The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1919-05-22
GOLDEN ROMANCE or
SALOONS TOASTED
Millions Won and Lost Across
Bar Of Palace Hotel; Gay
Blades Gave Champagne
To Their Horses


san Ff4as $50. Cal May ei-~rh
Palace bar turned in.o . soda-Waie
s..d ico cream parlor Gosh
To men who are reaching the sun
sal DAYS o. sheir lives; who Werc
gart OF the heciic period Of the Com
stock mining boam aaa ether famoF
bonanxa days In the various section
q The unieste-ed wes; with - opeI
gambling and l..any fsmocs bars ans
hotels q becomes an ~ffors Of ihe i'm
aginailon 10 picture she Transition
which will occur JGly 1.
J Bat the Palace hotei har Nia MAKE
the change. & has just been annoanc'
"a. The larsest and most famous o.
che far western inT,snsions ~ thal
ehsraci,r WHOSE ncs inooAse j. sid
so have been in she noighhorhood o'
si.s.0o0 year. where men discuss, Il
millions over their cocktails or hish-
balls. and where many a gigantic min
Ing. land or stock deal was oonsum-
mated. will fall ~ line Behind shis
hs- hang Maxfeljs parvi'h's mural
dscoraiion. The Pied Piper Of liam
lin." which cost she hotel manage
moni S.6.0o1 4 companion piece
~Old King Cole hangs IN the Knick-
,rbock,r hotel IN New Work
The Lack bar. rebuil; since the
earthquake ana f.ge Of sspc b. asso-
cia,.d with the carly DAYS o. ile
clty and abous the name cluster many
of the associations q The vie.ian'fs
Who pui an end 90 murder and law
lessn.as in san Francisco.
The same may be- said q the Ex-
change saloon. the marble floor o.
which was shipped aruand the hoTn
about 1919. L was he headquarters
OF the leaders o. san Francisco af-
fairs.
In bakersfield IS the southern bar.
II was he scene Of many reyei q
ti.lea and high born Enstshmen who
used 70 ride in from the colony OF
Rosodale. and. filling themselves WITH
sparkling vine were rrone 10 remea-
ber their horses. Tradition has 4
that Lord Shalso Douglas was one Of
the esy blades
with the 1assing ~ the liquor trade
viii 20 Jack Doyle's place at Yer
non known to all followers % the
prize ring and who're nearly one hun
dred hariendeTs 'serve the crowds
Here in their hevday have passed
Jeffries. johnson. Chovnski. Fitzsim-
mons. Kid MCoy. Britt. Richie Young
Carbest McGoveTn. and many other
men famed in the history os the prize
ring.
In Los Angeles. ihe Oak. siiuasea
near The courthouse. already had
passed out Its name Of the "Dyna
mite Reef" war acquired. no, on ac-
count OF any high power stock il may
have carried, bur because il was the
savori,e meeting place for many oil
those connected with he trial OF those
in The blowing Of the Los
Angeles Times building
Other saloons Of Los Angeles around
which memories of various sort cling
we're Dead Rat known 20 police
and newspapernea; the Pantheon, IN,
heart OF Chinatown. near which no-e
han score of Chinese were lynched |
~ a mob OF more than a quarter OF
century ago: ard the Bucket OF
blood. q name 10 be found in many /
western cities
Texas, already dry, even now only
rss memories OF the Cactus. she Par
Or. Wigwam. Gem. the Ranch. she
iuby. As.or House. Palace. Coney
slana and Lobby. names which VIII
ndure in books OF fact and fiction.
FhiSh have been written about Vh'
arly days when bands OF recreation
eeking COW pnnchers galloped down
he streets 10 fnsilade OF 7isiol shots
nd rode their ponies up 20 the bars
Billy Duncan's Silver Dollar saloon
} Denver. which got its name from II
la silver dollars csmented into the
oor. Tortoni's which went Duncan
ayeral better and made a flooring o'
r....,. ansAa- "a -.sacn- hara e.nra II