# Who was Molly Hatchet **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 8, 2010, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-molly-hatchet/563383 "2010-12-08T06:18:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2013, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-molly-hatchet/563383/21 "2013-03-08T05:14:55Z")
> [@yabob](#): > > Re Carrie Nation: > > I always liked that some bar owner in Los Gatos, CA, exhibiting a rather odd sense of humor, named his place “Carry Nations”, with a hatchet motif: It has been a long time, but IIRC, that bar was started by Gary Dahl, the ‘inventor’ of the Pet Rock. So yeah, he has an odd sense of humor. ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2013, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-molly-hatchet/563383/22 "2013-03-08T14:48:43Z")
> [@jasg](#): > > It has been a long time, but IIRC, that bar was started by Gary Dahl, the ‘inventor’ of the Pet Rock. So yeah, he has an odd sense of humor. The guy made A MILLION DOLLARS! ---
**Author:** ![FrankJBN](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f0a364/32.png) [@FrankJBN](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FrankJBN)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2013, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-molly-hatchet/563383/23 "2013-03-08T14:54:21Z")
The tale of the 17th century Salem prostitute seems very unlikely. For one, perhaps surprisingly or perhaps not, there was very little prostitution in the 13 colonies even into the 18th century. For another, Salem, where 200 people, mostly women, were tried for witchcraft in the 1690s seems an unlikely place for a serial killing prostitute to have thrived and then to have disappeAred from the historical record. (Also considering the names of those involved in the witch trials are known to history) Third. Molly is not known as a nick-name for Abigail ---
**Author:** ![yabob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yabob/32/2821_2.png) [@yabob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yabob)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2013, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-molly-hatchet/563383/24 "2013-03-08T14:56:42Z")
> [@jasg](#): > > It has been a long time, but IIRC, that bar was started by Gary Dahl, the ‘inventor’ of the Pet Rock. So yeah, he has an odd sense of humor. You’re right. According to wiki he actually opened the place with the proceeds from his Pet Rock venture. He also won the Bulwer-Lytton contest in 2000: > **[Gary Dahl (businessman)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Dahl_%28entrepreneur%29)** > > Gary Ross Dahl (born December 18, 1936 – March 23, 2015) was an American businessman and advertising director. He founded and created the collectable toy Pet Rock—smooth stones from the city of Rosarito, Baja California, Mexico, in the mid-1970s—which was successful enough to make him a millionaire. > Dahl was born on December 18, 1936, in Bottineau, North Dakota, and raised in Spokane, Washington. His mother was a waitress and his father was a lumber-mill worker. He studied at Washington State Un... ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2013, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-molly-hatchet/563383/25 "2013-03-08T17:52:30Z")
I always liked Carrie Nation’s description of herself as “a bulldog running along at the feet of Jesus, barking at what He doesn’t like.” Classic. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-molly-hatchet/563383.md?page=1)