About four years ago, my best friend and I were out at a local bar and we wrote something on a dollar bill and it was placed on the ceiling of said bar. My friend has since left the area and asked for a picture of the dollar. So this weekend I went down to the bar during the day, got a beer and snapped a couple pics. The bartender and I got into a conversation about how long these particular dollars had been at this bar. The earliest dated dollar was from '96. I have a few dollar bills in bars as far away as Japan, and as early as '94.
So I started wondering, when and where did the practice of personalizing dollars begin? And where have you left personalized dollars?
Have you ever been to Key West, FL? At a bar down there (the joint Hemmingway used to frequent) they have bills all over the ceiling which is about 20’ high. What they do, is take a dollar, “personalize it,” then take a tac and a silver dollar and fashion a crude dart. Huck it up at the ceiling and if it sticks then eventually the bill will unravel and the coin will fall down. Certainly the most interesting way i have ever seen of doing this.
We have a local drinking establishment that boasts a collection of 22,000 hats of all kinds covering the walls and ceilings. They are listed in the Guiness Book of World Records.
