re: Explain to me the desire to go to a ‘Dive Bar’???

Where I grew up going out drinking underage was difficult even with a decent fake. Any place U-25 was pretty off limits, so it was either dive bars or upscale hotel lounges and they both had their appeal. The dive bars always had their regulars and old drunk bartenders who could barely read an ID if they bothered to ask for it. Cheap drinks, cheap women, good juke box. There would be times that everyone in the place was either under 21 or over 65. Fun times.