What Were Wild West Saloons ACTUALLY Like?

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  • Опубликовано: 21 ноя 2024

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  • @SongJLikes
    @SongJLikes 4 месяца назад +11

    I love my home. I’ve worked hard to own and maintain it.
    …and I LOVE imagining how awesome my amenities would have been to a weary traveler in this time period… heck, to ANYONE living out west in those times.
    We live in a wonderful age. We need to truly begin to appreciate what we have, and start taking advantage of it in a very positive way.

  • @ll7868
    @ll7868 9 месяцев назад +121

    My great grandparents were given land in Northern British Columbia during the Yukon Gold Rush in the early 1890s, they were from California (They migrated there from Texas via New York City from Ireland via Wales where they were forced to leave in the late 1790s because of Black Bart Roberts, a family member who was also a scum-sucking, murderous pirate). They were also offered citizenship due to having trade skills, they helped build the town of Dawson Creek where my grandpa was born in 1928, the 13th of 13 kids.
    My grandpa's sister Yvonne had albums full of old pics and a few were of some of my family in the town's first saloon, it was basically plywood over an alley or alcove between two houses, food and drinks were served from a kitchen in the back of one of the buildings. There were a couple tables and chairs crammed in, a metal woodstove but no front or back walls, big enough for maybe 10 people if a couple didn't mind standing while they drank. A sign on one of the houses said you could also get a hot bath, homecooked meal and rent a room for the night for $1, which is equal to about $35 in 2024.

    • @edwardschmitt5710
      @edwardschmitt5710 8 месяцев назад +3

      Cool Dawson's Creek was a great show!!!! Can't believe your family was like the characters on that!

    • @ll7868
      @ll7868 8 месяцев назад +1

      @@edwardschmitt5710 The show was set in the 1990s, my grandpa's dad was around 10-12 when the family became Canadian citizens in the mid 1890s. That would have made them my great-great grandparents, two greats, I only used one great, oops.
      I never watched the show but wasn't the name of the town Cliffside or something?

    • @beastman1083
      @beastman1083 8 месяцев назад +1

      Wow! What a family history...! Super Awesome!

    • @ll7868
      @ll7868 8 месяцев назад +2

      @@beastman1083 Would have been nice if they discovered some gold up there. My grandpa grew up like the tv show The Waltons, he was like the Elizabeth Walton of his family but the Roberts clan had twice as many kids in a house roughly the same size as the one on tv, ran a carpentry business and had a mule the youngest kids rode to school on and they struggled financially just like the Waltons too.

    • @mrmj2397
      @mrmj2397 8 месяцев назад

      Sooooo... your Great Grandparents were 100 years old in 1890's then? Were given land AND were relatives of the Captn Black Bart??
      WOW! Considering the life expectancy wasn't much over 50-60 yrs your story is almost unbelievable. Unless, you just made up a bunch of Irish lore that your family told you.
      I'd tale a closer look? A lot of families tell stories to their kids ... just sayin'

  • @asullivan4047
    @asullivan4047 Год назад +45

    Interesting and informative. Historians did a very good job presenting actual facts from fiction. Special thanks to the salon owners/customers making this documentary possible

    • @albertdeleon6272
      @albertdeleon6272 4 месяца назад +1

      The Spanish settlers were the first in the new world America 🌎

  • @tonyt227
    @tonyt227 Год назад +54

    I was told by a history buff that the majority of alcoholic drinks in early saloons were actually flavored drinks, sweet and fruity , shots of whiskey weren’t the only or most popular option.

    • @aeh5159
      @aeh5159 5 месяцев назад +4

      Sarsaparilla

    • @adrianocollinzo5712
      @adrianocollinzo5712 5 месяцев назад +2

      Sunset?

    • @albertdeleon6272
      @albertdeleon6272 4 месяца назад +2

      The Spanish settlers were the first in the new world America 🌎

    • @glennso47
      @glennso47 3 месяца назад +1

      Sarsaparilla was a popular soft drink in the early west.

    • @glennso47
      @glennso47 3 месяца назад

      I used to know a guy who had a drink called Everclear that was nearly 100% alcohol. You could pour some into a dish and set a match to it and it would ignite with a blue flame similar to a gas range.

  • @jojobaker1764
    @jojobaker1764 Год назад +286

    What always gets me about Hollywood westerns is how beautiful the women are and how well kept they were in westerns .. in reality that's absolutely BS. ..

    • @markwolfshohl6562
      @markwolfshohl6562 9 месяцев назад +34

      No shit, genius

    • @jojobaker1764
      @jojobaker1764 9 месяцев назад

      @@markwolfshohl6562 having bad day or are you always just an A** H***

    • @ajg5138
      @ajg5138 9 месяцев назад

      Nothing like a dog faced prostitute from 1887 after a few cups of gut rot whisky.

    • @cmbaileytstc
      @cmbaileytstc 9 месяцев назад +80

      Well son, a movie has to use a beautiful actress to play a saloon girl, so that she’ll look as good to you as a real saloon girl looked to a cowboy who’d been out on the range for months.

    • @cameronolson92
      @cameronolson92 9 месяцев назад +8

      Bess streeter Aldrich wrote a lantern in her hand about women who went against the rough & nasty stereotype

  • @markoliver630
    @markoliver630 8 месяцев назад +13

    One of Our towns (Prescott AZ) bars The Palace burnt down. During the fire the patrons dragged the actual bar out of the building and across the street to the park. They set up the bar and continued to drink while the whole block burned down. Where do we now set off the towns fireworks ?
    Of course off of the roof of the rebuilt Palace Saloon. As soon as I learned that story I knew I was in the right place.

    • @footprintsofthefrontier
      @footprintsofthefrontier  8 месяцев назад

      An incredible story! Thanks for sharing, Mark.

    • @albertdeleon6272
      @albertdeleon6272 4 месяца назад +1

      The Spanish settlers were the first in the new world America 🌎

    • @markoliver630
      @markoliver630 4 месяца назад +1

      @@albertdeleon6272 Tell that to the Apaches.

  • @marvwatkins7029
    @marvwatkins7029 9 месяцев назад +34

    The guy at the table with shirtsleeves and the long beard sure does look authentic with this HUGE WRISTWATCH!

    • @rudraigh
      @rudraigh 9 месяцев назад +1

      Pardon me but your ignorance is showing. Wristwatches date back to the 16th century.

    • @alanwbelcher
      @alanwbelcher 9 месяцев назад +2

      Or the Mac laptop and the stereo radio on the bar.

    • @captainamerica6525
      @captainamerica6525 9 месяцев назад +4

      Time Traveler!

    • @albertdeleon6272
      @albertdeleon6272 4 месяца назад +1

      The Spanish settlers were the first in the new world America 🌎

    • @AvaGld2309
      @AvaGld2309 2 месяца назад

      Nice catch.

  • @jeffaltier5582
    @jeffaltier5582 Год назад +19

    Thank you. This was an excellent video. It was good to hear the real history instead of the fiction we see in movies.

  • @erictroxell715
    @erictroxell715 9 месяцев назад +46

    As a history teacher i must say you did a great job. The only thing I feel you missed was explaining that everyone drank alcohol cause water was so dangerous at tge time. No big deal but i always found students were fascinated with this fact. Great job explaining the truth about the buildings as well.

    • @Gertieness
      @Gertieness 8 месяцев назад +9

      I guess there was also a lot of low alcohol content beer and wine back then for that reason

    • @erictroxell715
      @erictroxell715 8 месяцев назад +3

      @@Gertieness yes indeed. At same time also very dangerous due to having no clue how much alcohol was in the drink or any of the other chemicals people exchanged in the drink to make more money

    • @mrmj2397
      @mrmj2397 8 месяцев назад +2

      Great point to mention there. Thank you, I always liked most of my history teachers. Most of em anyway, there were disagreements with some for sure! Lol
      The blessing and the curse of monks and friars, fermenting fruit and grain was truly a distinctive turning point and/or downfall, for many civilizations.

    • @NYSteve
      @NYSteve 6 месяцев назад +2

      @@erictroxell715 and how much of whatever else; i read tobacco juice was added for some 'flavor' , too (lol maybe i 'read' it here a previous time)

    • @jackhowland3737
      @jackhowland3737 6 месяцев назад +1

      Throughout History the movers and shakers and decision makers were half in the bag.

  • @dancliffton2596
    @dancliffton2596 8 месяцев назад +16

    i just love that you can go to one spot and get a beer, get a meal, get a room for the night, get a new job or even vote for your new mayor lmao

    • @MarlinWilliams-ts5ul
      @MarlinWilliams-ts5ul 18 часов назад

      That's how taverns operated in New England in the 1600s and 1700s. All that you listed, plus court was held in them too.

  • @rockymountainlifeprospecti4423
    @rockymountainlifeprospecti4423 7 месяцев назад +2

    We have our homestead in a ghost town of Freeland CO, 9400ft in altitude,was just a simple mining town, however mining in better climate was found, we quickly faded away, except for a few of us, and we all mainly have animal rescues of sorts. We actually got the woodstove from the old saloon/general store.. thanks for the video and taking some of the Hollywood out of our history, here in the wild west, and I assure you, it definitely was rough up here and by rougher folks,alot of unmarked graves up in the mountains. All the best .

    • @footprintsofthefrontier
      @footprintsofthefrontier  7 месяцев назад +2

      Thank you for sharing your story! We love hearing from folks who still live on the frontier even into the modern age. It's like living amongst fossilized memories.

    • @rockymountainlifeprospecti4423
      @rockymountainlifeprospecti4423 7 месяцев назад +1

      @@footprintsofthefrontier absolutely is, I'm surrounded by old mines dug by hand, in the craziest terrain. We are completely self sufficient with solar and wind power, back up generators of course. But you can always feel the presence at night looking across the snow valleys and the old workings, just shadows of the past. Thanks again

    • @albertdeleon6272
      @albertdeleon6272 4 месяца назад

      The Spanish settlers were the first in the new world America 🌎

    • @rockymountainlifeprospecti4423
      @rockymountainlifeprospecti4423 4 месяца назад

      @albertdeleon6272 actually have a Spanish mule/horse drawn gold ore crushing wheel, one day make a video with the mules we have coming in next year.

  • @ewmhop
    @ewmhop Год назад +32

    GREAT VIDEO SIR,IN THE LATE 50S SOME PARTS OF THE LITTLE SOUTHERN TOWN WHERE I GREW UP ,HAD A FEW PLACES LIKE THE LATER SALOONS IN YOUR VIDEO.THEY WERE FULL OF OLD MEN DRINKING TO TIMES LONG GONE.TAKE CARE

    • @Donathon-qx8kq
      @Donathon-qx8kq 9 месяцев назад +8

      Trust me... here in Texas...in 2024... that's still happening... just a different generation

    • @albertdeleon6272
      @albertdeleon6272 4 месяца назад +1

      The Spanish settlers were the first in the new world America 🌎

  • @tinaann3323
    @tinaann3323 6 месяцев назад +13

    I was surprised at how small Wild West saloons are. Like the bird cage for example. So small!

    • @albertdeleon6272
      @albertdeleon6272 4 месяца назад +1

      The Spanish settlers were the first in the new world America 🌎

    • @jonmacdonald5345
      @jonmacdonald5345 3 месяца назад +3

      ​@albertdeleon6272 So they are the ones that should be paying reparations correct? SPAIN OWES BIG MONEY...

    • @MarlinWilliams-ts5ul
      @MarlinWilliams-ts5ul 18 часов назад +1

      ​@@jonmacdonald5345yeah especially in California which they owned for 300 years.

    • @jonmacdonald5345
      @jonmacdonald5345 18 часов назад

      @MarlinWilliams-ts5ul Yep they definitely owe there I'm sure the Tongva Chumash, cahullia and many others would like some restitution...

  • @seanalvarez7113
    @seanalvarez7113 Год назад +15

    Another deep dive on the history of our nation. I enjoy your content greatly 💪

  • @BlairAir
    @BlairAir 8 месяцев назад +30

    The 3 legged dog limps up to the saloon, and slams open the batwing doors, growling: "I'm looking for the man who shot my paw! Thats okay. I'll show myself out.

    • @ChatGPT1111
      @ChatGPT1111 8 месяцев назад +3

      Was his name Tripod?

    • @BlairAir
      @BlairAir 8 месяцев назад +2

      @ChatGPT1111 You knew Stumpy McTripod?

    • @chrishall8803
      @chrishall8803 6 месяцев назад +2

      😂😂

    • @albertdeleon6272
      @albertdeleon6272 4 месяца назад +1

      The Spanish settlers were the first in the new world America 🌎

  • @BamaFanUSMC
    @BamaFanUSMC Год назад +19

    Thank you for the videos buddy, learned a lot that I didn't know or was misinformed about!! Keep up the great work

    • @footprintsofthefrontier
      @footprintsofthefrontier  Год назад +3

      Thank you for the kind remarks! Stay tuned, we've got plenty more coming.

    • @albertdeleon6272
      @albertdeleon6272 4 месяца назад

      The Spanish settlers were the first in the new world America 🌎

  • @martinschulz9381
    @martinschulz9381 9 месяцев назад +9

    Funny, Hollywood movies are never accurate history lessons, but more than any other historical movies, we all love to pick apart western movies and shows. A lot of trumped up wild west mythology also originally came from east coast authors who never set foot in the west. Good video.

    • @billolsen4360
      @billolsen4360 8 месяцев назад +5

      And the saloon girls were just cocktail waitresses saving up enough money to provide a dowry to the church so they could enter the local convent.

    • @Teddy31976
      @Teddy31976 8 месяцев назад +3

      They are not supposed to be accurate. They are supposed to be entertaining 😊

  • @chadsimmons6347
    @chadsimmons6347 9 месяцев назад +14

    While digging a plumbing ditch behind where an old Missouri Saloon stood, i found pieces of burnt wood, small burlap & leather bags bags, bits of dried veggies, many bones of cattle, pigs, chickens, bear? Yes builder sent them to local university. Seems like the drinkers built a cook-fire behind the old bar.If you added a bit of groceries to the "stew-pot" you didn't leave half drunk & starving for a bite to eat.

    • @albertdeleon6272
      @albertdeleon6272 4 месяца назад +1

      The Spanish settlers were the first in the new world America 🌎

  • @WiseGuy5674
    @WiseGuy5674 8 месяцев назад +3

    HBO’s ‘Deadwood’ is a good representation. ‘The Gem Saloon’ operated by Albert Swearengen was accurately portrayed for the year of 1876.😎

  • @HighSpeedNoDrag
    @HighSpeedNoDrag 8 месяцев назад +1

    Outstanding presentation and Thanks.

  • @TheBladepolisher
    @TheBladepolisher 8 месяцев назад +5

    Really well done ! ! Very informative. Thank you.

    • @footprintsofthefrontier
      @footprintsofthefrontier  8 месяцев назад +1

      Glad you enjoyed it!

    • @albertdeleon6272
      @albertdeleon6272 4 месяца назад +1

      The Spanish settlers were the first in the new world America 🌎

    • @albertdeleon6272
      @albertdeleon6272 4 месяца назад +1

      ​@@footprintsofthefrontierThe Spanish settlers were the first in the new world America 🌎

  • @KidFresh71
    @KidFresh71 8 месяцев назад +5

    Nice and informative video.

  • @knighttuttrupriprock9733
    @knighttuttrupriprock9733 9 месяцев назад +6

    Very interesting, enjoyed that, subscribed.

  • @ARGONUAT
    @ARGONUAT 7 месяцев назад +2

    The ghost of Aeneas Coffey just smiles…

  • @pranksterguy1
    @pranksterguy1 5 месяцев назад +8

    I've read that a reporter asked Wyatt Earp why town meetings in Tombstone seemed to be held in saloons. Wyatt replied "there weren't alot of YMCA's in Tombstone at that time".

    • @albertdeleon6272
      @albertdeleon6272 4 месяца назад +1

      The Spanish settlers were the first in the new world America 🌎

    • @MarlinWilliams-ts5ul
      @MarlinWilliams-ts5ul 18 часов назад

      But Tombstone had 2 icecream parlors.

  • @paulaharrisbaca4851
    @paulaharrisbaca4851 8 месяцев назад +2

    Little Big Man (the film) has my favorite movie saloon scenes. The book also features the original type of frontier saloon, a tent or awning with a stove and a big barrel of rotgut or fire water for the "Injuns" or indigenous peoples, also for the poorer people, and in the mining areas they had some bottled likker fer them as could pay fer it.

  • @SteffiReitsch
    @SteffiReitsch 9 месяцев назад +12

    If some dude came into one of these real places dressed up like Roy Rogers or some other 20th century tv/movie cowboy dude, he'd have been stared and laughed at unmercifully. They wouldn't know what to make of it.

    • @bostonrailfan2427
      @bostonrailfan2427 9 месяцев назад +6

      …just like Marty McFly in Back to the Future 3 was

    • @OgamiItto70
      @OgamiItto70 5 месяцев назад

      They might assume he was one of those fellers that's attracted to other men.

    • @albertdeleon6272
      @albertdeleon6272 4 месяца назад

      The Spanish settlers were the first in the new world America 🌎

    • @albertdeleon6272
      @albertdeleon6272 4 месяца назад

      The Spanish settlers were the first in the new world America 🌎

    • @spaceghost8995
      @spaceghost8995 Месяц назад

      ​@@albertdeleon6272 No I'm pretty sure there were a lot of people already here before the Spanish scumbags showed up.😂

  • @robvangessel3766
    @robvangessel3766 8 месяцев назад +2

    "Overall. exciting events." I dunno. It was the dime novels that glamorized the West starting in the 1850s. They used a few rare moments to make it all seem like they happened all the time. But my impression from reading is that saloons were mostly routine escapes for smelly cowfolk and visitors passing through. As routine as it would be today.

  • @catherineaiello7136
    @catherineaiello7136 Год назад +7

    Very good video. Thanks.

  • @collinator68
    @collinator68 8 месяцев назад +47

    Can you imagine waking up in a saloon on a Sunday morning back then, hung over, and you just see a bunch of old ladies and a precher looking at you with a concerned look lol.

    • @CynthiaRockroth
      @CynthiaRockroth 8 месяцев назад +3

      Either they wouldn't set foot in the bar or they would bodily haul your hung over butter and plunk you down in the first pew to be forced to listen to a over long preaching at the top of the lungs of the entire congregation. ( and yes the exits would be barred by bodies even to the outhouse)

    • @Barcode_Nation
      @Barcode_Nation 8 месяцев назад +4

      Still happens to me!

    • @ddh2o759
      @ddh2o759 8 месяцев назад

      Kristofferson knew that feeling.

    • @SpicyTexan64
      @SpicyTexan64 7 месяцев назад

      ​@@CynthiaRockroththat's just complete fiction.

    • @albertdeleon6272
      @albertdeleon6272 4 месяца назад

      The Spanish settlers were the first in the new world America 🌎

  • @zoftigbeatnik
    @zoftigbeatnik Год назад +18

    I would never have drank the whiskey back then. Saloon owners would dilute it with turpentine or embalming fluid. That's why they called it Tarantula Juice, Rotgut or Coffin Varnish.

    • @MargaretMcLaughlin-c7d
      @MargaretMcLaughlin-c7d 9 месяцев назад +6

      So, one would expect that the local undertaker was kept very busy? And likely had a deal with the saloon owner?

    • @BoatsAndHos89
      @BoatsAndHos89 8 месяцев назад

      You woulda been too dumb to know 😂

  • @davesnothereman7250
    @davesnothereman7250 8 месяцев назад +86

    I think we can all agree that hard liquor and handguns are the perfect combination.

    • @billolsen4360
      @billolsen4360 8 месяцев назад +6

      I can't aim for shit if I've been drinking.

    • @DennisMHenderson
      @DennisMHenderson 8 месяцев назад +3

      Ever since dead-eye was invented, it’s been all about charming banter because it’s a given that anyone IS going to be shot at least once per sitting

    • @christopherwallace8000
      @christopherwallace8000 8 месяцев назад +3

      and something is mentally wrong with your way of thinking.

    • @NoNameNoFace-rr7li
      @NoNameNoFace-rr7li 8 месяцев назад +5

      atf should be the name of a convenience market

    • @stevengatti7261
      @stevengatti7261 8 месяцев назад +1

      Still works in the US today! 😅

  • @Curlyblonde
    @Curlyblonde 28 дней назад

    The "Wild West" Saloons in our area (Northern Minnesota) were also rough, primitive affairs during the Frontier Years when there was lumbering, fishing, trapping, gold mining and ranching going on in our area.
    I've seen some of the old newspaper and history books that were published around the late 1890s - early 1900s, as well as recorded history from some of the old timers. They tell stories of frequent brawls, illegal gambling, frequent gun fights, lots of prostitution (even naming names when they were arrested), not much law enforcement, just street justice.
    Typical outhouses in the back where also empty bottles and trash were thrown that accumulated in big piles. Everyone had big trash piles in the back as there was no organized trash removal. If someone was thrown out of the bar, they often landed on the trash heap in the back. Some people froze to death that way and it was not unusual to find a dead body or 2 lying in the back of a saloon. With horses used as transportation, their droppings mixed with the mud and clay here created an awful stinking mire. The spring thaw and hot summers were the worst time for the stench.
    A lot of the colorful aspects of the Frontier and Homesteading Years when this area opened up to settlement have been scrubbed and edited out of history books to make it less offensive to the Easily Offended.

  • @chrislong3938
    @chrislong3938 9 месяцев назад +11

    I've been to Bodie, California a couple of times and the saloon there is awesome!
    The cues are still on the pool table!
    I also live in Longmont, Colorado, now where we have the Dickens Opera House which was built in 1881 for (I think) the cousin of Charles Dickens. It too has an awesome bar but has been renovated many times over the years with the exception of the main structure and the bar itself.
    Lots of ghost stories about that place!

    • @charlespeterson348
      @charlespeterson348 6 месяцев назад

      Remember hurricane Charley's? It was a converted church

    • @chrislong3938
      @chrislong3938 6 месяцев назад

      @@charlespeterson348 The crank capital of Boulder County?
      It sure was...!

  • @markissboi3583
    @markissboi3583 9 месяцев назад +6

    good documentary some like yourself put a lot time into these & it shows

  • @theSword-
    @theSword- 8 месяцев назад +1

    I was in a very small town once,(I won't say where), and there is still an operative old west saloon there. Un believable. It still had a wooden floor that had walking areas worn into it.

  • @kevinsysyn4487
    @kevinsysyn4487 Год назад +9

    No bar stools. Bars are the height they are cuz they were for standing. Furniture was pretty rare on the frontier.

    • @tedecker3792
      @tedecker3792 9 месяцев назад +5

      The last time I was in a bar without bar stools was in Montana in the 1989s. It was obviously a rough place, with a row of passed out customers along one wall. I asked the bartender why there were no seats, and he said it was because patrons just threw them at each other.
      Another bar, this time in South Dakota, had bar stools made from large Cottonwood logs with old metal tractor seats nailed to them. Can’t throw them if you can’t pick them up!

    • @bostonrailfan2427
      @bostonrailfan2427 9 месяцев назад +2

      @@tedecker3792both cheap and ingenious!

    • @billolsen4360
      @billolsen4360 8 месяцев назад +1

      Plus, every Saturday night, the cowboys in the saloons were breaking balsawood chairs over each others' heads!

    • @ThisHandleFeatureIsStupid
      @ThisHandleFeatureIsStupid 7 месяцев назад

      @@tedecker3792 LOL! 😆
      I got a hearty laugh outta that story.

  • @johanea
    @johanea 7 месяцев назад +3

    Lol, the ladies with the poster “Lips that touch liquor shall not touch ours”.
    I would chose liquor over their lips zero regrets.
    Not really any beauties and few seem to have a foot in the grave already at time of taking the picture.

    • @FlorentinoRebuildingCo.5644
      @FlorentinoRebuildingCo.5644 3 месяца назад

      I thought the same johanea....
      Then I remembered that being on the range for months on end, on some cattle drive.....them ladies start to look pretty damn fine in my book.

  • @scrapykat3028
    @scrapykat3028 8 месяцев назад +2

    I was always surprised by how small they were!

    • @DBCooper82
      @DBCooper82 8 месяцев назад +1

      Thats what she said

  • @Metal-Detecting-NC
    @Metal-Detecting-NC 9 месяцев назад +4

    Excellent history lesson

  • @carolinebeck1573
    @carolinebeck1573 8 месяцев назад +3

    Interesting. Great video.

    • @carolinebeck1573
      @carolinebeck1573 8 месяцев назад +2

      My great great uncle or grandfather was a preacher who did his sermons in a saloon near Golden, Colorado before Coors was there. We still have one of the chairs. Heirloom!!!

    • @footprintsofthefrontier
      @footprintsofthefrontier  8 месяцев назад +2

      What an incredible memento to still have in the family! Thanks for sharing, Caroline.

  • @bobs182
    @bobs182 8 месяцев назад +3

    Outlawing alcohol worked out really well. Also, we stopped drug use by outlawing it.

  • @GA-Vic
    @GA-Vic 3 месяца назад

    Great video,keep up the good work!😉👍

  • @iamrichrocker
    @iamrichrocker 9 месяцев назад +6

    Josey Wales came close to depiction of a drinking establishment

  • @philnewcomers9170
    @philnewcomers9170 9 месяцев назад +3

    jack london describes Johnny Hieneholds Last Chance Saloon in one of his books .This was on Oakland waterfront ,interesting eha! ttfn&ty

  • @tonyclifton265
    @tonyclifton265 9 месяцев назад +1

    drinks with names like "tanglefoot and tarantula juice" lol there is even a beer called "tanglefoot" today on tap in english pubs. pretty good it is too. i'd have been well happy with that in the old west

  • @kevinoconnor9548
    @kevinoconnor9548 7 месяцев назад +1

    I often wonder about the troubadours and the traveling piano players that kept the music going in the saloons. I'm sure there were hundreds of unknown players with thousands of great unknown songs that were never recorded. I'm sure blues was plays before the civil war all the early music in this country the folk music and rock and blues came from the Scott Irish people.

  • @TheFlyingHaggis
    @TheFlyingHaggis 7 месяцев назад +2

    25 cents a drink! I cant imagine most people earning more than that an hour.

  • @0017Bulldog
    @0017Bulldog 8 месяцев назад +1

    This was awesome.

  • @bobzillion9718
    @bobzillion9718 8 месяцев назад

    Fascinating video. Note pee trough at base of bar at 15:40. There is also one in Comstock Saloon in San Francisco. But you better not use it.

  • @JohnRinNoHo
    @JohnRinNoHo 8 месяцев назад +3

    @ 11:30, is that guy wearing sunglasses? @12:04, 6-year having a drink.

  • @towdjumper5
    @towdjumper5 8 месяцев назад +1

    Great stuff.

  • @alexmckenna1171
    @alexmckenna1171 9 месяцев назад +1

    Lips that touch liquor !! Love that picture. It came from "Little Me" i think...

  • @Heathershusbandbear
    @Heathershusbandbear Год назад +3

    Good job keep it up

  • @49ers4everrr
    @49ers4everrr 2 месяца назад

    Enjoyed the video

  • @lennartforsberg1519
    @lennartforsberg1519 2 месяца назад

    The Saloon on the Rocky Mountain Mining Frontier by Elliot West is worth reading.

  • @real_hello_kitty
    @real_hello_kitty 4 месяца назад

    very interesting. Thanks.

  • @tonyjones1560
    @tonyjones1560 Месяц назад

    "Wish I was...a Wild West hero!"
    With respect to the Electric Light Orchestra, not any more I don't, LOL

  • @jasonrodgers9063
    @jasonrodgers9063 8 месяцев назад

    At 12:01- Little kid sitting at the table in the saloon... WITH A BEER!!!

  • @lCdGarcia
    @lCdGarcia 2 месяца назад +1

    I’d love to go back during the “latter” Saloons. Telling them bout 2024

  • @bobs182
    @bobs182 8 месяцев назад +1

    I am glad to learn why liquor was called firewater.

  • @MichaelRobertson-i8f
    @MichaelRobertson-i8f 8 месяцев назад +2

    Actually the term shot when ordering a drink 🥃 of whiskey came from the single bullet exchanged for a drink

  • @flying2lowAK
    @flying2lowAK 8 месяцев назад +2

    Sometimes you want to go
    Where everybody knows your name

  • @MarlinWilliams-ts5ul
    @MarlinWilliams-ts5ul 18 часов назад

    How did they keep the beer cold in the summer?

  • @edwardschmitt5710
    @edwardschmitt5710 8 месяцев назад +1

    So "Saloons" were like today's....wait for it....BARS!!!!!! Who wudda thunk it!!!!!

  • @PaulTheSkeptic
    @PaulTheSkeptic 2 месяца назад

    The way I heard it, saloons ranged from your tents to the two story room complete with chandeliers, fine art and French cuisine.

  • @jameskelly7782
    @jameskelly7782 9 месяцев назад +2

    old overholt was the most popular whiskey.

  • @fireorb2
    @fireorb2 Год назад +1

    Dang you got a lot of videos up. RUclips must have been dodging my subscriptions.

  • @ROOTEDINHELL
    @ROOTEDINHELL 3 месяца назад

    In my mind a saloon was just that spot where everything happened and where everyone wanted to be. Almost like a really popular club or something but idk I wasn’t there.

  • @NewWitNip
    @NewWitNip 4 месяца назад

    Well done

  • @kathybrascher1910
    @kathybrascher1910 8 месяцев назад +2

    Wow they were literally serving poison. Yum 😊

  • @ImGoingSupersonic
    @ImGoingSupersonic 10 дней назад

    I want to know who placed mirrors behind the bar and how that became a trend.

  • @charlynegezze8536
    @charlynegezze8536 9 месяцев назад +7

    Wyatt Earp died in 1925. "The Old West" isn´t so old.

    • @ChatGPT1111
      @ChatGPT1111 8 месяцев назад

      Have you been on a NYC subway lately?

    • @christhomas6125
      @christhomas6125 5 месяцев назад +1

      1929 actually

  • @erickort1987
    @erickort1987 2 месяца назад

    i just love it how guys belly up to the bar and order a single bottle of whisky and a shot glass

  • @Flo-lows2798
    @Flo-lows2798 8 месяцев назад +1

    What people tend to forget is that dangerous stuff happened in saloons.
    Prostitution, and poisonous alcohol to name a few.

  • @seantlewis376
    @seantlewis376 8 месяцев назад +9

    The "Wild West" wasn't actually all that wild. The impressions we have today are formed by the genre of western movies. My ancestors moved west starting in 1840, and none of them died by violence. The western saloon was more like what you'd picture as a modern day neighborhood dive bar. Violent things happened, but it wasn't every day. That impression is the influence of modern day movies, highlighting the most interesting stories to make a movie.

    • @FahimibnDawud
      @FahimibnDawud 7 месяцев назад +4

      It depends on the city in question, really. There were some mining towns or cities that were absolute nightmares to live in back then. There was constant crime, murders, drunken fights, etc. It wasn't only a TV western depiction, it was very real if you do the research. That doesn't mean that the majority of towns were the same though.

  • @CharliRay
    @CharliRay 8 месяцев назад +3

    My grandparents and parents owned bars in the 50-69-79-80-90-2k0 years and I own one now there’s been 16 shootings 4 murders countless fights and stabbings robbery and my grandpa got shot and shot the man trying to rob him the man lost his life but my grandpa was never the same after he was shot in his stomach and it ruined his insides he even died of infection nearly 25 years after the shooting but his stomach required permanent care and routine surgery’s I hated seeing him suffer like that . My parents were robbed once and they just gave them the money and they left swiftly my bar is very upscale and I take precautions to prevent being robbed so you can’t just walk in my bar you have to be be dressed properly and there’s a cover charge on weekend nights I’ve never even had a fight beyond a shouting match and a punch thrown the main issue I have is dine and dashers they order expensive food and drinks and try to leave without paying . I always catch them and give them the option to pay up or go to jail.

  • @Dommymarano
    @Dommymarano 9 месяцев назад +3

    Yet the real truth wouldn’t sell tickets to a movie!

  • @DogWhoFilms
    @DogWhoFilms Месяц назад

    My family owns A lamp From a brothel in Nevada from wild West town and or the ladies would line up on the stairway at the bottom of the stairs there was this really beautiful ornate lamp with diamonds coming down it… only that lamp could talk, The stories that could tell..

  • @gregwicking7688
    @gregwicking7688 6 месяцев назад

    Like the star wars reference!

  • @seanrhone5306
    @seanrhone5306 8 месяцев назад

    From the description of the alcohol, it's surprising anyone lived after drinking at a saloon! lol

  • @TamaraHinton77868
    @TamaraHinton77868 8 месяцев назад +2

    Ahahaha, found ya Lenny!

  • @s.v.2796
    @s.v.2796 9 месяцев назад +6

    While I don't think saloons were a non-stop violence pit - your description is simply too refined for a bunch of dirty, exhausted, rough men getting drunk on rot gut. My ex was a patch holder. We would go on cross country runs with his club and others. They are the closest a modern society can be to the rough and ready men of the West. (Except of course for real mountain men ). While they might be peaceful individually, let them drink, play cards and just trade lies and well ... no taking bets on what will occur.

    • @jagpilotohio
      @jagpilotohio 9 месяцев назад

      You’re delusional if you think people of the old west were all like asshole bikers.

  • @scotchy88
    @scotchy88 8 месяцев назад +1

    Does Danny Gonzalez narrate this?

  • @jamesgibbs7933
    @jamesgibbs7933 8 месяцев назад +2

    Most of "Hollywood" westerns do a very poor job of accuracy in their depiction of the true "Old West".

  • @GospodinPendula00
    @GospodinPendula00 2 месяца назад +1

    1:20 2 shots of votkaa..😂😂😂

  • @Idahoguy10157
    @Idahoguy10157 26 дней назад

    Post civil war prejudice went on into the twentieth century. The war was not forgotten, or forgiven

  • @MsAhmebah2000
    @MsAhmebah2000 9 месяцев назад +2

    "the local saloon was always lively...."

    • @billolsen4360
      @billolsen4360 8 месяцев назад +1

      "And never nasty or obscene."

  • @OPTIONALWATCH
    @OPTIONALWATCH 3 месяца назад

    I never believed the hollywood exageration of western life, but love watching westerns. It's funny to me how these people playing cards are dealing $100s and even $1000's of dollars like if it was nothing. Also the wanted ad posters offered an unbelievable amount of money that couldn't possibly be.

  • @larrydemonte2218
    @larrydemonte2218 9 месяцев назад +2

    It was a tough life.

  • @chrisrees7054
    @chrisrees7054 8 месяцев назад +1

    Saloons were full of saloonatics!

  • @alexblue6991
    @alexblue6991 7 месяцев назад

    Still get pubs like that in Scotland

  • @Teddy31976
    @Teddy31976 8 месяцев назад +5

    Hollywood Westerns are not suppose to be accurate. They are suppose to be entertaining 😊

  • @charlespeterson348
    @charlespeterson348 6 месяцев назад

    So the first saloon out west was in what is present day Dinosaur Colorado?

  • @tatumergo3931
    @tatumergo3931 8 месяцев назад +1

    Fire water = Agüa ardiente. A type of raw alcohol made from the residue of sugarcane process.
    P. S. Or of any kind of fruit and grain.

    • @shy404usernotfound
      @shy404usernotfound 8 месяцев назад

      No it's literally not. It's whiskey made from grains. Sugarcane was not something grown in the US.

    • @tatumergo3931
      @tatumergo3931 8 месяцев назад +1

      @@shy404usernotfound . Rum was one of the commodities traded by the British and the Spanish throughout the Caribbean and other parts of the world. That's what was added to the drinking water to make palatable and we get the name for grog. The residue that was left from that production is what it's used to make fire-water. Similar to grappa which is made from the grape residue in wine production.
      Ofcourse in lack of sugarcane, then you use corn or barley to make whiskey or scotch and from the mash residue you can get some moonshine or fire-water which is about the same as agüa-ardiente. I forgot what is called in Greece but is something very similar as well.

    • @tatumergo3931
      @tatumergo3931 8 месяцев назад +1

      @@shy404usernotfound . P. S. The Greek fire water is called Ouzo, and it's made from fennel seeds, aniseed and some other stuff.

  • @frisk151
    @frisk151 8 месяцев назад +2

    @7:16-ish... That was one BIG tall guy... Looks like a bunch of "Micks".. But, big boy had to have been a "black Irish" or an "Irish Traveler" like the Fury 'boys'.. Tyson, specifically.. Regardless.. When it came down to fists and fighting that way, he likely had no takers.. When it came down to guns.. Bullets don't care how big or small ye may be, lads.. Or Germans.. Nords, cowboys or Indians.. Gotta say..

  • @leebishop418
    @leebishop418 8 месяцев назад +3

    Thanks for a great vid

  • @NorbertoFontanez
    @NorbertoFontanez 6 месяцев назад

    Should've hired James Earl Jones to narrate the video, hoss. You would've surpassed the million views. 🤠🥃🍺 🐎

  • @Markinfilm
    @Markinfilm 8 месяцев назад +2

    In the photos no one is packing, another Hollywood myth that everyone carried a Colt.

    • @billolsen4360
      @billolsen4360 8 месяцев назад +1

      You might need a Colt on your hip is you were a young kid repairing fences and you knew there were rattlers in the area, but carrying a 6-gun on your hip all the time would have made others suspicious of your intentions whether they knew you or not.

    • @duanesamuelson2256
      @duanesamuelson2256 8 месяцев назад

      ​@billolsen4360 ra ch ha ds yes..needed to shoot the horse if you got hung up and dragged.
      In cities? .most firearms were concealed

  • @moussapolytropos
    @moussapolytropos 9 месяцев назад +2

    Made me think of Charlie Chaplin in the Gold Rush.

    • @MargaretMcLaughlin-c7d
      @MargaretMcLaughlin-c7d 9 месяцев назад +1

      That was the film where he "ate his boots", wasn't it?

    • @moussapolytropos
      @moussapolytropos 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@MargaretMcLaughlin-c7d yeah, and he frequented a saloon

    • @johanpalola
      @johanpalola 6 месяцев назад

      great movie!