The infamous I Bar on Naval Air Station North Island featured in Top Gun Maverick 

I loved Top Gun Maverick! Every human being should see this in the theaters and preferably IMAX! Masterpiece!

I’m going to find this bar, purposely make sure it’s full then slam my phone down on the table. Our airmen and seamen deserve the best

My guess is Jennifer Connelly (or Monica Barbaro if it was her) intentionally put her cell phone on the bar as a tongue in cheek gesture to show appreciation for the bar and the people. She wanted to buy them all a round and made it fun for everyone. Why not, she just had a blast and made good money doing it! That's livin', baby!

omg I just LOVE that plaques with the callsigns on them. Petrie's callsign is "Dish" I love it LOL

Actually Steve Price, the Penny Benjamin character was created and referenced in the original Top Gun film if you want to flip to the Great Balls of Fire piano scene and Meg Ryan's dialogue. She just so happens to be the bartender in Top Gun: Maverick.

Been there - such an awesome bar - I did get super hammered - pitchers were 5$ during happy hour

didn't go in but i drove by the I Bar. It sits at the northwest corner of the base right before the flight line, from outside you can watch all the aircraft come and go...and a nice sunset in the evening.

I sat in the same booth when the original top gun came out as I was in the usn

My grandfather worked at North Island as a riveter and engineer from the 1930's to the 1970's. As far as I know he mostly worked on helicopters. He was sent to Burma in WWII, almost died from dysentery and was sent home to recover in a hospital in LA. I'd love to find a way to find any evidence of his work there, or any trace of him possibly left at that bar, but I don't think it's possible. I have a jacket just like Brian's which was his that has a unique patch on the back I haven't seen anywhere else online.

Oh YEAH!!!! I SAW THE MOVIE TOP GUN MAVERICK ! AND! IT WAS AWESOME !!!!! I COULD WATCH OVER & OVER AGAIN !!!! I LOVE TOM CRUISE !!!!!! 😊🌹❤⚓✈🇺🇸🎥🍺❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Love it !

Such a great movie!

Funny truth, PENNY was mentioned in the first Top Gun, the Admiral's daughter Maverick got caught with. So no, Deb was NOT in the movie and they did NOT change her name to Penny.

My kind of bar. Would love to hang out there. 🍺🍺🇺🇸

The Naval Aviation bar in Subic Bay in the Philippines was also great. I was at North Island once and the Line Shak right near the flight line was the best place ever for breakfast.

I love that bar! The I Bar is cool. Don’t touch the planes hanging, don’t put your phone on the bar, no hats on!

Dont forget about NAS Lemoore, NAS Oceana, or the other NAS's they utilized for the making of this film.

30 years? Just a Captain? He should have been a two star admiral.

Enlisted weren't allowed in the bar in the early 80's, when I was stationed at NAS NI as an AW/SAR/Aircrewman in HS-12.

The I Bar is between the runway and beachside. Yes, you can see the aircraft land and turn west to watch the waves. Combine the I Bar with down the beach the infamous Hotel Coronado.

Awesome. I was curious whether this bar existed in real life.

I love when the screen behind the anchor says Too Gun Maverick they are showing an F-16. Just throw any plane back there it’s cool.

Just one problem with the movie, Top Gun is now in Fallon NAS in Nevada. Has been since the 90's.

An actress plays Deb in the movie? It's Jennifer Connelly. It's not like she's unknown.

US Army Ov-1 Mohawk model hanging in a Navy bar..................cool. I wonder if there is a story behind that.

Shouldn't that be no "cover"....come on son, tighten up. Us Marines can't keep taking care of ya!😜

Internet says Jennifer Connelly is worth $50 million, I think she can afford to buy a round. Tom Cruise certain can (net worth of $600 million).

I like the cellphone tule.

that is cool

They need to make a SEALs special mission starting in San Diego, and feature Danny's Palm Bar and grill, and McP's, both SEAL bars, both on Coronado. There, screen writers, I have given you your intro's. You're welcome. LOL

Captain Ferguson looks like Bob

Much more fun doing carrier landings at Cubi Point NAS O-club.

Didn't know existed. Sounds like fun.

There is an even better bar at the Naval Air Museum in Pensacola, FL which was moved from the Cubi Naval Air Station in the Philippines when it and the adjacent Subic Naval Base were closed in 1992 after the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo and Philippine politics resulted in the US pulling out. I was there working at the US Embassy in Manila from 1990-1995 as Admin. Officer of the US Information Regional Service (Printing) Center and spend weeks up at Subic salvaging materials like machine tools and electrical transformers as the Navy was pulling out. While there I stayed at the Cubi BOQ and frequented the downstairs bar where the walls and ceiling where covered with elaborate plaques the visiting squadrons of naval aviators would buy in Olongapo to commemorate their visits, each trying to outdo the previous ones with something bigger and more elaborate. My mother was raised north of Pensacola and my parents retired there. My jaw dropped when I visited the museum during a visit in the late 90s when we walked into the restaurant to eat lunch at it was filled with all the decor from the Cubi O’Club downstairs bar. Not only that our waitress was an older Filipina woman who told us she had worked at Cubi. It is definitely worth seeing if you visit the Florida Panhandle.

Subic Bay was the best and the replica at the NAS Pensacola Air Museum is pretty cool also. AF Officers clubs are nice but way to PC

Beers are on you!!! 🍺🍺🍺😅0:24

Is the bar open for visitation?

I am glad that such a place exists.

No hats=No cover.

That cellphone rule should be at every bar.

The next best thing to replicating a full sized Hornet I guess....

the I bar eh?

I freaking love this bar everything was so cheap I bought rounds for everyone

Why is it infamous?

We have a couple extremeely fine coffee establishments in Isadore, alwasy busy. We have two lines, service (needed within 45 seconds) and Leasure, people not in a hurry, there to enjoy the atmosphere, requesting help of our people to meet the need. Then the Gods added on some spectacular amenities for service staff, open only to staff of the coffee service. We do that all the time in Isadore, we request help of our people to meet the needs for service.

I’m broke

“Infamous” is not a correct usage in the title of this video. Infamous implies evil or bad qualities. “the state of being well known for some bad quality or deed.”

They make you pay if you break their rules? Sounds like stealing/robbery, let's say you try and leave the bar after breaking a rule and try to make you pay, are they going to stop you from leaving? That sounds like kidnapping/unlawful imprisonment

Far out Man.

"Deb doesn't appear in the movie; an actress played her. And they changed her name." Deb's not in the movie then, is she..?

I hated the scene when he gets thrown on the sand.....stupid

Why “infamous”?

So much dusty !

2:01 "I just feel so gifted to be here so many years." Gifted? Wow, gifted is not correct. No wonder she been tending bar for 20 years.

Id rather get thrown out then pay for a bar full of strangers simply for putting my phone on the bar.

Why is it infamous? Don't they mean famous?

No cell phone on the counter haha. It's definitely not traditional. Smartphones have only been a social problem since 10 years ago

Just set not real bar just set ok mean set bar is not there now

They can't even show the clips of the movie as they would have to pay big money$$$. I meant a legit news story about movie and promotion but nope....this world is such crapt!

How many Aviator loads you reckon that woman has taken over the years?

san deigo, get a life

It’s famous, not infamous. Infamous would be The Berlin War, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Che, Pearl Harbor, and Hillary Clinton.

Bit pathetic to say that you have to pay a round of drinks if you put your phone on the bar, “it’s our tradition” I’d just walk out, what are they gonna do?💁

What a dumb tradition