Best Historic Bar in Long Beach · Long Beach, CA
Joe Jost's has poured cold beer on Anaheim Street since 1924, making it Long Beach's oldest bar and one of the oldest continuously operating taverns west of the Mississippi. The ritual order never changes: a 'Joe's Special' — split Polish sausage, Swiss, pickle, and mustard on rye — with pickled eggs and fresh-roasted peanuts.
Cash-only, wood-worn, and gloriously stubborn, Joe Jost's is a century-old Long Beach institution whose T-shirts are as famous locally as its beer.
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Pouring since 1924, Joe Jost's celebrated its 100th year as one of the oldest bars in the West, famous for schooners and pickled eggs.
Yes — Joe Jost's is the 2025 Centurion Award winner for Best Historic Bar in Long Beach, a verified, criteria-based award. Named best historic bar in Long Beach for 2025 for a century of frosty schooners, Joe's Specials, and pickled eggs at one of America's great old taverns.
Joe Jost's is in Long Beach, CA.
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