| Winston Smith | 11 Nov 2016 9:02 a.m. PST |
link Back in the 70s, some time.
Sawdust on the floor, beer.
I think I went there because they were notorious for being forced to serve women. They may have been the last saloon in NY to go coed. Ah, political correctness existed even in 1972. 
To be honest, I don't know why The Ladies would even want to drink there. It was a dump even back then. |
| warwell | 11 Nov 2016 9:10 a.m. PST |
From the article:
Some of its famous patrons include Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Hunter S. Thompson. They left out Winston. I visited there in the 80s |
Joes Shop  | 11 Nov 2016 9:11 a.m. PST |
But a 'colorful dump' full of characters. Used to go there a lot when I worked in the city many years ago! |
| Skeets | 11 Nov 2016 9:28 a.m. PST |
I used to frequent a bar where I grew up with the official name "The Wagon Wheel" but was known locally as "The Bucket of Blood" because of all the fights there. But it also had a separate women's entrance-real class! |
| skipper John | 11 Nov 2016 10:18 a.m. PST |
Who the heck let the Health Inspector in? |
| Winston Smith | 11 Nov 2016 10:41 a.m. PST |
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| Col Durnford | 11 Nov 2016 10:49 a.m. PST |
Rats in NYC!!! I'm shocked. |
| Oberlindes Sol LIC | 11 Nov 2016 12:37 p.m. PST |
What, they forgot to bribe the health inspector? They deserve to be shut down. |
| genew49 | 11 Nov 2016 12:49 p.m. PST |
I went there quite often in the late 60's and early 70's. The first females were admitted in August 1970.
Draft porter and lager were 2 for 50 cents. I usually went with fiends and we'd sit in the back. When I'd go alone during the daytime and sat at the bar I sat with hardhats, students, artists/musicians and the occasional guy wearing a hospital patient wristband. And yes Winston it was a dump, but it was our dump. |
| Hafen von Schlockenberg | 11 Nov 2016 2:17 p.m. PST |
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| COL Scott ret | 11 Nov 2016 3:29 p.m. PST |
I have also had drinks there, back in the 80s. The dust on the chandeliers was over an inch thick, and somehow that seemed very cool. The beer was good not sure it is where I would choose to eat but for each their own. |
| Supercilius Maximus | 11 Nov 2016 3:51 p.m. PST |
Would the owner's son-in-law be from the Cork Delahabas or the Dublin Delahabas? |
| Winston Smith | 11 Nov 2016 7:38 p.m. PST |
Kerry. It's a cadet branch of the Dubliners. Btw, Penn State's adequate quarterback is named McSorley. |
| Chuckaroobob | 12 Nov 2016 9:38 a.m. PST |
I've been in there. IIRC their motto was, "Drink fast or you're not drinking with us." |
thanks everyone who helped after her family's recent fire.