Sammy’s Bowery Follies was not the first “dive bar” nor did they invent the idea of “slumming” but for a stretch of time through the 1940s to the 1960s, Sammy’s was New York’s best example of both.
A newspaper article from the 1920s dubbed an Arizona river as the Goofiest in America. Postcard History has confirmed the accusation. Legends of the river abound.