WEDNESDAY, January 16th, 2008

Del’s Saloon

12238 Santa Monica Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90025 (West LA)

The World Dive Bar Tour Executive Committee strategically selects each and every dive bar to not only coincide with different holidays but to encourage and promote networking and camaraderie. We’ll be exploring some über-seedy and questionable drinking establishments this year, and to best get reacquainted with Tour regulars and new members, it’s important to drink in familiar surroundings.

Thus, we officially kick off 2008 at Del’s Saloon, a friendly neighborhood bar offering all the standard amenities you can expect from a typical LA dive. Del’s is particularly unique in that it contains nearly every hallmark of a dive including pool and darts, golden tee, year-round christmas light decor, Wednesday karaoke, and an allegiance to a particular NFL team (Bills). In the spirit of remaining low-key and unobtrusive, Del’s often keeps the front door locked so you’ll most likely enter from the rear.

As usual, the casual debauchery starts around 9PM and gets really interesting by 10:00. Come for one drink, or stay for one too many. Bring anyone and everyone, and join us for a great time in the middle of the week. If you arrive early or late, look for the people having a damn good time (it’ll be us), or start having a damn good time on your own (we’ll find you).

Carpe Drink’em,

Alex, Damien, & Travis - WDBT Co-Czars

“So there, I am, in Sri Lanka, formerly Ceylon, at about 3 o’clock in the morning, looking for one thousand brown M & Ms to fill a brandy glass, or Ozzy wouldn’t go on stage that night. So, Jeff Beck pops his head ’round the door, and mentions there’s a little sweets shop on the edge of town. So we go. And it’s closed. So there’s me, and Keith Moon, and David Crosby, breaking into that little sweets shop. Well, instead of a guard dog, they’ve got this bloody great big Bengal tiger. I managed to take out the tiger with a can of mace, but the shopkeeper and his son… that’s a different story altogether. I had to beat them to death with their own shoes. Nasty business, really, but sure enough I got the M & Ms, and Ozzy went on stage and did a great show.”

- Del Preston, the Greatest Roadie that Ever Lived

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