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Friday night, live music. good mix in the crowd. Young, old, blue collar, prep. great country atmosphere.
good times, jack and cokes were strong. Jeager bombs were great.
will definitely go back.
only negative was the creeper drunk trying to stare down my date. but he went home alone.
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I meant that, on the evening I hung out, all the people at the Clayton Club were close minded, extremely rude & unwelcoming to outsiders.
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Five stars simply because, I do believe, it's the oldest operating bar in California. In upscale yet bucolic little Clayton, it's damn near Town Hall. Total dive bar but what else would you expect from a former stage stop/whore house? I rest my case.
From cowboys/girls to CEO's, the crowd varies from hour to hour. You can walk-in finding the place empty only to have it wall-to-wall in an hour or two. Out back is best in the summer! Live music inside on the weekend. Gets a tad loud but it's all good.
Make sure you look up when walking in the front door. Are those my old boots? Great place with lots of history.
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Friendly small town cowboy faux biker bar
Do you miss the small town bar you grew up with or use to visit? If so this bar would be a good choice for you. While the cowboys might double as Investment bankers and the Bikers are liable to being wearing Rolex. This bar has a nice country cowboy atmosphere. The Beer is cold.
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I've lived down the street from this cowpoke real deal saloon since forever, and I only recently started to frequent the place. The second time I was there, on a Friday night with some random http://match.com hook-up, I was told I was "hotter than doughnut grease!" and one of the last real cowboys left in these here parts (which is more than I might say for his teeth) gave me kiss on the cheek and told my date and I he loved us and was buying us a drink. Never short on charm, the Clayton Club is the dive of dives. Somewhere you can hang your hat up (literally or figuratively), have a drink and just set, takin' in the remains of the day.
And, should you dare to subject yourself, they have karioke on Wednesdays nights. *wink*
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Straight up bad ass....don't plan on going there without your camo hat, cowboy boots, and a killer hunting story.
Great music selection - live band on Fri & Sat. They have an HD-TV too.
Clayton's finest.
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As everyone else has said, this is the epitome of a dive bar, which is fine for me. Living right near by, I never realized the place was any good, because everything in Clayton (all 2 bars and 4 restaurants!) looks dead, even when they are hoppin'!
I was pleasantly surprised to find cheap beer and a decent classic-rock band on a Friday night. A great place to just chill and drink some cheap beer.
This place is a real olde-tyme saloon, complete with actual cowboys, sometimes. I guess I stayed away because I figured it would be all country music, but not the case. A definite departure from the suburban blandness of the surrounding suburbs and Concord.
I love this place talk about Americana! http://www.kpig.com
Not sure what Alzira meant by her "white trash" comment...
She's right though - if you're from San Diego - where you're guaranteed to wait an hour in line before you pay the cover to get inside, then spend $15 on a watered down cocktail in a plastic cup, Clayton Club will make you feel out of place.
Clayton is a very upscale neighborhood. Although it has a dive bar atmosphere, the locals aren't exactly your run of the mill hicks, more like east bay cowboys with fancy city jobs.
Stiff drinks
Rockin bands
Good times & good people
Haven't been by in a while...we used to go a lot and listen to live bands on the weekends....fun dive biker/cowboy bar....what girl doesn't love a cowboy or a biker? it is either packed or dead...and it can change by the hour...1 hr jumpin the next dead...then jumpin again. Love the decor...the old bar...saloon style...small dance floor....outside patio in back
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Living in Clayton, there are limited choices in bars. This is the only bar. Ed's doesn't count because it closes at 10 and there is no live music. I've lived here for 5 years now and even though I don't go to the Club much, it's nice to know it's there, waiting, with plenty of beer, music and laughs still available. I usually go during the week to avoid the fat guys in Harleys who cruise into town on the weekends during their 10 mile rides from Walnut Creek. A big yawner listening to their stories about what is hardcore and what isn't. There are real bikers who stop by after work during the week who are cool and normal, not yuppie wannabes. Real cowboys too-there are ranches up on Marsh Creek and Morgan Territory Roads. Great place to stop by and chill during the summer.
Turn off the main road, head past the barbershop into downtown Clayton and follow the sound of honky-tonk music to one of the last true cowboy bars on this side of the Altimont Pass.
Locals, cowboys, and visiting Harley-riders make up the vast bulk of the weekend crowd. A distressed-wood interior with minimal decor forms a rectangular space that includes a pool table, seating area, dance floor, and bandstand. Tattered pairs of cowboy boots hang from the ceiling, their former owner's names painted on the soles and facing downward towards the floor. I got here on a holiday at around mid-afternoon, and the vibe was calm and somewhat surreal. Country music flowed non-stop from the jukebox, the Giants were playing Florida on the overhead T.V.'s, and the pool table was never at a loss for players. The locals seemed pretty lively around each other...but guarded around strangers. I tried chatting with an older gentleman to the right of me....but he was a man of few words, wearing a distant smile on his face while he drank beer by the pitcher and replied to my banter with polite, one word replies. Still, it didn't take much to imagine boots scootin' and booties shakin' come Friday night when the sun came down and a band fired up.
Though the winds of change blow unceasingly over the Bay Area, I take comfort in the fact that there's one spot in northern Contra Costa County where their relentlessness has little if any effect. I've visited the Clayton Club half a dozen times over the last ten years, and each time little more than faces of the patrons and the cuter-than-average barmaids have changed. It's nice to know there's one spot with an old soul that seems forever safe from the relentless satyr of urban development that has run roughshod over Walnut Creek, Pleasant Hill, Concord and many others....
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bring quarters and find out which of your friends have that special hidden talent of manipulating the annoying metal claw to win prizes. this claw machine is pretty funny the first time you see it because unlike your neighborhood pizza joint that fills their machine with stuffed animals, the clayton club peppers their machine with porn.
I just moved out here and my husband and I went there one night. I didnt know what to expect and what type of people would be there. I was pleasantly surprised. It was a tiny bar that had a live band. There was one pool table, cowboy boots hanging on the walls and I loved it!! It totally reminds me of my dive bars in college back east. So, I was a bit nostalgic. Cool place to chill with a beer and friends.
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I love this place. It reminds me of the old honkytonks in the midwest and the south. That's probably because this place IS OLD. They have some pretty decent live bands. Wear your jeans and your boots, and order yourself a cold beer.
As you can see by the picture that was added, this place is old and the king of all dives. I think Jesse James (the original, not the Hollywood/biker dude) had moonshine in here. This place is something out of the wild west movies. I bummed into John Wayne walking into the pisser and high fived with Butch Cassidy at the bar over shots of Jack. This spot is wild. We got some stiff looks and a couple scratching of the chin when we arrived. But luckily my wife is super pretty, so the cowboys took a lik'n to us and eased all looks toward me. Anyway, we didn't stay long. They do have bands, cowboy boots hang from the ceiling and the dust and dirt are all old as the folks that hang there. This is one spot that will never convert to a major hang out and sell itself out. This is the original dive bar. I thought Artie's was it...not anymore. The Clayton Club wins! I wonder why they call it the Clayton Club too??? Yeeee-Haaaw!
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Its my home away from home but if your not a local you will feel very out of place and not very welcomed. Its fun times on weekends if you like an older crowd. The younger crowd comed down on wednesday nights. Be prepared for dogs running through the bar on slow nights and drunk cowboys. Just be prepared of your not from clayton area you might wanna try somehwhere else
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