The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-12-29

VIM uik diOOu Will Open up
As usual. Its bartenders, In
their white aprons, will be at
their stations. The Jap por-
ter will be just as busy as
ever. Drinks will be
served
But it's New Years day,
and prohibition takes effect
that day, you interrupt.
Mebbe so, mebbe so. But
that famous bar will keep on
catering to its patrons just
the same.
Liquor? No.
It's going to be "dry"
saloon.
r. l.. Stokes had a big whole
sale store at 18th and Pacific %
] years ago, in the same location
now occupied by Fisher, the Shoe
Man. When his wholesale bust
ness increased, he opened a sam
pie room adjoining, covering the
rear half of the corner lots at
18th and Pacific, the front OF
which now contains the United
Cigar store, and called it his
annex.
Ever since that time the Annex
saloon has done business at the
old stand. 1t has been on the
most valuable corner of the city
yet its entrance, reached through
a narrow areaway leading from
Pacific avenue, has been so OBJ
scure that most persons would
never notice 1t.
The saloon has passed through
many hands. j. p. Chapman
bought it from Stokes, and ther
Gus Greenfield took 1t over, ant
later Martin Angel purchased 1T
Ten years ago d. G. (Dick) Young
and Harry O'Neill bought Out
Angel, and they have managed the
big bar ever since.
The Annex is one of the few
Tacoma bars that will continue
selling drinks after Jan. l. lti
proprietor are experimenting, bu
they believe they will make
success.
Instead of whisky and brand,
and beer and mixed drinks, th'
saloon will dispense grape juice
and "Lo-Ju," the new drink o.
the Olympia Brewing Co., ant
Golden Foam, the non-alcoholi'
beverage of the Columbia Brew
linz Co. and all manner of dry
drinks.
The saloon will not change il
appearance. The same bartender
will be at work. The same Xix
lures will remain. There will b'
| the same brass foot-rail and thu
same huge mirror.
Women's trade will not be SO
licited-although women will bt
free to enter the bar and put then
foot on the rail and partake OF
grape juice highball IL they wish
II will be saloon in ever!
sense of the word, except
There will not be a drop o.
alcoholic liquor inside the place
And none will be allowed brough'
in. A man with something or
his hip" will not be allowed tt
enter the place and imbibe IRON
his own supply.
Were trying an experiment
but we think it'll be a success,
declared Dick Young. one OF the
proprietors. today. I'VE believe
that the men will still want
place to congregate, and that they
take dry drinks almost as read
ily as they took wet ones before
Especially in warm weather.
"Of course, the dry drinks
won't have the power to bring 9
man back for a second or thirc
glass. as the alcoholic drinks do
because the patrons thirst will be
ouenched with one. But we're moi
afraid to take a chance on Keep
ing the place going.
"Remember this, though;
We've figured our stock out sc
close that there won't be gallon
of liquor in this place when mid
night comes Friday night. Ant
there won't be any more boozt
here again until the law says there
can be"
The Annex has a novel
| record of having cashed prob
ably more checks than any
other Tacoma saloon. Be-
fore the law was passed pro-
i ribiting a saloon from CASH
| ing pay-checks, this one bar
paid out cash on $4,000
| worth of paper each week,
i and on railroad paydays, as
| much as $4,000 In q day.
| ain ten years that we've