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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Faces Along the Bar: Lore and Order in the Workingman's Saloon, 1870-1920

Faces Along the Bar: Lore and Order in the Workingman's Saloon, 1870-1920

Powers, Madelon

Paperback

Series: Historical Studies of Urban America

AnthropologyGeneral SociologyGeneral United States History

ISBN10: 0226677699
ISBN13: 9780226677699
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Jun 1 1999
Pages: 331
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.77 Width: 6.12 Depth: 8.99
Language: English
In this lively and engaging history, Madelon Powers recreates the daily life of the barroom, exploring what it was like to be a regular in the old-time saloon of pre-prohibition industrial America. Through an examination of saloongoers across America, her investigation offers a fascinating look at rich lore of the barroom--its many games, stories, songs, free lunch customs, and especially its elaborate system of drinking rituals that have been passed on for decades.

A free-pouring blend of astonishing facts, folklore and firsthand period observations. . . . It's the rich details that'll inspire the casual reader to drink deep from this tap of knowledge.--Don Waller, USA Today recommended reading

A surprise on every page.--Publishers Weekly

Here we get social history that appreciates the bar talk even while dissecting its marvelous rituals.--Library Journal, starred review

Careful scholarship with an anecdotal flair to please even the most sober of readers.--Nina C. Ayoub, Chronicle of Higher Education

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