Pee on the wall?? I’m having a hard time buying that. I have been in a cantina where there was just a urinal in the corner. (I’m a woman and wasn’t supposed to be there.)
Man, where I live there are still lots of “free peaunuts, toss 'em on the floor” joints. Nick’s Pizza in Crystal Lake IL has to have a 2 or 3 inch deep layer of em around the bar, besides haveing one of the creepiest taxidermied animal collections in the world.
You can find the peanuts all over the place still at The James Joyce in downtown Santa Barbara. One of my favorite haunts.
I’ve been in lots of dirt-floor bars and small stores. Quite common in dry rustic (camping or just poor) areas. A little sawdust can clean up spills, just so the floor doesn’t get soft, but it’s usually swept up right after.
Heh. The Ground Round chain of restaurants had the “throw the peanut shells on the floor” policy in the 1980s. Some friends of mine went to a Ground Round in a different town and were merrily chowing down on the peanuts and shoving the shells over the edge of the table. They noticed some strange looks. Then the manager came over and told them that in this particular franchise, they did not throw shells on the floor. My friends looked around, noticed the clean floor (well, except for around their table) and felt a little sheepish.
Off-topic, but talking about peanut shells made me remember this tale.
Last time I was in an uber-dive bar in Arkansas (5-6 years ago), I played pool with a local who didn’t have indoor plumbing in his house. He liked his outhouse because he just couldn’t get used to defecating inside his home. He was as hillbilly as they come, but he’d probably be the last person in the world to pee on the floor of a bar.
There are certainly bars with sawdust on the floor, and I have no doubt that drunks have made inappropriate use of that, but I don’t think this was ever the intended or approved use. There’s an old Southern-ism that says “even a dog doesn’t shit where it lives”, and there are very few humans dumb enough to earn that comparison.
RM Mentock,
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Yep that is the place. They now serve up the free peanuts but there are signs all over the place that say if you like the peanuts do not drop the shells on the floor!
The beer and peanuts are the best things at that place. -IMO
I’ve been to bars in Mexico with a trough running along the base of the bar.
In New Mexico, at least 10 years ago, there was a bar about 10 miles aouth of Las Cruces called Chope’s. The men’s bathroom had tile walls, a tile floor, a drain in the middle … and that’s it. The room was “flushed” every so often when the bartender would throw ice in it.
This is pretty much asked and answered, no?
It is, but it’s turned into an interesting discussion on dive bars. Mightn’t this get a move?