LAKELAND – When you walk into the door at TA Slammers, the first thing you’ll notice is just that.
The large, metal entrance door at the bar’s side will loudly slam shut if you’re a first timer ― or if you just don’t care ― at one of Lakeland’s most well-known “dive bars.”
But informality is part of the appeal of TA Slammers, at 1011 Florida Ave. in Lakeland. Since 1991, patrons have been communing in the haze of cigarette smoke, cheap drinks, the sounds of ricocheting pool balls and personable bartenders who will gladly show customers who misbehave ― from college students, to doctors, to construction workers ― the door…