[PDF] The Old Time Saloon eBook

Author : George Ade
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 24,82 MB
Release : 2016-11-04
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 022641230X

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Originally published: New York: R. Long & R.R. Smith, 1931.

Author : George Ade
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 49,31 MB
Release : 2016-11-04
Category : Humor
ISBN : 022641244X

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A celebration of the nineteenth-century saloon, written with sly humor during Prohibition: “A gem for gentlemen and gentlewomen who enjoy a tipple.”—Toronto Star Described by Luc Sante as “a distant ancestor of Rocky and Bullwinkle,” George Ade was an early twentieth-century humorist beloved by many, even earning praise from H.L. Mencken. During the waning years of Prohibition, he wrote The Old-Time Saloon—both a work of propaganda masquerading as “just history” and a hilarious exercise in nostalgia that let booze-deprived readers of the day know just what they were missing. Featuring original, vintage illustrations along with a new introduction and notes from Bill Savage, Ade’s book takes us back to the long-gone men’s clubs of earlier days, when beer was a nickel, the pretzels were polished, and the sardines were free. “Ade amuses with his dry humor on a wet topic…The book discusses every phase of the saloon and every type of saloon, from the ornate and opulent place, like the Waldorf or the Knickerbocker, to the dive on the corner and the old-fashioned roadhouse.”—Brooklyn Daily Eagle “Much about nineteenth-century saloons may have been sordid and squalid, but Ade knew how to find their charm, even their joy. He’s a wonderful reading companion—and I bet he would have been pretty great to drink with, too.”—Daniel Okrent, author of Last Call

Author : Richard Erdoes
Publisher : Gramercy
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,75 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Bars (Drinking establishments)
ISBN : 9780517181737

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A history of the saloon as an institution of the Old West illustrated with contemporary photographs and line drawings.

Author : Madelon Powers
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 14,71 MB
Release : 1999-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226677699

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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Pt. I: The Criteria for Comradeship1: The Importance of Being Regular 2: Gender, Age, and Marital Status 3: Occupation, Ethnicity, and Neighborhood Pt. II: The Gentle Art of Clubbing4: Drinking Folkways 5: Clubbing by Treat 6: Clubbing by CollectionPt. III: More Lore of the Barroom7: Games and Gambling 8: Talk and Storytelling 9: Songs and Singing 10: The Free Lunch ConclusionNotesIndex Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : Larry McMurtry
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 50,37 MB
Release : 2014-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0871407876

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New York Times Bestseller Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Seattle Times The Last Kind Words Saloon marks the triumphant return of Larry McMurtry to the nineteenth-century West of his classic Lonesome Dove. In this "comically subversive work of fiction" (Joyce Carol Oates, New York Review of Books), Larry McMurtry chronicles the closing of the American frontier through the travails of two of its most immortal figures, Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday. Tracing their legendary friendship from the settlement of Long Grass, Texas, to Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in Denver, and finally to Tombstone, Arizona, The Last Kind Words Saloon finds Wyatt and Doc living out the last days of a cowboy lifestyle that is already passing into history. In his stark and peerless prose McMurtry writes of the myths and men that live on even as the storied West that forged them disappears. Hailed by critics and embraced by readers, The Last Kind Words Saloon celebrates the genius of one of our most original American writers.

Author : Rowland W. Rider
Publisher :
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 36,55 MB
Release : 1985-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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With his animated tales of Zane Grey, Butch Cassidy, and the Robbers Roost gang, Rider creates an engaging and believable picture of the joys and hardships of cowboy life.

Author : Richard Erdoes
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 16,96 MB
Release : 1979
Category : History
ISBN :

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An illustrated history of western saloons, with songs, sayings, anecdotes, legends, contemporary accounts, line engravings, and photographs.