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Faces along the bar : lore and order in the workingman's saloon, 1870-1920

This study recreates the daily life of the bar room from 1870 to 1920, exploring what it was like to be a regular in the old-time saloon of pre-prohibition industrial America
Print Book, English, 1999, ©1998
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University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1999, ©1998
History
xii, 323 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780226677699, 0226677699
54769605
I. THE CRITERIA FOR COMRADESHIP
The Importance of Being Regular
Gender, Age, and Marital Status
Occupation, Ethnicity, and Neighborhood
II. THE GENTLE ART OF CLUBBING
Drinking Folkways
Clubbing by Treat
Clubbing by Collection
III. MORE LORE OF THE BARROOM
Games and Gambling
Talk and Storytelling
Songs and Singing
The Free Lunch