num_pages: 224
description: Fancy a tipple? Then pull up a stool raise a glass and dip into this delightful paean to the grand old saloon days of yore. Written by Chicago-based journalist playwright and all-round wit George Ade in the waning years of Prohibition T he Old-Time Saloon is both a work of propaganda masquerading as just history and a hilarious exercise in nostalgia. Featuring original vintage illustrations along with a new introduction and notes from Bill Savage Ade's book takes us back to the long-gone mens clubs of earlier days when beer was a nickel the pretzels were polished and the sardines were free.
language: English
title: The Old-Time Saloon: Not Wet - Not Dry, Just History
publisher: University of Chicago Press