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...Family Saloons. Royko remembers his boyhood as just the right background for a future columnist. Born in a middle-class Polish neighborhood, he got to know the city by tagging along after his father, a "tavern tycoon," who bought and sold one saloon after another. As he grew older, he graduated to important jobs, such as transporting money for a bookie operating out of one of his father's taverns...
...company owes much of its unique character-as well as its profits-to Kresge's farm-bred frugality and his stern Methodist morality. He once donated $500,000 to the Anti-Saloon League, said that "I never gave a dime to any church the pastor of which uses tobacco." Kresge men and women, mindful of old S. S. dictums, still eat separately in company cafeterias, habitually snap off lights when leaving washrooms-although managers complain that switches are wearing out. Yet when President Cunningham in 1961 urged that the chain fight discounters by opening its own discount "K-Marts...
...both club and office, there was "nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced." In the shadow of the tavern there was also the more modest "publick house," whose clients came mainly from the neighborhood. Divided into a public and private saloon bar, the pub usually included a snack bar, called a "snuggery," selling such delicacies as toad-in-the-hole and steak-and-kidney...
...Prohibition corner saloon was the closest approximation of the pub, a bastion of masculine fellowship, with free lunch, gleaming spittoons, and an opulent nude over the bar. But what came back after Prohibition was mixed drinking and the thick-carpeted, chromium-cold cocktail lounge. Now, in a reach to recapture some of the old clubby atmosphere, bar-and-grills across the U.S. are making a stab at introducing the English (or Irish or Scottish...
...room Excelsior Copacabana, Sao Paulo's 17-story Jaragua and the 420-room Nacionál in Brasilia. All of this grew from the time when, at age 40, he took the last $1,000 that he had salvaged from a bankrupt São Paulo saloon, invested it in a small hotel and with an intuitive taste for food and service, proved himself a born innkeeper-and bookkeeper as well. His worth, at latest reckoning: $30 million...