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Bar stools in saloons
In all the movies and photos of the Old West there are no stools at the saloon bar. In the Pac. Northwest this remained true until the 1930s. Surely some saloon owner must have figured out that a person sitting on a barstool would relax and drink more booze than when standing there. Not withstanding the tables, why were there no barstools?
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Comment by Sue Cauhape on October 25, 2011 at 10:39am -
That's a good story, Murray. What was really confusing to me when we first started watching Top Gear on BBC America was when Jeremy Clarkson would refer to a sedan as a saloon. We have a lot in common with the British, except for our languages.
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Comment by Murray A. Gewirtz on October 25, 2011 at 3:48pm -
In "My Fair Lady" Prof. Henry Higgins says about English, "In America they haven't spoken it for years."
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