Word: saloons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mind you, listening to MacGowan blister his way through Young Ned of the Hill or White City will not bring a fond smile to folkies who prefer their music mild, like a cup of chamomile, or foursquare, like a sermon on a six-string. MacGowan sing-snarls like a saloon rowdy. His mouth, missing several prominent teeth, has attracted almost as much press attention as his voice, perhaps because they make such a perfect match. There is nothing pretty about a MacGowan vocal; the beauty comes later, after he has given the ear a good boxing, and the lyrics settle...
...learn how modern Missoula was," says museum director Wes Hardin. "The image of a wild and woolly Montana was not true. There were flush toilets, electricity and a horse-drawn streetcar system." One of the city's living relics is the Oxford, a rough-hewn downtown saloon known simply as "the Ox," whose claimed lineage variously dates back as far as 1883. Draft beer comes for 50 cents a pop; a woman barks off keno numbers over a loudspeaker. Gnarled poker devotees alternate five-card stud with games like Hold 'Em and Crazy Pineapple. Warns a stern sign: EACH PLAYER...
After Jack McCall shot Wild Bill Hickok in the back during an afternoon poker game in the Saloon Number 10 a century ago, gambling became a part of the rugged Wild West image prized by Deadwood, S. Dak. But in the 1960s the tiny town (pop. 1,900) nestled in the Black Hills outlawed gambling. And when the town's four brothels were shut down as public nuisances by a posse of federal, state and local law-enforcement personnel in 1980, Deadwood's tourist trade began to fade. "When we had open gambling here, when we had the cathouses...
...National League President A. Bartlett Giamatti summoned Rose to New York City for a private conversation on a secret subject. Reporters who knew Rose guessed gambling. Last week Ueberroth acknowledged that his office was conducting an ongoing investigation into "serious allegations" after Ron Peters and Alan Statman, a saloon-keeping bookie and his lawyer, claimed they had been cooperating with the commissioner's office. They offered to expand on their testimony for a fee to SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and the Cincinnati Enquirer. Both publications demurred. But the story began to drip out, and its most graphic charge was that the leading...
Washington was built on a river of "ardent spirits," a nice term used long ago for the hard stuff. Laborers on public buildings got larger whiskey rations the higher up they worked, a dubious formula. But the buildings did get finished. Dolley Madison brought this "saloon culture" into the White House, getting the political leaders out of the bars and into more graceful surroundings. The drinks came on silver trays. James Madison cut some good deals...