All along the stretch of North Sixth Street that leads to Northsix, a five-year-old rock music club by the Williamsburg waterfront, there are raucous bars, restaurants and stores.

ATMOSPHERE: Once you get past the raucous, smoke-filled bar in the front you enter a gentler, more glamorous era.

Fairbanks is an Alaskan original - oddball locals, raucous bars and rolling rivers.

The patrons that filled both the raucous bar and the sedate dining room also had a possessive air, as if they had always been there.

The room was filling up, and waiters moved away from the raucous bar to take orders at the tables, knowing where the real money was.

A Map In the shadow of the Pirámide Tepanapa, this raucous, family-run bar has been in business since 1939.

Q Map A raucous smoke-filled bar with two small rooms, and football shirts and movie posters instead of windows.

Another night, a brother approached as I sat near the raucous bar, waiting for my guests to arrive.