Existing comment:
"walls covered with advertisements of elections... fares of stages and steamboats... auctions... sales of land... sales of stock... sales of merchandise... sales of anything that can be sold... quack medicines without end, the most prominent being specifics for dyspepsia."
-- John Fowler, Journal of a Tour in the State of New York in the Year 1830. 1831
The Bar Room was frequently mostly by men, as was the custom of the day, with activities such as gambling, smoking, and conversation. Over drinks of rye whiskey, brandy, and hard cider topics may have included politics, current events, and stories of travel. |