As a resident of Northern Nevada, I would like to point out that a lot of old saloons are still in operation in Virginia City. Not to mention that gambling and brothels are not outlawed in Nevada, so we’ve got plenty of, for lack of a better term, “modern saloons” where you can gamble while you drink at the bar and then go to bed with a worker of the night afterwards.
They haven't disappeared, even my town in Ohio has a saloon from the 1820s that still operates. Although it's more like a medieval tavern than a wild west saloon
The Dutch has a plan yes, sit back have a fat legal blunt and get laid after a drink legally all in the same place. All without fearing arrest. Where else can you smoke marijuana after a drink and get a prosititute paying for there services without going to jail?
I frequent a still standing Saloon from the 1800s. The same wood floors, and structure. The bar has newspaper clips from the 1800s covered in epoxy to protect and display them. I really enjoy the atmosphere there over other bars in the area.
As an rpg world builder this video adds wonderfully to the thought process in making new towns. I never try to start with how it looks now, I try to build it in my head from the first buildings. Never even thought about the style of the saloon or tavern being different everywhere, or that they don't START in their permanent building. I love that stuff! Thanks for the upload!!
I live and work in a building that used to be totally "not" connected by an underground tunnel to the rich person's bar(just called a club). Can't have senators be seen with whores.... people might get the right idea.
As a teacher in Fort Worth Tx, the Social Studies dept decided that a nice project would be to help the second graders research the streets surrounding the schools. I said that I really couldn't do that. I got a look. "Why not?" Our school was in the notorious Hell's Half Acre part of Fort Worth. The streets around our school were named after 3 famous Madams from back in the day.
I work at a place called The White Front bar here in the Rocky Mountains of Western Montana. It was built in 1880 and still has the original bar back. Trust me when I say that saloons did not disappear!
I recognize one of the saloons featured. It's in Deadwood, S.D. We went there on our Honeymoon 46 yrs ago. Awesome place to visit. There is an entire block (or 2) set up exactly like the 1800's. Employees wore the clothes of that era. Dirt roads, horses, sassafrass...
I like how the saloon was also occasionally a voting booth and house of worship . Talk about wearing a lot of hats. I really enjoy the old west videos. They are fascinating to me.
Looking at photos of old saloons convinced me that the biggest difference between reality and the Hollywood version of it is money. Saloons used to be cheap, crude places, with few exceptions. Hollywood saloons typically are filled with expensive glass and mirrors and art, stuff that was rarely seen in rough cattle towns. Hollywood saloons almost invariably include a pianist who performs Camptown Ladies or other classics flawlessly. There weren't a lot of professional musicians of any sort in old saloons.
Did you not watch the video? Saloons varied from upscale to downright pathetic. Fine cuisine to tents with cheap liquor. Big differences...the video explains it.
They're basically the same as they are now. Just like today you can go visit one of those corporate hellscape bars, a whole range of dive bars, and you can go out to the middle of nowhere and find bars that are barely more than one room shacks and only serve a couple different kinds of beer and no one is younger than 50.
@shawn gibson school teachers do what they can with the tools theyre given, so blame the government who cuts corners on the schools budget not the teachers or students
Instead of spitoons some 1890's saloons had a brass or tin trough that ran the length of the bar and angled downhill. It served double duty as yes a spitoon but also as a urinal so serious drinkers could relieve their bladders without giving up a choice spot at the bar. The Log Cabin bar in Ashland Oregon had one that ran into Lithia Creek out back. those were the good old days. The last time I was there it had become a Frat boy hangout, a modern tragedy.
The frats are only going so now they can all look at each other's penises without the awkward conversation about how they want to see it and such. Now, they can just take it out at the bar for their bros to see and such, just guessing
As a resident of Northern Nevada I want to thank you for saying Nevada correctly... Thank you! It drives me nuts when it is said wrong. I knew I would love this video! So glad I clicked!
They still have the Bucket of Blood Saloon. ANd many tours underground to let ys see the peepee stinky mines. AND the Camel Races!!!!! My hubby got to sing the Opening National Anthem, acapella.
Whiskey Row in Preskitt, AZ. The most famous saloon? The Palace A-1 or A-1 Palace; the Earps and Doc were regular patrons while Kate ran the brothels in the back. The Palace was the only 2-story saloon as its brothel was upstairs.
I remember when I started drinking aged 17 back in 70's Liverpool, England a lot of bars had changed little from Edwardian times and were like wild west saloons, (especially Yates's Winelodges). Wooden panneling, bare wooden floors sometimes covered in sawdust. Tables and chairs in such poor condition that noone would dream of stealing them. Toilets sometimes unspeakably filthy and vandalized by drunks, (a smashed toilet seat was not uncommon). Mostly male clientele. Unaccompanied women invariably prostitutes. Wares of dubious origin were sold with impunity. Also more rowdy than bars are today: late at night things would get loud and lively, fruit machines chiming, juke boxes playing; lot's of men staggeringly drunk, and on an average night you could be almost guaranteed a bar fight. I look back with a mix of nostalgia and disgust.
In Cave Creek Az on Saturday night at Harold's saloon the cowboys from the ranches came to town got drunk you could see a fight most Saturday night this was in the 80s good times
@alanaadams7440 Mt.Home ID had a bar in the 80's can't remember its name , but Saturday nights, mostly in the summer, these sheep herders would come down, and drink and listen to live music and fight. They fought every one. The Airmen (USAF) The locals but, mostly the self proclaim Cowboys That was the real highlight of the night, watching the Goatroapers and Cowboys throw down 😅
Sounds like when my family came over from Europe for the first time, they walked about to a police officer working off duty in security detail here and asked him where the local " *chemist* was here" *chemist meaning pharmacy* telling the cop, that they just left the "surgery" , *surgery is the term for doctors office* and needed something right then an there while they waited a few hours for their scripts to be filled, the cop ended up calling back up advising his Co worker who was dispatched, " these people are seeking a *drug dealer* before they get their scripts with being under the knife today. To say the least, it was a embarrassment time to call convrert the language for the officers, they were going to detain family in handcuffs and Search them and there rental vehicle for narcotics.
I was in pinos altos on new years eve 2000. I had dinner with friends at the famous and still operating Buckhorn saloon. After a great prime rib dinner we stayed for drinks with the locals. At the stroke of midnight the entire bar simultaneously erupts into a full on saloon fight. Men, women, flying drinks and swinging barstools. My friends and I watched the 20 min maylay without anyone approaching us. After it was over we found out that's how the locals settle their difference at the end of the year.
I live in Fort Worth, Texas and have been to the White Elephant Saloon. It's a tourist trap now. Too expensive for a local bar. But thanks for mentioning us four times.
Additionally, the current White Elephant is not the original. The original was in the now downtown área. The current one was open in the stockyards in 1970's.
I literally live in the old west, we still have a real saloon in downtown directly across from the courthouse and adjoining the old jail from the 1800s.
@@FloralAndFire I live in the UK England United Kingdom. We're on different time zones & I'd never leave my country. So, you don't have to worry about that 😂 I'm sure your country is very beautiful. 👋🏻🤠
If anyone is looking for a good book that describes saloon and frontier life, George Hand's diary is an excellent resource. He was a saloon keeper in Tucson from 1874-1877 and witnessed many famous events during that time.
In Tombstone, there is a preserved saloon, 'Bird Cage', that had ladies of the night performing and entertaining guests (behind the curtain 😉). I love your videos. Thank you. 😊
I live in Wichita Kansas, an old Cowtown and we have a really neat living museum where a few old buildings have fully restored and actors walk around in full costume during operation. They have an old general goods store, barber shop, school, a few houses, a black smith’s shop, and of a saloon. On select nights they even serve alcohol and a lot of folks come out in their own rustic costumes, it’s really neat
Nevada smalls towns never changed, still like it. We are the heart of the west. Best roadtrip state. Visit Virginia City, bars with bullet holes still in them. Visit Beatty, NV, Caliente,Nv. Nevada is so much more than Vegas. Plus, legal brothels still, Vegas does not offer that, and you can smoke anywhere you like
I have driven through Nevada twice going across country from Florida and Wyoming and back with a relative from Australia but unfortunately he did not have much time in America so we drove straight through only spending a half day once in Wyoming. So though it was a quick trip, I really liked what I seen in Nevada but I liked Missouri a lot more. About 15 years ago I stayed weeks in St. Charles Missouri and went around to local cities and towns so maybe that is why I liked it alot more but many areas in Nevada was very similar. I wished I could move to the country actually but I own so much in Florida that it would not be worth selling on with the way the economy is today as I would lose way to much money.
@@supportyourtroopsathletes6460 keep the Florida land, always good to have! Very rich history, great for insurance if destroyed, and tax/asset protection is the best in the country, especially with a homestead clause, and Floridas is one of the first ranching states, biggest cattle ranch is in Florida, I believe, too, a lot of people think its Snake Ranch, which it aint. I love Nevada but this is not easy land to live in. Great place to visit, though. We have the most mountains in the continuous United States, so great for hiking, we are the most free state, considering you can smoke anywhere, the legal brothels, etc, so you can walk into a bar dual wielding pistols. Very tough people, I do love Wyoming, too, tho, spent quite a good amount of time there in youth, too. Though it was a rough one, I still had fun.
They said that they put sawdust on the floor saloons to soak up tobacco juice and when somebody hit the floor for whatever reason, that's where we got the expression Another One Bites the Dust.
*also handy for absorbing those stubborn blood stains that typically occurred during or rather after spontaneous deviations of personal opinions or misconstrued demonstrations of affection*
I went to Oktoberfest in Munich a few years ago, and saw a random dude barf on the floor in the middle of the day after drinking too many litres of bier. Dude was escorted out swiftly and a staff member threw down a pile of sawdust to clean it up in a matter of seconds. I was like, I think they've been doing this a long time lol.
@@benharrison5816 *while attending elementary school the janitors always carried around a container of sawdust for the same reason...not that there was a lot of underage drinking during lunch time (at least at my school) but there was seldom a day that they did not have to deal with artisan displays of spontaneous regurgitation ...the sawdust smelled like apple sauce...still remember that decades later*
My boyhood neighbor in the early 1960's told me of his boyhood in Montana in the early 1900's. He started to talk of saloons in those days, open every day at all hours. One early Sunday morning found him delivering a bundle of newspapers to a Saloon, which he liked because he had to go inside and throw the papers up onto the bar. As he walked in his attention was drawn to a table of three cowboys playing cards. A voice was loud, one cowboy arose from the chair, shots rang out and all three were dead. The Marshall was called, and then the undertaker, the newspaper photographer came, the bodies of all three laid out on the wooden sidewalk as the photographer took photos. They had been playing cards and drinking all night, one had been shot above the table, two below the table. Of course in the excitement he had lost all sense of time and realized he was late for getting back to home to prepare for Church. Then his mother arrived, ascertained the display of the godless upon the wooden sidewalk and collected her son, directing him by a firm grip upon his ear, his satchel of newspapers thrown upon the ground. And so he said, that was how his career as a paperboy ended and his parents and he became Baptists.
I WAS A PATRON IN THE 1980's OF THE "GOLDEN SPIKE SALOON" IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF TAHOMA, FROM THE CITY OF NORTH LAKE TAHOE ON PLACER COUNTY...............IT WAS A GREAT PLACE !!!!
There was a Bar on every corner is what I was told about our Neighborhood . As a Kid growing up you could see where they were and the ones still open. Americas first Boom town The young Lion of the West . The Erie Canal was 2 blocks over and brought a lot of Traffic . Locks a Mile down and Boat yards in both Directions Congested the Traffic . It was a Defacto Port on the Canal . Once the Chaos was perfected here it was shipped out West as the Frontier moved West . Thank you for the Video .
Read Dickens of the North West mounted police. It's the biography of one of Charles Dickens illegitimate sons who joined the newly formed North West mounted police in Canada. His aim was to write his exploits in a book and get rich. Sadly died before he could do that, but he tells of going to an American Western town saloon, meeting sitting bull, etc. It's a great read.
@@amberagan8345 I stumbled upon the book by accident in a discount bin of books years ago. But it was a great read of Canadian history. His life was fascinating.
The pub I used to work in was built around 1890, and still has the original bar and many of the original fittings like stained glass and decorative lights, to this day it still has the feel of an old Saloon. Supposedly it even has several ghosts including that of the former lady of the night if you catch my meaning ;) Theres a brilliant photo of it you can Google from back in the day that looks straight out of a Western, even though it's in South Wales. Creigiau Hotel, now the Creigiau Inn. Pretty cool.
What San Francisco bar was that? Several SF bars still look like that, btw. Much of the late 1800s / early 1900s architecture still exists -- decorative column flanked mirrors, hand-poured stained glass, tiled fireplaces, cartouches and reliefs, beveled ceilings, etc. It's very cool.
Thank you for mentioning James Earp, older half-brother to the better known Virgil and Wyatt. The claim is that there were 100 saloons on Allen Street, Tombstone at one time. Most of them; a tent, a couple of kegs and some planks for a bar. I note a mention of Virginia City. Visiting? Find out if the Comstock Cowboys will be playing at the Bucket of Blood Saloon. They are good.
Saloons sometines had a 'flow through spitoon', a trough along the front of the bar with running water used for washing away spit and quite often for taking a leak. One of these still remaining is The Brick in Roslyn, Washington. If you were a fan of the sitcom Northern Exposure from the 1990's you've seen it before. It was used for some interior shots and for the opening credits where a stylized apostrophe s was added onto the outdoor mural reading 'Roslyn Tavern' to make it into 'Roslyn's Tavern'.
@Jeremiah Liggins The bartender looks down and gasps in terror, getting on his knees and wiping away the years worth of accumulated tobacco, spit and sawdust. "Which one of you sons of bitches scuffed up my floor!"
I forgot the name but there was a couple around Greenwhich Village and the east village in Manhattan in the 60s and 70s that still had peanut shell floors.
There's is a cool little old one just out side of Tucson, I believe it may haven been in Catalina. It was 20 years ago I visited there. They had the original hitching post for the horses and the building was small with low ceilings. Names and dates were carved into the bar too. I don't remember where it was exactly, but if someone reads this and knows, please let me know.
Thanks for an Old West topic! Would love if you could do one on the forensic practices of the Old West. For example, how they found murderers when there were no witnesses. Thanks! Love your channel!
Because of my medication, I can not drink alcohol at all, and because of my chemical allergy, I can't take tobacco smoke at all, but women and music, I would welcome :oD
Some women were married with children. Her husband dies, the mother is stranded in a strange place with children to support and broke. The best chance for a woman was as a schoolteacher or work in a laundry. If neither jobs were available then she could work as a prostitute. Tough life with her options limited. This sort of happened to Billy the Kid but it was his mother who died, and his step father abandoned him. His option was that of a cattle rustler.
Hearing that the old West saloons were gathering places is something that always happened in America. I remember hearing how taverns used to do the same thing. If there was going to be a community meeting they didn't always meet at a church, the met at the tavern. I think before or during the American Revolution the Patriots used to meet at the taverns; I believe the early Marines started recruiting at a tavern during the war. One thing missed was the infamous Judge Roy Bean ran his court out of a saloon. Supposedly he never sentenced anyone to hang in his saloon because it was considered bad for business.
“Boston Aid” was a big thing out in the West at the time. Entrepreneurs were incentivizing East Coasters, particularly those from Boston, to move west. They were also anti-slavery, so it became very politically charged. There’s a reason why Manhattan, KS is called Manhattan. Hint: not named after the Indians if that area.
I teach history and i love the wild west era. Ive always been fascinated by it. I know a bit and i can honestly say that this video is extremely accurate. Well done kid
@@infernus2438 haha lucky you man (pun intended) because I lose the most in Blackjack. Yet I'm alright for poker 👍 have won some very nice pots (15- 20$ ) in Blackwater and Saint Denis.
Back in the 1970's when I was in the Army at Ft. Lenardwood & Ft. Benning GA , The old on post EM clubs looked like the Old West Saloons and off post the bars had girls that would ask for a drink ( usually Expensive Champaign ) and would go on a "Date" with the soldiers / turn tricks. Times hadn't changed much since the 1880s i reckon...LOL
The liquor of the Wild West era wasn’t really like the liquor of today. The liquor back then was quite different in strength, ingredients, and in chemical composition. Moreover, the drinks back then weren’t always as safe as you find nowadays. The hygiene standards back then were quite different than today, including in the production of food and drinks.
I'd order a shot of "Red Eye". I don't know what it's made of, but, it sounds old timey West. Suggestions: What was it really like to be a geisha in Japan? What really went on in Roman orgies? What was it like to be a British soldier during the American Revolutionary War? What was it really like to be a Hippie? What was life like for the average German soldier during World War 2? The time when Bewitched addressed racism in the episode Sisters At Heart. Hogan's Heroes: Fiction versus the reality of German POW camps.
The Australian gangs were the worst criminals in San Francisco back in the 1800s. The government was too afraid to do anything so the citizens formed Committees of Vigilance and hanged a few to send a message. Its a pretty interesting story: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Committee_of_Vigilance
Was a bartender at a small neighborhood bar for a short time while attending college. Being a non-drinking was pretty easy, the pay was good, tough to break away from.
As a resident of Northern Nevada, I would like to point out that a lot of old saloons are still in operation in Virginia City. Not to mention that gambling and brothels are not outlawed in Nevada, so we’ve got plenty of, for lack of a better term, “modern saloons” where you can gamble while you drink at the bar and then go to bed with a worker of the night afterwards.
God bless
Yeah, Nevada has always been a place for discretions. That's why it has so much money!
Yep. Only now all the people moving from California to Nevada are destroying the very things that make Nevada unique
@@weirdshibainu god isn’t that the horrible truth- rip our state’s economy and housing market lmao
They haven't disappeared, even my town in Ohio has a saloon from the 1820s that still operates. Although it's more like a medieval tavern than a wild west saloon
All I know is that Dutch always has a plan
😂😂
He needs more MONEH!
“Y’all need to stop with the disrespect for Dutch!” Bill “Sweetness” Williams
The Dutch has a plan yes, sit back have a fat legal blunt and get laid after a drink legally all in the same place. All without fearing arrest. Where else can you smoke marijuana after a drink and get a prosititute paying for there services without going to jail?
@@ToxicBottledOstrichNostrils ... People are jealous of the Dutch for the most part, grab a fooking tapon already nobody vid hating on the Dutch.
I frequent a still standing Saloon from the 1800s. The same wood floors, and structure. The bar has newspaper clips from the 1800s covered in epoxy to protect and display them. I really enjoy the atmosphere there over other bars in the area.
Where’s this at?
@@malaquiasalfaro81 Iowa
@@cookncrook6902 been looking for something like this in East Tennessee. Had plenty in California but can’t seem to find any here.
Do you ever get any spooky vibes or anything like that?
@@Nedula007 Nope just drunk lol
Saloons in reality: mostly chill sometimes violent
Saloons in movies: guy walks in asking for a drink random gunfight breaks out
Hollywood is meant to entertain, never inform.
Confusing the two creates reality impairment.
@@99Fishing_ I would say "outright misinform," at this point.
@@99Fishing_ Not even close to being as accurate as you'd hope.
@@99Fishing_ Same answer.
Its true, in Arizona it happened more often than you think, read my post, I live in the Wild. Wild, West
As an rpg world builder this video adds wonderfully to the thought process in making new towns. I never try to start with how it looks now, I try to build it in my head from the first buildings. Never even thought about the style of the saloon or tavern being different everywhere, or that they don't START in their permanent building. I love that stuff! Thanks for the upload!!
Could I get an update about your game?
@@kg6042 I 2nd this
I live and work in a building that used to be totally "not" connected by an underground tunnel to the rich person's bar(just called a club). Can't have senators be seen with whores.... people might get the right idea.
RDR3?
Bonus points for correct usage of "an" before "RPG".
As a teacher in Fort Worth Tx, the Social Studies dept decided that a nice project would be to help the second graders research the streets surrounding the schools. I said that I really couldn't do that. I got a look. "Why not?" Our school was in the notorious Hell's Half Acre part of Fort Worth. The streets around our school were named after 3 famous Madams from back in the day.
Reminds me of an episode of the Simpsons, colorfully describing the town of Springfields history
Lol that’s awesome.
Worse that happens is they get wise early instead of late.
@@SaintSaint
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Those kids will never forget that!
I work at a place called The White Front bar here in the Rocky Mountains of Western Montana. It was built in 1880 and still has the original bar back. Trust me when I say that saloons did not disappear!
I’ve been to places in Colorado, outside of Denver around the old little mining towns. Really cool places, interesting, unlike the bars of today.
@JD M
All the time. We are surrounded by ranches after all
@JD M There are real cowboys all over Montana. I married one of them.
Thank you
I went for a beer at a bar in London 400 years old, that has been as it was since the early 1600s
I've always imagined the whiskey at those saloons was absolutely gut wrenching.
Some were even called gut rot, and the mix from what I've learned is nasty.
@@namedoesntmatter9330 Rotgut...
@@stillnotwoke Sounds like the name of a Western town; where men were men, and horses sometimes concerned.
They filled up the whiskey with spitoon juice and water lol you wouldnt get drunk unless you bought a whole unopened bottle
@@markh.6687 twice you commented this & youre wording it wrong. Its where men were men and the sheep RAN SCARED. Not were concerned that sounds dumb.
I recognize one of the saloons featured. It's in Deadwood, S.D. We went there on our Honeymoon 46 yrs ago. Awesome place to visit. There is an entire block (or 2) set up exactly like the 1800's. Employees wore the clothes of that era. Dirt roads, horses, sassafrass...
Make sure your puppy doesn't get 😢loose. It's a death sentence carried out by the governor (she enjoys the show of power it gives off).😊
I like how the saloon was also occasionally a voting booth and house of worship . Talk about wearing a lot of hats. I really enjoy the old west videos. They are fascinating to me.
They were also courthouses as well. It was a problem sometimes because everyone at the trial would get shitfaced.
@@ColoradoStreamingJudge Beam.
Looking at photos of old saloons convinced me that the biggest difference between reality and the Hollywood version of it is money. Saloons used to be cheap, crude places, with few exceptions. Hollywood saloons typically are filled with expensive glass and mirrors and art, stuff that was rarely seen in rough cattle towns. Hollywood saloons almost invariably include a pianist who performs Camptown Ladies or other classics flawlessly. There weren't a lot of professional musicians of any sort in old saloons.
Did you not watch the video? Saloons varied from upscale to downright pathetic. Fine cuisine to tents with cheap liquor. Big differences...the video explains it.
The Camptown Ladies?
@@bluv6430 Or Camptown Races. It's a song. Look it up and listen. Doo Dah.
They're basically the same as they are now. Just like today you can go visit one of those corporate hellscape bars, a whole range of dive bars, and you can go out to the middle of nowhere and find bars that are barely more than one room shacks and only serve a couple different kinds of beer and no one is younger than 50.
What I love is not only the video is a piece of history, but all your stories in the comments! Thank you and god bless!
Why can't history classes be as fun as this?
History can be interesting!
It can also be taught really boringlyyyy
Because teachers don't get paid well enough or get good resources
@shawn gibson school teachers do what they can with the tools theyre given, so blame the government who cuts corners on the schools budget not the teachers or students
Big thing is the background music, humans love vibes, and having the music setting the mood intrigues the brain and makes you pay attention
because draining a stigma in the brain of a child is much what they want
I never understood in films when a cowboy says, "gimme a drink" and no one ever pays for their drink
horse liens were real popular back then.
the stable owner would put a boot on your horse.
that's why Back to the Future is great, because he pays for his drink
It's kinda like buying cigarettes on "Clerks".
@@RobSchellinger
ok. i'm re-watching it.
watched "High Fidelity" last week, for some odd reason.
still good.
Probably has a tab?
Instead of spitoons some 1890's saloons had a brass or tin trough that ran the length of the bar and angled downhill. It served double duty as yes a spitoon but also as a urinal so serious drinkers could relieve their bladders without giving up a choice spot at the bar. The Log Cabin bar in Ashland Oregon had one that ran into Lithia Creek out back. those were the good old days. The last time I was there it had become a Frat boy hangout, a modern tragedy.
The frats are only going so now they can all look at each other's penises without the awkward conversation about how they want to see it and such. Now, they can just take it out at the bar for their bros to see and such, just guessing
Damn 😂
Need to bring that back
This is the channel that I’ve been looking for, a history channel with random yet educational information
Facts
@Uncle Ruckus 😂
@Uncle Ruckus lolllll lmaoooooo
That's right lol
If you like this, you might also like The History Guy.
Ah the good old days. You know, when you could leave your house, socialize and drink with other people
Yep. So tired of these bs lockdowns.
Yea 2018 the good old days lol
I like beer and Warcraft too.
And order a prostitute
You still can unless you're a slave
As a resident of Northern Nevada I want to thank you for saying Nevada correctly... Thank you! It drives me nuts when it is said wrong. I knew I would love this video! So glad I clicked!
"The Boston Saloon in Virginia City, Nevada"
*what*
I-I don't even know anymore
The province of Nevada, Canada
Yeah. It existed in Virginia City Nevada
Don't forget the Bucket of Blood Saloon in Virginia City.
They still have the Bucket of Blood Saloon. ANd many tours underground to let ys see the peepee stinky mines. AND the Camel Races!!!!! My hubby got to sing the Opening National Anthem, acapella.
Nothing like waking up too your videos in the morning...
He just sitting waiting for the right time to drop the video
And sleeping after watching the videos. Its night here.. 😇
Gay
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Whiskey Row in Preskitt, AZ. The most famous saloon? The Palace A-1 or A-1 Palace; the Earps and Doc were regular patrons while Kate ran the brothels in the back. The Palace was the only 2-story saloon as its brothel was upstairs.
I remember when I started drinking aged 17 back in 70's Liverpool, England a lot of bars had changed little from Edwardian times and were like wild west saloons, (especially Yates's Winelodges). Wooden panneling, bare wooden floors sometimes covered in sawdust. Tables and chairs in such poor condition that noone would dream of stealing them. Toilets sometimes unspeakably filthy and vandalized by drunks, (a smashed toilet seat was not uncommon).
Mostly male clientele. Unaccompanied women invariably prostitutes. Wares of dubious origin were sold with impunity. Also more rowdy than bars are today: late at night things would get loud and lively, fruit machines chiming, juke boxes playing; lot's of men staggeringly drunk, and on an average night you could be almost guaranteed a bar fight.
I look back with a mix of nostalgia and disgust.
Sounds like the 1870's UK ;-)
In Cave Creek Az on Saturday night at Harold's saloon the cowboys from the ranches came to town got drunk you could see a fight most Saturday night this was in the 80s good times
Liverpool is very uncivilized. I would be ashamed to say I was from that town.
@alanaadams7440 Mt.Home ID had a bar in the 80's can't remember its name , but Saturday nights, mostly in the summer, these sheep herders would come down, and drink and listen to live music and fight. They fought every one. The Airmen (USAF) The locals but, mostly the self proclaim Cowboys
That was the real highlight of the night, watching the Goatroapers and Cowboys throw down 😅
"what´s your job?"
" im a mixologist"
"sounds fancy, where do you work at?"
"the stripclub down the street"
@Beyond Memory Old Movies ji9
Sounds like when my family came over from Europe for the first time, they walked about to a police officer working off duty in security detail here and asked him where the local " *chemist* was here" *chemist meaning pharmacy* telling the cop, that they just left the "surgery" , *surgery is the term for doctors office* and needed something right then an there while they waited a few hours for their scripts to be filled, the cop ended up calling back up advising his Co worker who was dispatched, " these people are seeking a *drug dealer* before they get their scripts with being under the knife today. To say the least, it was a embarrassment time to call convrert the language for the officers, they were going to detain family in handcuffs and Search them and there rental vehicle for narcotics.
The best bartender I have seen was in NYC. True professionals even in the neighborhood bars.
I was in pinos altos on new years eve 2000. I had dinner with friends at the famous and still operating Buckhorn saloon. After a great prime rib dinner we stayed for drinks with the locals. At the stroke of midnight the entire bar simultaneously erupts into a full on saloon fight. Men, women, flying drinks and swinging barstools. My friends and I watched the 20 min maylay without anyone approaching us. After it was over we found out that's how the locals settle their difference at the end of the year.
You know it's a helluva place when the women start fighting! Like the Girl Scout types in the bar in Aiplane!
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I live in Fort Worth, Texas and have been to the White Elephant Saloon. It's a tourist trap now. Too expensive for a local bar. But thanks for mentioning us four times.
Additionally, the current White Elephant is not the original. The original was in the now downtown área. The current one was open in the stockyards in 1970's.
I literally live in the old west, we still have a real saloon in downtown directly across from the courthouse and adjoining the old jail from the 1800s.
What town and state? I miss the old country towns.
Prove it.
@@MrJamiez small towns in California. Look them up. I'm not telling you EXACTLY where I live ya crazy-pants.
@@supportyourtroopsathletes6460 many of the small towns in California still have the 1800s downtown structures. Mine's in Far Northern CA!
@@FloralAndFire I live in the UK England United Kingdom. We're on different time zones & I'd never leave my country. So, you don't have to worry about that 😂 I'm sure your country is very beautiful. 👋🏻🤠
If anyone is looking for a good book that describes saloon and frontier life, George Hand's diary is an excellent resource. He was a saloon keeper in Tucson from 1874-1877 and witnessed many famous events during that time.
"Throw a drink InTo her" said a true man... 😭
Neck it back
Who bill cosby?
O.o your alive
@@AngelLovestovlog Your alive? 😳
@@TheRealJaneSeymour if you can come back from the dead why can't I?
In Tombstone, there is a preserved saloon, 'Bird Cage', that had ladies of the night performing and entertaining guests (behind the curtain 😉). I love your videos. Thank you. 😊
I have a bunch of pics from when I was there in 1996 but won't let me post them here
@@2ndCovey Figures. 😒 Bullet holes and all. It's pretty cool. 🙂
I live in Wichita Kansas, an old Cowtown and we have a really neat living museum where a few old buildings have fully restored and actors walk around in full costume during operation. They have an old general goods store, barber shop, school, a few houses, a black smith’s shop, and of a saloon. On select nights they even serve alcohol and a lot of folks come out in their own rustic costumes, it’s really neat
Greetings to Wichita,from Ireland.
Nevada smalls towns never changed, still like it. We are the heart of the west. Best roadtrip state. Visit Virginia City, bars with bullet holes still in them. Visit Beatty, NV, Caliente,Nv. Nevada is so much more than Vegas. Plus, legal brothels still, Vegas does not offer that, and you can smoke anywhere you like
I have driven through Nevada twice going across country from Florida and Wyoming and back with a relative from Australia but unfortunately he did not have much time in America so we drove straight through only spending a half day once in Wyoming. So though it was a quick trip, I really liked what I seen in Nevada but I liked Missouri a lot more. About 15 years ago I stayed weeks in St. Charles Missouri and went around to local cities and towns so maybe that is why I liked it alot more but many areas in Nevada was very similar. I wished I could move to the country actually but I own so much in Florida that it would not be worth selling on with the way the economy is today as I would lose way to much money.
@@supportyourtroopsathletes6460 keep the Florida land, always good to have! Very rich history, great for insurance if destroyed, and tax/asset protection is the best in the country, especially with a homestead clause, and Floridas is one of the first ranching states, biggest cattle ranch is in Florida, I believe, too, a lot of people think its Snake Ranch, which it aint. I love Nevada but this is not easy land to live in. Great place to visit, though. We have the most mountains in the continuous United States, so great for hiking, we are the most free state, considering you can smoke anywhere, the legal brothels, etc, so you can walk into a bar dual wielding pistols. Very tough people, I do love Wyoming, too, tho, spent quite a good amount of time there in youth, too. Though it was a rough one, I still had fun.
Sounds good to me. I'll have a Hairy Reid (joint)! 🤔
Yes indeed,that's what left of your poor and bloody history and i don't even mention no culture at all
@@nicolassosolic5928 what? Ignorant fool.
“Happy hour” at sports bars or restaurants are as close as we get to Saloons.
Dave n busters on a Wednesday night. 🤦♂️
Sporting events during 50 cent beer night.
YEEHAW!
Go to a British village pub. They're still the same.
😂😂😂
Best little saloon is in Luckenbach, Texas! Not just beer, but Great fun!
They said that they put sawdust on the floor saloons to soak up tobacco juice and when somebody hit the floor for whatever reason, that's where we got the expression Another One Bites the Dust.
*also handy for absorbing those stubborn blood stains that typically occurred during or rather after spontaneous deviations of personal opinions or misconstrued demonstrations of affection*
I went to Oktoberfest in Munich a few years ago, and saw a random dude barf on the floor in the middle of the day after drinking too many litres of bier. Dude was escorted out swiftly and a staff member threw down a pile of sawdust to clean it up in a matter of seconds. I was like, I think they've been doing this a long time lol.
@@benharrison5816 *while attending elementary school the janitors always carried around a container of sawdust for the same reason...not that there was a lot of underage drinking during lunch time (at least at my school) but there was seldom a day that they did not have to deal with artisan displays of spontaneous regurgitation ...the sawdust smelled like apple sauce...still remember that decades later*
@@scottmantooth8785 I remember the same thing
@Lord Brain *ah...such memories are to be cherished post sobriety*
Whenever I go into an Old West saloon I end up losing my friend Lenny.
Lenny!
Lenny?
Lenay?!?
LUMBAGO!
NOT LENNY!!!
I lost my friend Gavin ! Have you seen him ?
Frickin Larry- er Lenny
! ynneL
A+ video!
This video explains so much of the Wild West culture and how this instituion was part of everyday life!
"The Wild West: Where men were men, and women and farm animals were nervous!"
That's New Zealand, hide your sheep!
@@Turtleproof Aussie detected!!!
@@Turtleproof Always wondered how chill life seems down under? It's not so chill here in the US anymore
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew!😂😂😂😂😂😂
2am in Australia thank you for the bedtime upload xxoo keep safe drink lots of water
I love this! i am absolutley obssed with wierd history.... its so interesting and i love learning all the facts.....thank you for doing what you do!
My boyhood neighbor in the early 1960's told me of his boyhood in Montana in the early 1900's. He started to talk of saloons in those days, open every day at all hours.
One early Sunday morning found him delivering a bundle of newspapers to a Saloon, which he liked because he had to go inside and throw the papers up onto the bar.
As he walked in his attention was drawn to a table of three cowboys playing cards. A voice was loud, one cowboy arose from the chair, shots rang out and all three were dead.
The Marshall was called, and then the undertaker, the newspaper photographer came, the bodies of all three laid out on the wooden sidewalk as the photographer took photos.
They had been playing cards and drinking all night, one had been shot above the table, two below the table.
Of course in the excitement he had lost all sense of time and realized he was late for getting back to home to prepare for Church. Then his mother arrived, ascertained the display of the godless upon the wooden sidewalk and collected her son, directing him by a firm grip upon his ear, his satchel of newspapers thrown upon the ground.
And so he said, that was how his career as a paperboy ended and his parents and he became Baptists.
I live 20 min away from Virginia City 💖 they keep the little town almost exactly as it was back then, & a lot of saloons there still opened.
I wish i lived there..bet it's peaceful
I miss it.
Awesome
This is such a great channel so well written and narrated. Also the crystal palace saloon in tombstone is worth a visit!
It is isn't it
Smash, smash, for the love of Jesus smash! is now my favourite quote, nice delivery too...
Where did she get a pewter hatchet?
I WAS A PATRON IN THE 1980's OF THE "GOLDEN SPIKE SALOON" IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF TAHOMA, FROM THE CITY OF NORTH LAKE TAHOE ON PLACER COUNTY...............IT WAS A GREAT PLACE !!!!
There was a Bar on every corner is what I was told about our Neighborhood . As a Kid growing up you could see where they were and the ones still open. Americas first Boom town The young Lion of the West . The Erie Canal was 2 blocks over and brought a lot of Traffic . Locks a Mile down and Boat yards in both Directions Congested the Traffic . It was a Defacto Port on the Canal . Once the Chaos was perfected here it was shipped out West as the Frontier moved West . Thank you for the Video .
Weird History videos always make my day better. You have no idea how much they lift me. Thank you 🙏🏻
So the Saloon was like the modern day Walmart?
Expect there is no dancing prostitute at Walmart.
@@zerosuitsamus2340 Have you ever seen people at Walmart posts, I think some actually are there
@@Jessidafennecfox ok you caught my interest
@@Jessidafennecfox part of the reason I don’t go to those stores anymore
Jane Seymour Ha! 🤣
Thank you for the reference material. I'm putting together a western game and spending a lot of time with this content in the background.
Read Dickens of the North West mounted police. It's the biography of one of Charles Dickens illegitimate sons who joined the newly formed North West mounted police in Canada. His aim was to write his exploits in a book and get rich. Sadly died before he could do that, but he tells of going to an American Western town saloon, meeting sitting bull, etc. It's a great read.
Sounds interesting , I will have to check it out 🙂
@@amberagan8345 I stumbled upon the book by accident in a discount bin of books years ago. But it was a great read of Canadian history. His life was fascinating.
The pub I used to work in was built around 1890, and still has the original bar and many of the original fittings like stained glass and decorative lights, to this day it still has the feel of an old Saloon. Supposedly it even has several ghosts including that of the former lady of the night if you catch my meaning ;) Theres a brilliant photo of it you can Google from back in the day that looks straight out of a Western, even though it's in South Wales. Creigiau Hotel, now the Creigiau Inn. Pretty cool.
You mean a hooker?
What San Francisco bar was that?
Several SF bars still look like that, btw. Much of the late 1800s / early 1900s architecture still exists -- decorative column flanked mirrors, hand-poured stained glass, tiled fireplaces, cartouches and reliefs, beveled ceilings, etc. It's very cool.
Appearing right as I'm about to raise hell in Valentine in hopes of taking the sheriff's bolt action 😂
Hi Weird History, can you make a video about weird facts about the infamous outlaw "Billy The Kid " Thanks 😊
That’s a good idea
Yes
check 'Biographics'
He is widely covered, already. IMO
FACT Billy the kid never cleared a 2' bong.
Thank you for mentioning James Earp, older half-brother to the better known Virgil and Wyatt. The claim is that there were 100 saloons on Allen Street, Tombstone at one time. Most of them; a tent, a couple of kegs and some planks for a bar. I note a mention of Virginia City. Visiting? Find out if the Comstock Cowboys will be playing at the Bucket of Blood Saloon. They are good.
"I'll meet you at the saloon"
"Which one?"
"The second one on the right after the fourth on the left"
"OK"
And back then, those directions probably meant something.
You just described many villages in the upper peninsula of michigan.
funny , aren't you ?
Glad to have a piece of this history in my town still in operation. The Occidental in Buffalo Wyoming. It's like stepping back in time.
i got stranded in buffalo Wyo in 82 and we were bored so we went to see a movie about cows disappearing it was filmed in buffalo wyo .
Saloons sometines had a 'flow through spitoon', a trough along the front of the bar with running water used for washing away spit and quite often for taking a leak. One of these still remaining is The Brick in Roslyn, Washington. If you were a fan of the sitcom Northern Exposure from the 1990's you've seen it before. It was used for some interior shots and for the opening credits where a stylized apostrophe s was added onto the outdoor mural reading 'Roslyn Tavern' to make it into 'Roslyn's Tavern'.
Red Dead Redemption players: Yeah, we know.
As a rdr2 player I can confirm
Welp almost 90% of times I go into a saloon it always ends up with a bar fight
I was just about to say that when I saw your comment
Yeah but they also rewrite history a lot to be more modern PC too! Loses a lot of historical accuracy.
Your alright boahhhhh
Free peanuts kept them drinking, and the shells protected the floors too.
@Jeremiah Liggins dear god I hope you're being sarcastic
@Jeremiah Liggins The bartender looks down and gasps in terror, getting on his knees and wiping away the years worth of accumulated tobacco, spit and sawdust.
"Which one of you sons of bitches scuffed up my floor!"
@@seanh7585 😂🙄
@Jeremiah Liggins no, peanut shells grind up and oil the floor boards, old bar trick
I forgot the name but there was a couple around Greenwhich Village and the east village in Manhattan in the 60s and 70s that still had peanut shell floors.
That was really good, thank you!
There's is a cool little old one just out side of Tucson, I believe it may haven been in Catalina. It was 20 years ago I visited there. They had the original hitching post for the horses and the building was small with low ceilings. Names and dates were carved into the bar too. I don't remember where it was exactly, but if someone reads this and knows, please let me know.
@JD M HAHA I know right?
Thanks for an Old West topic! Would love if you could do one on the forensic practices of the Old West. For example, how they found murderers when there were no witnesses. Thanks! Love your channel!
My buttcheeks stay tight
“Have you seen a fellow named Lenny?”
LENNNNNNNYYYYY
Whiskey, women, music, and smoke...the Old West sounds like my kind of place.
Because of my medication, I can not drink alcohol at all, and because of my chemical allergy, I can't take tobacco smoke at all, but women and music, I would welcome :oD
@@SimonRaahauge1973 no one cares.
@@springheeledjack165 Aaaaw, don't be a cynic!
Damn, Maulda branscomb is the person you should not mess with.
@Frank M What reason would the masons have to claim there were cowboys, when there weren't? What actually happened during that period in history?
I don't know how long i have been subscribed to this channel, but I never get notifications, which is too bad, because I really like what you do.
Damn George what a buzzkill. These women were just trying to earn a living. Some of them didn’t have very many other options at that time.
Lol
woman moment
@@pavlo3511 George? Is that you??
Oh lordy lordy.
Some women were married with children. Her husband dies, the mother is stranded in a strange place with children to support and broke. The best chance for a woman was as a schoolteacher or work in a laundry. If neither jobs were available then she could work as a prostitute. Tough life with her options limited.
This sort of happened to Billy the Kid but it was his mother who died, and his step father abandoned him. His option was that of a cattle rustler.
I can’t be the only one who laughed when they heard that man’s name was Harry Johnson...
I laughed pretty hard at BIG MINNIE 🤣😂
there was an actual kid at my school named Harry Cox, even the religion teacher made fun of his name lol
I always find the name just in mildly amusing
Pffffft hahahahahaha
@@HaveRandomQuestions 😂😂😂
Love the shout out to my City of Fort Worth Texas. The White Elephant Saloon still exist in the historic stockyard section of the City.
If Zuckerberg were a saloon proprietor in the old west, he'd kick patrons out if he didn't like their topic of conversation.
oh boohoo
😭😭😭
Isn't that him at 2:43?
@@jefryt67 that's good. I think it is.
Zuckerberg may be time metaverse time traveler, undeniably a spitting image of him
2:46 For a moment I thought someone looking like Mark Zuckerberg owned a saloon.
It is Zuckerberg
Didn't know Zuckerberg started out as a humble Wild West Saloon Bartender. He's done well for himself! 🤣🤣🤣
This guys voice makes everything better
Laughed so hard on Zuckerberg's face on that bartender:')))
Hearing that the old West saloons were gathering places is something that always happened in America. I remember hearing how taverns used to do the same thing. If there was going to be a community meeting they didn't always meet at a church, the met at the tavern. I think before or during the American Revolution the Patriots used to meet at the taverns; I believe the early Marines started recruiting at a tavern during the war. One thing missed was the infamous Judge Roy Bean ran his court out of a saloon. Supposedly he never sentenced anyone to hang in his saloon because it was considered bad for business.
Tun Tavern ....November 10 1776......origin of the Marine Corps......forgot the city but Philadelphia seems right.
This is an excellent channel. Thank you.
Narrator: "Only in the Wild Wild West could someone drink and vote in the same place at the same time."
2020s: Hold my whiskey.
The Marxist-Dems have eliminated the necessity of voting entirely. For our own good, of course.
@@jaelge delusional
Much like under Joe Biden
@@darrellcrawford1769 If you believe in massive vote fraud, raise both your legs at once!
@@markh.6687 Put a layer of plastic wrap between your two masks, makes the world much much safer
"The Boston saloon in Virginia City, Nevada" bRUh lmao
“Boston Aid” was a big thing out in the West at the time. Entrepreneurs were incentivizing East Coasters, particularly those from Boston, to move west. They were also anti-slavery, so it became very politically charged. There’s a reason why Manhattan, KS is called Manhattan. Hint: not named after the Indians if that area.
Lmfaooo
Just subscribed. Love your vids. all really interesting. Cheers. From New Zealand.
I always expect a drunk guy passed out with a bottle of xxx on the table 🤔🤔
2:47 is that Mark Zuckerberg's face photoshopped in?
Yes
😂😂
No. That's mark's great great granpappy.
wow! i was just going to post that when i saw your comment! it really did look like him,creepy.
@@hoottasshell “pappy’’ lol
I teach history and i love the wild west era. Ive always been fascinated by it. I know a bit and i can honestly say that this video is extremely accurate. Well done kid
Those old Western days need at least one Buster Scruggs per saloon
2:42 I thought that was a real picture for a second. I was like "Holy Shit, that guy looks familiar".
I really enjoy all the things you tell about!!! I love the extra comments you make ☺️
"Western saloons weren't all rigged games of poker and shootouts"
Rdr2 saloons: well yes but actually no
Even with a damn 21 in blackjack the dealer also has blackjack so it's a push, sometimes I'm like RIGGED
@@namedoesntmatter9330 Idk why but most of the times my luck favors me in Blackjack lol
@@infernus2438 haha lucky you man (pun intended) because I lose the most in Blackjack. Yet I'm alright for poker 👍 have won some very nice pots (15- 20$ ) in Blackwater and Saint Denis.
I always won poker
@@namedoesntmatter9330 I win the most in blackjack, but that's prolly cause I don't know how to play poker lol
I’m so fascinated by history. I LOVE this channel. Especially with the narrators voice❤️
@Katarina Love Well thank you 😎
Back in the 1970's when I was in the Army at Ft. Lenardwood & Ft. Benning GA , The old on post EM clubs looked like the Old West Saloons and off post the bars had girls that would ask for a drink ( usually Expensive Champaign ) and would go on a "Date" with the soldiers / turn tricks.
Times hadn't changed much since the 1880s i reckon...LOL
S*x life should be like a saloon
Liquor in the front, poker in the back
Hey man I watch your videos. Glad to see you here
Auwww same comment. 😔
Funny stuff, funny stuff...
Now...where did I put my pewter hatchet....🪓😁
You need to try rodeo sex. You get going tell the wife or girlfriend this is how the other one likes it, then you try to stay on for 8 seconds.
Me who has played rdr2: you think you have more knowledge than me?
Me after seeing the video: oh so what do u know...he HAD more knowledge than me....
"I know everything on earth! I play video games!"
The more you know is sponsored by Toyota.
Super intéressent votre vidéo. Même que je l'ai regardé deux fois. 👍👍
The liquor of the Wild West era wasn’t really like the liquor of today. The liquor back then was quite different in strength, ingredients, and in chemical composition. Moreover, the drinks back then weren’t always as safe as you find nowadays. The hygiene standards back then were quite different than today, including in the production of food and drinks.
just as guns/pistols where more like a screwdriver than a power-tool... like getting a nasty slap
@@rgerberwhat are you talking about
I'd order a shot of "Red Eye". I don't know what it's made of, but, it sounds old timey West.
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What was life like for the average German soldier during World War 2?
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Even has a Canadian town in the pictures. @3:14 is a photo of Dauphin, Manitoba. Recognized it immediately!
How about a video on what life was like during the discovery and foundation of Australia (settlers, exiled convicts, etc)?
Nobody cares about Australia
@@Kellysbiggestfan311 shut up
The Australian gangs were the worst criminals in San Francisco back in the 1800s. The government was too afraid to do anything so the citizens formed Committees of Vigilance and hanged a few to send a message. Its a pretty interesting story:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Committee_of_Vigilance
Did early Saloons have indoor plumbing? When did they start having indoor plumbing? (sewage,running water etc.)
Indoor plumbing didnt START till 1840's however even by WW2 only around half of the houses ini the US had hot running water.
They had saw dust on the floor! Stop being snobbish!
@@benjamingoldstein1111 back in the 50s our grocery store had sawdust on the floor
@@derpderp2503 in the 50s we finally got an electric water heater, but still used an outhouse
Hardly , When one pub near me you still have to go outside to an old shed for a piss .But its a cool place .
Cheers from Dublin ,Ireland.
Some of the old pubs in Paisley/Glasgow scotland were like this, just mad house's but never a dull moment
“Give me a drink bartender” -- not Shane
A sodie pop🤣
*glares at not Shane*
( mug of beer slides along the counter, it falls off and breaks)
"Come back Shane!" - random kid
@@MosoKaiser “I’m not Shane kid” not Shane
Was a bartender at a small neighborhood bar for a short time while attending college. Being a non-drinking was pretty easy, the pay was good, tough to break away from.
5. A.m in the morning and I saw this in my suggestion it's a keeper I'm a subscriber now .TEXAS BORN
i live in Silver City , New Mexico,..,,., Lots of actual saloons here. One saloon owner here killed quite a few back in the old west