Louise & Jerry’s
Local Dive Bar
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Description – Bar
Services – Bar, Juke Box, Pool Table and Big Buck Hunter.
Address – 329 Washington St, Hoboken, New Jersey ( NJ ) 07030
Telephone – (201) 656-9698
Louise and Jerry's is one of the most reliable and straightforward places to drink in Hoboken.
People used to complain about the bar being smokey, now people complain that they have to go outside to smoke. Can't please everyone.
Great place for locals to gather, excellent jukebox with no commercial crap, friendly no-nonsense bar staff.
You can have a decent conversation with people and it tends not to attract the same wanna-be crowds that some of the other bridge and tunnel bars do. Some spillover occasionally from Nine.
Some people even make out in this bar!!
Standard bar fun such as pool and a Big Buck Hunter video game to appease the individuals with ADD.
Overall it's a bit small, and the men's room is very narrow. Not much else to complain about.
One of the best in Hoboken!
Hoboken NJ
71 Responses to ** Louise & Jerry’s **
September 30th, 2009 |
Yep! I would get the guy at the end of the bar who would be the 1 in 500 kind of guy and grumble about getting a freebee. Or better yet would be the regulars who would grumble when I gave them their tab saying with a passive agressive comment: “Oh, Johnny (the other bartender fake name I made up) wouldn’t make me pay THIS much. He’s much nicer to me.”
Yep. I would actually get that from regulars when I would do a 1 for 3 buyback rule.
In response to plywood who said:
And also Furey – do people actually ASK FOR buybacks (your rule 5)?!? That sounds like an obnoxious move – probably counterproductive. I would think the last thing one would want to suggest is an unwillingness to open their wallet.
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September 30th, 2009 |
Fiction
In response to Furey who said:
Yep! I would get the guy at the end of the bar who would be the 1 in 500 kind of guy and grumble about getting a freebee. Or better yet would be the regulars who would grumble when I gave them their tab saying with a passive agressive comment: “Oh, Johnny (the other bartender fake name I made up) wouldn’t make me pay THIS much. He’s much nicer to me.”
Yep. I would actually get that from regulars when I would do a 1 for 3 buyback rule.
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September 30th, 2009 |
When you are sad and lonely and have no place to go
Call me up, sweet baby, and bring along some dough
And well go honky tonkin, honky tonkin
Honky tonkin, honey baby
Well go honky tonkin round this town.
When you and your baby have a fallin out
Just call me up sweet mama and well go steppin out
And well go honky tonkin, honky tonkin
Honky tonkin, honey baby
Well go honky tonkin round this town.
Were goin to the city – to the city fair
If you go to the city then you will find me there
And well go honky tonkin, honky tonkin
Honky tonkin, honey baby
Well go honky tonkin round this town.
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September 30th, 2009 |
Oh, the days of working at Dipper’s…now Mikie Squared. All facts, buddy.
In response to justaview who said:
Fiction
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October 1st, 2009 |
barfly’s handbook: “Winning Through Intimidation” – Robert J. Ringer
In response to Furey who said:
Oh, the days of working at Dipper’s…now Mikie Squared. All facts, buddy.
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October 1st, 2009 |
WTF…what is this a kooky song?
In response to justaview who said:
When you are sad and lonely and have no place to go
Call me up, sweet baby, and bring along some dough
And well go honky tonkin, honky tonkin
Honky tonkin, honey baby
Well go honky tonkin round this town.
When you and your baby have a fallin out
Just call me up sweet mama and well go steppin out
And well go honky tonkin, honky tonkin
Honky tonkin, honey baby
Well go honky tonkin round this town.
Were goin to the city – to the city fair
If you go to the city then you will find me there
And well go honky tonkin, honky tonkin
Honky tonkin, honey baby
Well go honky tonkin round this town.
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October 1st, 2009 |
Wow! I just can’t believe that people would be that rude and obnoxious.
In response to Furey who said:
Yep! I would get the guy at the end of the bar who would be the 1 in 500 kind of guy and grumble about getting a freebee. Or better yet would be the regulars who would grumble when I gave them their tab saying with a passive agressive comment: “Oh, Johnny (the other bartender fake name I made up) wouldn’t make me pay THIS much. He’s much nicer to me.”
Yep. I would actually get that from regulars when I would do a 1 for 3 buyback rule.
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October 1st, 2009 |
It’s actually a Hank Williams Sr. song.
In response to lokelyokel who said:
WTF…what is this a kooky song?
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October 1st, 2009 |
Well they were regulars, who are sort of a quasi friend / customer that often visits the bar. You want to take care of your regulars, but some bartenders were more “generous” than others. At Dipper’s we had one bartender in particular who was a generous with buybacks to the customers, drew a good crowd and could get away with giving out tabs for $10 to regulars who probably drank $40-50 worth of beer/shots/booze. The regular would pay the $10 tab, tip $20 and everyone was happy. The regular still saved $20 in free drinks, the bartender made a nice tip and the owner gets a recurring crowd of regulars on popular nights (and a crowd draws a crowd in the bar business).
Problem is that then the regulars would get a tab from me for $20 (after drinking, again, $40 worth of booze or so) and gripe about it to another regular – or sometimes straight to my face with a “Johnny takes care of me more” comment (and they usually were drunk when saying this and not necessarily being mean, just a passive aggressive comment they would make hoping that I would be “nicer” to them in the future).
Yes, dumb and petty, and stuff as a bartender you just roll your eyes over.
In response to pawzclawz who said:
Wow! I just can’t believe that people would be that rude and obnoxious.
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October 1st, 2009 |
it’s all relative albeit inexcusable. Hate to say it but alcohol brings out the worst in people and nothing good happens after midnight.
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October 1st, 2009 |
You definately do want to take care of regulars. There’s times when you can’t. You can’t give a buyback. You can’t overpour. The boss may be around. That was rarely the case in Dipper’s. My late boyfriend knew the owner of Dipper’s. He wouldn’t work in Dipper’s. He had an issue with giving regulars more alcohol and a lower tab. He felt he was screwing the owner/friend. In any case expecting and asking for a buyback is IMHO rude,obnoxious,selfish,childish,petty and counterproductive.
In response to Furey who said:
Well they were regulars, who are sort of a quasi friend / customer that often visits the bar. You want to take care of your regulars, but some bartenders were more “generous” than others. At Dipper’s we had one bartender in particular who was a generous with buybacks to the customers, drew a good crowd and could get away with giving out tabs for $10 to regulars who probably drank $40-50 worth of beer/shots/booze. The regular would pay the $10 tab, tip $20 and everyone was happy. The regular still saved $20 in free drinks, the bartender made a nice tip and the owner gets a recurring crowd of regulars on popular nights (and a crowd draws a crowd in the bar business).
Problem is that then the regulars would get a tab from me for $20 (after drinking, again, $40 worth of booze or so) and gripe about it to another regular – or sometimes straight to my face with a “Johnny takes care of me more” comment (and they usually were drunk when saying this and not necessarily being mean, just a passive aggressive comment they would make hoping that I would be “nicer” to them in the future).
Yes, dumb and petty, and stuff as a bartender you just roll your eyes over.
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