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[2jakes]

The Weaver Brothers Saloon in Summit County, Colorado, 1890. The majority of saloon drinkers drank either warm beer or straight liquor like rye or bourbon. In an effort to improve profits, bar staff often cut their liquor with ammonia, gunpowder or even cayenne pepper

 

[2jakes]

After a hard day's work.

The Bob Saloon in Miles City, Montana, circa 1880. Life was hard on the frontier, so men had little to do after a hard day's work but drink and 'let loose' in their local saloon - even if that just meant having a few beers on the porch, as seen here

 

[2jakes]

 

[scottyrocks]

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....and everybody knows your name!

I've always liked that picture.

 

[Bamaboots]

Sheriff Rufus "Rufe" Jordan 1912-1991. Gray Co., TX Sheriff 1950-1988
The dog is "Honey"

 

[Hurricane Jack]

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Oh how I love to take a bite into the
waterelon right now....

Me too!

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[Bamaboots]

Me too!

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It's your fault!

 

[Michael A]

Laying the last rail in the transcontinental railroad, 1869

Michael

 

[BobHufford]

Oklahoma City, 1939.

 

[2jakes]

"Sippers & Toppers" 1900

Sir Benjamin Stone photo of two villagers
at Bipford Mop, annual fair known for partaking of heavy drinking.

 

[RBH]

Spur Texas 1939 taken by Russell Lee

 

[RBH]

Jacob Luckenbach 1817-1911

The late Hondo Crouch 1916-1976

 

[2jakes]

Young miner 1908

 

[2jakes]

Young rebel soldiers

Mexican Revolution 1910-20

 

[Hurricane Jack]

...annual fair known for partaking of heavy drinking.

I'll bet that was a lot more fun than having your wife drag you to a crafts fair like they want to do today!

 

[2jakes]

I'll bet that was a lot more fun than having your wife drag you to a crafts fair like they want to do today!

Nobody drags me!

...Obviously!

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Nobody drags me!

I used to have to take my wife to a crafts fair held once a yr around a small town square. Street parking was really bad, so I would drop her off as close to the square as I could get. Then I would have to look for a place to park 7-8 blocks away. I would walk back up to a nice beer garden set up every yr in an alley by some church group as a fund raiser (no such thing as sinful money, you know). When my wife was finished looking thru the crafts booths she would come to get me at the beer garden & we would walk to the car to go home.

 

[2jakes]

I used to have to take my wife to a crafts fair held once a yr around a small town square. Street parking was really bad, so I would drop her off as close to the square as I could get. Then I would have to look for a place to park 7-8 blocks away. I would walk back up to a nice beer garden set up every yr in an alley by some church group as a fund raiser (no such thing as sinful money, you know). When my wife was finished looking thru the crafts booths she would come to get me at the beer garden & we would walk to the car to go home.

People facinate me. I enjoy the dedication
they apply to their crafts. There's always
something interesting and I apply it to
my hobbies.

 

[2jakes]

Would the gentleman sitted on my right
smile for the camera....say "cheese"!

Cheese!

 

[BobHufford]

We used to sell split white oak baskets at craft fairs in SW Missouri and SE Kansas as extra income back in the 1990s. Still have a few hundred of them in storage if anyone needs any.