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...MCSORLEY'S WONDERFUL SALOON -Joseph Mitchell - Duell, Sloan & Pearce...
Focus and locus of most of Author Mitchell's studies is the environs of McSorley's Old Ale House, which for 88 years has resisted change just off Cooper Square, where Manhattan's skidroad-the Bowery-ends. McSorley's has also provided a haven for Manhattan's literary transients-writers, newshawks, painters, poets (grateful Poet e. e. cummings once immortalized mcsorley's: "Inside snug and evil. ... the Bar tinkling luscious jigs dint of ripe silver with warmlyish wetflat splurging smells waltz the glush of squirting taps. . . ." The venerable saloon still has soup bowls instead...
...Once McSorley's was home to 18 cats. At feeding time, no matter how brisk business was, Bill McSorley would leave the bar and bang the bottom of a tin pan. "The fat cats would come loping up, like leopards, from all corners of the saloon." If Bill wanted to close up while customers were still drinking their ale, he would drum on the bar with both fists, shout: "Now, see here, gents! I'm under no obligoddamnation to stand here all night while you baby them drinks...
Women are still firmly excluded from McSorley's. Once a Greenwich Village feminist, disguised as a man, ordered an ale from Proprietor Bill McSorley. She downed first the ale, then her hair. Then she scrammed. Said the amazed McSorley between a moan and a bellow: "She was a woman! She was a goddamn woman...
...city just outside McSorley's is less cozy but just as queer. It has yielded Author Mitchell specimens like...