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A Western saloon is a kind of bar particular to the Old West. Saloons served customers such as fur trappers, cowboys, soldiers, lumberjacks, businessmen, lawmen, outlaws, miners, and gamblers. A saloon might also be known as a "watering trough, bughouse, shebang, cantina, grogshop, and gin mill".
Groups of 25–50 recent arrivals speaking the same language and probably also from the same province or village back in Europe drank together and frequented the same saloon. They trusted the saloonkeeper to translate and write letters for them, help with transatlantic letters and remittances, keep their savings for them, and explain American ...
A hotel bar in Switzerland Outdoor bar in Paso Robles, California, United States of America. A bar, also known as a saloon, a tavern or tippling house, or sometimes as a pub or club, is a retail business that serves alcoholic beverages, such as beer, wine, liquor, cocktails, and other beverages such as mineral water and soft drinks.
If you can't get enough of gun-slinging outlaws, booze-fueled saloon brawls, or grizzled prospectors looking to strike it rich, we've rounded up 20 Old Western towns where you can spend a weekend ...
A historic bar located at 1901 Union Street in San Francisco's Cow Hollow neighborhood. [18] It was founded as “The Alley”. [5] The sports bar saloon has been run by a single family for four generations and over a hundred years, the Ferroni family. [5] In 2023, the Ferroni family opened a second floor upscale cocktail lounge. [19]
One of the bars in a traditional British pub; An alternative name for a bar (establishment) Western saloon, a historical style of American bar; The Saloon, a bar and music venue in San Francisco, California, US; The Saloon (Minneapolis), a gay bar in Minneapolis, Minnesota, US; A South Asian term for a barber's shop
Khloé Kardashian rang in her milestone birthday in style at a Western-themed soiree on Saturday, June 29. The reality star and Good American founder, who turned 40 on June 27, hosted a party at a ...
The term "saloon" definitely did not refer just to bars in the American or Canadian west. The term was used in the 19th and early 20th centuries, up to about the time of Prohibition, to refer to any bar and was common enough in the eastern towns and cities as well. The term is common in newspaper accounts of the time.