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Double Barrel is a bar on East Broad Street in historic downtown Athens between DePalmas Italian Cafe and another bar called Buddha. It is very popular location among the UGA students and is well known as its shorthand "Double." It is open Monday through Saturday from nine pm until two am. The venue features two separate bars to provide efficient service. It also features a pool table and dart board near the entrance, a spacious outside patio for smokers and many, large, flat screen tv's adorn every wall. This creates a great space to hang out, play a few rounds of pool and watch sports with friends, especially on Saturdays in Athens. Along with being a game day hotspot, this bar is quite frequently rented out by the many greek life organizations …show more content…

I was impressed with this because it is rare in many popular bars, especially so late into the night. The walls of the bathroom are a deep tan color and the two stalls are made of wood and covered with a thin black coat of paint. The bathroom also includes a full length mirror trimmed in gold where girls double check their outfits and remove toilet paper from their shoes before returning to the general population of the bar. The two sinks are set in a glittery black and tan faux granite counter top. This counter top at the time that I visited was covered in half-melted ice, half-empty plastic cups trimmed with limes and crumpled, used paper towels. The deep tan tile floor, at this time, was so sticky from spilled drinks that my shoes stuck to the floor and the distinctive crunch sound of ice could be heard as I made my way around the bathroom. This also caused scraps of toilet paper and paper towels to be stuck to the floor and the soles of my shoes. This bathroom has no ads or art of any kind incorporated by the owners of the venue; the only decorations in the bathroom include the artistic wall scribblings of the patrons who frequent Double Barrel. This is a typical characteristic of many of the bar bathrooms that I analyzed due to the fact that drunken patrons tend to feel entitled to deface everything they touch or simply have the desire to leave their mark on a piece of Historic Downtown Athens. In the women's bathroom of double barrel, the walls are covered in sharpie, lipstick scribblings and illegible scratching, the stalls are covered with deep scratch marks from keys or other blunt objects. There are so many things written that the patrons are beginning to run out of room to write so they cover up the scribblings of others,

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