Cramping Your Style and other Kodiak, AK Nightlife Tips

Nightlife Spot: Diamond Jim's Harvester Inn

Though most outsiders might not picture nightlife in Kodiak, this is after all a town of 6,300, and not everyone likes to fish, hunt or hike. Among a numerous and diversified array of waterfront restaurants, Kodiak also claims two superlatives among Alaskan watering holes. One of these is Diamond Jim's on Mill Bay Road, reckoned the smallest bar in Alaska. Though it looks like a simple box, almost spiritless like a coffin, the capacity is reckoned at 40. Not standing room only, that is, not for everyone or all the time. . . the bar claims the ability to seat as many patrons -- but only eight at a time.

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Theme: Nightclub
Dress Code: Kodiak is an informal community. Dress is usually casual. Suits are normally not spotted on the island.
Phone: (907) 486-4428
Address: 1223 Mill Bay Road
Directions: heading northwest out of downtown

Nightlife Spot: B & B Bar

Kodiak also claims the oldest bar in Alaska near the waterfront, none other than the B & B Bar, another nondescript building with limited spirit in its outward appearance. Inside (besides verifying the 1906 license on the righthand wall) you can throw darts, play pool or belly up to the bar with the other wastrels and misfits, call for a $4 can of beer, and listen to the latest gossip on town life. At the time of my visit, the witch/barmaid boasted having seen a bear along the Pasagshak road, while the others decried the local radio "selling hour," which VT member kaloz likened to "radio Ebay."

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Theme: Nightclub
Dress Code: Dress is casual, and the more informal the better. Prim and proper dress would occasion several hard glares from the roughened patrons who frequent this bar.
Phone: (907) 486-3575
Address: 326 Shelikof St
Directions: on the waterfront near the Best Western Motel (above)