For the second time, maybe i’m sending this to wrong page.
The question i have, and would like an answer to is this.
Why in chicago, are all of these below. Not allowed to use the word soloon. Bars, travens, clubs and cocktail lounges, and what other name, but not soloon?
Please, i know cecil knows, tell him to tell me.
Jim2929
The same question arises in very many localities. In fact I don’t believe I’ve ever seen an establishment anywhere with the word “soloon” in its name.
I doubt you’d ever find anyplace with the word “soloon.”
“Saloon,” OTOH, is quite common.
I’m still trying to figure out what a ‘traven’ is…
A smaller version of a “travern”?
Didn’t his brother write Treasure of the Sierra Madre?
It’s the email address of Poe’s bird.
At least I know what a “bra” is.
After the repeal of Prohibition, FDR urged the nation to drop the word ‘saloon’ and replace it with ‘tavern’.
I seem to remember reading this in T. Coffey, The Long Thirst many years ago.
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After the repeal of Prohibition, FDR urged the nation to drop the word ‘saloon’ and replace it with ‘tavern’.
I seem to remember reading this in T. Coffey, The Long Thirst many years ago.[/QU
THANK YOU MKII. AS FOR THE REST OF YOU. IS THAT REALLY THE BEST YOU CAN DO? I DO BELIEVE YOU NEED TO GET A LIFE. YOU’RE NOT EVEN FUNNY.
You’re new here. Three things that might help you in your future posts would be to read the various forums before posting. In the case of GQ, we endeavor to answer questions as best as we can. The barkeep would prefer that as a first step. Yet, we don’t always take ourselves so seriously in those same responses. My apologies we didn’t answer your question to your satisfaction first before the wit of the crowd took over.
Second, please don’t type in all caps. It’s considered shouting. Shouting a round is ok; shouting to be heard will fall on deaf ears at the GQ Saloon.
Lastly, the barkeep wants insults restricted to the room out back. It’s past the toilets near the rear of this place. We call it the Pit, right next to the BBQ.
Did I misunderstand the question?
Clearly there are places in Chicago as well as every other city in America right now that are “Saloons.”
As for the rest, apologies for the joking around but with this group, of which I am pretty new myself, you should fully expect typos and misspellings to be non-maliciously ridiculed.
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THANK YOU MKII. AS FOR THE REST OF YOU. IS THAT REALLY THE BEST YOU CAN DO? I DO BELIEVE YOU NEED TO GET A LIFE. YOU’RE NOT EVEN FUNNY.
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Actually, we are very funny. But this is far from the best we can do. Why roll out the Good Stuff on someone just passing by? Especially someone who can’t type.
I wonder a similar urging by the President also accounts for the fact that the sale of beer in buckets also was never resumed AFAIK.
I do know of at least one famous bar known as “The Saloon”, in San Francisco’s North Beach. It’s said to be the oldest bar in the city.
As far as I can remember, the entrance to every fully licensed bar I’ve seen in L.A. has a little “L” shaped jog so you can’t see the actual bar through the open doorway. This doesn’t seem to be the case for bars that serve only beer and wine.
Non-Americans may not be aware that in this country, the word “saloon” probably brings to mind the sort of place you see in Westerns, with swinging doors, sawdust on the floor, and cowboys standing up at the bar to spend their month’s wages. Other than that, it is something of an affectation in the particular names of establishments, whose owners are deliberately using the word to establish some kind of feel or ambience. It’s not unlike the ones that call themselves “pubs”, which usually strive for a British-Isles feel (and not always unauthentically, since we have quite a few British expats who run these places).
I know that here in Massachusetts, there is such a thing as a “tavern license” which is basically a beer-and-wine-only license for a bar. Food service might also be required. I know that Bukowski’s Tavern had And probably still has) such a license, as reflected in their name, but I think when they opened a second location with a full liquor license, it was also called Bukowski’s Tavern. And other places with a tavern license don’t have tavern in their names.
The only “saloon” I recall in the area is the Cambridgeport Saloon, a cheap dive bar that’s been closed for a few years now.