Then and now: Bar-BQ-Bar photos demonstrate the dive's unruly nature

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Bar-BQ-Bar owners Ashley Dishman and Marshall Hurst

The Courtesy Bar owner and original Bar-BQ-Bar regular Gene Zimmerman (photo by Amanda Winters)

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Bittersweet 16 party (photo courtesy of Fiction)

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Original Ladies Night bartender Henry Mays (photo by Amanda Winters)

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Bittersweet 16 party (photo courtesy of Fiction)

Princeton's Guff performs live at Bar-BQ-Bar (photo by Jim Leatherman)

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Bar-BQ-Bar regular patron Devin Dominguez shares her favorite photo booth strips (Photos by The Photo Booth, heh)

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Bittersweet 16 party (photo courtesy of Fiction)

Seven Mary Three's Jason Ross and tour manager Sam Mitcham guest-bartending at the first anniversary party (photo by Amanda Winters)

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Bittersweet 16 party (photo courtesy of Fiction)

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Teen Agers perform live at Bar-BQ-Bar (photo by Jim Leatherman)

Photo by Jim Leatherman