Behind the Bar

     Earlier this week, we considered the classic saloon, as portrayed vintage postcards.  We considered particularly the swinging doors, the bar rail, the spittoon, and free lunch.  And we allowed as how there was one feature we needed to consider in a blog, that indispensable dispenser, the bartender.      The customer, of course, is theContinue reading “Behind the Bar”

The Postcard and the Saloon

     We have several times in this space considered the actions of alcoholic beverages on the people seen on vintage postcards.  This alcohol appears in many roles depending on the angle the artist has decided to take: the toast at a banquet, the beer keg in the cellar, those cans and bottles in the fridge,Continue reading “The Postcard and the Saloon”