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Madelon Powers recreates the daily life of the barroom, exploring what it was like to be a "regular" in the old-time saloon of pre-prohibition industrial America. Powers concentrates on the turbulent years from 1870 to 1920 when the industrial revolution wrenched and reshaped American society and its working-class institutions.
Powers examines the lives of saloongoers across America, including those in major cities such as New York, Chicago, New Orleans, and San Francisco as well as smaller cities such as Sioux City, Shoshone, and Oakland.
Powers concludes that an underlying code of reciprocity and peer group honor in saloon life unified the regulars and transformed them into a voluntary association. Thus, amid the fumes of beer and cigars, the regulars were able to cultivate the dual benefits of communal companionship and marketplace clout, making the old time saloon one of the most versatile, ubiquitous, and controversial institutions in American history.
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History, Social life and customs, Drinking customs, Bars (Drinking establishments), Hotels, united states, Hotels, history, United states, history, 1865-, United states, history, 1865-1898, United states, history, 20th century, Manners and customsPlaces
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20th century, 19th centuryShowing 2 featured editions. View all 2 editions?
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Faces along the Bar: Lore and Order in the Workingman's Saloon, 1870-1920 (Historical Studies of Urban America)
June 1, 1999, University Of Chicago Press
Paperback
in English
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0226677699 9780226677699
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Faces along the bar: lore and order in the workingman's saloon, 1870-1920
1998, The University of Chicago Press
in English
0226677680 9780226677682
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"What would possess anyone to return night after night to the same saloon?"
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