Word: salooners
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...than Ford's entry into the chauffeur field, the Grand Mercedes is twice the car. It ought to be. The price, f.o.b. New York, is $23,500, enough to buy two LTDs with a couple of Volkswagens thrown in. With two rear-facing club chairs in the passenger saloon, "der Grosse" seats seven, sports enough engineering advances and luxury gadgets to make the most jaded automaniac drool...
...Yiddish and was not above haranguing a waiter: "It ain't the principle either; it's the ten cents." In Bringing Up Father, Irish-born Jiggs plans desperate stratagems to escape his starched collar and shrewish wife for the solid comforts of Dinty Moore's saloon...
Merchant Seaman Thomas D. Dailey was whooping it up in a New Orleans saloon when he fell off a barstool and broke his leg. Whom did he sue? The saloon? The distiller whose spirits decked him? Not Seaman Dailey. He sued the owner of his ship, which was tied up 3½ miles from the scene of his accident...
...coronation took place in a Los Angeles saloon. The proprietor slipped up to the bandstand, playfully popped a tinseled paper crown on the young singer's head, and decreed: "King Cole!" The title stuck. And so, for the next quarter of a century, did Nat King Cole, right at the top as one of the most captivatingly popular crooners of all time. No one was more amazed at his enduring success than Cole himself. "My voice," he would say wonderingly, "is nothing to be proud...
...operated by Alain Bernardin, a successful restaurateur who decided to branch out into the nightclub business and wanted a Wild West décor. Although he had never visited the U.S., he went to see a dozen western films, all of them by Universal Pictures. "They always had saloons in those films, and since they always had the same set, it was always the same saloon," he recalls. "I copied it for mine." But business dragged, so Bernardin decided to enliven it with striptease. Again he haunted the cinema and found all the pointers he needed in a 42nd Street...