About the Business
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Long Beach has pride in many things but one unparalleled sense of pride it holds is for its dives.
Unapologetic, unfettered, unwavering, Long Beach’s love for diver beer pubs and bars is one that is integrally entangled into our local culture—though, as the city continue to grapple with the consistent change of development and gentrification, the ever-changing tastes of each new generation, the explosion of independent beer and quality food, dives are becoming less ubiquitous and more of a rare beast.
And surely, there are many that live on: The legends like The Interlude and Reno Room, paisa bars like El Paraiso, queer dives that line Broadway, Poor Dick’s over in East Long Beach, Blondies and The Annex near the Traffic Circle…
Sitting on the south side of Willow Street between Magnolia on the west and Eucalyptus on the east, it opened in 1950 under many names: Pour Inn, Dew Drop Inn… But it was owners Pat, Beth, and their pup Skippy—hence the “PBS”—that turned it into a neighborhood bar that would last for decades.
“I mean, come on now—how could we not keep the name with a history like that?” said current owner, Christine Cabrera, who co-owns the bar with her husband Eric Dennis, and Kartik Balasubramaniam. “Some of the old timers think we’re kicking them out but it’s the opposite: We want them to still frequent here. I even told one patron I promise to always have Coors Banquet bottles for him—and I do.”
Location
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464 West Willow Street, Long Beach, CA, USA