Word: radigan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Patrick Radigan's Hoboken saloon, the children's hour began at 6 p.m. He shooed the drinkers out and waved the moppets in. They perched on bar stools or sat on, around and sometimes under the tables to watch Radigan's television: Du Mont's Small Fry Club, WATV's Junior Frolics, and such. Creepers and toddlers were allowed to bring mother along. At 7, the barkeep swept out the bairns and let the guzzlers in again...
...much of an innovation for Hoboken. Last week, Erwin B. Hock, New Jersey Beverage Control Commissioner, ruled that Radigan was licensed to run a corner pothouse, not a nursery. State law forbids the presence of minors in a barroom. Furthermore, said Hock piously, "Longfellow would turn over in his grave if he knew...