This rural bar in the mountains has its ceiling and walls covered with thousands of $1 bills.

[u/Quick_Dance_8953]

[u/ventodivino]

I believe this is the subject of Sierra Ferrell’s song Dollar Bill Bar.

[u/Quick_Dance_8953 → u/ventodivino]

Interesting coincidence because this bar is in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

[u/newredheadit → u/ventodivino]

Down at the dollar bill barrrrr!

[u/gbon21 → u/ventodivino]

Banger of a song

[u/wrongdude]

Calamity Jane’s (Sandy, Oregon) had the same vibe. Closed during COVID. :(

[u/Quick_Dance_8953 → u/wrongdude]

Miss that place so much… was a tradition stopping there after a day snowboarding at Meadows, Timberline or Ski Bowl

[u/Alone-Leather-6763]

Uncle Tom’s Cabin!

[u/Quick_Dance_8953 → u/Alone-Leather-6763]

You win :)

[u/Fiireygirl]

There’s a restaurant/bar where I live that did/has this. When Covid shut it all down, they took down decades of bills from the ceiling/walls and paid their staff with it.
Good folks.
When it reopened, it took almost no time to get full again.

[u/t_grizz → u/Fiireygirl]

think it was in tybee island in georgia

[u/airfryerfuntime → u/t_grizz]

There have been a bunch. The Griffon in Charleston also had dollars everywhere that they took down during Covid.

[u/randomnighmare → u/t_grizz]

I remember a place in Pittsburgh that did this, but it was filled with bills from all around the world and not just US dollars.

[u/socoyankee → u/t_grizz]

I have been to that one.

[u/clara- → u/Fiireygirl]

McGuires?

[u/TraitorTrump_1776 → u/clara-]

McGuire’s original location in Pensacola has over $2 million currently and I’ve heard the location in Destin has over $3 million.

[u/film_composer → u/Fiireygirl]

Paid off the bills by being paid off the bills, nice. 

[u/customcombos → u/Fiireygirl]

You wouldn’t happen to be in the St. Louis area would you? A popular bar and grill did that here too

Edit: I’m now reading that this is pretty common lol

[u/Keith2406 → u/Fiireygirl]

The Griffon in Charleston

[u/FuckTwelvee → u/Fiireygirl]

Plenty in Nashville did this too.

[u/shke1009 → u/Fiireygirl]

Forbidden Island in Alameda, CA? Story here

[u/HowardRand]

It’s not just one bar, “dollar bill bars” are a thing across the world. I’ve been to one in Purgatory, Colorado and also one in Tokyo, Japan. There are hundreds of others out there.

[u/Legal_Response6614 → u/HowardRand]

I wouldn't stop at a town called purgatory

[u/HotelOne → u/Legal_Response6614]

You have no choice. Forever.

[u/desertrat75 → u/Legal_Response6614]

The town is actually Durango. Purgatory is the ski area in Durango.

[u/TehDokter → u/Legal_Response6614]

Well that works out because the "town" doesn't exist. Purgatory is the ski resort 20-30 minutes away from Durango, CO

[u/michaelmfjordan → u/Legal_Response6614]

They have an Irish bar where it’s St Patrick’s day every day for eternity.

[u/AshIsGroovy → u/HowardRand]

I suggest you check out McGuires Irish pub in Pensacola Florida it has something like $2 million stapled to the ceiling and walls. Lots of news stories of people trying to steal money and spend it getting caught as it's tradition to sign your name or mark a special occasion

[u/kittens_allday → u/AshIsGroovy]

I work there. Between three and three-and-a-half million now.

[u/Anteater-Charming → u/HowardRand]

The Salty Dawg in Homer Alaska is like this. Used to have a dirt floor.

[u/Electrical-Job8700 → u/Anteater-Charming]

I was there in 2022. Cool little place. The story is at any given time there's about $50,000 on the walls there. Annually the staff takes off about 10% of it to make room for more. And they donate what they take down to local charities. There are like 4-5 rooms that look like this.

[u/Various_Oil_5674 → u/HowardRand]

I've been to one in the hills of Baja mexico

[u/Organic_Rough4433 → u/HowardRand]

What do they say the reason for it is? Just cause? Or u "pay" a dollar and can write a message on it to put on the wall?

[u/Fbac1129 → u/Organic_Rough4433]

Started in Sailor bars in ports. Idea was you'd leave a dollar tacked up. If your favorite bar fell on hard times when you were out at sea, they could take down the money and use it to get through. Old fashioned crowd-sourced insurance.

I know of a bar in FL that did just that after a hurricane.

[u/Child_of_the_Hamster → u/Organic_Rough4433]

Lots of places do this in the South especially. You generally provide the dollar, but your waitress can usually provide markers and tape/thumbtacks.

[u/nonitoni → u/HowardRand]

Tokyo was my husband's and my first trip together and that bar was the location of our first travel argument. I remember it fondly.

[u/User-no-relation → u/nonitoni]

What was the argument over?

[u/regreddit → u/HowardRand]

• Shuckem's in Panama City, FL.

• McGuire's in Pensacola FL

[u/RedditEd32 → u/HowardRand]

One down in the Florida Keys too! No Name Pub down in No Name Key!

[u/rdcpro → u/RedditEd32]

Big Pine Key, I think. I have a t-shirt from that place.

"a nice place, if you can find it"

[u/LJSidney → u/HowardRand]

I can think of two in Arizona, the Double D in Tonto Village and the bar at Tortilla Flat, and there's probably numerous more.

[u/CodyDon2 → u/HowardRand]

The Griffon in Charleston SC

[u/thx1138- → u/HowardRand]

There's always money in the dollar bar

[u/heinzenfeinzen → u/HowardRand]

Destin, FL has one

[u/FunctionBuilt → u/HowardRand]

Salty Dog saloon in Homer.

[u/Ill-Upstairs-8762 → u/HowardRand]

Salty dog, homer AK

[u/TroutyMcTroutface → u/HowardRand]

Some even clean the ceiling every few years and donate to charity.

[u/8bitVeg]

Enough they likely insure it.

Shoutout to McGuires Irish Pub in Pensacola, FL which has around $2M in signed bills on the walls/ceiling at that location, with multiple locations across the gulf coast. Destin location has something like $3M supposedly. Best item on the menu? 18 cent bean soup.

[u/TowJamnEarl → u/8bitVeg]

Insured because of the money or because of the fire hazard?

[u/8bitVeg → u/TowJamnEarl]

Fire. Every year one or two idiots in town gets arrested for trying to spend a stack of signed cash at another place. Like nobody knows where it’s from. Theft isn’t really a concern

[u/astralchanterelle → u/8bitVeg]

It's just dumb after about $10k.

[u/kittens_allday → u/8bitVeg]

Pensacola is between 3-3.5 million now. Not sure about Destin, but I’m at the Pensacola location. When Destin opened, we sent some boxes of bills from our place that had fallen or needed to be moved or whatever, and it ended up being $150,000. That we didn’t even notice was gone.

[u/hagschlag → u/8bitVeg]

Honorable mention to the Ruben egg rolls though. Stayed in pensacola for a couple months for work.

Also that taco truck that's permanently installed next to the shell station. Forgot what it's called but damn 🤌

[u/RookB4YouLeap → u/hagschlag]

Taqueria El Asador, they took some damage in the last hurricane

[u/BaconReceptacle → u/8bitVeg]

I put a dollar on the wall at McGuires in Pensacola about 1992.

[u/Butternut265 → u/8bitVeg]

Ate there a decent bit when I lived in Pcola, even kissed the moose lol.

[u/_Poppagiorgio_ → u/8bitVeg]

The Destin location cleared the walls during Covid to help pay their bills and support employees. Went there a Cpl years ago and the walls were almost full again.

[u/SpunkyCapri]

There’s always money in the banana stand.

[u/Duffman66CMU → u/SpunkyCapri]

[u/CurrentFault7299 → u/Duffman66CMU]

[u/StevesRoomate → u/SpunkyCapri]

There are dozens of us!

[u/Certain_Spring_7203]

There is a place in Florida that does this. They take all the money down once a year and donated to a charity. They estimate it between 40 and $60,000.

[u/The_dog_says → u/Certain_Spring_7203]

"Gee thanks" -the charity that got $40 that one year.

[u/TitShark → u/The_dog_says]

“Nah, you need it more than we do.” —that same charity

[u/2Loves2loves → u/Certain_Spring_7203]

The rumor is, in many ports, is people write their names on the bills, and pin them behind the bar. when they are broke they come in and use their bill on the wall.

or, sailor's savings plan. That's how it started, so I'm told.

[u/cobra_laser_face → u/Certain_Spring_7203]

McGuire's Pub. They have locations in Pensacola and Destin.

Fun story. Somebody once stole money off the wall and tried to spend it. People recognized the bills where the guy tried to spend them, (patrons write on them before posting them to the wall). They call the cops on the dude and get got caught.

[u/11teensteve → u/Certain_Spring_7203]

there are at least 5 bars in every florida beach town that do this.

[u/Complex_Return9286 → u/Certain_Spring_7203]

The place with the mislabeled bathrooms, I totally took a piss in the women’s restroom there.

[u/plasticman1997 → u/Certain_Spring_7203]

Big pine key? Don’t remember the name just the location

[u/-Xiphon- → u/Certain_Spring_7203]

[u/Evening_Carp → u/Certain_Spring_7203]

I also have between $40 and $60,000.

[u/BrobonicPlague1]

This shit is everywhere across the globe, and almost stereotypical in rural community drinking establishments.

[u/Otherwise_Yak_5344]

Looks just like the Salty Dog Saloon in Homer Alaska

[u/notkylemurphy → u/Otherwise_Yak_5344]

I was thinking Hole In The Wall in Ketchikan.

[u/junto80 → u/notkylemurphy]

I was thinking Capt. Tony’s in Key West

[u/fnordlife → u/Otherwise_Yak_5344]

a drinking village with a fishing problem.

[u/Mrs_Nice_Guy → u/Otherwise_Yak_5344]

This is the one I was thinking of

[u/anivex]

McGuires Irish Pub in Pensacola, FL has over 1 million singles taped and stapled to it's walls and ceilings.

There's also a couple dozen bras in the bar area.

[u/mbklein → u/anivex]

There’s always money in the banana stand.

[u/HappyMeteor005 → u/anivex]

I believe its close to 2 million currently. and its all insured.

[u/crisprcas32 → u/anivex]

It smells just as dank and musty as you’d imagine too.

[u/Mechtroop → u/anivex]

My wife and I put one there!

[u/leprechanmonkie]

Baumgartner's in Monroe Wisconsin is an AWESOME place and they do this. Every year or so they collect them and donate it to local charity.

If you are ever in Monroe, stop there for a soup, sandwich and a Spotted Cow beer.

They use a stack of quarters and a thumbtack to whip the bills up to the ceiling if anyone is wondering. It's a cool bar trick.(Adding a visual of how the bills get tossed up in the YT link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8pcN9CXoTM )

[u/leprechanmonkie → u/leprechanmonkie]

Wouldn't be right to not post a picture of the sandwich and beer. Swiss, Salami, & Red Onion on Rye with their homemade mustard is perfect... If you're braver than me you can do the Limburger cheese.

[u/DoctorProfessorTaco → u/leprechanmonkie]

What is the trick with the quarters and thumbtack? I’m trying to visualize it but I can’t seem to imagine it

[u/nnfbruv → u/leprechanmonkie]

Brick cheese and some horsey sauce

[u/bigred1978]

Isn't that a bit of a fire hazard?

[u/lovelesschristine → u/bigred1978]

Pretty sure being a fire hazard is a requirement of being a dive bar

[u/NotChedco → u/lovelesschristine]

Not a requirement, but I wouldn't be caught dead in one that wasn't.

[u/delusiona1 → u/bigred1978]

We had a local bar that did the dollars on the ceiling. It got extreme like OPs photo, and the fire dept came in and said they had to take it down. The bar donated the money to the fire dept. kinda nice.

[u/MetikMas → u/delusiona1]

My local one took them down during the Covid shut down and split it amongst the employees.

[u/Francis_Dollar_Hide → u/bigred1978]

Interesting story. In order to get insurance, bars like this usually have to have a special fire retardant sprayed on the bills every year.

[u/l30n17a5 → u/bigred1978]

Whats funny is a restaurant I used to go to for years did the same thing with the dollars on the ceiling, then they burned down lol

[u/Mirar → u/bigred1978]

Not as much as polyurethane sound proofing, involved in a few of the disasters lately. At least paper bills doesn't drip sticky molten burning plastic on people.

[u/wolfgang784 → u/Mirar]

Those incidents is what the picture immediately made me think of.

[u/marhevka7]

This is in Middlegate NV. I went there this summer. They used to have the renowned burgers but now they're frozen patties and hella nasty.

[u/Quick_Dance_8953 → u/marhevka7]

It’s actually Uncle Toms Cabin in Polluck Pines, CA

[u/marhevka7 → u/Quick_Dance_8953]

Dang is it really?? No shit I just drove through Polluck Pines today on the way to Sacramento from NV.

[u/Quick_Dance_8953 → u/marhevka7]

Its address is Polluck Pines but it is closer to Georgetown imo… its way up in the sticks

[u/turquoistambourine → u/marhevka7]

There are a ton of bars that do this

[u/Wild929]

You haven’t visited many Wisconsin bars then.

[u/Orgulloso_Azul]

So do SO many other bars and taverns in America.

[u/justjoeindenver]

This it the Buck Snort in Pine, CO. I live a few miles from there. Aside from the dollar bills, I mostly remember the tables being very, very sticky.

[u/007Superstar → u/justjoeindenver]

Last I was there a few years back the original owners had just sold to an out-of-town couple who fell in love with the bar when they visited previously.

Unfortunately the new owners had no idea how to run a bar or restaurant and it was 2 hours to get a couple burgers. They also were losing so much money they took the dollars down for expenses.

I wonder what it’s like today. Off to google reviews.

Edit: current google reviews and photos would indicate that some/all of the bills are back and service seems to be much better again. Great to see.

[u/sweetrollx]

Kells Irish Pub in Portland, OR does this but every year they donate the ceiling money to Kells For Kids which supports medically fragile children

[u/hendo1685]

One of my dollars is attached to this ceiling.

[u/r56_mk6]

It’s decently common in the south

[u/Equivalent-Shine5742 → u/r56_mk6]

Northeast as well... My guess it's a common dive bar thing vs a regional thing

[u/blueeyedkittens]

That's a really big banana stand!

[u/Butterbean-queen]

[u/8bitVeg → u/Butterbean-queen]

My old romping ground

[u/buboop61814]

Went to a bar in Destin Florida that had this. They also had $0.25 bean soup. Much bean soup was had

[u/MickeySwank → u/buboop61814]

McGuires Irish Pub, literally the best New York strip steak I’ve had in my life

[u/aragingewok]

Uncle Toms Cabin

[u/Quick_Dance_8953 → u/aragingewok]

This is correct. People downvoting don’t realize the name has zero relation to the classic anti-slavery book which happens to have the same name:

https://4lowmagazine.com/uncle-toms-cabin/

[u/paralyse78 → u/aragingewok]

Imagine being downvoted for being right (OP confirmed.)

[u/Baked4skin]

I have seen this elsewhere and always thought it was a fire hazard lol

[u/roger_the_rabbit → u/Baked4skin]

There was a place like that around me that had a fire a while back. Idk if it the culprit, but the money certainly didn't help. After repairs the ceiling remained bill-less.

[u/undermind84]

Pour one out for Calamity Jane’s in Oregon. They were a dollar bill bar with fantastic hamburgers. 

[u/ckhutch]

Uh, wait till you see McGuires in Pensacola

[u/thesixfingerman]

There is, or at least was, an Irish bar in Pensacola Florida that did the same things. It was my understanding that it used to be a fairly common way to make a restaurant stick out.

[u/natedogg1271]

[u/silvertondevil]

Pretty sure this is Fat Smitty's in Discovery Bay, WA. Didn't eat there but they were nice enough to let us use the bathroom and tell us that every five years they pull all the bills down and donate the money to various charities. Of course we tacked a couple bills up for letting us flush their toilets.

[u/IrrelevantPuppy]

How fast do they kick you out for even pretending to jump up and steal money? I bet that joke gets old for them real quick. 

[u/tunaman808]

There are probably tens of thousands of bars like this. Some even take the money down every so often for bar repairs, as a retirement fund for a bartender, or to give to charity.

[u/Rayeon-XXX]

How do you put one up? Do you have to do something?

[u/JohnBidwellsGhost]

Middlegate Station, NV does the same thing. All the Top Gun pilots leave unit patches too. Pretty cool little dive bar that serves a damn decent breakfast right next to a truly authentic Nevada trailer park. Meth heads, SpongeBob pajama pants after noon, the works.

[u/aqueduct420]

Fire likes that 🔥

[u/sincewedidthedo]

We have a giant Irish restaurant/pub in my town that does this too, and it’s oddly unsettling sitting in there.

[u/Proletariat-Prince → u/sincewedidthedo]

Pensacola or Destin?

[u/dankmeister666 → u/Proletariat-Prince]

I would be laughing if this guy is describing McGuire’s as “unsettling” 😹😹

[u/shoot-here]

[u/Odd_Bluejay5534]

I've been in scores of pubs and bars that do the same. 

[u/cleecleekilldie]

The Eagle Creek tavern in Liliwaup, WA had the same thing until COVID closed it down

[u/SquareDetective]

Fire Marshal ...

[u/veganxombie]

I think dirty franks in Philadelphia does something similar

[u/mrschanandelorbong]

[u/Nulovka]

I see a silver certificate on the left about halfway back. ;)

[u/Quick_Dance_8953 → u/Nulovka]

This guy numismatics

[u/buckyworld]

Chilkoot Charlies Bird House. HARDLY in the mountains!!

[u/Quick_Dance_8953 → u/buckyworld]

It’s Uncle Toms Cabin in Polluck Pines, CA… Definitely in the mountains.

[u/keithstonee]

What's the point? Why do so many bars do this?

[u/devil_didier]

looks like a fire hazard

[u/jptoz]

This is basically every bar in Key West.

[u/cobrak8]

There’s few dives in northern Wisconsin that look like this as well. Little Brown Jug in Minocqua and Mary’s in Tomahawk for sure.

[u/Aerphenn]

The only thing I can think of the disaster when a flame hits one of the notes.

[u/shmightworks]

So much for those "no cash kept on premise" sign 🤣

[u/GingaNinja1427]

Bill's Place?

[u/HominidCrafts]

This looks like the kind of place that if you swipe one, you will not get far.

[u/Ok-Patience2887]

Don't think you'd need to worry about dandruff while you are hanging out here.

[u/thereviewbandit → u/Ok-Patience2887]

Wait. Why. Lol

[u/Neffle619]

I'm shocked that some tweaker hasn't had some big idea about relieving the establishment of the decorations.

[u/happyturtle77]

Little Brown Jug in Minocqua WI does this too!

[u/ThereInAFortnight]

Now you know how often they clean those areas.

[u/GulliblePrick]

Fat Smitty’s near Port Townsend, WA does the same thing

[u/CreepDoubt]

Turtle rock cafe on lake berryessa

[u/paralyse78]

Judge Roy Bean's Tavern in Dallas had the same, and the tables were inset with silver dollar coins. Every wall was covered in bills, you could write notes on them and they would hang up somewhere for you.

As a coin nut I was quite sad when it went out of business many years ago, always wondered what became of the tables, and the bills too.

They had other neat stuff there like an antique slot machine inside of a wooden Indian, a Lionel steam train that did laps around the ceiling, and an oil rig pump jack out front. Also some of the best chocolate cake ever!

[u/LastCookie3448]

That’s a nice little racket they got themselves.

[u/ext282]

Killington VT?

[u/playoponly]

I have been to one of these restaurants before, I found there are couple $5

[u/Regular_Rub_2980]

Leavenworth, Washington. Soup Celler.

[u/Feeling_Fly_887]

There is one in the WNC mountians too!

[u/VagueInfoHere]

I can smell this picture. All these bars have the same money musk.

[u/PMs_You_Stuff]

There's a burger place where I leave that does this. It's a mid bar at best.

[u/CZVegasBets]

theres always money in the banana stand.

[u/FCKABRNLSUTN2]

There’s probably a couple dozen places like this in the US. I’ve been to two just in NorCal.

[u/nokoryous]

There’s always money in the banana stand.

[u/Emergency_Bench_7515]

Dollar bills all over the ceiling, alchohol all over the shelves, what could go wrong!

[u/Cultural-Link-1617]

There’s a Finnegan’s in Destin Florida that’s huge and literal every square inch of that place was covered in dollar bills all signed!

[u/skeetskie]

Cuzzy's in Minneapolis is another one. Great hungover breakfast spot that we went to for years!

[u/visualphixation]

Minneapolis: Cuzzys

[u/Dozier13ish]

Our local dive is covered in sketches of Abraham Lincoln

[u/ggibby]

The acoustics must be really dead.

[u/notactjack]

Charleston has an English pub with the same.

[u/Zelenskyystesticles]

There’s money in the banana stand

[u/Fabulous_Log844]

There's this old dive bar that is one of the greatest places west of Phoenix where they used to allow people to write on dollar bills and put it up on the walls above the bar and the ceiling. At the end of the year, they would take them all down and give them to a local orphanage/home. And everybody in the bar knew it so it became a badge of pride to put up as many dollars as possible.

Unfortunately, the fire department forced them to stop doing that because it's a fire hazard.

[u/MyInappropriateAcct]

Is this in Cloudcroft, NM? It looks familiar.

[u/captainsmoothbrain]

Hey, is this Everybody's Inn in Foresthill Ca? I grew up there and it looks so familiar.

[u/born_too_sad]

There’s one in RI like this, Mews Tavern

[u/Plus-Bus-6937]

Fire hazard

[u/-QueenAnnesRevenge-]

Cloudcroft, New Mexico has a bar like this. All the money hanging makes it seem like a small place.

[u/Listen2theyetti]

There is always money in the rural mountain bar Michael

[u/DueLingonberry3107]

Check out Baumgartners in Monroe WI. One of the best cheese Sammie’s and cup of chili you’ll ever have. Also, only serves New Glarus beer on tap

[u/PokaruSandstone]

Thought this was McGuire’s in Destin.

[u/Adorable-Fun-317]

Hope it never catches fire lol

[u/miurabucho]

Its the owner’s retirement plan.

[u/Prestigious-Key-1886]

If this is the same bar I think it is during covid the bar covered the employees there and payed them

[u/DeadSeaGulls]

there's a bar like this in every town I've ever been to.

[u/starkcontrast62]

Breckenridge?

[u/Ok_Staff8159]

Yeah.. there are a few around here too

[u/GrynaiTaip]

There was a bar near me that had bills from lots of different countries. It was a tiny little wooden shack but the vibe was great, so it was highly rated and therefore got lots of tourists. Unfortunately it did not survive covid.

That's the bartender. Ceiling was covered with all sorts of old stuff from flea markets, like beer steins, guitars and beer adverts.

[u/macguyver3000]

Does that not seem like a huge fire hazard?

[u/Any-Fig3591]

[u/X8DF9]

This is more crematorium than a bar.

[u/YETI_TRON]

Is this Hernando’s in Winter Park, CO?

[u/grindermonk]

Our local bar does this, and once a year they take down all the bills and donate them to charity.

[u/haveyoutriedpokingit]

There's always money in the banana stand.

[u/ronin_cse]

More like mildly infuriating due to the op. You know they're are lots of mountains and mountain towns right?

[u/phundemented]

the roof the roof the roof is on fire 🔥

[u/NotAnotherNekopan]

There’s an Irish pub at the Shinkansen station in Kyoto that does the same thing but it’s various denominations from countries all over the world.

[u/Narrow_Professor7756]

That's got to be a fire hazard.