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Thursday, August 26, 2010

Where We Pee

Where We Pee: Harling's Upstairs

Posted by David Hudnall on Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 11:43 AM

click to enlarge Harling's has restrooms for men, and also women. 
  • Harling's has restrooms for men, and also women. 

Walking into Harling's mens' room is like being gassed with a hundred years of piss particles. It's nasty in there, man -- one of the city's worst. On a bad night, it's better to just hold it. 

It's probably my favorite bar in the city. 


Well, what can you do? Every drink is like two dollars, the bartenders are friendly, there's just the right amount of seediness about the place. They have ping-pong. There's no downstairs, and the upstairs overlooks my favorite stretch of Main Street. They have that weird back room that's stacked to the ceiling with old bar furniture and other assorted shit. Harling's doesn't give a fuck. You gotta respect that. So you just have to hold your breath, ignore the stench and let the good times roll.

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Silver lining: the urinals that run all the way down to the floor. They stopped making those a long time ago. Takes me back. 

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This window is above one of the two toilets, and you can see straight out onto the deck where people smoke. Not an ideal situation for tall urinators. 

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Ooh and what about the ladies' room? That's a legit vintage sign right there. 

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The ladies room has a larger, nicer sink than the mens'. More surface area. For setting purses on, I guess?

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And way more toilet paper. Otherwise, they're completely identical -- no fancying things up for the ladies. Which I respect. With Harling's, it's all about respect. 

And this has been ... Where We Pee. 

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Harling's is legit, there's no way around it. I've had the opportunity to hang there only once, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. Could it be simply because it comes down to respect with both Harling's and I? Possibly. Man, I gots ta git to KC and bust a Harling's hang soon.

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Posted by Beans on 08/27/2010 at 11:01 AM

Harling's smells of puke, to be exact it smells of the puke I puked up in 1997. Not the way it smelled back then I mean it is still lingeringp and providing a pungent aroma for the place. Needless to say, I Love the place and always enjoy stopping in whenever I am in KC.

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Posted by Uhles on 08/26/2010 at 3:35 PM

it's like walking into an exterior shot from Soylent Green, just a warm yellow haze, welcoming all the same - it remembers you because some of it is you, your very own piss, that smell

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Posted by katz on 08/26/2010 at 2:53 PM
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