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Coach Lite Club is a cash-only neighborhood dive bar at 2103 S 34th St in Argentine, the Kansas City, Kansas neighborhood south of the Kansas River. Kansas City Magazine reports the building is a former Sinclair gas station converted to a bar in the 1960s, and names Mike and Stacy Damron as the owners. The room has a horseshoe bar, a shuffleboard table, darts, and a back nook of gaming machines, plus a small patio. Tier 1 — owner-operated, long-tenured, wholly Wyandotte County.123

Description

Coach Lite Club is the kind of Wyandotte County corner bar the Registry exists to record: a small, cash-only room on a residential block of Argentine, with no website of its own and no printed presence beyond a Facebook page. Kansas City Magazine’s Kansas City, Kansas dive-bar survey describes a horseshoe bar, a shuffleboard table, and “a little nook in back where you can make some money playing the machines.”1 Scooter’s Bar Journal, visiting in December 2018, recorded darts, “a very, very worn shuffleboard,” a back room of video-poker machines, and a small rear patio.2 Visit Kansas City, KS describes it as a biker-friendly neighborhood bar with regular taco nights, fundraisers, and holiday events.3

The most-repeated local detail is a domestic one: per Kansas City Magazine, the owners’ daughter raises chickens, so patrons can sometimes leave with farm-fresh eggs.1

Ownership and history

Kansas City Magazine (June 28, 2021) names Mike Damron and his wife, Stacy as the owners and states that the building was a Sinclair gas station converted into a bar sometime in the 1960s.1 No deed, corporate-filing, or Kansas ABC license record was retrieved this pass to corroborate the ownership or the conversion date, and no source establishes when the Damrons took over.

Third-party business listings carry a conflicting vintage — one directory states the club has been in business roughly 40 years, another gives an establishment year of 1988. Neither is first-party and neither reconciles with the 1960s conversion date; both are recorded here only as the conflict they are, not as fact.

PeriodEvent
1960sFormer Sinclair filling station converted to a bar (KC Mag)1
by 2018Operating as a dive bar with shuffleboard, darts, video poker (Scooter’s)2
2021Owners identified as Mike and Stacy Damron (KC Mag)1
2026Listed as an active bar by Visit Kansas City, KS3

menu_status: unverified. Coach Lite Club publishes no menu — there is no website, and no first-party food or drink list was found. Visit Kansas City, KS references regular taco nights, and this is the only food signal from a non-aggregator source.3 The bar is cash only.1 Prices circulating on delivery-aggregator pages are not sourced here and should not be treated as accurate.

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Footnotes

  1. “Strawberry Hill might just have the best collection of dive bars in America,” Kansas City Magazine, June 28, 2021 (accessed 2026-08-13). Asserts: Coach Lite Club at 2103 S. 34th St. in Argentine, south of the Kansas River in Kansas City, Kansas; the building is a former Sinclair gas station converted to a bar sometime in the 1960s; horseshoe bar; shuffleboard table; back nook with gaming machines; cash-only; owners Mike Damron and his wife Stacy; owners’ daughter raises chickens and patrons may leave with farm-fresh eggs. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  2. “Coach Lite Club,” Scooter’s Bar Journal, December 2018 (accessed 2026-08-13). Asserts: 2103 S 34th St, Kansas City, KS 66106; visited December 2018; darts and a heavily worn shuffleboard; back room with video-poker machines; small patio; no pool table observed on that visit. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  3. Visit Kansas City, KS (Kansas City, Kansas CVB) — “Coach Lite Club” listing (accessed 2026-08-13). Asserts: Coach Lite Club is a listed, active Kansas City, KS bar; biker-friendly neighborhood bar with regular taco nights, fundraisers and holiday events. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

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On the record — ks.city/registry/coach-lite-club · record updated 2026-08-13