Word: salooners
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...tired to run. Anxious only to rebuild Hard Times and make it a good place for business, he gets his wish when Keenan Wynn jounces into town with a wagonload of cuties to entertain the local miners. Pretty soon the whole town swings like a pair of saloon doors, and gold and whisky are as plentiful as hossflies...
Other Ranger activities have included picketing City Hall, frequently visiting their alderman, and campaigning successfully to move out alcoholics who bummed around a local saloon strip. The Rangers will tell any and all listeners of their desire for peace and good jobs. In a way, they are a cross between feudal territorial lords and ghetto Robin Hoods whose forest is a shadowy 63rd Street under the E1 tracks...
...seem when the moods are manufactured by that offbeat brand of musician, the cocktail pianist. The sign outside says "Music for Hand Holders," but he plays for not only the bewitched but also the bothered, bewildered and just plain bombed. His salon is a saloon with carpeting, usually sporting a get-away-from-it-all name like the Shangri-la or the Windjammer. The lights are low, and the prices are high. And what escape the customer cannot find in the alcohol and easy ambiance, the cocktail pianist provides with a painless medley of ballads, show tunes, light classics...
...there is one kind of saloon where the post-college girl in her 20s enters without trepidation-although having a roommate along helps. This is the fast-growing institution known as the "dating bar," which deliberately seeks the patronage of single males and females by providing the ambiance of a cocktail party mixed with the nostalgic roar of a fraternity blast...
...three garbage collectors had neatly parked their truck and were en joying a beer break in a Second Avenue saloon. Suddenly they were summoned outside. There on the sidewalk stood the tall, angular figure of John Vliet Lindsay, the mayor of New York City...