Farther east, toward the Park, was his local bar, a dive called Malachy's.
After dinner, they drove a few blocks to a college dive called the Family Arcade.
In Night of Triumph, she goes to a dodgy Soho dive called The Butterfly Club in Great Windmill Street; in the film, she goes to a dodgy Soho dive called Lord Stanley's in Broadwick Street.
His real job is at a dive called the Turf Exchange, where he works, alas, both sides of the bar.
He headed instead to the nearest bar, a dank, noisy dive called Sparky's, where he had often gone just after Marilyn left him.
He printed a flyer declaring "fame fame fame" to lure Bowie outcasts to the un-punk safety of a tacky gay dive called Billy's, in Soho.
Spendthrift and compulsive nag-backer that he is, Frankie's career high is co-ownership of a dive called the Moonlight Club - until he gambles it away.
Troy Duffy, a tough kid from Boston who was bartending at a West Hollywood dive called J. Sloan's, sold his first script, "The Boondock Saints," in 1997.
Syncopation, he says, was a creed that Irving Berlin, "as a Jewish immigrant whose family had fled Russian pogroms, . . . had learned from a Negro ragtime pianist in New York's Chinatown at a dive called Nigger Mike's.
When he needs information, he trolls a familiarly depressive dive called McGonagle's, where he drinks a great deal but is only rarely too drunk to penetrate criminal intentions or defend himself when attacked.
