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I love this place, except for the "No Elon" sticker. Those stickers were pretty popular in this area when Elon Musk was running D.O.G.E. and was close to President Trump, but the animosity towards Elon has pretty much died down after he became almost an arch enemy to President Trump. Maybe it is the most similar to The Fling in Southern California, but at the moment it only has a live band the first Sunday of each month plus Open Mic every Tuesday. No bands on the weekends or any other evening. But different and better than The Fling is it has several craft brews on tap and open bottles of decent wine. Plus, it has a HUGE MENU of food that is served from breakfast time until they close! Just like almost every pub in the Portland area, they have pool tables. However, the layout is pretty bad for live music. They have no stage and the band plays in a corner with only a few tables having a good view, but they do have a dance floor area. If they had live music every night like The Fling, they would definitely have to remodel the room to give a lot more tables a better view of the band. The people playing pool have a better view of the band than most of the people that are there for the band.
The George Dickel Rye Whisky is pretty good. (What happended to the "e" in Whiskey? Usually only Scotland leaves the "e" out of the word "Whiskey.") Barbara and I tend to like Rye more than Bourbon as Bourbon is made from more than 50% corn and is sweeter while Rye is made from more than 50% Rye which is more spicey than sweet.
Slims is located in a very odd locaction, St. Johns, only about 10 miles from our Vancouvr home, closer than The Fling from our Anaheim house. However, my Tesla Navigation sends me down a lot of roads with 20 and 30 MPH speed limits with speed bumps in the roads. Google Maps shows that Highway 308 could take me there, maybe faster with less speed bumps even if a bit longer drive. The St. Johns area is a peninsula that is separated from Downtown Portland bordered by both the Willamette and Columbia Rivers.
Maybe we've found the venue most similar to The Fling closest to our Vancouver, Washington, home. They describe themselves as: "A little dark, a little dingy, and a little divey, but we like it like that." This place is open from 7am to 2:30am every day. It used to have live bands on Friday and Saturday evenings but now it only has Open Mic on Tuesdays and The Suburban Slim Blues Band on the first Sunday of every month at 7pm. This place is about 3 times the size of The Fling and does serve food all day as well as wine by the glass, unlike The Fling.