type of guy that keeps lists of my lists). I was amazed that on my initial count, I came up with 164. S...